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 ... -
"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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Children or Citizens: Civic Education in Liberal Political Thought
(2017)My contention in this dissertation is that the history of liberal political thought contains two incompatible models of children's political status, which in turn produce two incompatible answers to the question "Is liberalism ... -
Cicero's Legacy and the Story of Modern Liberty
(2017)There is a widespread belief among scholars that liberalism and republicanism are two alternative traditions, that the ideal of liberty for individuals to freely order their own lives and ideal of liberty for political ... -
Commitment Problem, Economic Inequality and Institutional Reform in Authoritarian Regimes: A Case Study of China
(2013)Under authoritarian rule, investors' fear that their assets will be arbitrarily confiscated by the government weakens their incentives to make an investment, unless the commitment that the authoritarian government will favor ... -
Connecting the Nodes. How Social Capital Enhances Local Public Goods' Provision in Shantytowns.
(2017)The literature on clientelism has extensively covered the direct exchange of private goods for political support between voters and politicians. Yet, patronage does not end with the distribution of food, medicine or public ... -
Constrained Coordination: How Strategic Interests and Bureaucracy Shape Donor Coordination
(2019)Scholars and practitioners recognize the importance of coordination in mitigating the costs of aid proliferation and improving the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, low levels of donor coordination persist. In this ... -
Cross-District Coordination and Party System Fragmentation -- Evidence from Polish Municipal Council Elections
(2019)The conventional wisdom in electoral studies links proportional representation to multi-party systems and plurality rules to bipartism. Although this prediction fits the dynamics of political competition well at the district ... -
Dealing with Immigration in the Context of EU Enlargement: the Case of Transitional Provisions
(2016)This analysis addresses the issue of immigration in the context of the European Union enlargement. Focusing on the use of transitional provisions, it attempts to explain why and when EU leaders give workers from new member ... -
Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
(2019)High levels of partisan polarization on environmental policies, and on climate change in particular, have led to policy gridlock in the United States. While most Americans rely on their partisan identities to guide their ... -
Diasporic Agents and Trans-Asian Flows in the Making of Asian Modernity: The Case of Thailand
(Everyday Politics of the World Economy, 2007-11-15)How do our everyday actions shape and transform the world economy? This volume of original essays argues that current scholarship in international political economy (IPE) is too highly focused on powerful states and large ... -
Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century
(2017)My dissertation offers an interpretation of twentieth century political thought which emphasizes the influence of dystopian images, themes, and anxieties. Drawing examples from philosophy, literature, and social science, ... -
Essays on State-Building and Sectarian Violence
(2016)\abstractThis dissertation seeks to explain the role of governmental and non-governmental actors in increasing/reducing the emergence of intergroup conflict after war, when group differences have been a salient aspect of ... -
Estimating the Preference of Countries and Multinational Corporations Using Two-Sided Matching Model
(2018)A foreign direct investment (FDI) project can only materialize with the consent of both the multinational corporation (MNC) and the host country. However, the literature on FDI has focused only on the preference of MNCs, ...
