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Crisis elections and the primacy of policy: explaining media framing of election coverage

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Media coverage of elections in Europe and North America has increasingly tended to focus on the horse-race and the campaign as a game rather than the policy debate pertinent to the election. This is often explained by the changes in media pressures. It may also make sense given the narrowing of policy space between left and right and the comparative prosperity enjoyed in Europe and North America. But the relevance of politics varies. The economic crisis in the west might have led to an increased interest in policy among voters and focus on it by media.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

Salafist mouvance and sheikh-ism in the Tunisian democratic transition

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The working paper examines the complexity of Tunisian Salafism and its role in the process of transition to democracy the country is experiencing. Building on primary sources and original field work, the article highlights the theoretical and practical divergences that affect the Salafist camp in Tunisia in the context of its struggle to represent a class of disenfranchised youth unwilling to support a process of renewal of political institutions that they perceive as contributing their marginalization.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

A survey on life logging data capturing

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With the recent availability of inexpensive wearable sensing technologies, the emergence and of both off-line and on-line digital-storage capacity and an acceptance of personal data gathering and online social sharing (timeline), life logging has become a mainstream research topic and is being embraced by early adaptors. For example, currently we have the ability to gather and store large volumes of personal data (location, photos, motion, orientation, etc.) in a very cheap manner, using an inexpensive smartphone.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

The challenge of educational disadvantage in a knowledge economy: a case study of Waterford crystal Ltd

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The PhD research question ‘how can educationally disadvantaged employees gain the necessary qualifications to secure employability status and contribute to competitiveness in a knowledge based economy ’ is addressed through case study research using Waterford Crystal Ltd, an indigenous, manufacturing, exporting company from 1990-2006 as the context.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

Community radio in Ireland: building community, participation and multi-flow communication

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The core aims of community radio stations foreground the principle of participation by the people in the communication process. Community radio stations broadcast to build the communities which they serve. Six Irish community radio stations are studied to examine the implementation of these aims. The study asks how community radio stations
• try to build the communities in which they broadcast?
• promote multi-flow communication?
• facilitate participation? Three main frameworks are employed in the analysis of the research.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

Do deputy-leaders matter?: a comparative study

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Little has been written on deputy-leaders and the received wisdom, such as it is, is that deputy-leaders have little power and hence do not matter. A global survey of deputyleaders found that 68 per cent of states had a deputy-leader. So, however powerful they may be, they are certainly a fairly common political phenomenon. To test whether or not deputy-leaders are politically powerful and thus matter, seven hypotheses were identified with nine observable implications. A comparative approach was adopted, examining the careers of 64 deputy-leaders in five states.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

Social psychological concepts in the context of intercultural communication

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Increased communication between people of different cultures has led to the development of the field of intercultural studies. The field is interdisciplinary in nature, as it draws from theories by scholars in other fields, one of which is social psychology. This dissertation examines aspects of social psychology that are particularly relevant to intercultural communication, as a greater understanding of certain social psychological concepts may increase the effectiveness of intercultural interaction.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

The critical junctures approach remoulded: explaining change in trade union influence over public policy in four countries

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The aim of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of the concept of critical junctures in political science. In this regard the dissertation examines the approach’s evolution to this point. It is argued here that the critical junctures approach, as it had developed up to now, has lacked rigour. Consequently, the approach is remoulded in ways that add to its rigour and applicability. Improving upon the approach will involve specifying clearly defined standards that enable the identification of levels of change in order to see if that change constitutes a critical juncture.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

RTÉ's coverage of the campaigning on the eighth amendment to the constitutionissues of objectivity, impartiality and fairness

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The referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, what became known alternatively as the Pro-Life or the Abortion Referendum resulted in a new Constitutional provision that: “ Acknowledged the right to life o f the unborn, with due regard to the equal right to life o f the mother” . The campaign, which had been initiated by Catholic groups in an effort to protect traditional moral views, became bitter and divisive within society as it progressed.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)

Feminism in Spain and its influence on Montserrat Roig's trilogy

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An appreciation of Spain’s unique political, religious and economic history prior to the arrival of second wave Feminism in Spain is the key to understanding the reasons for the limited success of Feminism. Franco’s right wing dictatorship, which lasted almost forty years, was probably the single greatest explanatory factor for the late arrival of second wave Feminism in Spain and its halfhearted reception.

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• Ciencias Sociales›Ciencias Sociales (General)