Browsing Political Science (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Costly Concessions: The Effect of Fragmentation of Self-Determination Movements on State Repression
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2021)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 ... -
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 ... -
De Valera and the Ulster question 1917-1973
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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 ... -
Dignity and duty : a dignity based account of human rights and their associated duties
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2017)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 ... -
Dignity and Duty: A Dignity Based Account of Human Rights and their Associated Duties
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Do parties make a difference? The relationship between government intention and government output in the public policy sphere: the case of governments in Ireland 1977-1997
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2004)Students of representative democracy are not in agreement as to the degree of influence that parties exert over public policy. One possible route by which partisan influence may be investigated is through a case study of ... -
Donors, dollars, and diseases : state-institution interactions in global public health
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This study explores the dynamics of state interactions with institutions for global public health. It investigates three separate, but intrinsically linked questions: why donor states contribute resources to certain ... -
The Effect of Group Identity on Support for Political Violence: Evidence from Northern Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)Why do people support political violence in peaceful contemporary democracies? In recent years scholars have increasingly sought to understand what drives individuals to adopt radical attitudes in societies where there is ... -
The effect of observable party cohesion on voter choice in liberal democracies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2018)The goal of this thesis is to assess the electoral impact of party infighting. It addresses the key research question of what is the impact of party infighting on the electoral fortunes of that party. In answering this ... -
Electoral Incentives to Cultivate a Personal Vote and Political Particularism: a Text Analysis Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)In this dissertation, I examine the impact of electoral rules on political particularism. I study the legislative behaviour of Italian members of parliament (MPs) as a case study of how this causal mechanism works. To ... -
Essays on Forced Migration and Civil Conflict
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2021)This thesis examines the effect of conflict dynamics and rebel groups on forced migration. More specifically, it analyzes how insurgent groups impact displacement flows, decisions to flee, and attitudes toward refugees. ... -
European merger control policy : private interests, policy communities and entrepreneurship
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)The intent of this thesis was to reconcile the divergent strands in the existing literature on European competition and merger policy by providing a systematic analysis of the development and implementation of the European ... -
Europeanisation and Polish competition policy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005)In this thesis I analyse the impact of the European Union (EU) on domestic policies in Poland when it was a candidate country for EU membership. The impact of the European Union on domestic policies is called Europeanisation. ... -
Europeanising Healthcare: The Effects of European Integration on Domestic Systems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2022)Over recent decades, the structure and role of the European Union has developed and evolved. Scholars claim that EU jurisdiction and policy have expanded in many areas, such as agriculture, monetary, and competition policy, ... -
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 ... -
The Exit Option: How ethnopolitical exclusion influences emigration desire from sub-Saharan Africa
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)To what extent and in what ways does politicized ethnicity drive migration desire in sub-Saharan Africa? This question matters because migration from Africa has received much attention in the media and by policy makers, ... -
Explaining and predicting the adoption, timing and location of terrorism in civil conflicts
This thesis examines the adoption, timing and location of terrorism in civil conflicts. It analyzes the effect of territorial advances on the timing and location of state-based and one-sided violence, the effect of battlefield ...
