Veronique Wavre
Department: Politics
Project Summary
PhD Topic: "Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion in the telecommunications sector. A comparative study of Morocco, Jordan and Egypt"
Objective: Assessing the shape of regulatory developments in Middle East and North African (MENA) States in the Telecommunications sector through the theoretical lens of policy diffusion.
Completion: March 2016 without correction
Supervisory Team
First supervisor: Professor Alison Harcourt
Second supervisor: Professor Oliver James
Wider Research Interests
Current research: Telecommunications Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Project description: The project offers the first comprehensive analysis of telecommunication and media politics in authoritarian developing countries focusing on the influence of foreign investment. It provides a systematic account of the effect of foreign ownership on the use of ICT as tool of repression or development.
Project leader: Professor Tina Freyburg
Funding: University of St-Gallen (GFF Project Funding) and SNIS