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 ...

The central theme of this study is a curious and controversial feature of Kant's account of acting from duty in the Groundwork:, his apparent omission of the possibility of action from duty but not in accordance with duty.

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis is composed of three essays addressing the use of financial markets to hedge or gain exposure to macroeconomic risk. The first essay examines the question of consumption risk sharing between countries. Theory ...

This thesis is composed of three chapters related to the measurement, analysis and application of cross-country data on the return on physical capital. In Chapter 1, we derive a database of returns on physical capital that ...

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 ...