This dissertation examines electoral accountability and the democratic mandate by reassessing the concept of election pledges, by analysing when parties emphasise the present and past rather than the future, by classifying ...

This is a study of agenda building during an election campaign, which is a dynamic process and hence calls for the application of time-series analysis. The data, from the 1997 General Election campaign in the UK., consist ...

This project includes the most carefully constructed, large scale statistical analysis of the influence of the components of consociational government on stability. The variables and cases used in this analysis conform as ...

What explains authoritarian nostalgia in post-communist Europe? My introduction justifies the selection of East Central Europe and the timeframe for study. In the second chapter, I define authoritarian nostalgia as the ...

This is a study about the allocation of resources in Ireland. It asks to what extent capital expenditure is allocated according to geopolitical or to policy considerations. In other words, to what extent do electoral ...

This thesis examines theoretical explanations for why military interventions have taken place in the 'long-decade' following the end of the Cold War. International relations paradigms are evaluated in terms of whether their ...

There is a great variation in the way governments respond to dissent. Governments responses to internal challengers vary from peaceful accommodation to various forms of repression. This variation has important implications ...

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 ...

This thesis is primarily motivated by a perceived gap in the literature on human rights in how that literature deals with the duties associated with human rights. I argue that we do not have a clear and coherent understanding ...