School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions

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    • The 2003 mid term review of the Common Agricultural Policy : a computable general equilibrium analysis for Ireland 

      Dixon, Janine Margaret (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)
      A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the Irish economy is built and used to analyse the 2003 Mid Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy. The Mid Term review represents significant reform of agricultural ...

    • Foot-and-mouth disease eradication strategies in Ireland : a cost comparison 

      Dillon, Emma Jane (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)
      FMD is a highly contagious livestock disease with significant repercussions for livestock producers particularly in terms of productivity and trade effects, with many other sectors also being negatively affected by the ...

    • Studies in preferences for public goods in Ireland 

      Delaney, Liam (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)
      This dissertation is based on two studies conducted in 2002 and 2004 analysing preferences for non-marketed activity in Ireland. The first study applies the contingent valuation method (CVM) to Irish public service ...

    • Reality bytes : cyberterrorism and terrorist use of the Internet 

      Conway, Maura (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2006)
      The analysis contained herein treats the relationship between terrorism and the internet. Instead of treating cyberterrorism as the most important conjunction of terrorism and the Internet (as has been the tendency to ...

    • Perspectives on social exclusion 

      Collins, Micheál L. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)
      Over the last decade the term 'social exclusion' has entered the academic and political vernacular. There, it has been seen as a broad, somewhat undefined, concept which more comprehensively captures experiences of ...

    • Discourses about 'foreigners' in contemporary Austria 

      Aigner, Petra Irene (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2005)
      A number of events, such as the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the opening up of Eastern Europe, the Yugoslavian crisis in the 1990s and the Austrian membership of the European Union since 1995 have contributed to an ...

    • Accountability and the Democratic Mandate: Analysing Pledges, Party Competition, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion 

      Müller, Stefan (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2019)
      This dissertation examines electoral accountability and the democratic mandate by reassessing the concept of election pledges, by analysing when parties emphasise the present and past rather than the future, by classifying ...

    • Confronting global capital: Trade union organising for higher wages in Cambodia's garment and footwear industry 

      CICHON, DAVID (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2019)
      After almost a decade of declining wages in Cambodia’s garment and footwear industry, worker incomes have steadily improved since 2013. Minimum wages increased from 80USD a month to 170USD a month in just 4 years, an average ...

    • On the same boat: Three essays on the causes of pre-WWI Italian international migration 

      TORTORICI, GASPARE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)
      This thesis analyzes the causes of Italian mass international migration before the outbreak of WWI. While each chapter is a stand-alone paper that explores different motives and dynamics, there is a common quantitative ...

    • Empirical Essays in Economic Geography 

      AGNEW, KERRI (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)
      This thesis consists of three papers that belong to the field of Economic Geography. All three papers exploit spatial and temporal variation in variables in order to shed light on economic questions. The first paper provides ...

    • Essays in Development Economics, International Trade and Industrial Organisation 

      KLYMAK, MARGARYTA (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)
      This thesis examines questions in the areas of development economics, international trade and industrial organisation in both empirical and theoretical settings. It consists of an introduction, two empirical research ...

    • Seeking Spinoza: The Spinozistic Origins of Early Psychological Theory in Wundt, James and Freud 

      KENNEDY, LAURA (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2019)
      This thesis investigates the previously unexamined convergence between Spinoza's monistic philosophy of psychology and early psychological theory. It argues that the three 'founding fathers' of the field of psychology, ...

    • The bureaucrats's decision rule and government efficiency 

      Zhang, Mengyang (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2017)
      This thesis focuses on the decision problem of local bureaucrats and the impact on government performance. Chapter 1 outlines the context of the thesis and provide a description of the thesis structure. Chapter 2 investigates ...

    • 'Ireland: A shift towards religious equality in schools' 

      Faas, Daniel (Palgrave, 2019)

    • The adaption of United Nations peacekeeping in the post-Cold War international system 

      O'Neill, John Terence (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2001)
      This study examines United Nations peacekeeping as practised between 1956 and 1999. In particular, it considers how the ending of the Cold War affected the conduct and performance of operations. Having traced the development ...

    • Value, money and risk : three essays 

      Li, Matthew C. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)
      This thesis comprises of three essays which explore the theories of value, money and risk. The first essay takes a theoretical approach to study the background of and the relationship between value, money and wealth. The ...

    • Food, obesity and families : practices in Irish households with young children 

      Harkins, Suzanne (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2010)
      The aim of this thesis is to investigate the socially constructed meaning of food, ‘healthy eating’, and obesity within the context of family food practices in a sample of middle-class Irish families with young children. ...

    • Diaspora, gender and narrative journeys : Italian migrant women in Ireland 

      De Tona, Carla (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)
      Diaspora, Gender And Narrative Journeys: Italian Migrant Women In Ireland. This study concerns Italian migrant women in Ireland, who are the most invisible subjects of a forgotten yet ‘exceptional’ history of migration. ...

    • The construction, calibration and interpretation of IMAGE, a CGE model of the Irish economy with particular focus on agriculture 

      O'Toole, Ronald Paul John (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2002)
      This thesis details the construction, calibration and interpretation of IMAGE, a CGE model of the hish economy. The name IMAGE is an acronym of “Irish Model of Agriculture, General Equilibrium”. This name captures the two ...

    • Causation: Further Themes 

      Fernandes, Alison (Taylor and Francis, 2018)