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Browsing by Subject "Political Science"
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Acting Out: Qui pro Quo in the Context of Interwar Warsaw
(East European Politics and Societies, 2013-05-01)In the turbulent context of interwar Polish politics, a period bookended by the right-wing nationalists' repression of an ethnically heterogeneous state, several popular high-quality cabarets persisted in Warsaw even as ... -
Ambidextrous Regimes: Leadership Survival and Fiscal Transparency
(2012)How do political leaders strategically manage fiscal policy formation to enhance their political survival? What are the implications of the fiscal mechanics of survival for theories of redistribution and democratic transition? ... -
An Evolutionary Theory of Democracy: Dynamic Evolutionary Models of American Party Competition with an Empirical Application to the Case of Abortion Policy from 1972-2010
(2011)In this dissertation, I challenge the unitary-actor assumption of contemporary theoretical models of American politics and re-conceptualize party competition as an evolutionary process. I begin by discussing the assumptions ... -
Archival research in Africa
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At the Threshold with Simone Weil: A Political Theory of Migration and Refuge
(2012)The persistent presence of refugees challenges political theorists to rethink our approaches to citizenship and national sovereignty. I look to philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943), who brings to the Western tradition her ... -
Black Mosaic: Expanding Contours of Black Identity and Black Politics
(2011)The increasing ethnic diversity among Black people in the United States is growing at a near exponential rate due to the migration of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, and African immigrants to the United States. This study is ... -
Both Citizen and Saint: Religious Integrity and Liberal Democracy
(2011)In this dissertation, I develop a political liberal ethics of citizenship that reconciles conflicting religious and civic obligations concerning political participation and deliberation--a liberal-democratic ethics of citizenship ... -
Bribes, Campaign Donations, and Revolving Doors: Endogenous Types of Special Interest Money
(2015)Special interest money enters politics in a number of ways: Politicians solicit contributions that help in their election campaigns; they enrich themselves while in office by accepting bribes; or, increasingly in many countries, ... -
Bringing Organizations Back In: Multilevel Feedback Effects on Individual Civic Inclusion
(Policy Studies Journal, 2019-05-01)Policy feedback scholarship has focused on how laws and their implementation affect either organizations (e.g., their resources, priorities, political opportunities, or incentive structures) or individuals (e.g., their civic ... -
Bumbling, Bluffing, and Bald-Faced Lies: Mis-Leading and Domestic Audience Costs in International Relations
(2011)In a democratic society, does the electorate approve of truth and disapprove of deception, do opinion patterns exclusively mimic partisan elite views, or do opinion patterns react exclusively to successful or failed outcomes? ... -
Can Results-Free Review Reduce Publication Bias? The Results and Implications of a Pilot Study
(Comparative Political Studies, 2016-11)© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. In 2015, Comparative Political Studies embarked on a landmark pilot study in research transparency in the social sciences. The editors issued an open call for submissions of manuscripts that ... -
Caught in the Middle: Multilateral Development Bank Responses to Environmental Performance
(2011)Since their creation, the multilateral development banks have accumulated performance records that include both substantial successes and stunning failures. Nowhere have their performance records been more mixed and controversial ... -
Chains of Love? Global Production and the Firm-Level Diffusion of Labor Standards
(American Journal of Political Science, 2018-07-01)©2018, Midwest Political Science Association Under what conditions does the global economy serve as a means for the diffusion of labor standards and practices? We anticipate variation among internationally engaged firms ... -
Challenges To Measuring Public Opinion: The Insincere, The Social, And The Measurement Approach
(2022)Scholars often recognize public opinion as a valuable metric of the collective will to compare against decisions of political leaders, but the value of public opinion also lies in its ability to serve as a ‘collective mirror.’ ... -
Challenges To Measuring Public Opinion: The Insincere, The Social, And The Measurement Approach
(2022)Scholars often recognize public opinion as a valuable metric of the collective will to compare against decisions of political leaders, but the value of public opinion also lies in its ability to serve as a ‘collective mirror.’ ... -
Citizens in Fear: Political Participation and Voting Behavior in the Midst of Violence
(2014)How does violence affect political participation and voting behavior? Why does a violent context push some to be politically active, while others decide to stay at home? Our current understanding of political behavior is ... -
Civic Friendship and Democracy: Past and Present Perspectives
(2015)My dissertation seeks to clarify the stakes of recent calls to increase civic friendship in our communities by initiating a conversation between contemporary and historical theoretical work about the requirements and consequences ... -
Civil Resistance or Rebellion: The Impact of Country-Level Factors on Revolutionary Strategy
(2013)This paper constitutes a partial answer to the question of when politicalresistance campaigns that use primarily violent or nonviolent strategies occur. In doing so, it attempts to bridge the gap between discussions of rebellion ... -
Civilian Autonomy and Resilience in the Midst of Armed Conflict
(2015)In situations of armed violence and insecurity, how do civilians influence the political environment around them? In this dissertation, I present three different studies that broadly engage this question. In concert, the ... -
Competing for global capital or local voters? The politics of business location incentives
(Public Choice, 2015-09)© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The competition for global capital has led to interjurisdictional competition between countries, states and cities as to who can offer the most attractive incentives to firms. ...
