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An opportunity lost: the entrenchment of Sinhalese nationalism in post-war Sri Lanka

Gaul, Anne (University of Limerick, 2016)

This research studies the trajectory of Sinhalese nationalism during the presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa from 2005 to 2015. The role of nationalism in the protracted conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils is well understood, ...
Parish pedagogies: an analysis of Irish pre-school practice using the early childhood environmental rating scales

Neylon, Gerardine (University of Limerick, 2011)

This research applies the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scales/Revised and the Extension four Curricular Subscales (ECERS/R/E) in a systematic way to measure standards of pre-school provision in Ireland. This ...
Participatory methods for research prioritization in primary care: an analysis of the World Cafe approach in Ireland and the USA

MacFarlane, Anne E.; Galvin, Rose; O'Sullivan, Madeleine; McInerney, Chris; Meagher, Eoghan; Burke, Daniel; LeMaster, Joseph W. (Oxford Univesity Press, 2017)

Background. There are increasing imperatives for patients and members of the public to engage as partners in identifying health research priorities. The use of participatory methods to engage stakeholders in health care ...
Partisanship or cognitive mobilisation? A case study of the 2003 Czech EU accession referendum

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 ...
Party competition on climate policy: interest groups, ideology and challenger parties in the UK and Ireland.

Carter, Neil; Little, Conor (SAGE Publications, 2021)

This study shows how interest group-party relations, partiesÂ cross-cutting policy preferences, and competition with challenger parties shape the structure of issue competition on climate policy. It uses the Â most similarÂ ...
Party identification in the wake of the crisis: a nascent realignment?

Costello, Rory (Manchester University Press, 2018)

Many commentators have sounded the death knell for party identification. For example, Dalton claims that we are witnessing a general process of partisan dealignment and that this trend ‘reflects long term and enduring ...
Party organization and party unity

Little, Conor; Farrell, David M. (Oxford University Press, 2017)

This chapter examines the crucial role that political parties play in maintaining a unified voting bloc in parliament. This party-based approach sets it apart from most existing studies in this area. The focus of this ...
Political attention in the Council of the European Union: a new dataset of working party meetings, 1995 2014

Häge, Frank M. (SAGE Publications, 2016)

Little firm knowledge exists about the allocation of the Council's political attention across policy areas and over time. This article presents a new dataset of the date, duration, and policy coding of ...
Political conflict in Bismarck’s Germany: an analysis of parliamentary voting, 1867-1890

Häge, Frank M. (SAGE Publications, 2019)

Imperial Germany is a prominent historical case in the study of Western Europe’s political development. This paper investigates the number and content of political conflict dimensions from the foundation of the modern ...
Political dynasties and personal political machines

Scully, Diarmuid (University of Limerick, 2018)

This thesis proposes an electoral system-based explanation for the observable variations in the rate of family following in the parliaments of mature, developed, democratic states. Electoral systems that foster intra-party ...
The political origins of Russia's culture wars

Robinson, Neil (2014)

This paper looks at the 'cultural turn' in Russian politics that took place after 2011 and explains it as a 'rhetoric of reaction' that was introduced to deal with a crisis of neo-patrimonialism in Russia.
Political parties and climate policy: a new approach to measuring parties' climate policy preferences

Tsagkroni; Carter, Neil; Ladrech, Robert; Little, Conor; Tsagkroni, Vasiliki (SAGE Publications, 2017)

This study presents an innovative approach to hand-coding parties’ policy preferences in the relatively new, crosssectoral field of climate change mitigation policy. It applies this approach to party manifestos in six ...
Political-administrative relations: the role of political advisers

Connaughton, Bernadette (De Gruyter OPEN, 2017)

Ministerial advisers were first formally appointed as support for individual Irish ministers in 1973, and since then their numbers and tasks have considerably expanded. As ‘temporary civil servants’, they are regarded ...
Politicising Council decision-making: the effect of European Parliament empowerment

Häge, Frank M. (Taylor and Francis, 2011)

Research on the intra-institutional consequences of differences in the EU's inter-institutional rule configurations is rare. This study investigates the effect of the empowerment of the European Parliament (EP) on the ...
The presidency of the council of the European Union

Häge, Frank M. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

The Presidency plays a crucial role in the management and organisation of the Council’s work and the institution’s interactions with third parties. Formally, the Presidency just chairs the meetings of Council bodies; but ...
Rally around the EU flag: Irish party positions on the EU in the wake of Brexit

Costello, Rory (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

When national interests are threatened by an international political crisis, there is often a ‘rally around the flag’ effect among both the public and the political elite, interpreted as a patriotic response to an external ...
Rapporteur‐shadow rapporteur networks in the European Parliament: the strength of small numbers

Häge, Frank M.; Ringe, Nils (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2018)

Specialization and delegation of policy leadership within committees is the norm rather than the exception in legislatures around the world. Yet, little research has studied the sub-groups of lawmakers who serve as ...
Realism, disciplinary history and European Union studies

Hussey, Barry (University of Limerick, 2010)

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 ...
Regulating language: Territoriality and personality in plurinational Spain

Morales-Galvez, Sergi; Cetrà, Daniel (SAGE Publications, 2021)

This article examines the regulation of linguistic diversity in Spain from a combined empirical and normative perspective. Spain is a particularly interesting case due to the intersection of linguistic and national ...
Relations between the European Union and China: viewed through a human rights lens

Mealy, Sharon (University of Limerick, 2002)

The European Union's policy in relation to China was outlined in the Commission document A Long Term Policy for Europe China Relations published in 1995. These goals related to • engaging China further on the world ...

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