Browsing by Subject "Political Economy"
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Competitive Collaboration: The Dutch and English East India Companies & The Forging of Global Corporate Political Economy (1650-1700)
(2017)This dissertation explores how, during the seventeenth century, the rival Dutch (VOC) and English (EIC) East India Companies forged a corporate political economy that transcended national political and economic frameworks. ... -
Homes of Capital: Merchants and Mobility across Indian Ocean Gujarat
(2015)My dissertation project is an ethnographic history of "homes of capital," merchant homes located in port-cities of Gujarat in various states of splendor and decrepitude, which continue to mark a long history of Indian Ocean ... -
Making Socialism Work: The Shchekino Method and the Drive to Modernize Soviet Industry
(2022)“Making Socialism Work: The Shchekino Method and the Drive to Modernize Soviet Industry” examines factory-level efforts to improve socioeconomic conditions in the Soviet Union during the late twentieth century. It does so ... -
Models of Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistribution
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Regulating the Ocean: Piracy and Protection along the East African Coast
(2014)From 2008-2012, a dramatic upsurge in incidents of maritime piracy in the Western Indian Ocean led to renewed global attention to this region: including the deployment of multi national naval patrols, attempts to prosecute ... -
The Bourbon Ideology: Civic Eudaemonism in Habsburg and Bourbon Spain, 1600-1800
(2021)The intellectual historian Gabriel Paquette has identified the propaganda language of the eighteenth-century Spanish Bourbon monarchy with a “pliable rhetoric of public happiness” of which the monarchy claimed to be “linchpin.” ... -
The Kigali Model: Making a 21st Century Metropolis
(2017)This dissertation examines the relationship between city planning and everyday life in Kigali, Rwanda. It focuses on markets, neighborhoods, and streets where Kigali residents encounter emerging technologies of architecture, ... -
The Political Economy of Public Credit
(2012)This dissertation critically examines predominant political-economic theories of public credit and public debt in light of the origins, development, and recent record expansion in such debt. Using a "history of thought" ... -
The Political Economy of Religious Organizations: A Network-Based Explanation for Government Allocation of Resources
(2018)It is a fundamental assertion in political science that political parties in government allocate resources disproportionately to benefit the people who have voted for them and for projects that push forward their political ... -
Ties that Bind: Connections, Institutions and Economics in the People’s Republic of China
(2019)This dissertation will contend that China’s paramount leader, the General Secretary,in order to compete with rival elites, in the face of strong institutional constraintsand limitations upon how they can engage ... -
Traditional Institutions and the Political Economy of the Philippines
(2020)This dissertation is comprised of three essays on the political economy of the Philippines. It combines a variety of methods---historical and qualitative analysis, interviews, and statistical analysis---to examine various ... -
Urban-Rural Bias and the Political Geography of Distributive Conflicts
(2012)Pro-urban bias in policy is often seen as a common phenomenon in the developing world. Empirical reality though is much more varied. Many governments actively support agricultural producers and rural citizens, even at early ...