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Lobbying Brussels : interest groups' demands and networks in EU Environmental policy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This thesis examines interest groups' partieipation in environmental policymaking in the European Union. It investigates two fundamental questions that are essential to understanding the EU's policymaking system: first, ... -
Lobbying the European Commission: Open or secret?
(2011)Little transparency in the EU black?box of policy making means that there is limited citizen knowledge of which interest groups are operating in Brussels, what they seek to influence, how much resources they put into ... -
Lotteries and Probability Theory
(Imprint Academic, 2010)A variety of decisions seem to require resort to a coin toss, die roll, or the drawing of straws?in other words, a fair lottery. This raises the question of what features distinguish fair lotteries from alternative procedures. ... -
The Lottery as a Democratic Institution
(The Policy Institute, 2013)Proponents of random selection in politics have identified at least eight potential contributions that the practice can make to the political process. These are: descriptive representation, prevention of corruption and/or ... -
Making the World Safe for Methods
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Measurement issues in the comparative manifesto project data set and effectiveness of representative democracy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)In this dissertation I focus on the very widely used Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) as the source of measurements of the policy positions of political parties. The CMP data confuse the separable notions of party's ... -
Media agendas, public opinions and elections : evidence from Ireland and the United Kingdom
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This dissertation analyses the news media coverage of the 2005 general election campaign in the United Kingdom and the 2007 general election campaign in Ireland. The study also investigates the public opinion in those ... -
Media Ownership, Differential Coverage, and Effects on Public Attitudes : The Case of News Coverage of Labour Unions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2018)This dissertation examines the relationship between media ownership structures, the influence ownership has on news content and the effects of differential coverage on citizens who consume this content. It examines the ... -
Messengers of the people? : An analysis of representation and role orientations in the Irish Parliament
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2002)The objective behind this dissertation is to increase academic understanding of the operation of Irish representative democracy, since there has been no similar systematic and contemporary study of Dail Eireann or its ... -
Microcosms of Democracy? A Study of the Internal Governance of International NGOs in Kenya
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)An assumption prevails within the international development community that direct exposure to democracy within civil society is a necessary condition for democratic political culture and hence democratic consolidation. ... -
Microcosms of democracy? Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their impact on political attitudes and behaviour in Kenya
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2008)This study contributes to the general question of whether the democratic functioning of civil society organisations is a necessary condition for building a democratic political culture. Specifically, it empirically tests ... -
National Integrity System Country Study Ireland
(Transparency International, 2009)The purpose of the National Integrity Study on Ireland is to assess the National Integrity System, in theory (laws and institutions) and practice (how well they work). It provides a benchmark for measuring further developments ... -
New model army. The end of militarism in the Federal Republic of Germany
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2008)The thorough transformation of post-war Germany has led to a dramatic reassessment of its foreign and security policy, characterised by a strong emphasis on international cooperation and an extremely limited role of military ... -
On Fair Lotteries
(2008)When James Watson and Francis Crick submitted to Nature their groundbreaking paper relating DNA structure to protein synthesis, they faced a choice. In what order were their names to be listed? Would it be ?Watson and ... -
On Linking Cognitive Mechanisms to Game Play
(2003)Tomonori Morikawa, James E. Hanley, and John Orbell have argued that natural selection leads populations who play Hawk-Dove, a game-theoretic stylization of confrontation, to develop the capacity for various `orders of ... -
The paradox of compliance: infringements and delays in transposing EU directives
(2007)What impact does the negotiation stage prior to the adoption of international agreements have on the subsequent implementation stage? We address this question by examining the linkages between decision making on European ... -
The parliamentary election in Ireland, February 2011
(Elsevier, 2012)The three-party coalition government formed in 2007 between Fianna Fail, the Green Party and the Progressive Democrats appeared to have a bulletproof majority, and there was every reason to expect that, like its two immediate ... -
Party groups and policy positions in the European Parliament
(Sage, 2007)As the legislative body of the European Union (EU), the European Parliament (EP) comprises 732 elected representatives from over 150 national political parties from 25 member states. At the EP level, these members ... -
Party nationalization and the provision of public goods in democracies : a theoretical and empirical investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2015)The project investigates the extent to which political parties' organizational coverage and electoral geography - the degree to which they are successful at gaining electoral support throughout all regions within a country ...
