Browsing by Subject "political economy"
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Educating for a New Economy: The Struggle to Redevelop a Jim Crow State, 1960-2000
(2018)This dissertation shows how an array of policymakers, invested in uprooting an unequal political economy descended from the plantation system and Jim Crow, gravitated to education as a centerpiece of development strategy, ... -
Essays on the Political Economy of Media and Information Manipulation
(2022)The last two decades have seen an emergence of a new regime type, called mixed regimes, whose democratically elected leaders have slowly eroded institutions of accountability. Unlike democratic breakdowns, such erosions ... -
Institutionalized Rent Seeking: The Political-business Revolving Door in China
(2021)Scholars contend that in a weak institutional context, firms enter the political marketplace primarily through bribery or entrepreneurs running for public office. My dissertation challenges this conventional understanding ... -
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 ... -
The Political Determinants of Corruption
(2023)Political factors play a big role in influencing the ebbs and flows of corruption. The literature seems unanimously in agreement that, even in places where corruption is entrenched and systemic, the political calculations ...
