Silva, Luis Vaz(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-06)
The study of the effect of institutional quality on economic performance has a long tradition in economic development. Considering the problems of reverse causality in the link between economic
development and institutions, ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2009)
The origins of the Northern Ireland conflict fall into three temporally distinct phases each of which creates a particular socio-structural context that defines a set of protagonists with conflicting interests, more or ...
The origins of the Northern Ireland conflict fall into three temporally distinct phases, each of which creates a particular socio-structural context that defines a set of protagonists with conflicting interests, more or ...
Silva, Luis Vaz(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-11)
The interplay between factor endowments,institutionl development and economic performance has received considerable attention in recent years. This paper exploits the importance of geographic factors and institutional ...
The ramifications of the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures straddling several centuries in northwestern Europe, reach far beyond meteorology into economic, political, and cultural history. The LIA has
spawned ...
O'Malley, Des; Garvin, Tom(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
A political perspective:
Southern Irish nationalism was traditionally aggressive and negative, and tended to view Northern Ireland as a colonial remnant; but economic protectionism and isolationism did little to stem the ...
Vaz Silva, Luis(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-05)
Past population dynamics in Africa have remained largely elusive due to the lack of demographic data. Researchers are understandably deterred from trying to explain what is not known and African historical population ...
Despite being considered one of many seventeenth century American wall insulation systems, brick nogging emerges as a prevalent construction type throughout all of original colonies. Used in both framed and hewn-log ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)
This paper argues that until the early twenty-first century the Northern Ireland conflict retained an unstable triangular form (the legacy of the long-past colonial period), where the British state was inextricably imbricated ...