Political Science Dissertation Topics

Research Aim: The study will analyse the impact on higher education in the UK using the Copenhagen school securitisation theory. The research will examine various declarations of emergency in eLearning of the UK’s universities. The study will analyse the variables of advocacy, desecuritisation, and emancipation. The research will be conducted using mixed methods research in which data is collected using quantitative and qualitative methods. The data will be analysed accordingly using correlation analysis and text analysis.    

Research Aim: The study will analyse how the new hashtag #FilmYourHospital first made its appearance on the social media app – Twitter. The hashtag had encouraged individuals to visit their local medical care centre or hospital in order to obtain video or picture evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic was a mere hoax. The research will use social network analysis and case studies to examine how the conspiracy theory #FilmYourHospital was able to be peddled by Twitter users. The research will attempt to make recommendations to mitigate spread of such content and ensure appropriate fact checking.

Research Aim: The research looks to fill the gaps in existing literature that assert using social media can promote political participation. Currently, there is no empirical evidence that theorises the psychological processes that influence the relationship between social media use on political participation. The proposed study attempts to examine this relationship using the goal systematic theory which breaks the phenomenon into pre-exposure, exposure, reception, and behavioural situation. The data will be collected through survey questionnaires and analysed using structured equation modelling.

Research Aim: The research paper will assess the impact of gender on belief of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. The study will examine individuals in the UK using a survey questionnaire that is composed of Likert scale questions to assess the psychographic extent of people’s beliefs of COVID-19 conspiracy theories. The data will be analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics with the main variable being gender.   

Research Aim: The research attempts to assess the impact of public support on judicial power based on who is in political power at the time. The research argues that support for judicial power is driven by partisan motivations connected to those in executive power. The argument will be tested using survey evidence from the United States in order to provide causal evidence. Survey questionnaires will be distributed to the population using random sampling, while the study will also conduct a difference-in-difference analysis.

Research Aim: The research paper will analyse how the relationship between emotion and deliberation using the deliberative theory. The paper attempts to understand the way in which emotion plays a role when reasoning or using logic under the school of thought asserted by deliberative democrats. The study will be conducted using quantitative techniques in which a survey will be used to analyse psychographic variables associated with emotion and deliberation. The data will be analysed using PLS-SEM with the SmartPLS 3.0 tool.

Research Aim: The study will test predictor and social consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs linked to the COVID-19 pandemic – government related conspiracy theories and general conspiracy theories. The study will analyse this phenomenon in both a developed country and a developing country for comparative analysis. The data will be collected using questionnaire surveys distributed to the population using random sampling. The study will then conduct an analysis using structured equation modelling.

Research Aim: The research will look to examine the relationship between various political factors and situational factors and their impact on individuals’ belief of conspiracy theories of COVID-19. The study will assess variables such as belief in seriousness of COVID-19 to self-reported preventive behaviours; the relationship between the belief that the virus was a human invention to self-reported actions of hoarding. The study will collect data from questionnaires distributed to the population of the UK using random sampling. Data analysis will be conducted using inferential statistics and PLS-SEM

Research Aim: The research aims to examine the impact of party competition on legislative coalitions and democratic accountability. The study attempts to assess this relationship using the British local government system. The data will be collected using roll-call records of municipal councils to assess the legislative behaviour in term so being multi-dimensional or one-dimensional. The data will be analysed by assess the differences found across institutional and competitive contexts. 

Research Aim: The study will with analyse the impact of variables – radical imagination, ambition, and marginalisation on Black women’s decision of seeking political offices. The research will use a modified version of ambition theory as it is unable to completely take into consideration the sense of community within the Black population in the United States. The study will assess the motivators of the 2018 mid-term elections in which 600 black women sought office. The data will be collected from these candidates and analysing using PLS-SEM. 

Research Aim: The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of COVID-19 on international relations and global politics. The research will assess the political situation in various countries in the world assess for how the novel coronavirus was able to expose political leadership by exposing socio-economic inequalities with citizens responding differently to government regulations. The research will specifically analyse third world or developing countries in that some of their socio-economic situations are leftover issues associated with colonialism. The data will be collected and analysed using analytic and exploratory desktop study.

Research Aim: The study will analyse various characteristics of public diplomacy tactics used by both the United States and China from the perspectives of smart power theory. The research will argue that factors of globalisation and technological evolution have effected world politics and international relations. The study will use the methodology of comparative, analytical and systematic scientific methods. The data will analyse how public diplomacy paves the path for smart power construction.

Research Aim: The study will analyse the concept of normal politics and its position as the dominant form of anthropocentric discourse. The research looks to understand how non-humans such as architecture, human geography, and anthropology impacts politics and international relations. The paper assesses factors that may prevent non-humans from participating in the political realm in the UK. The study will use a case study of Brexit to better demonstrate the concept of assemblage politics.

Research Aim: The proposed study will assess the impact of socio-economic factors such as household income, education, ethnicity, and religious affiliation on political activities of lobbying and participation in interest groups in the UK. The research will use quantitative approaches for data collection through surveys and government data. The data will be analysed using inferential statistics to produce a casual association between the variables.