Felle, Tom; Adshead, Maura(University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2009)
Freedom of information (FOI) is important because it aims to makes government open, transparent and accountable. The legislation is based on the premise that people have the right of access to public documents, save for ...
This thesis is a realist, disciplinary history of European Union Studies (EUS). It
begins by examining a number of criticisms aimed at realist IR theory. By considering these criticisms it is possible to illustrate a ...
Downes, Gerard(University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2010)
This paper examines the issue of legitimacy in international public law and its application to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPs). Since the ...
Connaughton, Bernadette(University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2010)
Ireland is no different to other EU/OECD countries whereby ongoing reform is pursued in order to enhance the public sector’s capacity to deal with expanding policy competences, societal change and the demands of an ...
Robinson, Neil(University of Limerick, Department of Politics & Public Administration, 2010)
Many would characterise the international politics of the former Soviet Union as being fraught with competition and beset by weakness, war and chaos associated with contestations between nations and identities but this has ...
Robinson, Neil(University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2008)
The Russian state at the end of the Yeltsin period was supposedly so emasculated that it had no potential to revive itself. But revive itself it has in some measure and this requires some explanation. This paper tries to ...
Andersen, Annelin(University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2009)
The literature which explores public opinion formation processes in the newly democratised EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe is divided into competing schools of thought; one, which presumes that the inexperienced ...
Kirby, Peadar(University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2009)
International attention has been focused on the mechanisms through which Ireland created the conditions for its economic boom in the late 1990s, the Celtic Tiger. Foremost among these was the role of the state on which ...