Home > Department of Government > Degree programmes > PhD Completions Board

 

PhD Completions Board

Government students awarded with their PhD from 2001 to the present.

Name Thesis title Year of Award

Sarah Harrison

Ideological (Mis)match? Mapping Extreme Right Ideological Discourse and Voter Preferences

2010

Nikolas Chrysoloras

 Religion and Nationalism in the Greek and Greek Cypriot Political Cultures

2010

Kevin Young

 Private Sector Influence and the International Political Economy of Banking Regulations: The Formation of the Basil II Accord 1998-2004

2010

Susana Berruecos Garcia Travesi

 Separation of Powers in New Democracies: Federalism and the Judicial Power in Mexico

2010

Justin Gest

 Apart: Alienated Muslims in European Democracies

2010

James Gledhill

 Political Theory and Social Practices: G.A. Cohen, Rawls, Habermas and the problem of self-grounding

2010

Andrej Keba

 Identity and Reasons in Contemporary Liberal Theory

2010

Cecile Hoareau

Does Deliberation Matter? The Impact of the Bologna Process on Attitudes and Policies in European Higher Education. 

2010 

Gabriele Birnberg

The Voting Behaviour of the European Union Member States in the United Nations General Assembly.

2010 

Camille  Monteux 

Institution Building in Kosovo: The Role of International Actors and the Question of Legitimacy.

2010 

Fredrik Sjöberg

Elections and Identity Politics in Kyrgystan 1989-2009- Moving Beyond the 'Clan Politics' Hypothesis.

2009 

Sofia Sebastian-Aparicio  

State-Building in Deeply Divided Societies: Beyond Dayton in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2009 

André Alves   

An Exploration of the Libertarian/Egalitarian Dimension of Welfare Systems.

2009 

Chiara Jasson   

Developing Discourse? National Referendums and News Coverage of the European Constitutional Process.

2009 

Paolo Dasgupta  

The Independence of Regulatory Agencies in Practice: The Case of Telecommunications Regulators in the UK and France.

2009 

Romina Miorelli   

The Discourse of Civil Society in Poverty Reduction Policy in the Argentine 1990's: Neo-liberal and populist Political Projects Struggle for Hegemony.

2009 

Juan Pardinas

 

Decentralisation and Budget Accountability in the Twilight of Mexican Presidentialism.

2009 

Steven  Mock   

 

Images of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity.

2009 

Leonidas Makris 

Perfectionism in Two Liberalisms: Analysis and Comparison of J.S. Mill and J. Raz 

2009

Holly Jarman

Imagined Commodities: The New Trade Politics in the European Union and United States 

2009

Barton Edgerton Thomas 

Creating a Space for Politics: Territory and Political Theory

2009

Zsuzsanna Chappell

Deliberation Disputed: A Critique of Deliberative Democracy 

2009 

Adriana Jimenez-Cuen

Remittances and Votes: Emigrant Political Participation in Mexico 

2009

Guy Burton

Social Democracy in Latin America: Policymakers and education reform in Brazil and Chile

2009

Chun-Hung Chen

Universalism with humility: Grounding human rights in a diverse world

2009

Matthew Bolton

Governance and Post-Statist Security: The Politics of US and Norwegian Foreign Aid for Demining in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Sudan' 

2009

Jesus Lopez-Gonzalez

The Politics of Civil-Military Relations in Mexico: a Historical and Institutional Approach

2009

Francisco Gaetani

Public Management Constitutional Reforms in Modern Brazil: 1930-1998 

2008

Kai Spiekermann

Norms and Games: Realistic Moral Theory and the Dynamic Analysis of Cooperation

2008

Francesco Salerno

Path Dependence and Institutional Reform: A Case Study on the Reform of Italian Telecommunications Institutions 1979-2007 

2008

Esteve Olle

Towards a theory of the global event. The cases of 11 March 2004 and 7 July 2005 terrorist bombings

2008

Heather Murchison

Unmasking Cultural Protectionism: An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Nation State and Culture in Contemporary Canada

2008

Xi Lin

Equity in the Chinese Law: Its Origin and Transformations

2008

Naonori Kodate

Institutional Logics and Responsive Government: Hospital Sector Reforms in England, Japan and Sweden

2008

Kamleh Kahtib

The Impact of Electoral Reform: Elections, Parties and Legislators in Italy, 1996-2001 

2008

Koichi Kato

Evaluating Compulsory Voting: Australia in Comparative Perspective

2008

Sven Harten

Analysis of the Dialectic of Democratic Consolidation, De-Institutionalisation and Re-Institutionalisation in Bolivia, 2002-2005

2008

Michael Buehler

Politics in Formation: Changing Patterns of Local Elite Competition in Indonesia

2008

Paolo Benedetti

The Political Economy of Regulatory Stability in Argentina

2008

Vasilios Alevizakos

Party Strategies and the process of democratic consolidation in Southern and Central Europe

2008

Joachim Wehner

Legislatures, Democratic Control and Budgeting: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

2007

Andreas Warntjen

Through the Needle's Eye. The Council Presidency and Legislative Decision-Making in the European Union

2007

Ligia Teixeira

Rhetoric of philosophers: An examination of the place of rhetoric in philosophy

2007

Alessandra Sarquis

An Ethical Framework for International Politics: A Neo-Hegelia interpretation of the role of States in the construction of just principles

2007

Esra Bulut

Identity, Ideology and Foreign Relations: Responses in Turkey to Conflict and Change in the Balkans 1992-2004

 2007

Manjeet Ramgotra

 

The conservative roots of Republicanism: Astudy of Cicero, Machiavelli and Montesquieu

2007

Lucian N. Leustean 

Orthodoxy and Communism in the Romanian People's Republic, 1947-1965 

2007

Agapi-Leda Glyptis

 

Kemalism as a Language of Turkish Politics: Cultivation, Reproduction, Negotiation

2007

Elena Bechberger

 

Regaining Control of the Social Budgets: Fiscal Commitment and Social Insurance Reform in France and Germany 1990-2005

2007

Achim Goerres

 

Political Participation of Older People in Europe

 

2007

Simon Griffiths

 

Responses to the New Right: The Engagement of the British Left with the Work of Friedrich Hayek, 1989-2001

2007

Sarah Hagemann

Decision-Making in the European Union's Council of Ministers

2007

Pierre Hausemer

Political Representation in the European Parliament 

2007

Cristina Parau 

The Interplay between Domestic Politics and Europe: How Romanian Civil Society and Government Contested Europe Before EU Accession.

2007

Francisco Paris

Institutional Failure in Venezuela: The Cases of Spending Oil Revenues and the Governance of PDVSA (1975-2005)

2007

Rune Dahl Fitjar

Prosperous Peripheries: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Explorations of the Determinants of Regionalism in Western Europe

2007

Andreas Sturm

The Kings Nation: A Study of the Emergence and Development of Nation and Nationalism in Thailand

2006

James Gregory

The Moral Ontology of Walzerian Social Criticism 

2006

Daniel Rubenson 

Community Effects on Political Participation: The Role of Social Capital, Heterogeneity and Government Competencies

2006

Sujith Kumar

 

Reassessing JS Mill's Liberalism: The Influence of August Comte, Jeremy Bentham and Wilhelm Von Humboldt

2006

Ayse Kaya

Rival Globalizations?: An Analysis of US-EU Post Cold War Trade Disputes

2006

Rekha Diwakar 

An Investigation into the Determinants of the Size of Indian Party System

2006

Juliane Fuzesi

Explaining Irredentism: The Case of Hungary and its Transborder Minorities in Romania and Slovakia

2006

Po-Chung Chow 

Moral Stability and Liberal Justification: An Examination of the Notion of Stability in Rawl's Theory. 

2006

Stuart Astill

Networks That Form Policy: The Case Of Pension Reform

2006

Bashir Bashir 

Reconciling Historically Excluded And Disadvantaged Groups: Deliberative Democracy, Recognition And The Politics Of Reconciliation

2006

Garrett Brown

Kantian Constitutional Jurisprudence And A Minimal Ethical Foundation For A Cosmopolitan Order 

2006

Ofer Cassif 

On Nationalism and Democracy, A Marxist Examination

2006

Anneliese Dodds

Liberalization And The Public Sector: The Case Of International Students' Policy In Britain And France

2006

Ori Lev

Should a Liberal State Fund the Arts?

2006

Nicholas Papastratigakis

Russian Naval Strategy in the Far East, 1895-1904

2006

Indraneel Sircar

Transnational Consociation In Northern Ireland And In Bosnia-Hercegovina: The Role Of Reference States In Post-Settlement Power-Sharing 

2006

Mei-Chuan Wei

Public Culture And The Taiwan Imaginary: Freedom, The Nation And Welfare

2006

Hao Yeh

History, Method and Pluralism -A re-Interpretation of Isaiah Berlin's Political Thought

2006

Anna Aghumian

The Role of Elites in Political and Economic Transition: A case Study of Post Soviet Armenia

2005

David Bailey

Legitimation through Integration: Explaining the 'New' Social Democratic Turn to Europe

2005

Giacomo Benedetto 

Institutionalised Consensus in Europe's Parliament

2005

Laura Brooks

"Shell is the Only Government we Know" Multi-Sector Partnerships and Equitable Governance in the Niger Delta.

2005

June Burnham

The Impact of Political Leadership on Bureaucratic Institutions in France: The Case of DATAR

2005 

David Cashaback

Accommodating Multinationalism in Russia and Canada: A Comparative Study of Federal Design and Language in Tatarstan and Quebec 

2005 

Oliver Curry

Morality as Natural History: an Adaptationist Account of Ethics.

2005

Shelly Deane

Negotiating Peace Agreements : Elite Bargains and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in Northern Ireland and Israel Palestine 

2005

Juliam Eagles 

Situationist Theory: Its Origins, Concepts, and Place in Modern European Thought

2005

Gabriella Elgenius  

Expressions of Nationhood: National Symbols and Ceremonies in Contemporary Europe

2005

Francisco Gaetani

Public Management Constitutional Reforms in Modern Brazil: 1930-1998

2005

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

Cultural and Political Nationalism in Ireland: Myths and Memories of the Easter Rising, 1916

2005

Rotem Gonen

Shirking and Shifting Policies: Uncooperative Political Appointees in Israeli Local Governments

2005 

Dr Marios Hatzopoulos 

Ancient Prophecies, Modern Predictions: Myths and Symbols of Greek Nationalism

2005

Bjorn Hoyland

Government and Opposition in EU Legislative Politics.

2005

Maria Kampp 

Fragmentation and Policy Coordination in the European Commission - The Cases of Audio-Visual and Telecommunications Policy

2005

Hendrik Kraetzschmar

Electoral Institutions in Non-Democratic Regimes: The Impact Of the 1990 Electoral Reform on Patterns of Party Development in Mubarek's Egypt 

2005

Raffaele Marchetti

Cosmopolitanism Restated. A Choice-Based Consequentialist Perspective On Global Democratic Inclusion: The Cases Of Migration And World Federalism

2005

Marit Sojovaag Marino

State Traditions in Institutional Reform: A Case Study of French and German Telephone Policy Debates from 1876 Until 1997. 

2005

Paola Mattei

The Modernisation of the Welfare State in Italy: Dynamic Conservative Change and Health Care Reform 1992-2003.

2005

Sara Motta-Mera

The Chilean Third Way: From Anti-Capitalism to Neoliberalism. The Chilean Socialist Party (PSCH) 1967 - 2004

2005

Nino Nanava

Conceptualising the Georgian Nations: The Modern Intellectual Discourse of Georgian Identity

2005

Jeong Won Park

The National Identity of a Diaspora: A Comparative Study of the Korean Identity in China, Japan and Uzbekistan 

2005

Alejandro Quiroga

Making Spaniards: National-Catholicism and the Nationalisation of the Masses During the Dictatorship of Primo De Rivera (1923-1930)

2005

Madalena Pontes Meyer Resende

A Party Family Theory of Party Positions on European Integration: A Polish Case Study. 

2005

Lindsay Stirton 

Regulatory Governance in the national Health Service: Analysing Selected Reform Initiatives 1985-2004

2005

Christian Van Stolk

Europeanisation of Regional and Agricultural Policy in the Czech Republic and Poland

2005

Linda Trautman

Stalin's Last Frontier: The Soviet Arctic in the 1930's Glavsevmorput' and the Northern Sea Route

2005

Michael Wagemans

The Only Constant is Change: Policy Innovation in Norwegian Party Politics 

2005

Meike Wulf

Historical Culture, Conflicting Memories and Identities in Post-Soviet Estonia

2005

 

Radaslaw Zubek

Europeanising from the Centre: Core Executive Institutions and the Transposition of the European Community Legislation in Poland 1997-2002

2005

Anthony Thomas Amatrudo

The Political and Social Theory Implications of Desert Doctrine: An Historical and Philosophical Analysis

2004

Michael Bacon

"That's the way we happen to do things around here":  Richard Rorty and Political Liberalism. 

2004

Apostolis Dimitropoulos

The Social Dynamics of Student Mobility in the European Union.

2004

Tom Dyson

The Politics of German Defence Policy:  Policy Leadership, Bundeswehr Reform and European Defence and Security Policy.

2004

Efterpe Fokas

The Role of Religion in National - EU Relations: The Cases of Greece and Turkey.

2004

Robert Funk

Renovation and Continuity:  Chile's Transition to Democracy Revised. 

2004

Carlo Gallo

Russian Duma Elections in the Territorial Districts: Explaining Patterns of Proliferation of Independent Candidates, 1993-1999.

2004

Annie Hewitt

Between Beast and God:  An Examination of the Ethical and Political Ideas of the Poet Pindar, the Historian Thucidydes and the Philosopher Aristotle.

2004

Maria Lensu

Respect for culture and customs in international humanitarian assistance:  implications for principles and policy.

2004

Christina Lin

National Defence and Global Industries:  Ideas, Interests and an Institutional Approach to American Defence Industrial Base Policy, 1981-2000.

2004

James Martin McIvor

Karl Marx's Political Epistemology: Subjectivity, Abstraction and the State in the writings of the Early 1840's.

2004

Kevin Iain McMenamin

The 'Soft State': Business-Government Relations in Post Communist Poland.

2004

Ben Morris

Juridification in the UK:  The cases of the office of fair trading and the commission for racial equality.

2004

Diego Muro Ruiz

Ethnicity and Violence: The Case of Radical Basque Nationalism.

2004

Viyakala Seevaratnam

Governing the Shipyards: Europisation and the German Shipbuilding Industry.

2004

Chihi Shiiyama

Nationalism and Supranational Regional Solidarity: The Case of Modern Japanese Nationalism and its Perception of Asia, 1868-2001.

2004

Stephan Stetter

Cross-Pillar Politics of the European Union:  EU Actors and the Centralisation of Foreign and Interior Policies.

2004

Nebojsa Vladisavljevic

Serbia in Turmoil: The Collapse of Communism, Mobilisation and Nationalism.

2004

Mizue Yuzurihara

The Cultural Policies of the European Union: Problems and Prospects for Cultural Integration. 

2004

Gary Sussman 

The Referendum in F.W. Deklerk's War of Manoeuvre:  An Historical Insititutionalist Account of the 1992 Referendum.

2003

Kennedy Stewart

'Persistent losing' And Electoral Democracy in Three World Cities

2003

Eva-Maria Nag

Marxism and Beyond in Indian Political Thought:  JP Narayan and MN Roy's Concepts of Radical Democracy.

2003

Jan-Hinrik Meyer Sahling

Governance by Discretion:  Civil Service Reform in Post-Communist Hungary.

2003

Pieter Vanhuysse

Divide and Pacify:  The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Hungary and Poland, 1989-1996.

2003

Heidi Ullrich

The impact of policy networks in the GATT Uruguay round: The case of the US-EC agricultural negotiations.

2003

Juliane Fürst

Stalin's last generation: Youth, State and Komsomol, 1945-1953.

2003

Eleni Psarrou

National Identity in the Era of Globalisation.

2003

Adam Tebble

Discovering cultural justice:  Difference, democracy and the discursive minimal state.

2003

Gita Subrahmanyam

Bringing the Empire back in:  patterns of growth in the British Imperial State, 1890-1960 (with special reference to India and Africa).

2003

Katharine Adeney

Federal Formation and Consociational Stabilisation:  The Politics of National Identity Articulation and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan.

2003

Hans Frederik Kribbe 

Corporate Personality: A Political Theory of Association

2003

Kensuke Takayasu

The Relationship between the Prime Minister and the Governing Party in Britain and Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Responses to the Oil Crises 1973-1980.

2003

Anne Corbett

Ideas, Institutions and Policy Entrepreneurship in European Community Higher Education Policy 1955-1995.

2002

Paolo Dardanelli

The Connection between European Integration and Demands for Regional Self-Government:  A Rational-Institutionalist, Comparative Analysis of Scotland, 1979 and 1997.

2002

Duncan Fraser

Long-Wave Economics and the Changing Fortunes of the Political and Social Movements of the Left and Right.

2002

Maria Goes

New Labour and the idea of work:  public political discourse analysis of the Labour Party 1994-2001.

2002

Stephen Green

Equity Politics and Market Institutions:  The Development of Stock Market Policy and Regulation in China, 1984-2000.

2002

Armando Jimenez San Vicente

The political economy of tax collection in Mexico:  The constraints on reform, 1970-2000.

2002

Gal Levy

Ethnicity and Education: Nation Building, State Formation and the Construction of the Israeli Education System.

2002 

David Lewis

Stalinism and Empire: Soviet Policy in Tuva, 1921-1953.

2002

David Macdonald

Difference and Belonging:  Liberal Citizenship and Modern Multiplicity. 

2002

Mario Ojeda-Revah

Mexico and the Spanish Republic 1931-1939.

2002

Marinus Ossewaarde

Tocqueville's Catholic Liberalism.

2002

Tom Quinn

Organisational Reform In The British Labour Party Since 1983.

2002

Zhand Shakibi

The King, The Tsar, The Shah:  Agency and the making of revolution in Bourbon France, Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran. 

2002

Marilena Simitis

New Social Movements in Greece:  Aspects of the Ecological and Feminist Project(s).

2002

Lori Thorlakson

Federalism and Party Competition:  A Comparative Analysis of Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the United States.

2002

Diego Varela

The Power of Voice:  An Informational Model of the Legislative Powers of the European Parliament.

2002

Carolina Vendil

The Russian Legitimation Formula 1991-2000.

2002

Velis Vourkoutiotis

Democracy and human development:  A critical empirical investigation using data from 123 counties, 1970-1990.

2002

Francoise Boucek

The growth and management of factionalism in long-lived dominant parties:  comparing Britain, Italy, Canada and Japan.

2002

Peter Bleyer

Coalitions of Social Movements as Political Agency:  The Pro-Canada/Action Canada Network 1987-1993.

2002

Martin Cable

The 'Obediences' Of The Great Schism And Conciliar Era. The Distinction Between The Personal And Territorial With The Jurists Joannes De Imola, Domenicus De Sancto Geminiano And Petrus De Monte.

2001

Giovanni Carbone

Constitutional alternatives for ethnic conflict management?  The role of political parties in Uganda and South Africa.

2001

Diane Feiler

Anti-Abortion Literature: A Comparison Between The United States And England From 1967 To 1995.

2001

Noreha Haji Hashim

British aid to Malaysia and the Pergau Dam controversy (1988-1994):  Aid and arms policy communities and networks, accountability and control.

2001

Nicole Jackson

Russian policy towards the CIS, 1991-1996:  Debates about military and political involvement in the Moldova-Transdniestria, Georgia-Abkhazia and Tajikistan conflicts.

2001

Oliver James

The "Next Steps" agency model in UK Central Government 1988-98 with special reference to the benefits agency.

2001

Joaquin Lozano-Aguirre

Technology and Innovation Policy, the case of Mexico 1970-1995.

2001

Cillian McBride

Context and social criticism:  The problem of context in the history of political thought and political theory. 

2001

Geoffrey Meddleton

British Government And Media Relations During The Spanish Civil War 1936-39.

2001

Phillip Parvin

Liberalism, Political Theory and the Rights of Minority Cultures:  Just how Different are the 'Politics of Difference'?. 

2001

Knut Roder

The development of labour Market policy. Comparing long-term policy change in the British Labour Party and the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands.

2001

Evangelos Zoidis

Driven Far Astray - A Reading of Ancient Greek Thought.

2001