UCL Political Science: Dissertation

DISSERTATION PODCAST - Beatrice Lovestone ('Inside/Outside: Museums as political theory')

Beatrice's dissertation asked how political community is constructed in the EU compared to the sovereign state. She argued that many ways in which community is described in the nation state are reproduced in the EU. The dissertation was built on R.B.J. Walker’s theory of the inside world of the state being seen as different to the outside world, and of there being a view of world politics that only sees the possibility for progression and democracy within the state. Using discourse analysis as m...

DISSERTATION PODCAST - Ziad Elhassan ('Foreign direct investment inflows and remittance inflows')

DISSERTATION PODCAST - Casandra Scheidegger ('Minority women in state legislature')

DISSERTATION PODCAST - Sarah Tan Song-En ('Making Sense of Sustainability)

Making Sense of Sustainability: An Application of Ostrom’s Theory of Collective Action Towards the Development of a General Framework of Sustainability in Savings and Credit Associations Despite the widespread recognition that a majority of lower-income and rural populations across the world rely on community-based financial service providers such as savings and credit associations (SCAs), there is scarce research on when and why these local self-governing mechanisms exist sustainably and succes...