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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Civic Democracy and Catholic Authority in Conflict? Yves Simon's Thomist Democratic Authority
(2019)Are civic democracy and Catholic authority at odds? Do the aspirations of modern democratic politics imply theological claims that are in essential conflict with Catholic claims about civic authority? Does democratic tradition ... -
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 ... -
Conceptualizing and Measuring Strategic Behavior Within American Political Institutions
(2020)The three papers in this dissertation seek to measure more accurately critical concepts in the field of American political institutions so as to inform and enable theory-building. The first paper addresses committee prestige ... -
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 ...
