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Established in 2001, the School brings together core social scientific disciplines to promote the critical understanding of social and political processes and the development of effective policy and practice through a wide range of teaching and research programmes. The School was formed from the departments (now subject groups) of Politics, Social Anthropology, Social Policy and Sociology; the Graduate School of Social and Political Studies; the Centres of African, Canadian and South Asian Studies; the Science Studies Unit, the Research Centre in Social Sciences and the Institute of Governance. It has recently been joined by Social Work, and now forms part of the College of Humanities and Social Science.
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Forging ahead as an anti-corruption agency: the case of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in Nigeria (2000– 2017)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-06)This thesis investigates how the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in Nigeria has carved a niche for its operations, to forge ahead within the Nigeria’s anti-corruption landscape, ... -
Understanding marihuana policy change in Uruguay: towards policy coherence?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-06)BACKGROUND: In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to comprehensively regulate the production, distribution and sale of marihuana for recreational purposes. Officials involved in developing Uruguay’s ... -
Stagnant extraction? The politics of time and space in the Tanzanian hydrocarbon sector
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-06)In the early 2010s, discoveries of offshore gas reserves in Tanzanian waters generated considerable anticipation both for international oil companies, national politicians, and local populations. The promises of ... -
Change, continuity, and contestations: framing domestic abuse policy in Scotland since 1998
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-06)Mainstream and feminist scholars have grappled with the ‘big questions’ of how to understand and explain the dynamics of policy change and continuity. Policy-as-discourse and social movement theorists have offered some ... -
Future of work and global governance: international organisations in the fourth industrial revolution
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-06-06)The future of work emerged in the 2010s as a key problem for global institutions. The social consequences of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ represented a major concern in international policy spheres. Global forecasts ... -
Kaleidoscope of meaning fragments: understanding the rule of law’s paradoxes in international development
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-06)Since the mid-1990s, the ‘Rule of Law’ as been recognized as being a dominant conceptual frame for legal and governance reform work in international development. As a concept and a norm, the meaning of the Rule of Law ... -
Rise of Hong Kong nationalism on the edge of empires
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-06)This study aims to understand the discursive constitution of Hong Kong nationalism. Despite China’s efforts to instil Chinese nationalism among Hong Kong people, recent years witnessed an escalating conflict between Hong ... -
Qualitative case study of local alcohol policy implementation in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Background: Alcohol use is a major risk factor for ill-health and a contributor to health inequalities. Scottish alcohol-related mortality rates are the highest in the UK, with the greatest burden of alcohol-related ... -
Mama Mboga: exploring the continuity of micro retailers of fresh fruit and vegetables in Nairobi, Kenya
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Food retail in Africa is undergoing a dramatic transformation, threatening the existence of traditional retailing practices in urban metropoles. In particular, the issue of supermarket (SM) development is important ... -
Has something got to give? Tensions and opportunities in achieving both a UK social science doctorate and ESRC-specified research and skills training
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Social sciences research students in the UK have experienced major contextual changes to their doctoral studies over recent decades. Compared to minimal and piecemeal training received by doctoral students in the 1970s, ... -
Smart solar futures: politics and instability in off-grid electrification in Odisha, India
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis explores the politics and social structures surrounding community-scale, off-grid, solar PV micro-grids in eastern India. It offers a novel, synthetical perspective drawing on a situated, grounded and ... -
Evaluating small area population estimates and projection for sub-council areas in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis is a collaborative research project with the National Records of Scotland and seeks to provide a fresh assessment of small area population estimates, and the first evaluation of small area population ... -
Asset manager capitalism? The influence of institutional investors on corporate governance and the varieties of capitalism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis considers the link between changes in the shareholder ownership structure and the governance of firms. Making use of extensive interview data it assesses the governance activities of asset managers in ... -
Još Hrvatska ni propala: [Still Croatia has not fallen]: examining the public face of memory in Croatia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis examines the “public face of memory,” the visual elements of cultural memory going beyond the simple structure of a statue or a plaque to tell a story about the politics of remembrance. The structure of ... -
Understanding the circular economy in Kenya
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Over the last decade the circular economy has become popular in the Global North and is beginning to gain traction in the Global South. Yet analysis of this sustainability concept is notably lacking in the Global South, ... -
Depth and breadth: a mixed-method investigation of disciplinary approaches to health inequalities and health disparities research
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This PhD thesis is an in-depth investigation of the ways academic disciplines shape scientific practice in health equity research, a sub-specialisation of population health. Whilst covering many contexts and aspects of ... -
Crop with no futures: explaining the absence of derivatives trading in the Rice Market
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis seeks to explain the near absence of derivative contracts in the rice market, in the light of these instruments’ prominence in other agricultural commodity markets. To do so, I compare rice with three of these ... -
Doing drugs policy: narratives of participation in the development of a critical drug theory
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Introduction It is a well-documented and a historical fact that human beings have ingested certain substances in order to change their perceptions of reality for centuries, if not millennia (RSA, 2007; Nutt, 2015; Bancroft, ... -
Money league, elite men’s football and rankings: an interpretive narrative
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The 2020, 23rd edition of the Deloitte Football Money League (DFML) opened with the headline that 'FC Barcelona reached the top of the money league for the first time and became the first club to break €800m revenue barrier'. ... -
Changing party system in Mexico (1970-1988)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This research analyses how profound economic and social transformations enable political change. It argues that those transformations lead to the renegotiation of the relationship between the state and civil society. Also, ...
