Met de focus op het inzichtelijk maken van de relatie tussen gepersonaliseerd kiesgedrag en ideologisch kiesgedrag heeft dit onderzoekt tot doel uitspraken te kunnen doen over de vermeende...Show moreMet de focus op het inzichtelijk maken van de relatie tussen gepersonaliseerd kiesgedrag en ideologisch kiesgedrag heeft dit onderzoekt tot doel uitspraken te kunnen doen over de vermeende onderlinge afruil (Lachat, 2014; McAlliser & Quinlan, 2022). Allereerst wordt getoetst of de kans op gepersonaliseerd kiesgedrag toeneemt wanneer er sprake is van een ideologische afstand tussen de kiezer en diens partijkeuze. Vervolgens wordt getoetst of gepersonaliseerd kiesgedrag onder kiezers dan ook toeneemt naarmate de afstand toeneemt. De resultaten laten zien dat inderdaad, al dan niet met een kleine effectgrootte, een positieve relatie bestaat tussen gepersonaliseerd kiesgedrag en kiezers die zich minder door ideologie laten beïnvloeden. Gezien het effect ook statistisch significant is kan verondersteld worden dat meer invloed van ideologie op het kiesgedrag van een kiezer tot op zekere hoogte de invloed van individuele politieke actoren als persoon zijnde uitsluit. Ook is er reden om aan te nemen dat wanneer de afstand toeneemt het effect groter wordt. Daarnaast bevestigd het onderzoek ook de op de literatuur gebaseerde verwachtingen dat 'partijverbondenheid' alsook het 'volgen van de politiek' de kans op gepersonaliseerd kiesgedrag verminderd, en dat het zijn van een vrouw juist de kans versterkt.Show less
There is a strong upward trend in the amounts spent on development aid. In 2022, the total amount of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) was five times higher than in 1960. The European Union is...Show moreThere is a strong upward trend in the amounts spent on development aid. In 2022, the total amount of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) was five times higher than in 1960. The European Union is responsible for about two-thirds of humanitarian aid worldwide. However, it is questionable whether development aid is actually effective. A ‘least-likely case’ is Nigeria, it received 9 billion euros from the EU in the period of 2007-2024. Yet it has one of the worst development factors in Sub-Saharan Africa. This Thesis aims to find an answer to the question of whether European development aid was really effective in Nigeria, and whether the targets the European Union set itself were actually achieved. This is done by using the National Indicative Programme (NIP) that ran from 2014-2020. The analysis shows that despite achieving some of the objectives examined in the health care sector, the NIP has mostly failed to achieve the desired impact. Primarily, the high level of corruption ensured that few development objectives have been realized. Therefore, it can be concluded that European Development aid has not really been effective. For further research, it would be valuable to look at the Multi-Annual Indicative Programme (MIP) that runs from 2021-2027. Here, slightly different targets have been set that may give different results. In addition, it may be of added value to conduct a study of how Nigerian agencies report, since there are sometimes substantial differences between the observations of NGOs and these agencies, which can lead to different interpretations. This could possibly engender a different observation of aid effectiveness as well.Show less
Master thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)
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This thesis explores the relationship between humans and non-humans within a sea turtle conservation organization in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. Through eleven weeks of in-depth visual ethnographic...Show moreThis thesis explores the relationship between humans and non-humans within a sea turtle conservation organization in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. Through eleven weeks of in-depth visual ethnographic fieldwork, I investigate the influence these human/non-human relationships have on scientific knowledge production. The output of this research consists of an ethnographic film ‘The Turtle Team’ and this article. This research underscores the necessity of adopting transdisciplinary methodologies in which non-humans are integrated, which is crucial in the era of the Anthropocene. It provides a nuanced understanding of how human/non-human relationships shape the production of scientific knowledge in this team of conservationists and emphasizes the interwovenness of humans and non-humans. This research contributes to the existing literature on the Anthropocene and the nature-culture debate and I argue that the interwovenness of humans and non-humans should be discussed more within scientific research, especially in conservation biology.Show less
