Browsing Political Science by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin."
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Cyber-space oddity? : an analysis of political parties' websites and online campaigning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This dissertation is an empirical investigation of how the internet is used by political parties and their candidates. This project seeks to make an original contribution to the literature on political parties, electoral ... -
Decision making in the Council of Ministers of the European Union
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)This thesis examines legislative decision making in the European Union with a specific focus upon decision making in the Council of Ministers. It examines the manner in which member states seek to influence the legislative ... -
Deliberative democracy, deliberative polls and citizens' juries
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)This thesis contains a critical analysis of deliberative democracy. I present the normative arguments for the theory in the context of a discussion of how to explicate democracy more generally, and I assess these ... -
"Democracy from the Outside in"? : the effectiveness of normative pressure and conditionality
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This thesis presents an analysis of the effectiveness of democracy promotion strategies on post-communist democratising states of Eastern Europe. Specifically, it examines the impact on development of civil and political ... -
Exceptional wars : how were the US military interventions in the 'War on Terror' possible?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)How were the US military interventions in the 'War on Terror' possible? This thesis argues that intervention in the 'War on Terror' was rendered possible through the strategic use of language that located intervention as ... -
Explaining state participation in environmental treaties
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This project aims to advance the literature on the dynamics of state participation in environmental treaties. The overarching question is, how do we explain the variance in state signature and ratification of environmental ... -
Explaining the new regionalism : the political economy of trade agreements
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)The overarching research question defining this project is the following one: How do domestic politics affect the formation of trade blocs in the current wave of regionalism? This general question is divided into two more ... -
Explaining the persistence of factionalism in parties
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This thesis examines the causes of the persistence of factions in parties. It undertakes this analysis using both qualitative and quantitative methods by performing statistical analysis at the level of the country and the ... -
Habitual voting : origins and consequences
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)The thesis studies the phenomenon and the concept of habitual voting. It focuses on the phenomenon of habitual turnout, the tendency for a stable propensity to vote (or abstain) to form during the period of a few initial ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Political parties in new and established democracies : explaining party pluralism, party unity and party death
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This dissertation is comprised of three distinct but related research papers which seek to contribute to our understanding of institutional development of legislative parties and party systems in new and established ... -
Politics as usual or exceptional elections? : a comparative study of sub-Saharan Africa's multiparty systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)This thesis studies multiparty systems in sub-Saharan Africa in the period 1989-2008. The characteristic of sub-Saharan Africa's party systems that shall be examined is the manner in which electoral support and legislative ... -
Post-conflict governments 1975-2004 : designing effective assistance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)Understanding the causes and consequences of internal conflict has become a priority for researchers in economics, international relations and political science over the past two decades. Conflict patterns have changed ... -
Representing Europe's citizens : an analysis of political representation in the European Union
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This project investigates how well the EU functions as an instrument of political representation. It addresses five separate but intrinsically linked research questions: are citizens' perceptions of representation important ... -
Split-ticket voting in mixed-member electoral systems : a theoretical and methodological investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)Mixed-member electoral systems give people the opportunity of voting for the same representative body by casting two votes: one for a national party under proportional rules and one for a local candidate under majoritarian ... -
Stakeholder influence in the European Commission's stakeholder consultations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This thesis investigates lobbying by stakeholders, i.e. firms, NGOs and industry organisations as well as other private and public bodies from the international to local level, in the context of the European Commission's ... -
The effectiveness of foreign aid : the role of political institutions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This thesis investigates the effect of political institutions on the effectiveness of aid. More specifically, the thesis examines the use of aid under different political institutional frameworks. This thesis aims to fill ... -
The secret life of political parties. A comparative study of candidate selection in African democracies
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)Every political party has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life. Publicly, parties campaign for office and, if elected, form governments. Privately, parties attract funding, formulate policy positions ...
