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Browsing by Subject "democracy"
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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 ... -
Democracy on the Commons: Political Competition and Local Cooperation for Natural Resource Management in India
(2007-05-10)This dissertation explores the effects of democratic competition among political parties in India on natural resources and the ability of local communities to cooperate for natural resource management. A significant number ... -
Designing Community: Architecture, Race and Democracy in American Life Writing, 1900-‐‑1950
(2017)The turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century saw unprecedented growth and change in the demographics of United States urban environs. Not only did U.S. cities grow bigger, they grew increasingly multicultural and multiracial. ... -
Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2014-06-12)In the pre-modern Middle East the closest thing to an autonomous private organization was the Islamic waqf. This non-state institution inhibited political participation, collective action, and rule of law, among other indicators ... -
Metrics & Democratization: Law, Technology & Democratic Expertise in Postwar El Salvador
(2014)The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the role of monitoring standards on democratic governance reform in El Salvador since the 1992 end of a 12-year civil war. The study looks at the development and implementation ... -
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" ... -
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 ... -
Structural Violence and Child Health: A Multi-Level Analysis of Development, Gender Inequality, and Democracy in Developing Countries
(2011)More than 26,000 children under the age of 5 die every day on average, mostly in the developing world. Malnutrition accounts for up to half of those deaths, and diarrheal diseases account for another 17 per cent. ... -
SuperConductors: Handbook for a New Democratic Music
(2011)I am interested, broadly, in the relationship of aesthetics to politics. More specifically, I am interested in the importance of aesthetics to leftist political organizing, particularly in regard to music. This interest ... -
The Concept of Instability and the Theory of Democracy in the Federalist
(2008-04-18)This dissertation describes instability as a problem with a variety of sources and explains Publius' contribution to understanding the importance of these problems for politics and political theory. Using the Federalist ... -
The Contingent Effect of Institutions: Ethno-Cultural Polarization, Electoral Formulas and Election Quality
(2011)Less democratic countries conduct elections under the majoritarian electoral formula more often than under proportional representation by a wide margin. Yet, robust democratic systems utilize both majoritarian and PR electoral ... -
The Inadvertent Opposition: The São Paulo Political Class and the Demise of Brazil's Military Regime, 1968-1985
(2013)This dissertation argues that the civilian "political class" played an understudied yet decisive role in toppling Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship. In contrast with existing explanations for the regime's fall, which ... -
Tibetan Elections in Exile: From Theocratic Monarchy to a Developing Exile Democracy, 1959-2009
(2009-04)This thesis examines the nature of the Tibetan exile polity and its gradual transition from a theocratic monarchy to a fledgling democracy based on elections. It describes the formation of the exile community along with ...
