School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Corporate Social Responsibility in a Competitive Business Environment
(2020)Using a representative sample of more than 5,000 Vietnamese enterprises, we explore the firm-level productivity effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The data enables us to create 12 quantitative CSR measures, ... -
Banking supervision and external auditors: Theory and empirics
(2020)This paper investigates the role of external auditors in banking sector supervision from a theoretical, institutional and empirical perspective. We first present a simple principal-agent framework that highlights the ... -
Central bank reforms and institutions
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Did Bank Lending Stifle Innovation in Europe During the Great Recession?
(2019)Using the 2008-09 Global financial crisis and the 2012 Euro area sovereign debt crisis as natural experiments, we investigate the effects of contractions in credit supply on R&D spending in a large sample of European firms. ... -
All Welcome Here? Studies on Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Discriminatory Behaviour towards Ethnic Minorities in Irish and European Contexts
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)The main aim of this thesis is to examine prejudice, via anti-immigration sentiment, and discriminatory behaviour in Ireland and other European countries. The thesis consists of four separate papers which constitute four ... -
Does the Temporal Asymmetry of Value Support a Tensed Metaphysics?
(2019)There are temporal asymmetries in our attitudes towards the past and future. For example, we judge that a given amount of work is worth twice as much if it is described as taking place in the future, compared to the past ... -
Freedom, Self-Prediction, and the Possibility of Time Travel
(2020)Do time travellers retain their normal freedom and abilities when they travel back in time? Lewis, Horwich and Sider argue that they do. Time-travelling Tim can kill his young grandfather, his younger self, or whomever ... -
Religion and Political Protest: A Cross-Country Analysis
(2019)Religion’s effect on individual tendency to engage in political protest is influenced both by the resources available to citizens at the individual level and opportunities provided to religious groups and organizations at ... -
New patterns of migration and higher education in Ireland: What are the implications?
(Springer, 2020)This chapter discusses the changing demographic situation in recent decades as Ireland moved from being a country with a long tradition of emigration to one of net immigration. The pace of social change in Ireland is ... -
The Challenge of Migration and Europeanisation: A Comparison of Citizenship Education in Britain, Germany, Greece and Ireland
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Post-School Transitions in Ireland: A case study of Russian speaking students
(2019)This article examines the post-school pathways of Russian-speaking students in Ireland after completing secondary education; the importance of personal and institutional factors in shaping their transition process, and the ... -
Towards multicultural, multi-religious European societies? Schooling Turkish students in Britain and Germany
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Performing Distance : the response of Irish professionals to immigrants and immigration
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2014)Literature on immigration in Ireland has focused on analyses of rates and flows, the impact of labour migration, immigrants’ experiences of racism and integration, and asylum/refugee studies. Empirical work on the response ... -
Identity, categorisation, citizenship and the 'Peace Process' in Côte d'Ivoire
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis explores the practice of categorization of identities and determination of citizenship within the context of the peace process in Côte d’Ivoire. It is based on interviews with government officials, actors from ... -
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon : from co-ethnics to a racialized minority
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This study employs critical race theory to understand, explain, and theorize the exclusion and racialization of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. There exists vast and diverse literature on the exclusion of Palestinians in ... -
Berkeley on Unperceived Objects and the Publicity of Language
(2017)Berkeley’s immaterialism aims to undermine Descartes’s skeptical arguments by denying that the connection between sensory perception and reality is contingent. However, this seems to undermine Berkeley’s (alleged) defense ... -
Intentionality, Belief, and the Logical Problem of Evil
(2020)The logical problem of evil is the appearance of inconsistency between the existence of God and the existence of any evil at all. A defence against the logical problem of evil is an argument that purports to show that ... -
Locke, Arnauld, and Abstract Ideas
(2019)A great deal of the criticism directed at Locke’s theory of abstract ideas assumes that a Lockean abstract idea is a special kind of idea which by its very nature either represents many diverse particulars or represents ... -
European pharmaceutical industry : a micro-econometric analysis of growth dynamics and production location
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the industry dynamics of expansion and the location pattern of the European pharmaceutical industry in the Single Market Programme era using micro-econometric approaches. -
Media agendas, public opinions and elections : evidence from Ireland and the United Kingdom
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)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 ...
