School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions
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State-business relations and the politics of state aid in the European Union: a multi-method approach to explaining aid allocations among member states
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2021)This thesis investigates state aid allocations in the European Union (EU) member states to answer two key research questions about the political management of a market economy. Today, government officials cannot be indifferent ... -
Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies
(2021)Norm enforcement may be important for resolving conflicts and promoting cooperation. However, little is known about how preferred responses to norm violations vary across cultures and across domains. In a preregistered ... -
God's Perfect Will: Remarks on Johnston and O'Connor
(Oxford University Press, 2022)How can God's creative decision be free? Why would God create anything at all? Why would God create a world like this one, with all of its evils? These puzzles lie at the heart of classical theism. Mark Johnston has argued ... -
Essays on the Economics of Energy Efficiency: Evidence from residential dwellings and commercial data centres
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)Global economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been facilitated, in large part, by the increased use of natural resources as energy in the production process. This has revolutionised how society functions. ... -
Essays in Industrial Organisation: Market Structure, Non-Price Strategies and Welfare.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)This dissertation consists of three essays in industrial organisation theory. It examines the relationship between market structure, welfare and firms' non-price strategies. The first essay discusses the impact of the level ... -
Three Essays on Money and Monetary Policy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)This thesis deals with money and monetary policy in the context of the US economy. My focus is on the rapidly evolving financial market landscape in the US. This has been instigated by financial market liberalisation, which ... -
Voter Expectations of Government Formation: The Importance of the Information Context in Coalition Systems:
(2021)Can voters in multi-party systems predict which coalition will form the government with any degree of accuracy? To date, studies which explore voter expectations of coalition formation have emphasized individual-level ... -
Thinking with the Cartesians and Speaking with the Vulgar: Extrinsic Denomination in the Philosophy of Antoine Arnauld
(2022)Arnauld follows Descartes in denying that sensible qualities like color are modes of external objects. Yet, unlike Malebranche, he resists the apparent implication that ordinary statements like ‘this marble is white’ are ... -
Child Care Time, Parents' Well-Being, and Gender: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
(2016)This study used data from the ‘Well Being Module’ of the 2010 American Time Use Survey (N = 1699) to analyze how parents experience child care time in terms of meaning and stress levels. Multivariate multilevel regressions ... -
Emerging digital generations? Impacts of child digital use on mental and socioemotional well-being across two cohorts in Ireland, 2007 2018
(2021)Despite the growing body of literature on how digital technologies impact child well-being, previous research has provided little evidence on recent digital trends. This paper examines the patterns and effects of digital ... -
Exploring people s beliefs about the experience of time
(2021)Philosophical debates about the metaphysics of time typically revolve around two contrasting views of time. On the A-theory, time is something that itself undergoes change, as captured by the idea of the passage of time; ... -
Pain in the Past and Pleasure in the Future: The Development of Past Future Preferences for Hedonic Goods
(2020)It seems self‐evident that people prefer painful experiences to be in the past and pleasurable experiences to lie in the future. Indeed, it has been claimed that, for hedonic goods, this preference is absolute (Sullivan, ... -
The Impact of Anocracy on Terrorism: A Mixed-Method Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)In this dissertation, the impact of anocracy on terrorism is examined. Intuitively, anocratic states or states with mixed regime features have been associated with greater terrorism, indicating that regime type has an ... -
Removing Rubbish and Laying Foundations: Berkeley's Solution to the Sceptical Problem
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2020)In this dissertation, I argue that while Berkeley can and should be characterised as an idealist, an immaterialist, and an anti-abstractionist, he is, above all, an anti-representationalist thinker. My contention is that ... -
Peter Browne on the Metaphysics of Knowledge
(2020)The central unifying element in the philosophy of Peter Browne (d. 1735) is his theory of analogy. Although Browne's theory was originally developed to deal with some problems about religious language, Browne regards analogy ... -
Learning: Operational and Educational Effectiveness Report
(2019)This deliverable outlines the development of the methodology to assess the learning through GAP by personnel from end user organizations in a training environment (Task 5.4) and the implementation of this methodology (Task ... -
Gaming for Peace Interviews
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Authoritarian diffusion at a distance? China's impact on levels of and on citizens' support for liberal-democracy in Sub-Saharan African states
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)The recent emergence of authoritarian countries, such as China, as leading economic powers, increasingly engaged in the developing world, has coincided with a 'democratic recession' in certain developing countries. Are ... -
Essays in Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)This dissertation is a collection of three essays with a geographical and thematic common denominator. The broad objective of the thesis is to study how the Ugandan agricultural sector is affected by the country' -
Migration, mothering and schooling: a case study of Baltic mothers in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)This thesis explores the parental involvement of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian mothers within and outside of formal schooling in Ireland. The number of Baltic families has significantly increased in Ireland in the last ...
