Edinburgh Research Archive

• Vetera Novis Augere: nationalism, neo-Thomism and historiography in Quebec and Flanders 1900-1945 

  Swerts, Kasper Jan Jo (The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)

  This thesis compares and contrasts the historiography of Quebec and Flanders during the first half of the twentieth century. The main argument is that the philosophy of neo-Thomism was influential to the conceptualization ...

• Art of the possible: framing self-government in Scotland and Flanders 

  Brown Swan, Coree Anne (The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)

  Sub-state nationalist parties mobilised and saw an increase in electoral support in the 1960s and 1970s. A heterogeneous group of parties, they are united by their claims upon the state in favour of self-government. ...

• NGO legitimation as practice: crafting political space in Tanzania 

  Dodworth, Catherine Jane (The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)

  The traditional monopoly of politics and international relations on theorizing power, authority and legitimacy has eroded in the late modern era. The complexity of these domains has been compounded in a strongly ...

• Governance of climate change related migrations in Assam (India) 

  Manuvie, Ritumbra (The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)

  The thesis asks two crucial questions, (a) what are the normative frameworks available for protecting the rights and status of a person migrating due to climate change related hydro-metrological changes? (b) why is there ...

• Global justice from outside-the-box 

  Iwaki, Yukinori (The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)

  We live in a severely unequal world. Pressing questions are, then, what changes the global advantaged should bring about to improve the situation of the global disadvantaged, and why they should do so in the first place. ...

• Faithful advocates: faith communities and environmental activism in Scotland 

  Hague, Alice (The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)

  This thesis investigates local-level environmental activism in faith communities, and aims to understand what explains environmental advocacy by Christian faith communities. It asks why Christian communities are participating ...

• Questioned sovereignties: independence referendums and secession in a comparative perspective 

  Remond, Alexandra (The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)

  This thesis considers the use of independence referendums in state-creation. It investigates whether and how an independence referendum affects secessionist dynamics, and may increase or decrease the likelihood of ...

• An examination of the ideological perspectives on the citizen's income debate 

  Fitzpatrick, Anthony Paul (The University of Edinburgh, 1996)

  Though it is not at the centre of political attention, Citizen's Income (CI) receives the kind of widespread ideological support which most other proposals in the areas of labour market and social security reform do not. ...

• Examination of the Scottish rating system and its application in local government finance 

  Stout, Cecil Henry (The University of Edinburgh, 1956)

  To meet the altered conditions of social and local government services over many centuries, the rating system in Scotland has been the subject of gradual evolution and the changes in it have been practical measures to ...

• Secrecy and absence in the residue of post-9/11 covert counter-terrorism 

  Kearns, Oliver Ben (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)

  This thesis examines how secrecy and absence shape the representation of covert counter-terrorism in the public sphere. Contemporary covert practices, from missile strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles to special forces ...

• Panels and politics: Bandes Dessinées and referendums in Quebec, 1970 – 2013 

  Kennedy, Harriet Emily Isobel (The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)

  This thesis consists of a semiotic and socio-­‐political exploration of Québécois bande dessinée (BDQ) and Quebec Nationalism since 1970. It uses BDQ as a lens through which to analyse key moments in the history of Quebec’s ...

• No country for losers? Gender, (in)equality, and the discursive construction of subjects and values in Polish politics 

  Gaweda, Barbara Justyna (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-28)

  Mainstream scholarly literature has examined the post-1989 transformations in Eastern Europe without sufficient attention to gendered perspectives. Most feminist scholars and mainstream political scientists expected that ...

• Understanding Iraq’s basic health services package: examining the domestic and external politics of post-conflict health policy 

  Zangana, Goran Abdulla Sabir (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-28)

  Background: Iraq is a higher middle-income country with a GDP of $223.5 billion (as of 2014). In the 1970s and 1980s, an extensive network of primary, secondary and tertiary health facilities was built, and the country ...

• Fighting for the centre: civic political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Northern Ireland in comparative perspective 

  Murtagh, Cera Eleanor (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-28)

  In deeply divided societies political parties that attempt to reach across that divide, by definition, form the exception. Indeed, in post-settlement contexts where institutions have been designed to accommodate communal ...

• Rethinking Latin American development and its link with neoliberalism: a Foucauldian analysis of the beginnings of the G77 

  González-Hernández, Ayleen Dicklodina (The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-28)

  Nowadays, the G77 is a key factor in North-South negotiations at the UN to achieve global commitments. On the understanding that neoliberalism is an economic rationale that strongly influences the relationship between North ...

• African Independent Churches and the challenge to the state: South Africa's first democratic decade 

  Bompani, Barbara (The University of Edinburgh, 2007)

• Good governance and legitimacy in the EU: the role of Article 226 EC 

  Smith, Melanie (The University of Edinburgh, 2007)

• The politics of anticorruption in Ghana, 1993-2006: action, inaction and accountability 

  Ofori-Mensah, Michael (The University of Edinburgh, 2009)

• Islamic reform: the conflict between the traditionalists and reformists concerning matters of ʻIbādah in contemporary Malaysia 

  Man, Saadan (The University of Edinburgh, 2004)

• Concurrent power: the role of policy networks in the multi-level governance of science and innovation in Scotland 

  Lyall, Catherine (The University of Edinburgh, 2005)

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