Demokraatia ja valitsemise õppekava magistritööd – Master´s theses
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The anti-vaccination movement: framing on Latvian language Facebook
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Anti-vaccination movements promote vaccine hesitancy, a significant global threat to public health. In Latvia vaccine hesitancy is of great concern with fears being raised on maintaining vaccination rates at the level ... -
The effects of state support on NGO sustainability in Azerbaijan
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Sustainable NGOs fill the gap left by national governments in society. They address social problems that the state cannot, foster dialogue and cooperation among citizens and of the citizens with the state, and boost bridging ... -
Do parties and voters reward parliamentary behavior? Evidence from Estonia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)While a wide range of literature has discussed how institutional incentives account for variation in parliamentary behavior of members of parliament (MPs), what is less clear is to what extent the behavioral strategies ... -
Limits and opportunities of the EU conditionality policy in the area of anti-corruption: the case of visa liberalization in Ukraine
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The thesis explores the limits as well as the opportunities the EU conditionality policy has beyond the legal borders of the Union. To attain the research objective, the research zeroes in on Visa Liberalization Action ... -
Shifting fortunes: anti-establishment reform parties, the catch-all strategy and the territorial cleavage in Ukraine
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This project is intended to examine the how can the impact of an electoral cleavage can be reduced in the absence of changes in its socio-structural element as well as in other factors related to electoral competition using ... -
Transitional justice in multiple transitions: case study of Croatia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The aim of this thesis is to establish a novel framework in the study of transitional justice. It is concerned with cases where there are more transitions that happen in the same country. So far, these cases have mostly ... -
Analysis of two models of secondary education delivery and their impact on Roma integration in Slovakia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The submitted research project is focused on the analysis of two models of secondary education delivery and their impact on socio-cultural integration of Roma students in Slovakia. To improve the educational situation of ... -
Service provision by international non-governmental organizations in areas of limited statehood. An examination INGOs’ impact on sustainability in education provision in the Kingdom of Cambodia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis illuminates the diversity of INGOs’ behaviour as service providers. The study captures how different types of behaviour, working modes, impact the production of sustainability. The author outlines in this thesis ... -
Political party interest in having members: explaining the different party membership levels in Estonia and Latvia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis provides a demand-side explanation on why Estonia and Latvia - countries of similar contemporary historical trajectories and the emerging party systems - have substantially different results in party membership ... -
Should the guardians be independent? Electoral management bodies and electoral integrity
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Fair elections are fundamental for democratic governance, they are the result of a complex process, the implementation of which requires the application and responsible execution of all procedures at all stages of the ... -
Making America Great, Again through memes: a qualitative content analysis of a Trump-based populism in user-generated memes
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Although populism is much-discussed, global trend, attempts to define it have been contentious, unsatisfactory, and often accomplished without the input of the populists themselves. The latest emergence of this political ... -
The relationship between electoral instability and programmatic configuration in contemporary party systems
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)This thesis aims to discuss how electoral volatility is related to party system programmatic configuration. Two types of electoral volatility are expected to explain why some party systems have a wide range of ideological ... -
Improving public service delivery of transportation in Tbilisi through fiscal decentralisation: lessons from the Dutch case
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)During the last couple of decades, after establishing a sovereign state, Georgia has been experiencing challenges with the performance of its public service delivery systems. Recently the Ministry of Regional Development ... -
Participatory budgeting as a social innovation: motives and outcomes of enactment: based on the example of the city of Tartu
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB) at a local level has attracted the attention of many researchers. PB has been invented in Porto Alegre, Brazil during the time of redemocratization of Brazil in 1989. Afterwards, ... -
#MeToo movement in Estonia: a frame analysis
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)A new social movement was born in October 2017. In light of a high-profile sexual harassment scandal, women took to various social media channels to share their own stories of sexual harassment and violence using the #MeToo ... -
Roles and meanings of informality in transnational accountability: the EU migration crisis in the realm of transnational municipal networks
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)This master thesis investigates the meanings and functions of transnational accountability by analyzing the informal means of organizing accountability in emerging transnational governance networks. In this regard, the ... -
Critical review of the electoral reform of 2006 in Peru: the case of the electoral fines as a perverse incentive
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)The main purpose of this work is to question the utility of public policies and norms adopted by the state to promote participation in elections, in this case fines as an incentive to increase voter turnout. Considering ... -
Understanding corruption from an ethical vantage point: the cases of Tunisia and Egypt
(Tartu Ülikool, 2019)This research elicits a thorough discussion on the normative aspects of the determinants of corruption. The crux of the argument focalizes around the notions of frustration and resentment in societies where the corruption ...
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