School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Kant, Cantor, and the unconditioned
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2012)In this thesis I inquire into the possible connections between the philosophical problem that Immanuel Kant called the First Antinomy of Pure Reason and some of the paradoxes that were discovered in set theory in the second ... -
Taxation and political models
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)This thesis is a collection of three separate essays. Each essay deals with taxation policy directly or the expectation of future taxation by an electorate during a time of war. In terms of taxation, this essay generally ... -
Kant's realism. An investigation into the essential interdependence of the formal and material conditions for the possibility of empirical knowledge in Kant's epistemology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2009)My central claim in this dissertation is that in Kant's epistemology (1) the conditions for the possibility of empirical knowledge (CPEK) comprise not only formal but also material conditions, i.e. CPEK = FCPK and MCPK, ... -
The economic, family and identity experiences of first- and second-generation Hong Kong Chinese in Ireland : a case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2013)This case study explores the economic, family and identity experiences of first- and second generation Hong Kong Chinese in Ireland. Though they are the earliest Chinese group in Ireland, their lived experiences have been ... -
Economic implications of the Doha development agenda for China
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)The aim of my PhD thesis is to assess the consequences of possible Doha Round outcomes for China. The thesis is introduced in Chapter 1, which discusses the motivation for the thesis and outlines its structure. Chapter 2 ... -
Essays on applied microeconomics and development income risk, income shocks and household financial decisions : evidence from rural Vietnam
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)Income risk remains a significant obstacle to rural development. Even within a transitioning economy such as Vietnam which has a significant social safety-net, income shocks (for example, natural disasters, illness, pest ... -
Politics as usual or exceptional elections? : a comparative study of sub-Saharan Africa's multiparty systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)This thesis studies multiparty systems in sub-Saharan Africa in the period 1989-2008. The characteristic of sub-Saharan Africa's party systems that shall be examined is the manner in which electoral support and legislative ... -
Essays on carbon taxation and food demand in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is the collection of three applied studies, two of which deal with distributional effects of carbon taxation in the Irish economy and one, the third, which estimates a microeconometric model for food demand in ... -
Structural modeling of demand and supply : assessing collusion & tax reform impact on the Irish automotive market
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)In this thesis the factors shaping the Irish automotive industry are analyzed using a unique dataset covering purchases of new cars in Ireland during the year 2003. -
Kant on the possibility of action from duty but not in accordance with duty
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2010)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. -
Essays on migration and risk aversion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)In this thesis I develop the theoretical and empirical literature linking risk aversion and migration. The thesis consists of three chapters exploring this theme from a variety of perspectives. The first chapter looks at ... -
Essays in development economics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is motivated by research questions faced by policy makers in developing country governments and donor agencies. In particular, it deals with the appropriate measurement of foreign aid and its possibly pernicious ... -
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 ... -
Political parties in new and established democracies : explaining party pluralism, party unity and party death
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This dissertation is comprised of three distinct but related research papers which seek to contribute to our understanding of institutional development of legislative parties and party systems in new and established ... -
Analysing financial globalisation : cross-border investment, international risk sharing, and financial reforms
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)The research topic of this thesis lies in the area of international macroeconomics. In particular, key aspects of financial globalisation are analysed empirically. In the first essay, analysis of 21 industrial countries ... -
Split-ticket voting in mixed-member electoral systems : a theoretical and methodological investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)Mixed-member electoral systems give people the opportunity of voting for the same representative body by casting two votes: one for a national party under proportional rules and one for a local candidate under majoritarian ... -
Developing science, technology and innovation (STI) capacity through networks : the case of a development network organisation in Mozambique
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2013)Science, technology and innovation (STI) is once again high on the international development agenda (Chataway et al, 2005; Leach and Scoones, 2006). Some authors have highlighted the role of new networked forms of organisation ... -
International perspectives on investment and financing constraints : microeconometric evidence
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is composed of four essays, providing insights and perspectives on the topic of access to credit and firm-level investment. It covers two subfields in economics: finance in developing countries and financing ... -
The performance of diagnosis-related groups in Ireland & Europe, 2005-2008
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are designed to classify hospital output into a manageable number of groups, containing patients who were clinically homogeneous with similar levels of resource utilisation. Where DRGs are ... -
Electricity markets and renewables : emissions, costs and fuel diversity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)As energy consumption has risen steadily over the past century, so too have emissions, contributing to climate change. Energy consumption is a necessary aspect of economic growth - it is an input into the production of ...
