School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions

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    • Explaining the persistence of factionalism in parties 

      Ó Muineacháin, Séin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)
      This thesis examines the causes of the persistence of factions in parties. It undertakes this analysis using both qualitative and quantitative methods by performing statistical analysis at the level of the country and the ...

    • Post-conflict governments 1975-2004 : designing effective assistance 

      Riordan, Catherine (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)
      Understanding the causes and consequences of internal conflict has become a priority for researchers in economics, international relations and political science over the past two decades. Conflict patterns have changed ...

    • Metaphysical Necessity Dualism 

      White, Benjamin (2018)
      A popular response to the Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that mental events depend on their physical bases in such a way that the causation of a physical effect by a mental event and its physical base needn’t ...

    • The economics of electricity storage 

      Nyamdash, Batsaikhan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This thesis investigates the issues surrounding electricity storage systems from various perspectives. It assesses the impact on the power system operation and the resulting benefits for developers versus system operators. ...

    • Economy-wide modelling focused on the agricultural and food sectors : an Irish case 

      Miller, Ana Corina (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      This thesis is a collection of four essays. The first one describes the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ireland for the year 2005. The SAM includes 55 activities, 55 commodities, two factors of production ...

    • Essays in cross-border asset allocation 

      Mehigan, Caroline (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2015)
      The core of this thesis consists of three papers. Although independent, a common theme in each of the papers is the bilateral variation of cross border positions across countries, sectors and banks during the recent boom ...

    • Empirical essays in international macroeconomics 

      McQuade, Peter Edward (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This thesis is composed of three essays. The first paper examines private credit growth in Europe between 1999 and 2007. The results highlight the importance of external liabilities in facilitating the credit boom. Although ...

    • Wittgenstein and scepticism about meaning and rule-following : a Kripkean reading 

      McNally, Thomas (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2011)
      In this thesis, I propose a defence of Saul Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein's later discussion of meaning and rule-following. The most striking feature of Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (WRPL) ...

    • A social history of the Irish music industry, 1910 - 1985 

      Murphy, Michael Mary (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)
      This thesis re-inserts a number of key behind-the-scenes individuals and factors into the history of the Irish music industry, placing the commercial and artistic achievements of Ireland's popular music artists in their ...

    • Economic adjustments to globalisation in a small open economy 

      Murphy, Gavin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
      This thesis is a collection of three separate essays. We examine how a small open economy adjusts to a number of challenges posed by globalisation. We also analyse the effect of employment constraints on an economy's ability ...

    • Essays on the political economy of development 

      McGuirk, Eoin F. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      The core of this thesis explores three issues at the intersection of political and development economics. In Chapter 2, I demonstrate how ethnic divisions can undermine the provision of an important public good: teacher ...

    • Essays in economics 

      McGuinness, Anne (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This Ph.D thesis examines the following societal issues: the shortfall in Irish pension funding, households' decisions to provide for retirement, households' decision to own a home, and total factor productivity convergence ...

    • Representing Europe's citizens : an analysis of political representation in the European Union 

      McEvoy, Caroline (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)
      This project investigates how well the EU functions as an instrument of political representation. It addresses five separate but intrinsically linked research questions: are citizens' perceptions of representation important ...

    • "Democracy from the Outside in"? : the effectiveness of normative pressure and conditionality 

      McDonagh, Ecaterina (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)
      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 ...

    • Exceptional wars : how were the US military interventions in the 'War on Terror' possible? 

      McDonagh, Kenneth (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)
      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 ...

    • Essays on environmental amenities and on taxation in Ireland 

      Mayor, Karen Danielle (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
      This thesis is a collection of essays on household-level tax and environmental issues in an Irish context. The main motivation for this work was to address a number of relatively unexplored policy issues that have arisen ...

    • Economics of the family : theory and applications in developing countries 

      Matz, Julia Anna (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      This thesis is a collection of three research papers on different aspects of the economics of the family in developing countries. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the power structures and bargaining processes between ...

    • Essays on globalisation, inflation and monetary policy 

      Mc Inerney, Niall (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      This thesis comprises three essays. The first examines the impact of factor, product and financial market integration on the labour share of income. In particular, we investigate how the changing composition of international ...

    • The secret life of political parties. A comparative study of candidate selection in African democracies 

      Mac Giollabhuí, Shane (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)
      Every political party has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life. Publicly, parties campaign for office and, if elected, form governments. Privately, parties attract funding, formulate policy positions ...

    • Explaining state participation in environmental treaties 

      Leinaweaver, Justin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)
      This project aims to advance the literature on the dynamics of state participation in environmental treaties. The overarching question is, how do we explain the variance in state signature and ratification of environmental ...