Browsing Demokraatia ja valitsemise õppekava magistritööd – Master´s theses by Issue Date
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Between homeland and fatherland: Russian identity in Estonia and Latvia
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The effect of voting advice applications on Estonian voters' voting behaviour
(Tartu Ülikool, 2017)In the age of digitalisation and information overflow, it might be difficult for people to decide which information to consume and trust. However, next to all of that, we still have to make important decisions and one ... -
Economic voting in the European Union: the impact of the EU economic integration index
(Tartu Ülikool, 2017)Economic voting has long been a popular theory, explaining voting behavior; its application to multilevel governance structures however is not widely studied. This research takes the EU as an example of multi-layered ... -
Elite mythmaking on the run: the case of World War Two narrative in modern Ukraine
(Tartu Ülikool, 2017)The thesis inquires into governmental memory politics in Ukraine in the aftermath of Euromaidan protests focusing on the representation of the Second World War. At the theoretical level, the thesis has scrutinized concepts ... -
Invented traditionalism vs. entrenched informal institutions: viability of hybrid governance in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland
(Tartu Ülikool, 2017)Hybrid Governance as a coexistence of state and traditional institutions challenges conventional understanding of state fragility/failure and offers a new perspective for developing states. Being capable of overcoming a ... -
Ukraine and Georgia since “color” revolutions: factors that influence foreign policy change
(Tartu Ülikool, 2017)A substantial volume of analysis was generated among scholars and theorists around the foreign policy orientation of Georgia and Ukraine. The foreign policy of these post-Soviet countries was determined as respective of ... -
Democracy, economy and happiness in post-Soviet States (1995-2014)
(Tartu Ülikool, 2017)Defining and measuring happiness has been a major topic for many generations of scholars. The contemporary discussion tackles upon the main predictors of happiness and their influence on the subject. This paper focuses ... -
Does presidentialism breed dictatorship - the case of Turkey and the Erdogan regime
(Tartu Ülikool, 2018)This thesis inquires into presidentialism and its compatibility with democracy. Despite its poor record of achieving sustainable democracy, it is still considered a democratic form of government. Presidentialism is criticized ... -
Neoliberal policies and evolution of crony capitalism in Morocco and Tunisia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2018)The implication of neoliberal policies directed to lessen state interventionism and increase the role of markets making the economies more competitive and efficient. Neoliberal policies applied in Morocco and ... -
Effects of semi-presidentialism on party system institutionalization: does the shift to premier-presidentialism increase party system institutionalization?
(Tartu Ülikool, 2018)Party system institutionalization has been extensively studied in the political science scholarship, however semi-presidentialism which saw the resurgence of interest among transitional countries, and as a result also ... -
The impact of military tension on economic growth: comparative study of Israel and South Korea
(Tartu Ülikool, 2018)In development literature, there is a debate over what exactly causes rapid economic growth. There is a variety of opinions starting with market liberalization, big amount of FDI, support to education and healthcare and ... -
A "new institutional" perspective on energy policy network formation: a case study of the Central and Eastern European Sustainable Energy Network
(Tartu Ülikool, 2018)The research looked at the successful policy network formation process in new EU energy governance perspective and studied the CEESEN Central and Eastern European Sustainable Energy Network case. Thesis used “New ... -
The role of civil society organisations in ethnic conflict resolution in Georgia: challenges and opportunities
(Tartu Ülikool, 2018)Ethnic conflicts in Georgia have almost 30-year-long history. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, two Georgian regions – Abkhazia and Samachablo (so called South Ossetia) claimed independence. These two regions were/are ... -
Modern democratic federations in the digital age: the conditions and prerequisites of electronic government (de-)centralization
(Tartu Ülikool, 2018)This thesis discusses the process of administrative (de-)centralization of electronic government in 11 democratic federations. The research is comparative in nature and process-tracing was used as a primary data analysis ... -
Assessing the web-portal type of eGovernment structures and measuring their socio-economic impact on the French Metropolitan Park
(Tartu Ülikool, 2018)The use of eGovernment structures is becoming increasingly popular among public agencies due to the democratization of the Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs). Its application and impact at the public metropolitan ... -
Forecasting the party support in Estonia: comparison of machine learning regression algorithms
(Tartu Ülikool, 2018)Forecasting political behavior using economic indicators is not a very new phenomenon with the earliest literature going back as far as the 1930s. In the present day, there exists a lot of research on the topic, but the ... -
#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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
