Items where Year is 2017

Addo, Atta (2017) IT-enabled rationalization of public administration in developing countries: essays on Ghana’s customs modernization. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Allwein, Florian (2017) The role of digital infrastructures in performances of organizational agility. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Amiraslani, Hami (2017) Essays on debt contracting. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Angelis, Aris Nikolaos (2017) Multiple criteria decision analysis for assessing the value of new medical technologies: researching, developing and applying a new value framework for the purpose of health technology assessment. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Arslantaş, Yasin (2017) Confiscation by the ruler: a study of the Ottoman practice of Müsadere, 1700s-1839. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Beinisch, Natalie (2017) Making it work: the development and evolution of transnational labour regulation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bernhardt, Thomas (2017) Reflected diffusions and piecewise diffusion approximations of Levy processes. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Birkinshaw, Matt (2017) Murky waters: infrastructure, informality and reform in Delhi. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bjarke, Morkore Stigel Hansen (2017) The spirit of Europe: Heidegger and Valéry on the "End of Spirit". PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Blum, Florian (2017) Essays on public service delivery and agricultural development. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bonifaz Moreno, Gustavo (2017) The gap between legality and legitimacy: the Bolivian state crisis (2000-2008) in historical and regional perspective. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bonin, Eva-Maria (2017) The societal costs of Anorexia nervosa in England: an investigation into the direct, indirect and intangible costs with particular regard to the role of outpatient services. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Broder, David (2017) Bandiera Rossa: communists in occupied Rome, 1943-44. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Brue Perez, Albert (2017) Essays on the economics of energy efficiency policies. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Burrett, Robin (2017) Contesting the ideal learner: an ethnography of teachers work in a Community School. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Charoenpanich, Akarapat (2017) Information of social media platforms: the case of Last.fm. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cheng, Wenqian (2017) Statistical data mining for Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blog: sentiment modelling and randomness reduction for topic modelling. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chiu, Hsiao-Chiao (2017) An island of the floating world: kinship, rituals, and political-economic change in post-cold war Jinmen. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cino Pagliarello, Marina (2017) Constructing the ‘Europe of Knowledge’? The role of ideas in the transformations of European Education Policy (1973-2010). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Concha, Paz (2017) The curation of the street food scene in London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Contu, Davide (2017) Modeling individual preferences towards nuclear energy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cooper, Kerris (2017) Poverty and parenting in the UK. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Courtin, Emilie (2017) Do living arrangements affect depression in later life? Evidence from Europe and the United States. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Crockford, Susannah (2017) After the American dream: the political economy of spirituality in Northern Arizona, USA. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Darmon, Keren (2017) Representing SlutWalk London in mass and social media: negotiating feminist and postfeminist sensibilities. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Davies, Ewan (2017) Extremal and probabilistic results for regular graphs. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

De Simone, Carolina (2017) Italy and the community of Sant’Egidio in the 1990s. ‘Coopetition’ in post-Cold War Italian foreign policy? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

DeCillia, C. Brooks (2017) The politicians, the press and the people: the contested dynamic of framing Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Decker, Philipp (2017) The building of nations in Habsburg Central Europe, 1740-1914. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Delatolla, Andrew (2017) The state as a standard of civilisation: assembling the modern state in Lebanon and Syria, 1800-1944. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Di Cataldo, Marco (2017) Regional and local development in Europe: public policies, investment strategies, institutions. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dowey, James (2017) Mind over matter: access to knowledge and the British industrial revolution. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Erdem, Ceren (2017) Investigating the dynamic nature of psychological contracts: a study of the coevolution of newcomers' psychological contracts and social networks. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Espinosa Farfan, Miguel Andres (2017) Essays on the organizational economics of the lobbying market. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fauquet-Alekhine, Philippe (2017) Competencies, activity analysis and occupational training: An innovative approach with full-scale simulators in high risk industries. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Feist, Marian Johannes (2017) Learning in international negotiations: the strategic use of lessons in post-agreement climate finance politics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Frick, Susanne (2017) Urban structure, location of economic activity and aggregate growth: empirical evidence and policies. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fuder, Katja (2017) No experiments: federal privatisation politics in West Germany 1949-1989. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gauthier-Chung, Maud Faïle (2017) Relational autonomy from a political perspective. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gorst, Ashley (2017) Assessing climatic and technological constraints to agricultural productivity in South Asia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Greene, Catherine (2017) Laws in the social sciences. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Grinis, Inna (2017) Essays in applied computational economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hamilton, Scott (2017) Governing through the climate: climate change, the anthropocene, and global governmentality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hecht, Katharina Maria (2017) A sociological analysis of top incomes and wealth: a study of how individuals at the top of the income and wealth distributions perceive economic inequality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hemmings, John (2017) Quasi-alliances, managing the rise of China, and domestic politics: the US-Japan-Australia trilateral 1991-2015. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Himmrich, Julia (2017) Germany’s recognition of Kosovo as an independent state in 2008. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Huber, Jakob (2017) Kant and the global standpoint. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jaupart, Pascal (2017) Essays on the economics of migration. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Javidan, Pantea (2017) American legal discourse on child trafficking: the re/production of inequalities and persistence of child criminalization. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jenssen, Matthew (2017) Continuous optimisation in extremal combinatorics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jentry, Corey (2017) The trouble with studying the troubles: how and why an epistemic community emerges. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jiménez-Martínez, César (2017) Nationhood, visibility and the media: the struggles for and over the image of Brazil during the June 2013 demonstrations. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kadel, Rajendra (2017) Understanding the economics of workplace interventions for common mental disorders. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kaoukji, Dwan (2017) Innovation: buzzword or development solution? An analysis of innovation among non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in international development. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Keenan, Bernard (2017) Interception: law, media, and techniques. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kessler, Louise (2017) Essays on the economic implications of climate change uncertainties. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kirk, Thomas (2017) Power, politics and programming for social accountability in Pakistan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Koskinen, Kari (2017) When local routines meet global technology: a case study on the role of context in application development in Kampala. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kovner, Nimrod Z. (2017) Migration in a warming world: on the responsibility and obligations of states towards climate change immigrants. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kudrna, Laura (2017) Please award this degree, even though it is likely to make others miserable – and me too: an investigation of the relationships of absolute and relative socio-economic status with subjective wellbeing in the United States and England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kukić, Leonard (2017) Economic growth, regional development, and nation formation under socialism: evidence from Yugoslavia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Laffan, Kate (2017) Issues relating to behaviour, wellbeing and the environment. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lane, Joseph Peter (2017) Networks, innovation and knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lastra Gil, Luis Emilio (2017) ICTs in medium-sized farms in developing countries: a case study in Mexico: conventional banana and organic rice cultivation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lattof, Samantha (2017) Migration and health: a mixed-methods study among female migrants in Accra, Ghana. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leader, Kathryn (2017) Fifteen stories: litigants in person in the civil justice sytem. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leaver, Meghan P. (2017) Human factors in financial trading: an investigation of error, non-technical skills and culture. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lee, Sohyun (2017) A step toward East Asian regionalism? Comparing the negotiation approaches of South Korea and Japan in their preferential trade agreements with ASEAN. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liberman, Dvora (2017) Custodians of continuity in an era of change: an oral history of the everyday lives of Crown Court clerks between 1972 and 2015. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Limodio, Nicola (2017) Essays in development, banking and organisations. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lin, Yatang (2017) Essays on environmental and urban economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lipton, Jonah (2017) Family business: work, neighbourhood life, coming of age, and death in the time of Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liu, Shiju (2017) Excursions of risk processes with inverse gaussian processes and their applications in insurance. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lopez-Uribe, Maria del Pilar (2017) Essays on the political economy of development in Colombia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lucchino, Paolo (2017) Essays on the nature, purpose and measurement of social impact. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Løndorf, Maja Haals (2017) Claims to orphanhood: an ethnographic investigation of childhood adversity in post-genocide Rwanda. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Macher, Flóra (2017) The 1931 financial crisis in Austria and Hungary: a critical reassessment. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Malley, Juliette Nicola (2017) Adjusting for unobserved and observed heterogeneity in survey-based performance indicators: an application to adult social care in England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Marcoci, Alexandru (2017) Formal explorations in collective and individual rationality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mariani, Elena (2017) The relationship between family context and job satisfaction: a quantitative investigation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Marshall, Christopher (2017) Bringing about equality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Martelli, Angelo (2017) Essays on the political economy of employment polarisation: global forces and domestic institutions. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mastrorocco, Nicola (2017) Essays in political economy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Matczak, Anna (2017) Understandings of punishment and justice in the narratives of lay Polish people. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Maurer, Stephan (2017) Essays in applied economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mavrodin, Corina (2017) A maverick in the making: Romania’s de-Satellization process and the Global Cold War (1953-1963). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

McKeil, Aaron (2017) Searching for a world polity: the world after international anarchy question. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Meibauer, Gustav (2017) Doing something: neoclassical realism, US foreign policy and the no-fly zone, 1991-2016. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mello, Eduardo (2017) Explaining success and failure of rules-based distributive policies. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mikulak, Magdalena (2017) Politics of sexuality in neoliberal(ized) times and spaces: LGBT movements and reparative therapy in contemporary Poland. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Milani, Tommaso (2017) Les Belles Années du Plan? Hendrik de Man and the reinvention of Western European socialism, 1914-36 ca. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Moniruzzaman, Shaikh (2017) Climate change adaptation and recovery from climate hazards: microeconometric evidence from rural Bangladesh. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Montaigne, Maxine (2017) The Malthusian and the anti-Malthusian: the use of economic ideas and language in the public discourse of nineteenth-century Britain. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mulcahy, Rian (2017) Facets of value: an investigation into the formation of worth in the diamond market. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Munawar, Nabila Fatima (2017) Believing and belonging: the everyday lives of Muslim youth in Canada. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Navarrete-Hernández, Pablo (2017) From survival to social mobility: supporting the informal economy in Santiago de Chile. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nguyen, David (2017) The geography of firm internationalisation in Germany: exploring domestic and foreign heterogeneity across regions and sectors. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nogueira, Mara (2017) Who has the right to remain in place? Informality, citizenship and belonging in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nøhr, Andreas Aagaard (2017) Tyrants of truth: a genealogy of hyper-real politics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Obizhaeva, Olga A. (2017) Essays in financial economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Oghenevo Ovie Akpomiemie, Michael (2017) The social context of business and the tax system in Nigeria: the persistence of corruption. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Oh, Do Young (2017) From a colonial institution to a neoliberal real estate developer: comparative analysis of universities in the urban process in East Asia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Olgun, Deren Cem Halil (2017) An explanatory account of practical reasons. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ottovordemgentschenfelde, Svenja (2017) The story behind the tweet: factors that shape political journalists’ engagement with Twitter. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Paek, Christopher (2017) This is how we bury our dead: an institutional analysis of microinsurance and financial inclusion in South Africa. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Papadia, Andrea (2017) Government action under constraints: fiscal development, fiscal policy and public goods provision during the great depression and in 19th and early 20th century Brazil. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Park, Kyung Ryul (2017) Why do aid information management systems fail? Understanding global diffusion of data-driven development initiatives and sustainability failure in the case of Indonesia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pendle, Naomi Ruth (2017) Laws, landscapes and prophecy: the art of remaking regimes of lethal violence amongst the western Nuer and Dinka (South Sudan). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pertwee, Ed (2017) Green Crescent, Crimson Cross: the transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the new political theology. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pettit, Harry (2017) Without hope there is no life: class, affect, and meritocracy in middle class Cairo. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Picarelli, Nathalie (2017) Essays in urban & development economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pinder, Jonathan (2017) Essays in applied macroeconomics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pisch, Frank (2017) Essays in international trade and organisational economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Poole, Ed Gareth (2017) Essays on the political economy of decentralization. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Prenzel, Paula (2017) Regional consequences of demographic change: regional development and disparities in a context of ageing and shrinking population in Germany. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Punz, Michael (2017) Essays on delegated portfolio management. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Quiroz, Daniel A. (2017) Chromatic and structural properties of sparse graph classes. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Radicati, Alessandra (2017) Hub city: aspiration and dispossession in 21st century Colombo. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Reddy, Geetha (2017) The influence of socio-political context on racial identity: strategic identity construction among Malaysians and Singaporeans. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Roberts, Barnaby (2017) Structure and randomness in extremal combinatorics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rolston, Imara Ajani (2017) Between the brick and the ballot: exploring community conversations, HIV prevention, and structural violence in the Ingquza Hill municipality of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rossi, Enrico (2017) Regulating asset ownership: capabilities and market failures in infrastructures. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rossi, Federico (2017) Essays in applied macroeconomics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rowe, Robyn (2017) Gender and the politics of welfare: a study of social assistance policies towards lone mothers in Britain, 1948-1966. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rowe, Thomas (2017) Competing claims, risk and ambiguity. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ruiz Guarın, Nelson Alejandro (2017) Essays on violence, money in politics, and electoral system in Colombia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Salas-Vega, Sebastian (2017) Cancer medicines: clinical impact, economics, and value. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Savic, Una (2017) Essays in financial intermediation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schmoll, Moritz (2017) Broken promises: the politics of lax enforcement of tax laws in Egypt. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schäfer, David (2017) Explaining the creation of the EU Banking Union: the interplay between interests and ideas. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sevinc, Orhun (2017) Essays on tasks, technology, and trends in the labor market. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shaoulian-Sopher, Efrat (2017) Israeli foreign policy towards Iran 1948-1979: beyond the realist account. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shaw, Amanda (2017) Divergent economies of agriculture in Hawaiʻi: intersecting inequalities and the social relations of agrifood Work. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sienkiewicz, Ewelina (2017) Predictability and the decay of information in mathematical and physical systems. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Simson, Rebecca (2017) (Under)privileged bureaucrats? The changing fortunes of public servants in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 1960–2010. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sloane, Mona (2017) Producing space investigating spatial design practices in a market moment. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Spruce, Emma (2017) Telling times: exploring LGBTQ progress narratives in Brixton, South London. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stanford, Mark (2017) Building on shifting sands: co-operation and morality in the new Chinese co-operative movement. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stevens, Madeleine (2017) Drawing on parents’ experiences to explore how to prevent high-risk primary school children developing antisocial and criminal behaviour. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stewart, Ian (2017) Titans of the early world: celtic ideas and national thought in Britain, Ireland, and France, 1700-1900. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Suleimanova, Neal (2017) Why keep protecting the few without external incentives? Compliance with minority rights norms after attaining IO membership in Latvia and Georgia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sáenz de Miera Juárez, Belén (2017) The expansion of public health insurance in Mexico: health, financial and distributional effects. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tai, Hsiao-Hui (2017) The transition of trade unions in Taiwan: from paternalistic autonomy to responsibility for collective union and non-union representation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tam, Hiu Fung (2017) Essays on microeconomic incentives in public policies. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Taptagaporn, Pongphat (2017) Algorithmic learning from financial predictions. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Taylor, Luke (2017) Essays in nonparametric estimation and inference. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Terzi, Tayfun (2017) Detecting semi-plausible response patterns. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Varian, Brian (2017) The course and character of late-Victorian British exports. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wall, Ed (2017) From masterplans to daily actions: London public spaces as designed, reconfigured and used. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Watanabe, Kohei (2017) Measuring bias in international news: a large-scale analysis of news agency coverage of the Ukraine crisis. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Weigand, Florian (2017) Waiting for dignity: legitimacy and authority in Afghanistan. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Windsteiger, Lisa Verena (2017) Essays on sorting and inequality. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Witney, Simon (2017) The corporate governance of private equity-backed companies. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wjuniski, Bernardo Stuhlberger (2017) Multiple exchange rates and industrialization in Brazil, 1953-1961: macroeconomic miracle or mirage? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wong, Yen Nee (2017) Impact of South Africa’s home community-based care on female caregivers’ livelihoods and empowerment. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wüthrich, Nicolas (2017) Robustness, evidence, and uncertainty: an exploration of policy applications of robustness analysis. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Xu, Guo (2017) Essays in development and organizations. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Xu, Junwei (2017) Topics in optimal liquidation and contract theory. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yamasaki, Junichi (2017) Essays on development economics and Japanese economic history. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yoshikawa, Katsuhiko (2017) Generalised exchange orientation: a new construct and its antecedents and consequences. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zeffert, Henrietta (2017) Home and international law. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhao, Yimin (2017) The hegemony of urbanisation: questioning the production of space by the state in Beijing’s green belts. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhu, Sally Shinan (2017) Law embodied: re-imagining a material legal normativity. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zimmermann, Laura (2017) The influence of physical activity on information: processing in consumer decision making. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

de la Pava Velez, Benjamin (2017) Celluloid love: audiences and representations of romantic love in late capitalism. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Živković, Velimir (2017) International investment protection and the national rule of law: a normative framework for a new approach. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.