Browsing by Subject "Political science"
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A Decentralized Iron Cage: Do Chinese Local Officials Comply with the Central Government?
(2016)This paper contributes to the literature in nancial aid and authoritarian institutions.For a long time, scholars are debating whether nancial aid is able to facilitatedevelopment and governance. Though abundant evidence ... -
A New Chinese First Lady: Is There Systematic Development?
(2016)Examining the full set of leaders and their spouses in both China and the U.S. during the last quarter century, this paper explores how the first lady of China has become a more important position, why she has become a more ... -
A New Scramble for Africa? Chinese Aid and Africa’s Civil Conflict 2004 – 2013, An Instrumental Variable Approach
(2017)Does Chinese aid cause more civil conflicts in Africa? Doubts have been cast about Chinese development assistance finance. In this article, I argue that Chinese aid is likely to arouse more civil conflicts in Africa because ... -
A Study of Plea Bargaining, Political Power, and Case Outcomes in Local Criminal Courts
(2023)In this dissertation, I seek to understand the power of legal actors in determining punitiveness in plea bargaining in criminal courts. Using a unique combination of administrative court data and qualitative interviews, ... -
Addressing the "Elephant in the Room": Rumor Rebuttal in China during the COVID-19 Outbreak
(2021)This study aims to explain the logic behind rumor rebuttal, a form of responsivepropaganda, in authoritarian countries during COVID-19, the story of which initially unfolded as ”rumor”. Taking China at the beginning stage ... -
Agents with Agency: How Subnational Officials Exercise their Autonomy Under Authoritarianism
(2022)Subnational officials in strong authoritarian states are often depicted as passive agents under central command or opportunists resisting central control. This dissertation rejects the former characterization by recognizing ... -
"All of My Business": Governmental Social Media and Authoritarian Responsiveness
(2017)How would authoritarian regimes react to the emergence of social media compared to traditional media? What role(s) would media play in authoritarianism? This study focuses on China, the largest existing authoritarian regime, ... -
American Civil-Military Relations and the Political Economy of National Security
(2021)In this dissertation I analyze aspects of American civil-military relations and the political economy of national security policymaking. Specifically, I examine efforts to balance the military power necessary to secure American ... -
An Internalized Spectator: Judgment in Arendt’s Kant Lectures
(2022)In this paper I revisit a perplexing question about Arendt’s theory of judgment: what is the relationship between the normative function of judgment and the perspective of the vita contemplativa in her Kant Lectures. Pace ... -
Asian-Black Political Relationships: Policy Voting of State Legislators in California and Maryland
(2014)Asian-black political relations in the United States have been most frequently examined in the arena of urban/local politics and especially in terms of the degree of conflict and competition. No previous study on Asian-black ... -
Assessing China’s Economic and Political Power Play
(2022)How effectively has China utilized its economic power to gain political support worldwide? This paper aims to answer this question, which is vital to understanding the new dynamics of the international order, through a more ... -
Assessing Credibility: A Qualitative Analysis of Public and Private Signals in the Cuban Missile Crisis
(2023)Credibility has long been a subject of interest in international relations. However, recent works minimize some of the earliest and most intriguing credibility questions. To what degree is accuracy related to credibility, ... -
Authoritarian Governance and the Provision of Public Goods: Water and Wastewater Services in Egypt
(2019)Studies on the effect of regime type on public goods provision have tended to take a quantitative, cross-national approach to examining the relationship between regime type and access to public goods, and have demonstrated ... -
Automated Learning of Event Coding Dictionaries for Novel Domains with an Application to Cyberspace
(2016)Event data provide high-resolution and high-volume information about political events. From COPDAB to KEDS, GDELT, ICEWS, and PHOENIX, event datasets and the frameworks that produce them have supported a variety of research ... -
Behavioral Traits and Political Selection in Authoritarian Ruling Parties: Evidence from the Chinese Communist Party
(2018)This dissertation investigates the role of behavioral factors in the personnel selection in authoritarian ruling parties. First, I argue that authoritarian ruling parties increase the weight of dispositional and behavioral ... -
Belief Updating in a Biased Information Environment: Evidence From Hierarchical Government Satisfaction in Vietnam
(2020)People tend to hold more positive attitude to central government relative to local governments in east Asian single-party regimes. Drawing from political psychology literature, I argue the information environment biased ... -
Between a Hammer and an Anvil: Bottom-Up Organizational Transformation
(2020)When do recruitment windfalls strengthen organizations while threatening their leader’s perception of success? This paper introduces a theory of grassroots-driven organizational change that is broadly applicable when leaders ... -
Beyond Moderation: The Politics of Nonviolence in a Violent World
(2020)This dissertation challenges the long-standing albeit usually implicit association between political moderation and nonviolent political action. For the three figures I examine here—Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., ... -
Beyond Republicanism: Political Thought in Tacitus’ Minor Works
(2019)This dissertation examines how the Roman historian Tacitus’ political thought in his minor works (the Dialogus, the Germania, and the Agricola) departs from the political thought of his Republic-era predecessors. Tacitus ... -
Brain Drain or Gain? Skilled Migration and Human Capital Accumulation in the Developing World
(2019)Developing countries have long worried about the prospects of their “best and brightest” moving to the developed world. Some scholars have argued that massive emigration of highly-educated labor deprives these countries ...
