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Optimal matching analysis and life course data: the importance of duration

Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2008)

The Optimal Matching Algorithm is widely used for sequenace analysis in sociology. It has a natural interpretation for discrete-time sequences, but is also widely used for life history data, which is continuous in time. ...
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 ...
Private troubles, public issues: the Irish sociological imagination

O'Connor, Pat (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2005)

Introduction: When I first read, with great excitement, The Sociological Imagination in the late 1960s, I was an 18 year old University student, in a society that was beginning to wake from its cultural torpor. A reluctant ...
Reasonable people v the sinister fringe: interrogating the framing of Ireland’s water charge protestors through the media politics of dissent

Power, Martin J.; Haynes, Amanda; Devereux, Eoin (Department of Sociology: Universityof Limerick, 2015)

In this research article we explore the manner in which a particular discursive device, the “sinister fringe” was deployed in national news media coverage of protests against the introduction of water charges in Ireland. ...
Remembering a ‘multicultural’ future through a history of emigration: towards a feminist politics of solidarity

Gray, Breda (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2004)

This article investigates the workings of empathy, identification and solidarity across difference and argues that these represent urgent theoretical and political concerns for feminist politics today. It also points to ...
Reticent or robust reform? Charting the development of the central bureaucracy in Ireland

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 ...
SADI: sequence analysis tools for stata

Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2014)

SADI is a suite of Stata tools for sequence analysis, with a particular focus on holistic comparisons of sequences using measures such as optimal matching distance. It provides a number of distance measures, including • ...
Scapegoating in post ‘Celtic Tiger’ Ireland: framing blame in crisis times

Monaghan, Lee F; O'Flynn, Micheal; Power, Martin J. (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2013)

Irish society continues to reel in the aftershock of the 2008 global financial crisis, particularly since the government socialised the massive liabilities of private banks. Sensitized to antagonistic social relations ...
Sequence analysis of life-course data: a comparison of distance measures

Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2012)

no abstract available
'Shame makes the world go around.’ Morrissey and the gendered discourse of class disgust

Power, Martin J.; Dillane, Aileen; Devereux, Eoin (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2014)

Can popular music or an individual song text inform us about society and make us question dominant discourses in the political and public sphere? This article will argue that this is indeed the case, so while the mass ...
Some notes on categorical data analysis, using simulation in Stata and R

Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2011)

Simple modelling of categorical data is not as simple as it seems. Standard formulas taught to generations of undergraduates are shown to be sub-optimal, simple models are widely misunderstood, and high levels of controversy ...
State, regime and Russian political development

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 ...
States and conflict in the former USSR

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 ...
Three narratives of sequence analysis

Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2013)

no abstract available
Towards a resolution of terrorism using game theory coalitions, negotiations and audience costs

Keet, C. Maria (University of Limerick, Department of Politics & Public Administration, 2003)

no abstract available
Tracks through time and continuous processes: transitions, sequences, and social structure

Halpin, Brendan (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2003)

In the social and economic sciences it appears that there was a pioneering enthusiasm for longitudinal data in the late 1960s and early 1970s, resulting inter alia in the US Panel Study on Income Dynamics (1968) and ...
The TRIPs agreement: a test of the WTO’s legitimacy?

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 ...
What’s fat activism?

Cooper, Charlotte Rachel Mary (Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, 2008)

In 21st century Western culture, obesity is such a maligned state of being that the notion of fat activism is unthinkable to most people. "Fat" and "activist" are not words that sit together well in the popular imagination. ...
Where are the idealists in inter-war international relations?

Ashworth, Lucian M. (University of Limerick, Department of Politics & Public Administration, 2005)

no abstract available

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