Dissertation Research Project

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  1. Hello, everyone.
  2. This is role and I'm going to present the my
  3. dissertation project for dissertation research module.
  4. My question is, when it comes to the national interest,
  5. Romanian MPs take decision based on more dignity or personal
  6. agenda. How those classical really play a role on how
  7. specific policies are adopted here.
  8. I'm going to explain it to you to a variety
  9. of information.
  10. I'm going to have four slides for the idea of
  11. why it came to me.
  12. How, when presented and why choose those this idea that
  13. is the theory part where I'm going to present my
  14. theories and theories, which I'm I want to explore further
  15. on the methodology were I'm going to explain exactly what
  16. kind of methodology wants to use and why, and then
  17. the final part where I'm going to explain more about
  18. it. The idea.
  19. Brilliant or unimpressive.
  20. I put this because I think that it's going to
  21. be a real struggle and the challenge to find out
  22. if it's actually a brilliant idea.
  23. If I'm going to do good research and I'm going
  24. to find out if this really really holds the power
  25. in all days or unimpressive at all and I'm just
  26. going to do basic research where I'm going to find
  27. out something or none or just come with the contradictory
  28. to it.
  29. The idea of my dissertation project is to find out
  30. if the ego of politicians or the last for power
  31. has been stated by Morgan Stanley in 1948 affects the
  32. development of state policies today.
  33. The moment I decided to approach this idea was the
  34. moment I looked on hold.
  35. Voices are decided in some cases by the government, the
  36. road to success in order to test my hypothesis that
  37. will approach specific policies which have been adopted to the
  38. past years by the Romanian government and explain how these
  39. policies have been shaped or altered by politicians.
  40. This is a very specific one because I want to
  41. take some laws and amendments which have been made in
  42. the Justice law through the 2016 to 2017, uh, and
  43. had a huge impact on several cases and has been
  44. looked on it as been only influential for some specific
  45. politicians, while others said that the law had no effect
  46. at all.
  47. And I want to find out if that was really
  48. the case or not?
  49. Mhm. Mhm.
  50. When I'm going to the theory, I based my topic,
  51. um, two principal theories, realism and idealism.
  52. I'm going to explain why and how this affected is
  53. going to start with idealism.
  54. The key author and idealism is rational effort, which, yes,
  55. I'm not sure if I can catalog it as a
  56. truly idealist or not.
  57. But he has a very good understanding on how the
  58. fight between realist man the idealist was a challenge to
  59. the thirties and twenties.
  60. And if it was a real fight, it actually had
  61. been an effect on it.
  62. And I want to find out if the fight it's
  63. still persisting nowadays and how it actually affects policymakers or
  64. if it does actually affect them.
  65. Or maybe not.
  66. Maybe it's just something that has no effect at all,
  67. But I'm really curious about this fact.
  68. I want to find out how it can influence the
  69. realist theory.
  70. Yeah, realism.
  71. They choose four different authors, first of it, of course,
  72. Hans Morgenthau all, which acknowledges the moral significance of political
  73. action but recognized the necessity of immorality and successful politics.
  74. This being said, it's very interesting to see if politicians
  75. actually take and base their decision on for better community
  76. for developing the country or the policies which affect economics,
  77. jurisdiction, everything.
  78. And if they are doing it for the better, sole
  79. purpose of creating a better community or not, or if
  80. they are actually doing it just for gaining a better
  81. political advantage or for showing that they're better politicians or
  82. not. Mm Janet Watts is the second one was distinguished
  83. the honor here of the international environment from the order
  84. of the domestic one.
  85. From here on, I would like to explore how this
  86. can influence the decision makers of politics, of policies in
  87. domestic policies.
  88. And here I'm going to take some personal examples, especially
  89. from how MPs and European commissioners have tried to influence
  90. domestic policies in several countries.
  91. I'm curious if they have a real effect for the
  92. only purpose that they there are European MPs and because
  93. they hold more influence or if that influence can be
  94. used for personal gains and if that can be included
  95. in how they are actually changing those things and how
  96. they are actually trying to influence the country or another
  97. in taking some certain policies and from from what's understanding.
  98. I want also to prove or to find out if
  99. the international environment has a bigger impact on domestic politics
  100. than most of the people believe so because many people
  101. will say that international doesn't have any problem with it.
  102. But in today's world, in the whole globalization and this
  103. interconnected world, I would say that international environment plays a
  104. huge role on how domestic policies are taken.
  105. Talking from lobbyist to just knowledge is of different politicians.
  106. Thomas Hobbes is my third chose chosen author.
  107. Hopes Theory of release came with the idea that talent
  108. he's focused on politics as a contest for who gains
  109. more power.
  110. And I want to find out if this has a
  111. real impact on politicians today.
  112. I want to see if the Leviathan is still alive
  113. in the in the governmental system today, and if it's
  114. true that many of the politicians have actually just did
  115. policies and they're trying to create new policies for their
  116. personal gain, for their there differential of of gain power
  117. from themselves or for the party and how this actually
  118. has the influence on on them.
  119. I want to see if there is still like via
  120. button, or how he wants to explain the leviathan as
  121. the system the system between besides, interconnected with the government
  122. and every other institution like that.
  123. The last one is Michael Water, which comes through the
  124. concept of dirty hands and how it can influence the
  125. policy makers and politicians to take specific action based on
  126. their own agenda.
  127. On this case, I I took the dirty hands concept,
  128. and I'm curious how it actually affects them.
  129. Dirty hands concept.
  130. It's, I will say something like the Machiavellian concept of
  131. the purpose excuses, the means which it's often used by
  132. politicians. Or at least this is what the large public
  133. believes. And I personally want to find out if this
  134. is true, if this is still used by the politicians
  135. nowadays, if politicians still believe that in some cases they
  136. can get dirty on their hands and if that's possible,
  137. how it can affect the policy makers and the laws,
  138. yeah, Now I'm going to explain you how I saw
  139. the methodology Methodology will be represented by a different set
  140. of data.
  141. First interviews with political actors, where I included policymakers, party
  142. members and everyone who can hold our head awards saying,
  143. in creating amendments, creating laws or policies, and I want
  144. to find out on what they based their decisions, why
  145. they did put some amendments, why they took out some
  146. amendments. Why these specific words, why they think that some
  147. laws were better than others, and so on.
  148. Articles and comments made by specific politicians where I'm discussing,
  149. especially about the articles news, what they have used years
  150. ago and how it influences their their thinking, our hives,
  151. websites and newspapers.
  152. Here's where I'm going to get the data from years
  153. on to see exactly how they had specific values or
  154. ideas years ago and how that shaped their views and
  155. the values for today.
  156. National database you and database for secondary data laws and
  157. constitutions here specifically on how the laws have been created,
  158. why there is a specific law still in place now
  159. and how it influences the gains of politicians or not,
  160. and politicians, background, key facts and other information which is
  161. going to be retrieved from their CVS from I don't
  162. know other people and information.
  163. Yeah, the final part of the dissertation will include the
  164. bibliography, the and results of my conducted research, the conclusion
  165. and the reference list.
  166. And at the final, I want to know if I
  167. made the best decision on taking this approach.
  168. If I'm going to do my research well enough and
  169. find out if my conclusion is as high in understanding
  170. as my hypothesis, thank you very much.