Browsing by Subject "Political Science, General"
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A Party in the Conference Room: Partisan Politics and the Modern Conference Committee
(2009)Despite the crucial role that conference committees can play in the legislative process, relatively little is understood about the forces that influence conference outcomes and the priorities of conferees. In particular, ... -
A tale of three disciplines: Navigating the Boundaries at the Nexus of Conservation Science, Policy, and Practice
(2009)Nature is under immediate and increasing threat. Tales of destruction and deforestation abound despite the myriad interventions and investments by government bureaucracies, non-government organizations, and private land-owners. ... -
Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
(2010)This dissertation examines the relationship between architecture and democratic politics in late-modernity. It identifies the refusal of architects to consider the political dimensions of their work following the failures ... -
Citizen Canine: Humans and Animals in Athens and America
(2010)"Citizen Canine" explores the sacrificial underpinnings of politics via a critique of the boundary between human and animal in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato. I argue that the concept "animal" serves a functional rather than ... -
Domestic Courts and Global Governance: the Politics of Private International Law
(2007-12-04)Since the mid-1980s, U.S. and foreign parties have filed more than 100,000 lawsuits in U.S. federal courts asking for adjudication of disputes arising from transnational activity. These lawsuits raise a fundamental question ... -
Electoral Institutions, Party Organizations, and Political Instability
(2009)A majority of formal theoretic research in political science treats political parties as unitary actors, and endows them with decision-making powers not unlike those of strategic individuals. This is true both of most research ... -
Engaging Socrates
(2009)This dissertation considers the role of the critic in democratic political culture by engaging Socrates. Since Socrates so often stands as an exemplar for many different styles of critical activity, both in political rhetoric ... -
Environmental Activists as Agents of Social Democratization: a Historical Comparison of Russia and Mexico
(2009)This study is a comparative historical analysis of the link between environmental activism and state-society relations in 20th century Russia and Mexico. It explores the three main currents of environmentalism that originated ... -
Essays on the News Media, Governance, and Political Control in Authoritarian States
(2009)This dissertation uses game-theoretic modeling, statistical testing, and case studies to analyze how authoritarian governments manage the news media to maintain regime stability, control local officials, and make reform. ... -
Learning Curves: Three Studies on Political Information Acquisition
(2008-07-29)What are the effects of political information on public opinion, political participation, and electoral outcomes? In this dissertation, I address these questions and investigate the ways that people acquire and incorporate ... -
Life of the Party or Just a Third Wheel? Effects of Third Parties in U.S. House Elections
(2008-04-14)How is two-party electoral competition influenced by third parties, even under normal political conditions? I argue that the mere threat of third party entry into the election induces anticipatory electoral strategies by ... -
Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American Electorate
(2009)Geographic clustering has been linked to contemporary political polarization by jour- nalists and other researchers in recent years, most recently and notably by Bishop and Cushing (2008). In these accounts, clustering is ... -
Mourning in America: Racial Trauma and the Democratic Work of Mourning
(2010)This dissertation argues for a version of democratic theory, and institutions of democratic practice, that would call for and help to nurture a form of civic identity--individual and collective--committed to a "work of mourning" ... -
Non-Taxation and Representation: an Essay on Distribution, Redistribution, and Regime Stability in the Modern World
(2007-12-17)Drawing upon formal modeling, cross-national statistical analysis, and in-depth case studies, this dissertation explores the relationship between patterns of government revenue generation and political regime stability. ... -
Partitioning the Projects: Racial Segregation and Public Housing in Durham, North Carolina
(2010)Racial residential segregation is an enduring feature of America's urban landscape. Patterns of residence have become so divided along racial lines, in fact, that many social scientists have described this phenomenon as ... -
Political Competition and the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment
(2010)This dissertation examines the variation in the choice of FDI regulations. Why do some countries restrict the entry and operations of foreign MNEs while others permit and even seek inward FDI? What factors determine the ... -
Politics, Mass Media, and Policy Change: Recreational Water Rights in Colorado Communities
(2008-04-02)This study looks at the process of local policy change in environmental policy decisions. It employs a comparative case study research design to analyze the creation of a new recreational water right in Colorado to support ... -
Promising America: Imagining Democracy, Democratizing Imagination
(2009)This project elucidates the politics of imagination in the United States and interrogates the conditions of democratic imagination in particular. I evaluate the role of imagination in political theory and in United States ... -
Regulating Finance: Expert Cognitive Frameworks, Adaptive Learning, and Interests in Financial Regulatory Change
(2010)My dissertation seeks to understand how and why governments make major changes in financial sector regulations. I focus on two specific puzzles. First why is financial sector regulation not normally central to electoral ... -
Reputation Cascades In Terrorism
(2010)This research analyzes one central question and two supporting questions. First, how do individual and group interactions influence aggregate behavior toward terrorism? Second, how does societal reputation impact support ...
