Poliitika ja valitsemine digiajastul – Master´s theses
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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 ...