The present thesis consists of two parts. The first part contains two essays that study voting behaviour in general elections that took place before turning points in trade policy. They aim to shed light on why European ...

Freud was part of a long tradition of non-believers who offered a story about how religions originated. Notable works in this tradition include Hume's The Natural History of Religion and Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity. ...

This thesis falls into two parts. The first (chapters one to three) states the problematic of the research, develops a critique of the dominant "social movements" literature as unhelpful for understanding the counter culture ...

FMD is a highly contagious livestock disease with significant repercussions for livestock producers particularly in terms of productivity and trade effects, with many other sectors also being negatively affected by the ...

Diaspora, Gender And Narrative Journeys: Italian Migrant Women In Ireland. This study concerns Italian migrant women in Ireland, who are the most invisible subjects of a forgotten yet ‘exceptional’ history of migration. ...

This dissertation is based on two studies conducted in 2002 and 2004 analysing preferences for non-marketed activity in Ireland. The first study applies the contingent valuation method (CVM) to Irish public service ...

The dissertation The Universal Surname - A Theoretical-Empirical Enquiry Into The Relationship Between Globalization and Sameness has developed a theoretical-empirical model of globalization and cultural sameness. The ...

The aims of this thesis are to investigate the short run dynamics of labour reallocation; profit switching and potential pull factors on capital allocation of EU parent multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their European ...

Prime ministers are among the most high profile, and we might assume, important actors in the policy-making systems of modern parliamentary democracies. While much has been written about the individuals who have held the ...

This thesis is a sociological auto-ethnography of "eating disorder(s)" and "recovery".Using creative methodologies, I have created an intersubjective, poly-vocal account of bodies in encounter with medicine. I position ...