Items where Year is 2014

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Agarwal, Shweta (2014) Beyond lucky: measuring and modelling the impact of ‘probability control’ on risky choice. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Airoldi, Mara (2014) Essays on healthcare priority setting for population health. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Aitchison, Brian (2014) Small business collective action and its effects on administrative modernization in Putin’s Russia: from “grabbing hand” to “helping hand”? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Akkoyunlu, Feyzi Karabekir (2014) The rise and fall of the hybrid regime: guardianship and democracy in Iran and Turkey. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Alaimo, Cristina (2014) Computational consumption: social media and the construction of digital consumers. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Altorfer-Ong, Alicia N. (2014) Old comrades and new brothers: a historical re-examination of the Sino-Zanzibari and Sino-Tanzanian bilateral relationships in the 1960s. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Anderson, Emily (2014) States of extraction: impacts of taxation on statebuilding in Angola and Mozambique, 1975-2013. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Arriagada, Arturo (2014) Cultural mediators and the everyday making of ‘digital capital’ in contemporary Chile. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Asık, Gunes (2014) Empirical essays on employment, financial development and stability. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Attia-krieger, Sharon (2014) Sacrifice scripts: the role of context in the transmission of counter-cultural religious representations of sacrifice and commitment. Israeli-Jewish culture. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Bagaria, Nitika (2014) Essays in labour economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Barber, Laura (2014) Chinese foreign policy in the 'Going Out' era: confronting challenges and 'Adaptive Learning' in the case of China-Sudan and South Sudan Relations. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Barcus, Anka (2014) Exploring decision making processes in-situ, in-actu, in-toto: an empirical study of decision-making processes in medium software development projects. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Basedow, Johann (2014) The European Union’s international investment policy Explaining intensifying Member State cooperation in international investment regulation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Basha i Novosejt, Aurélie (2014) Robert S. McNamaraʼs withdrawal plans from Vietnam: a bureaucratic history. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Basile, Kelly (2014) Framing the work-life relationship: understanding the role of boundaries, context and fit. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bates, Katie (2014) Double or divergent? Stuntingoverweightness among children and the ‘burden’ of malnutrition: a study of Albania. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bauchowitz, Stefan (2014) A race to the middle: governance in the extractive industries and the rise of China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Belton, Sara (2014) Exploring the psychosocial barriers to children’s HIV services in western Uganda: a case study of social representations. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Benassi, Chiara (2014) Growing periphery in core sectors and the challenges for labour representation. A case study of the German manufacturing sector. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Berthin, Michael (2014) Touch future x ROBOT: examining production, consumption, and disability at a social robot research laboratory and a centre for independent living in Japan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Best, Michael Carlos (2014) Essays on the economics of taxation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bjorheim, Jacob (2014) The epistemological value of the consumption based capital asset pricing model. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Boehm, Johannes (2014) Essays on institutions and productivity. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bouanchaud, Paul Alexandre (2014) Male sex work in China: understanding the HIV risk environments of Shenzhen’s migrant money boys. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Brady, Anne (2014) From no work to work? The role of job placement and skills training services in assisting unemployment Benefit II recipients find work under Germany’s Hartz IV welfare reforms. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Brodersen, Rupert (2014) Rage, rancour and revenge: existentialist motives in international relations. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Brunet, Luc-André (2014) The new industrial order: Vichy, steel, and the origins of the Monnet Plan, 1940-1946. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Caffrey, Louise (2014) Managing the commitment to protect children from maltreatment: the case of child contact centres in England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chen, Chinchih (2014) Essays on agglomeration, trade costs and foreign direct investment. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chen, Zhong (2014) Defying Moscow, engaging Beijing: The German Democratic Republic’s relations with the People’s Republic of China, 1980-1989. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chu, May (2014) The internationalisation of regulation: food safety regulation in China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Coleridge, Chris (2014) Innovation’s network(ing) antecedents: team- and individual-level investigations and propositions. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cranford, Matthew (2014) Positive incentives for ecosystem services. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Curto-Millet, Daniel (2014) To be or to become? An enquiry into the changing nature of requirements in open source health IT. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Côté, Christine (2014) A chilling effect? The impact of international investment agreements on national regulatory autonomy in the areas of health, safety and the environment. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Damant, Jacqueline (2014) Older adults, e-inclusion and access to ICT-based care. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Datzberger, Simone (2014) Peacebuilding and the depoliticisation of civil society: Sierra Leone [2002 – 2013]. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Davis, Richard (2014) The making of an insurgent group: a case study of Hamas, vox populi and violent resistance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dawes, Antonia (2014) Naples in the time of the spider: talk and transcultural meaning-making in Neapolitan markets. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dayan, Yehuda (2014) A structured approach to web panel surveys: the use of a sequential framework for non-random survey sampling inference. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dean, Corinna (2014) Establishing the Tate Modern Cultural Quarter: social and cultural regeneration through art and architecture. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dhensa-Kahlon, Rashpal (2014) Healing or harmful?: a multi-method investigation of talk as a victim-centred response to organisational injustice. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dobrynskaya, Victoria (2014) Downside risk in stock and currency markets. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Donaldson, Jason (2014) Essays in financial contract theory. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Downing, Joseph (2014) Between policy, recognition and rioting: analyzing the role of urban governance, historical commemoration and public culture in defining inclusion in Paris, Lyon and Marseille. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dunlap, Richard Stockton (2014) Reassessing Ronchamp: the historical context, architectural discourse and design development of Le Corbusier's Chapel Notre Dame-du-Haut. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

de Felice, Damiano (2014) Explaining variation in the degree of internalisation of political conditionality: the cases of France and the United Kingdom. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

de Menil, Victoria (2014) Under-cover in Kenya: the contribution of non-state actors to mental health coverage. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

de Quidt, Jonathan (2014) Essays on contract design in behavioral and development economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Falade, Bankole Adebayo (2014) Vaccination resistance, religion and attitudes to science in Nigeria. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Faleg, Giovanni (2014) When knowledge meets practice: learning communities and the EU’s common security and defence policy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fetzer, Thiemo (2014) Of naxalites, pirates and microfinance borrowers: three essays in applied microeconomics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Flynn, Curran (2014) Hans Morgenthau’s scientific man versus power politics and politics among nations: a comparative analysis. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fraser, Arabella (2014) Rethinking urban risk and adaptation: the politics of vulnerability in informal urban settlements. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fuentes Sosa, Ninfa (2014) Deep integration in the preferential trade agreements of Latin American Countries and their global and regional partners (1982-2010). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Gelepithis, Margarita (2014) Explaining trends towards universal coverage in market-heavy pension systems. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gibbons, Andrea (2014) Segregation in search of ideology? Hegemony and contestation in the spatial and racial configuration of Los Angeles. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gobbo, Andrea (2014) The making of consumer decisions: revisiting the notions of evaluation and choice by reconstructing consumer habits through subject evidence based ethnography. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gozman, Daniel (2014) A post financial crisis study of compliance practices and systems in global financial organizations: an institutionalist perspective. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Graetz, Georg (2014) Essays in labor economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Greening, Benedict (2014) This island's mine: Anglo-Bermudian power-sharing and the politics of oligarchy, race and violence during late British decolonisation, 1963-1977. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gudmundsson, Tryggvi (2014) Principles of crisis management revisited: the Bank of England in the 1970s. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Hale, Tamara (2014) Mixing and its challenges: an ethnography of race, kinship and history in a village of Afro-indigenous descent in coastal Peru. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hedayat, Maria (2014) The “exceptionalist” collective imaginary, hegemonic battles, and Costa Rica’s democratic institutional development from the 1820s to the 1960s. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Heims, Eva M. (2014) Managing European risks without a European State: transnational coordination between regulators in the European Union. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hellmeyer, Monika (2014) The impact of the Central and Eastern European EU member states on the EU’s foreign policy, 2004 to 2013. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Henehan, Kathleen (2014) Whose party? Whose interests? Childcare policy, electoral imperative and organisational reform within the US Democrats, Australian Labor Party and Britain’s New Labour. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hofmann, Anett (2014) Commitment savings products: theory and evidence. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Huang, Shiyang (2014) Essays on information asymmetry in financial market. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Ivings, Steven (2014) Colonial settlement and migratory labour in Karafuto 1905-1941. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Izzuddin, Mustafa (2014) Ethnic politics and Malaysia’s China Policy: from Tun Abdul Razak to Abdullah Ahmad Badawi: a neoclassical realist interpretation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Jarman, Alexander S. (2014) On the provision, reliability, and use of hurricane forecasts on various timescales. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jenkins, David (2014) The value of effort. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jesperson, Sasha (2014) Inhibiting integration? Tensions in the security development nexus in Sierra Leone and Bosnia Herzegovina. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jones, Bryan (2014) The impact of regeneration on existing communities in Kent Thameside since 1991. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Kalogeras, Joanne (2014) Troubling cosmopolitanism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Karakoç, Ulaş (2014) Sources of economic growth in interwar Egypt and Turkey: industrial growth, tariff protection and the role of agriculture. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kardefelt Winther, Daniel (2014) Excessive internet use: fascination or compulsion? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Karsu, Ozlem (2014) Inequity-averse decisions in operational research. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Keddie, Jamie (2014) Negotiating urban change in gentrifying London: experiences of long-term residents and early gentrifiers in Bermondsey. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kersten, Mark (2014) Justice in conflict: the ICC in Libya and Northern Uganda. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ketchley, Neil (2014) Contentious politics and the 25th January Egyptian revolution. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kim, Leo Dhohoon (2014) Denotation and connotations of biotechnology in Korean public opinion: a semantic network approach. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kiran, Gopakumar Rajakshmi (2014) Multipurpose nature of telecentres: the case of e-governance service delivery in Akshaya telecentres project. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Klingler-Vidra, Robyn (2014) All politics is local: sources of variance in the diffusion of venture capital policies. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Knight, Dean (2014) Vigilance and restraint in the common law of judicial review: scope, grounds, intensity, context. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Knox, Robert (2014) A Critical Examination of the Concept of Imperialism in Marxist and Third World Approaches to International Law. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Koh, Sin Yee (2014) British colonial legacies, citizenship habitus, and a culture of migration: mobile Malaysians in London, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Korkas, Karolos (2014) Randomised and L1-penalty approaches to segmentation in time series and regression models. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kossarova, Lucia (2014) Assessing the performance of the Slovak and the Czech health systems: a case study examining the double transition and beyond. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kramer, Reik (2014) Network-centric peace: an application of network theory to violent conflicts. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kroth, Verena (2014) Essays in political economy: elections, public finance and service delivery in South Africa. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kuong, John (2014) Essays in financial economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Laing, Timothy (2014) Assessing the impact of institutional conditions upon REDD+. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lamprecht, Jens (2014) Bargaining power in multilateral trade negotiations: Canada and Japan in the Uruguay Round and Doha development agenda. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lewis, Jovan Scott (2014) Sufferer's market: sufferation and economic ethics in Jamaica. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Li, Boyi (2014) Regional clustering through internet networks: the case of web-enabled entrepreneurial cluster in China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lord, Ceren (2014) Rethinking religio-politics in Turkey through the prism of religious majoritarianism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Luo, Ting (2014) Village economic autonomy and authoritarian control over village elections in China: evidence from rural Guangdong Province. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Makarem, Hadi (2014) Actually existing neoliberalism: the reconstruction of downtown Beirut in post-civil war Lebanon. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mallucci, Enrico (2014) Essays in international finance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Manning, Peter (2014) Justice, reconciliation and memorial politics in Cambodia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mansour, Nisrine (2014) Governing the personal: family law and women's subjectivity in post-conflict Lebanon. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Masiero, Silvia (2014) Imagining the state through digital technologies: a case of state-level computerization in the Indian public distribution system. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mason, Andrea (2014) This forlorn adventure: British policy towards Poland, 1944-1947. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Massalha, Manal (2014) In suspension: the denial of the rights of the city for Palestinians in Israel and its effects on their socio-economic, cultural and political formation: the case of Umm Al-Fahem. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Materka, Edyta (2014) Kombinacja, or the arts of combination in agrarian Poland. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Matthews, Janeille (2014) Competing constructions: a mixed methods investigation of the popular and media framing of the Antigua crime story. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McGaughey, Ewan (2014) Participation in corporate governance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Meerovitch, Vladimir (2014) Investor protection and equity markets: an evaluation of private enforcement of related party transactions rules in Russia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mele, Valentina (2014) Dynamics of policy change: three Italian cases. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Miletzki, Janna (2014) Waiting for citizenship: pragmatics of belonging of Burundian refugees in protracted exile. The case of Ulyankulu Settlement, Tanzania. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Milićević, Zorana (2014) Children and the benefits of gender equality: negotiating traditional and modern gender expectations in a Mexican village. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mirza, Mansoor (2014) Between 'Umma, empire and nation: the role of the 'Ulama in the 'Urabi revolt and the emergence of Egyptian nationalism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Missiaia, Anna (2014) Industrial location, market access and economic development: regional patterns in post-unification Italy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mladovsky, Philipa (2014) Social capital and enrolment in community-based health insurance in Senegal. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Morett, Fernando (2014) Advances on a methodology of design and engineering in economics and political science. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Morse, Tal (2014) Post mortem: death-related media rituals. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Muravska, Julia (2014) The institutionalisation of the European defence equipment market. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Murphy, Mahon (2014) Prisoners of war and civilian internees captured by British and Dominion forces from the German colonies during the First World War. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Naci, Huseyin (2014) Generating comparative data on clinical benefits and harms of statins to inform prescribing decisions: evidence from network meta-analyses. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nica, Melania (2014) Essays in organisational economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Niza, Claudia (2014) The impact of patient financial incentives to promote blood donation and compliance with health care. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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O'Regan, Karla Maureen (2014) Beyond illusion: a juridical genealogy of consent in criminal and medical law. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Obholzer, Lukas (2014) Essays on bicameral coalition formation: dynamics of legislative cooperation in the European Union. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ohlers, Curtis (2014) Interstate warfare and the emergence of transnational insurgencies. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Orri Stefansson, Hlynur (2014) Decision theory and counterfactual evaluation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Orrù, Enrico (2014) Student mobility policies in the European Union: the case of the Master and Back programme: private returns, job matching and determinants of return migration. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Osorio-Rodriguez, Daniel (2014) Essays on financial policy and macroeconomics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ozoliņa-Fitzgerald, Liene (2014) The ethics of the willing: an ethnography of Post-Soviet Neo-Liberalism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

O’Keeffe, Mícheál (2014) Essays on the political economy of financial crises: causes, containment and resolution. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Pavese, Carolina B. (2014) Level-­linkage in European Union – Brazil relations: an analysis of cooperation on climate change, trade, and human rights. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pavez-Andonaegui, Maria (2014) The Latinas' internet: meanings and practices in the everyday lives of disadvantaged migrant women in London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pearson, Megan Rebecca (2014) Religious objections to equality laws: reconciling religious freedom with gay rights. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pelletier, Adeline (2014) Essays on performance, corporate financial strategy and organization of multinational banks in Africa. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Piffer, Michele (2014) An analysis of leverage ratios and default probabilities. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pinna, Fabio (2014) Essays in applied microeconomics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Postel-Vinay, Natacha (2014) Sitting ducks: banks, mortgage lending, and the Great Depression in the Chicago area, 1923-1933. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Reinsch, Moritz (2014) Managing global (in-)security: reconstructing the EU’s international identity in the context of counter-piracy at the Horn of Africa. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Riccardi, Filippo (2014) Stochastic models for the Limit Order Book. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rietig, Katharina (2014) Learning in governance: the role of policy entrepreneurs in European climate policy integration. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Righi, Céline (2014) Lebanese youth: memory and identity. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rigterink, Anouk (2014) Essays on violent conflict in developing countries: causes and consequences. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Robinson, Katherine (2014) An everyday public? Placing public libraries in London and Berlin. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Roznai, Yaniv (2014) Unconstitutional constitutional amendments: a study of the nature and limits of constitutional amendment powers. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ryseck, Laura (2014) The search for national identity in post-colonial, multi-communal states: the cases of Eritrea and Lebanon,1941-1991. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Schleifer, Philip (2014) Whose rules? The institutional diffusion and variation of private participatory governance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schlüter, Teresa (2014) The spatial dimension of labour markets: an investigation of economic inequalities and a local employment shock. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schroeder, Torsten (2014) Translating the concept of sustainability into architectural design practices: London’s City Hall as an exemplar. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Searl, Mark (2014) A normative theory of international law based on new natural law theory. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Seyedsayamdost, Hamid (2014) Reproducibility of empirical findings: experiments in philosophy and beyond. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sezer, Lisa (2014) The political economy of Islamic business associations: social movement tactics, social networks, and regional development in Turkey. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sharma-Khushal, Sindra (2014) Microloans, climate change adaptation, & stated investment behaviour in small island developing states: a Fiji case-study. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shephard, Nicole (2014) Beyond transnationality: a queer intersectional approach to transnational subjects. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shirai, Hiromasa (2014) The evolving vision of the Olympic legacy: the development of the mixed-use Olympic parks of Sydney and London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shochat, Sharon (2014) Oil and women's political participation: a sub-national assessment of the role of protests and NGOs in Nigeria. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sibal, Rajeev (2014) Varieties of capitalism and firm performance in emerging markets: an examination of the typological trajectories of India and Brazil. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sims, Peter (2014) Social networks and entrepreneurship: the British merchant community of Uruguay, 1830-1875. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Skellern, Matthew (2014) Essays on public services, markets, and intrinsic motivation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Smith, Alyson (2014) Post-conflict reconstruction in Rwanda: uncovering hidden factors in the gender policy context. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sorrie, Charles (2014) Censorship of the press in France 1917-1918. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sri Bhashyam, Sumitra (2014) In the opponent’s shoes: modelling dynamic preferences of malicious agents. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Steinwender, Claudia (2014) International and innovation activities of firms. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Telepneva, Natalia (2014) Our sacred duty: the Soviet Union, the liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies, and the Cold War, 1961-1975. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tempini, Niccolò (2014) Governing social media: organising information production and sociality through open, distributed and data-based systems. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tocchetti, Sara (2014) How did DNA become hackable and biology personal? Tracing the self-fashioning of the DIYbio network. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Uemura, Tetsuji (2014) Population decline, infrastructure and sustainability. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ullrich, Weston (2014) American perceptions of destalinisation and leadership change in the Soviet Union, 1953-56: from Stalin’s death to the Hungarian uprising. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ussar, Margit (2014) Ethics, aid, and organisational characteristics: are multilateral aid organisations more likely to be driven by ethical considerations than their bilateral counterparts? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Vaca Baqueiro, Maira (2014) Do old habits die hard? Change and continuity in the political-media complex at the outset of the Mexican democracy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Vaganay, Arnaud (2014) Evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence? The effect of policy commitment on government-sponsored evaluation in Britain (1997-2010). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Van Coppenolle, Brenda (2014) Political dynasties and elections. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Vesal, Mohammad (2014) Essays in public economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

van der Linden, Sander (2014) The social-psychological determinants of climate change risk perceptions, intentions and behaviours: a national study. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

von Drathen, Christian (2014) Essays in empirical finance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Waights, Sevrin (2014) Essays on the urban economics of housing and land markets. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Waldinger, Maria (2014) Historical events and their effects on long-term economic and social development. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Walsh, Sinead Brenda (2014) The improbability of accountability of nongovernmental organisations to their intended beneficiaries: the case of ActionAid. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wirajuda, Muhammad (2014) The impact of democratisation on Indonesia’s foreign policy: regional cooperation, promotion of political values, and conflict management. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wu, Di (2014) The everyday life of Chinese migrants in Zambia: emotion, sociality and moral interaction. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Xiao, Yin (2014) Analysing the enforcement dimension of regulatory competition: a cultural institutionalist approach. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Yan, Yang (2014) Essays in modelling and estimatingvValue-at-risk. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yorke, Andrew (2014) State-led coercive takeovers in Putin’s Russia: explaining the underlying motives and ownership outcomes. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yu, Jie (2014) Partnership or partnerships? An assessment of China-EU relations between 2001 and 2013 with cases studies on their collaborations on climate change and renewable energy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Zeng, Jing (2014) Essays on financial intermediation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhang, Junxiang (2014) Emergent social capital from styles of organizing: a case study of creative industry cluster in China. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhang, You You (2014) Brownian excursions in mathematical finance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zheng, Yixiao (2014) Complex interdependence and China’s engagement with Australia: navigating between power and vulnerability. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhou, Ping (2014) Essays on credit risk. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Çeliktemur, Mustafa Can (2014) Essays on intermediation in trade problems. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Üre, Pınar (2014) Byzantine heritage, archaeology, and politics between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1894-1914). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.