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Green parties in the globalization divide: economic policy positions as predictors of electoral results
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Can policy positions predict the electoral results of Green parties? By placing European Green parties in Western and Eastern Europe in a framework of globalized politics and conducting a large-N statistical analysis, ... -
Political neutrality or editorial slant? Comparing coverage and content of Estonia’s largest nationwide daily newspapers
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)This thesis studied whether there exists a form of media bias in the two of the largest news outlets Postimees and Eesti Päevaleht in Estonia. The study coded a combination of 258 editorials that were taken from the timeframe ... -
Augmenting public sector data-driven decision support systems with expert knowledge: case of OTT
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Public sector data-driven decision support systems are uniquely challenging to design due to the ramifications they have on the societal level. Accountability and ethical considerations require these systems to arrive ... -
Impact of being in the government for populist parties: the comparison of EKRE and the Finns Party
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)In this thesis I use comparative process-tracing to compare how two far-right populist parties EKRE and the Finns Party behaved in their respective two years in the government, if and how their strategies differed from ... -
Analyzing the populist voter in Europe: the effects of political news and internet usage on voting behaviour
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Populism is one of the most researched topics in the past decade. There are many factors that can have an effect on the populist vote. It has been claimed that political news and internet use are some of them. Regarding ... -
The use of religious populism in social media during presidential elections: the cases of Guatemala and Honduras
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Religious populism signifies the relationship between religion and populism in otherwise secular states. It includes both the emergence of religious political actors in non-religious states as well as the populist use of ... -
Democracy and trends in wealth inequality: a global empirical study
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Effective democracy relies on the political equality of individuals, which is in turn influenced by wealth inequality levels. However, within-country wealth inequality has reached extreme levels in the world today and ... -
Bordering and de-bordering: the Russian speaking community in Estonia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)The Purpose of this MA thesis is to explain the nuances between those communities that live along the borders of Estonia & Russia and Estonia & Latvia. The connecting thread between these communities is that they are ... -
Explaining EU sanctions policy: case of Belarus
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)In the past decades, the EU has made extensive use of targeted or "smart" sanctions to achieve its policy objectives. Their goal is not to penalize, however, to modify their behavior or policies. The thesis reveals ... -
Holy war! The Russian Orthodox Church’s discourse of legitimization of Russia’s military intervention in Syria
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)In late September 2015, Russia officially declared the deployment of military assets to Syria within the frame of a military intervention by invitation in support of the struggling Assad government. Leading up and parallel ... -
Geopolitical policy dilemma for Eastern Partnership countries: democracy and security
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)The Eastern Partnership (EaP) was established in 2009 to formalize the EU's interactions with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova. The EU's goal was to strengthen cooperation, play a role to these ... -
Twiplomacy: An Analysis of Digital Diplomacy on Twitter
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Social media and its influence are becoming more and more significant in international diplomacy. The vast majority of diplomatic actors from state officials to non-state actors have Twitter accounts, indicating how the ... -
Euroopa Liidu tervishoiupoliitika integratsioon COVID-19 kriisi näitel
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Väikeriigi kultuuridiplomaatia Eesti näitel
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Kuna võim on nihkumas riikidelt võrgustikele, saavad edukad olla need riigid, kes suudavad meelitada ja mobiliseerida võrgustikke koostööks. Selleks on vaja teiste riikide usaldust ja austust, mis omakorda eeldab tööd riigi ... -
Euroopa Liidu välissuhteid ja laienemist puudutavad referendumid Hollandi ja Prantsusmaa näitel
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Euroopa Liidu referendumid on oluline osa Euroopa integratsiooniprotsessist ning peamiselt puudutavad need kas vastava riigi astumist Euroopa Liitu või mõne liidu lepingu ratifitseerimist. Toimunud on ka kaks referendumit, ... -
Euroopastumise kuvand Eestis kooseluseadusest tulenenud väärtuskonflikti näitel kolmes suuremas meediaväljaandes avaldatud arvamuslugude põhjal
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)2014. aastal riigikogule üle antud kooseluseadusest kujunes 2020. aastaks ühiskonda lõhestav väärtuskonflikt, mis jagas konflikti osapooled maailmavaate põhjal kahte erinevasse gruppi. Viimaste aastate jooksul kujunenud ... -
Innovatsiooni hankimist soodustavad ja piiravad tegurid Eesti keskvalitsuse tasandil
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Käesoleva töö eesmärk on uurida, millised tegurid soodustavad ja millised piiravad innovatsiooni hankimist Eesti keskvalitsuse tasandil. Selleks antakse kõigepealt ülevaade innovatsiooni hankimise teoreetilisest kirjandusest ... -
Normative or pragmatic? The Estonian perspective on European Union foreign policy - cases of conflict in North Macedonia, Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)The European Union’s (EU) foreign policymaking has been known as value-based and therefore normative but in the document of European Union Global Strategy introduced 2016, the EU proposed a new way of dealing with foreign ...