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Master's students undertake a dissertation as part of all our MSc programmes, allowing them to further develop their research in areas of interest. Each year a prize is awarded to the dissertation with distinction that receives the highest mark across each of our MSc programmes. Read some of our students' recent prize winning MSc dissertations below.
Varieties Of Exports, Varieties Of Growth: The Institutional Determinants Of Growth Model Variation Among Coordinated Market Economies. | Thomas Prendergast
Issue Ownerships And Party Polarisation: Does The Effect Of Issue Ownership Considerations On The Vote Choice Depend On The (Relevant) Party Polarisation In An Individual’s Consideration Set? | Michael Stirnimann
Killing The Dead: The Logic Of Cemetery Destruction During Genocidal Campaigns. | Noa Krikler
Second MSc Conflict Studies Joint Prize-Winning Dissertation Not Published.
Evaluating The International Criminal Court’s Performance: An Empirical Study Of The Court’s Deterrence Effects In Darfur, Sudan. | Maximillian Hörtnagl
Restricting The Citizen’s Initiative: An Analysis Of Policy Adoption And Proposal In U.S. States. | Allegra Dawes
Local Political Responsiveness To Electoral Pressures On Corruption: Evidence From An Anti-Corruption Referendum In Colombia. | Hannah Fölsz
Towards A Postcolonial Contract: Revisiting Malaysia's Grand Bargain. | Aiman Mohammad Caezar
The Seed Of A Good Life: Why Societies Should Support Parents. | Felix Westerén
Factionalism, Competition And Efficiency In Russian Banking. | Alexander Soldatkin
Determinants Of Open Government And Transparency Reforms: An Exploratory Study Of Provincial Governments In Argentina. | Julia Amerikaner
Second MSc Public Policy and Administration Joint Prize-Winning Dissertation Not Published.
The Political Independence Of Regulatory Agencies: A Critical Appraisal Of A “Magic Concept” And Perspectives For Its Reconceptualization. | Elisa Cartesi
'A War Against our Values?' - An Actor-Centred Comparison of Anti-Immigration Framing in the UK, Netherlands and France | Joshua Kay
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Global Norm or Passing Trend? | Claire Williams
Rebel Strength and Post-Agreement Conflict: A Disaggregated Analysis | Konrad Pialucha
Are French Muslims Constructed as a "Suspect Community"? A Critical Discourse Analysis of French Right-Wing Newspaper Coverage of Islamist Terrorism Between 1995 and 2015 | Etienne Koeppel
The Forest Stewardship Council and Colonialism: A Critical Anti-Colonial Analysis of the Forest Stewardship Council's Normative Framework | Yumann Siddiq
Data Ownership, Fraud and the Tainted AI: On the Unjust Means in the Development of Artificial Intelligence | Ricky Li
The Mass Media of Remembering: The Role of TV in Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past | Luis Bosshart
In Europe We Trust? An Examination into the Determinants of Citizen Trust in the European Union and European Institutions, and the Factors Leading to Extreme Political Views Among EU Citizens | Ailbhe Brioscu
Female Representation and the Substantive Representation of Women's Interests by Male MPs | Luxia Broadbent
What Counts in CEO Appointments in State-Owned Enterprises? Evidence from Chile, 1990-2018 | Pablo Torres
Generational Effects and Support for the European Union in the UK: Political Socialisation During World War II | Kieran Devine
The Effectiveness of Women’s Leadership – Recognising and Addressing Wartime Sexual Violence | Elisabet Olafsdottir
Business for Climate: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Policy Support and Opposition from Transnational Companies | Daniel Witte
The Political as a Theological Problem in the Thought of Carl Schmitt | Jack Hutchison
Ballot-Structure and Corruption: A Natural Experiment from French Municipal Elections | Sebastian Law
Federalism’s Flaw: Does Decentralisation Enable the Violation of International Labour Law? | Evan Stubbings
Can Zombies be Rational? Investment, policy uncertainty and the Role of SOEs in China | Anthony Ng
What Affect Bureaucratic Attitudes Toward the Reform of Integrated Administrative Executive System: Evidence from the Practices in two Chinese Municipalities | Fangda Ding
Voting Islamist or Voting Secular? An Empirical Analysis of Election Outcomes in Tunisia’s Democratic Transition 2011-2014 | Sapandeep Maini
Transitional Justice Beyond EU Conditionality: Post-Accession Backsliding in Croatia from a Rational Institutionalist Perspective | Tijana Recevic
Discourse Contestation, Deliberation, and the Democratization of Global Governance: Evaluating the Labour Migration-and-Development Arena Against the ‘Discursive Democracy’ Ideal | Cazadira Tamzil
A Disputed State: the Nature and Practice of Political Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott’s Early Writings | Samuel Louis Bickler
The Scope of Public Reason Under Non-Ideal Conditions: Introducing the Interference View | Henrik Dahlquist
The Revolving Door for Political Elites: An Empirical Analysis of the Linkages between Government Officials’ Professional Background and Financial Regulation | Elisa Wirsching
Measuring Transforming Rehabilitation’s Impact on Public Service Motivation | Matthew Walker
(no prize awarded)
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