Items where type is Thesis and year is 2020

Number of items: 127.
Accounting
  • Vetter, Felix Wolfgang (2020). Essays on financial gatekeeper regulation [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Anthropology
  • Arnavas, Chiara (2020). Under the syndicate raj: criminalization and protection in a Muslim community in New Town, Kolkata [Masters thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004218
  • Beardmore, Lewis (2020). Poisoned fruits: agriculture, ecology, and the limits to aspiration in the eastern Himalaya [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004259
  • Griffin Strong, Imani (2020). Contracting change: an ethnographic study of affirmative action, entrepreneurship, and bureaucracy in Atlanta, Georgia [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Joassin, Thomas (2020). Ethics and politics of Algerian Sufi brotherhoods [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Trotter, Lucy Ellen (2020). Performing Welshness in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004265
  • Zagaria, Valentina (2020). ‘Burning’ borders: migration, death and dignity in a Tunisian coastal town [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004233
  • Zidaru-Bărbulescu, Teodor (2020). Phantom trust: faith, language, and inequality in southwest Kenya [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Economic History
  • Hu, Sijie (2020). A micro-demographic analysis of human fertility from Chinese genealogies, 1368-1911 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004223
  • Nath, Maanik (2020). The state and rural credit markets in south India, 1930-1960 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004197
  • Seibel, Greta Christine (2020). The role of government policy in Indonesian small and medium enterprise development, 1966 - 2006 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Economics
  • Alati, Andrea (2020). Essays on firms heterogeneity and business cycles [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004247
  • Bandeira, Miguel (2020). Essays in macroeconometrics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004190
  • Bussy, Adrien (2020). Essays in applied economics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Citino, Luca (2020). Essays in labour and public economics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Coen, Patrick (2020). The industrial organisation of financial intermediation [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004178
  • Eckardt, Dita (2020). Training, occupations, and the specificity of human capital [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Gao, Xijie (2020). Essays on firms, technology, and macroeconomics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004180
  • Jo, Kangchul (2020). Essays on labor markets and economic growth [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Lee, Jay Euijung (2020). Essays in gender economics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004189
  • Moneke, Niclas (2020). Infrastructure and structural transformation: evidence from Ethiopia [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004187
  • Qiu, Chen (2020). Essays in semiparametric and high dimensional methods [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ridinger, Wolfgang (2020). Sequential auctions and resale [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Rossitti, Giuseppe (2020). Essays in applied microeconomics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Sun, Tiancheng (2020). Essays on capacity underutilization and demand driven business cycles [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004195
    • European Institute
  • Bolet, Diane (2020). "All politics is local": how local context explains radical right voting [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Ganem, Simon (2020). Essays on the political economy of the Eurozone and Greek [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004284
  • Gartzou-Katsouyanni, Kira (2020). Cooperation against the odds: a study on the political economy of local development in a country with small firms and small farms [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004307
  • Göpffarth, Julian Jasper (2020). Querdenker: local intellectuals, far-right populism and the politics of aesthetics of Kulturnation in Germany [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004406
  • Miethke, Lars (2020). Shared control: origins and consequences of integrated military capabilities: a dissertation on the integrated defence cooperation initiatives of the Netherlands and Germany and their impact on the core state powers of government [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004209
  • Mushövel, Fabian (2020). Essays on the political economy of economic adjustment: austerity, labour market reforms, and inequality [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004266
    • Finance
  • Core, Fabrizio (2020). Essays on entrepreneurship [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Todorov, Karamfil (2020). Essays in financial economics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Gender Studies
  • Raghavan, Priya (2020). Resisting the binary: reconciling victimhood and agency in discourses of sexual violence [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Geography and Environment
  • Antona, Laura (2020). Anatomies and apparatuses of violence: the everyday encounters of migrant domestic workers in Singapore [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004127
  • Dawson, Katherine (2020). Shifting sands in Accra, Ghana: the ante-lives of urban form [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004234
  • Diemer, Andreas (2020). Essays in the spatial economic analysis of social interactions [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004191
  • Jones, Lindsey (2020). Essays on resilience measurement [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Manara, Martina (2020). Land tenure formalisation in Dar es Salaam: institutional transition through endogenous social interactions [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004303
  • Mousa, Janan (2020). Collective action in an exceptional governance context: a critical analysis of co-operative water management in the West Bank of Palestine [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Regan, Tanner (2020). Essays in urban and development economics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004228
  • Sharp, Matthew John (2020). Essays in spatial and labour economics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004206
  • Talevi, Marta (2020). Economic and non-economic drivers of the low-carbon energy transition: evidence from households in the UK, rural India, and refugee settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Truedsson, Carl Gustaf Richard (2020). Trygghet in a new time? Swedish social democracy and the aggravated socio-cultural politics of immigration [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004365
    • Government
  • Ahlbäck, Johan (2020). Electoral integrity in unconsolidated democracies: challenges and potential remedies [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004208
  • Boeddeling, Jann (2020). From resistance to revolutionary praxis: subaltern politics in the Tunisian revolution [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Hayle, Michael (2020). Experiencing accountability: the impact of the Osmotherly Rules on the senior responsible owners of major public projects [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Hofstetter, Selina (2020). Essays on democratisation and incumbency effects [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Lisi, Giulio (2020). Essays on central bank transparency, accountability and reputation [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Wojciechowska, Marta (2020). Democracy as political agency: governance and emancipation in mega-cities [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • International Development
  • Blackmore, Kara (2020). Symbols of suffering and silence memorialisation in Uganda and beyond [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004417
  • Gallien, Max (2020). Smugglers and states: illegal trade in the political settlements of North Africa [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Myrodias, Konstantinos (2020). The Eurozone crisis and the ‘intermediate’ economies: the political economies of Greece and Portugal [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004308
  • Storer, Elizabeth (2020). Lugbara religion revisited: a study of social repair in West Nile, North-West Uganda [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004245
    • International History
  • Dab, Alexandre (2020). The origins of the post-Cold War order in the Middle East: France, Britain, the European Community and transatlantic relations, 1978-1982 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004262
  • Green, Caroline (2020). The impact of colonialism on human rights diplomacy: Britain’s colonial legacy and the UN agenda for the advancement of women 1950-1975 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Heckscher, Benjamin (2020). The socialist movement for the United States of Europe: transnational socialism and the launching of the early European institutions [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004325
  • Jacob, Judith P. (2020). From Kartosuwiryo to Sungkar: the evolution of Indonesia’s Darul Islam movement, 1928-1993 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004298
  • Kang, Seung Mo (2020). The crafting of the Treaty of Peace with Japan, 1945-1951 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004225
    • International Relations
  • Bertrand, Sarah (2020). Curating knowledge: international relations expertise and the end of the Cold War in East Germany [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004255
  • Bonnet, Tyler Alexander (2020). Russia and the rise of China: an analysis of Russian foreign policy towards China under Putin [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004301
  • Degli Esposti, Nicola (2020). Whose Kurdistan? Class politics and Kurdish nationalism in the Middle East, 1918-2018 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004201
  • Elizalde, Pilar (2020). Human rights promotion, contestation, and politicisation in international human rights institutions: a study of the Universal Periodic Review 2008-2016 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004193
  • Fujikawa, Kentaro (2020). Serving peace and democracy? The rationales and impact of post-conflict self-determination referendums in Eritrea, East Timor, and South Sudan [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004244
  • Guasti, Alessandro (2020). The systemic effects of labour rights promotion: a spatial interdependence analysis of its impact on working conditions and international trade [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004220
  • Leigh, Joseph (2020). The emergence of global power politics: imperialism, modernity, and American expansion 1870-1914 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Murray, Christopher Patrick (2020). Anti-imperial world politics: race, class, and internationalism in the making of post-colonial order [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Saint, Emma (2020). Empowering resistance? ‘Revisionist’ states and the underlying dynamics of international norm diffusion [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004231
  • Shams Lahijani, Alireza (2020). Iran’s idea of Europe (1501-2015): identity, concepts, and international society [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004216
  • Wenas Inkiriwang, Frega Ferdinand (2020). The interplay between grand strategy and defence diplomacy: examining Indonesia’s post-new order period [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Winrow, Marc Sinan (2020). Reconstituting sovereignty: the Young Turks’ efforts to secure external recognition and the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey, 1908 - 1923 [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • LSE
  • Sripathy, Arthika (2020). Rationalising health care provision under market incentives: experimental evidence from south Africa [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • LSE Health
  • Györi, Mario (2020). Public policy and social determinants of nutrition behaviour and outcomes – quasi-experimental evidence from low- and middle-income countries [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004267
    • Law School
  • Ahdash, Fatima (2020). Examining the interaction between family law and counter-terrorism in the UK in recent years [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004306
  • Clark, Martin (2020). The 'international' and 'domestic' in British legal thought from Gentili to Lauterpacht [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Common, MacKenzie F. (2020). Rule of law and human rights issues in social media content moderation [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004219
  • Gupta, Priya S. (2020). Leveraging the city: urban governance in financial capitalism [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004411
  • Musto, Callum (2020). States’ regulatory powers and the turn to public law in international investment law and arbitration [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004229
    • Management
  • Al-Naemi, Mai (2020). Language Advice Networks: a form of social capital in the multinational corporation [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Cnop-Nielsen, Aurelie (2020). A multi method study of the ideologically infused psychological contract and its consequences [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004299
  • Huang, Biao (2020). Contributions to a new innovation model: evidence from China [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004312
  • Lunberry, Dana De Nyse (2020). Theorizing technology affordances in digital innovation: evidence from an interactive voice response pilot project for low-income markets in Ghana [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004222
  • Valderrama Venegas, Erika Aida (2020). Social media platforms as economic organisations: reconstructing the evolution of TripAdvisor’s operations [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004215
    • Mathematics
  • Corsten, Jan (2020). Extremal graph colouring and tiling problems [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Frankl, Nóra (2020). On some problems in combinatorial geometry [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004181
  • Guo, Yang (2020). A class of two-dimensional strong Markov processes and a continuous-time principal-agent problem with costly renegotiation [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004263
    • Media and Communications
  • Bhat, Ramnath (2020). The politics of internet infrastructure: communication policy, governmentality and subjectivation in Chhattisgarh, India [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004175
  • Gilchrist, Kate Rosalind (2020). Singledom and feminine subjectivity: fantasy, contemporary popular culture and lived experience [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004251 picture_as_pdf
  • Kelly, Anthony Patrick (2020). Voices of outrage: online partisan media, user-generated news commentary, and the contested boundaries of American conservatism during the 2016 US presidential election [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004230
  • Maier, George Edward (2020). Valued capital(s) and devalued labour in London’s "gig economy" [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004248
  • Papanagnou, Vaios (2020). The digital newsroom: social media and journalistic practice in The Guardian [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004227
  • Polizzi, Gianfranco (2020). Digital literacy in theory and practice: learning from how experts and advocates engage in civic life [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004198
  • Smirnova, Svetlana (2020). What’s in a number? A multimethod study of self-quantification’s role in shaping selfhood [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004403
  • Stupart, Richard (2020). Bearing witness: practices of journalistic witnessing in South Sudan [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Wang, Ziyan (2020). Investigating the cultural practice of migrant workers in China: ideology, collective identity and resistance [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Yu, Junyoung (2020). Social solidarity in the age of social media and algorithmic communication [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Zhou, Yang (2020). Nongmingong going online an ethnography of the mediated work and life experience of the Chinese working-class in ‘digital China’ [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004183
    • Methodology
  • Paskhalis, Tom (2020). Essays in political text: new actors, new data, new challenges [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004182
    • Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
  • Buchter, Kamilla Haworth (2020). Promoting social norms via microeconomics teaching [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004213
  • Canson, Chloé de (2020). Beliefs about the unobserved [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Easton, Christina (2020). Liberalism, education, and promoting 'British values' in schools [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Kuan, Ko-Hung (2020). Towards a pluralistic view of formal methods [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004249
  • Roussos, Joe (2020). Policymaking under scientific uncertainty [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Steuwer, Bastian (2020). One-by-one: moral theory for separate persons [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Psychological and Behavioural Science
  • Amer, Amena (2020). Being white, British and Muslim: exploring the identity recognition, negotiation and performance of seemingly incompatible identities [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Hall, Matthew S. (2020). Conspiracy theory beliefs and worldviews: a mixed-methods approach exploring the psychology of monologicality, dialogicality and belief development [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Metze, Jacob F. (2020). Experience sampling of the psychosocial work environment: from hedonometrics to hedonopragmatics [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004200
  • Noort, Mark Christiaan (2020). The behavioural nature of safety voice: advancing concepts and measures to enable the prevention of harm [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004205
  • Okoroji, Celestin (2020). They think I’m a scrounger: a social-psychological examination of the effects of stigmatisation in unemployment [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004261
  • Whitelaw, Lisa (2020). Organising for disruptive innovation: everyday entrepreneuring efforts at an incumbent technology company [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004204
  • Yamin-Slotkus, Paulius (2020). Leveraging large-scale behavioural change interventions using social norms, civic culture, and installations. An analysis of classic interventions and new experiments to tackle social challenges [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004196
    • Social Policy
  • Bancalari Valderrama, Antonella (2020). Public infrastructure and health in low- and middle-income countries [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004214
  • Bhattacharya, Aveek (2020). How much choice is enough? The intrinsic (dis)value of secondary school choice in England and Scotland [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004258
  • Iemmi, Valentina (2020). Sustainable financing for global mental health: the role of external funding for mental health in low- and middle-income countries [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004235
  • Mathers, Nicholas John (2020). Poverty, cash transfers and adolescents’ lives: exploring the unintended consequences of Nepal’s social pension: a mixed-methods study [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004250
  • McKay, Tasseli (2020). When state violence comes home: partner violence in an era of mass incarceration [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004179
  • Philipp, Julia (2020). Essays on gender inequality in the labour market [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004320
  • Prieto, Joaquín (2020). New approaches to measuring economic and social well-being in Chile [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004246
  • Sochas, Laura (2020). Context and heterogeneity: a novel approach to explaining maternal health inequalities in Zambia [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004217
  • Suh, Ellie (2020). Younger adults’ retirement saving and wealth accumulation in Britain a quantitative investigation [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Sociology
  • Baliga, Anitra (2020). The construction of Mumbai’s land market [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004238
  • De Santis, Davide (2020). On stochastic differential games with impulse controls and applications [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004310
  • Li, Gordon C. (2020). Distinction in China - the rise of taste in cultural consumption [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Thornbury, Paul Charles (2020). Military culture and security: boundaries and identity in the UK private military security field [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004221
  • Wang, Yan (2020). Social policy, state legitimacy and strategic actors: governmentality and counter-conduct in authoritarian regime [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Statistics
  • Tsimbalyuk, Alexandra (2020). Efficient estimation of present-value distributions for long-dated contracts and functionals in the multivariate case [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004379
  • Zhu, Xiaolin (2020). Excursion theory and local times for Bessel and Brownian diffusions: with applications to credit risk [Doctoral thesis]. London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.00004226