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Electoral Violence in New Democracies: Institutionalizing Peaceful Elections
In the last few decades, thousands have died in election-related violence. In the past ten years in Africa alone, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Algeria, Madagascar, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Chad, Angola, Togo, ... -
Between Two Fires: Civilian Resistance during Internal Armed Conflict in Peru
Research on internal armed conflict focuses on violence perpetrated by insurgent groups and state security forces, often ignoring other armed civilian actors. However, militias, paramilitary groups, and civilian self-defense ... -
¿Es su casa mi casa? Latinos, Socialization, and the Catholic Church
The American Catholic Church is in crisis with the highest rate of believers leaving the faith of any denomination (for every one convert, six others leave the Church). The steady growth of the Latino population is the ... -
Disentangling Discrimination: The Impact of Political and Societal Discrimination on Democratic (Dis)Engagement
How does discrimination impact the political behaviors of racial and ethnic minority groups in democratic societies? Are all types of discrimination the same? The direct relationship between discrimination and behavior is ... -
The Persistence of Torture: Explaining Coercive Interrogation in America’s Small Wars
Why has the United States used torture in small wars over the last hundred-plus years? After all, torture is morally bankrupt, risky, and frequently ineffective as an interrogation method. I argue that the anti-torture ... -
The Political Economy of Information Provision in Developing Democracies
Political public opinion polling has quickly spread across the world into many developing democratic contexts. However, little research to date has either sought to probe this explosion in public opinion information ... -
Beyond Economics and Security: Strategic Export Control Practices in Advanced Countries
How do like-minded countries decide which sensitive technologies they will export to countries of concern? When the economic and security stakes are high, what factors contribute to effective strategic export control policy? ... -
Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation and Race
This dissertation asks the following questions: Under what conditions are individuals mobilized by experiences with the criminal justice system and under what conditions are individuals demobilized? How do these impacts ... -
Harnessing Natural Resources for Development: New Legal Regimes for Localized Benefit Sharing in the Mining Sector
Between 1993 and 2012, thirty-two countries around the world adopted community development in mining laws. This new public regulation approach to addressing mining’s impact goes beyond mitigating the negative effect of ... -
Impetus or Impediment: Market Power, Foreign Direct Investment and Judicial Reform in Russia and Kazakhstan
Demand for law has been recognized as a necessary component of successful legal reform programs. However, the causal variables which support demand for law remain unclear. This dissertation hypothesizes a relationship ... -
Legalization of the GATT/WTO and Distribution of its Dispute Settlement Benefits between Developed and Developing Countries
How does legalization of international institution distributes its benefits between developed and developing countries? This dissertation answers the question by investigating how the legalization of the GATT into the WTO ... -
Politics of Law Enforcement: Policing and Police Reform in New Democracies
Impartial law enforcement is necessary for the rule of law and the stable functioning of a democracy. The maintenance of public order and the enforcement of the law are the minimum requirements expected of a modern democratic ... -
International Grantmaking by American Foundations
Why do American foundations make international grants to certain nonprofits and not others? Numerous studies have examined the determinants of American bilateral foreign aid allocation, but little attention has been paid ... -
Bolstering the National Project: Competitive Nation Building and Immigration Policies in Catalonia, Israel and Quebec
This study examines elite preference formation with regard to immigration and incorporation policies in contentious spaces. The latter category encompasses states, federal units, and regions in which competing nationally-defined ... -
Racial Violence and the Politics of Innocence: From the Postwar South to Post-Racial America
In 1962, James Baldwin identified racial innocence as the “crime” of being willfully untouched by the racial injustices of American life: “But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. ... -
Game of Housing: The Political Economy of Social Housing Provision in China, Evidence from Chongqing and Shanghai
Housing is central to and extends beyond welfare. For ordinary households in developed countries and many developing countries, housing is arguably the single, biggest consumption good. For stressed families, obtaining ... -
The Rise of the Bo: Autonomous Strongmen, Opium Capital, and State Formation in Mainland Southeast Asia (1948-1996)
The Shan State of Burma became one of the most politically fragmented areas of the post World War II period. In rural areas, autonomous strongmen exercised social control independently of central state leaders and became ... -
In the Shadow of the State: Gender Contestation and Legal Mobilization in the Context of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia
Gender issues emerged in various forms as part of uprisings that swept the Arab world starting from 2011. However, little attention has been paid to the differences among various countries of women's mobilization during ... -
Claiming Labor Rights as Human Rights: Legal Mobilization at the European Court of Human Rights
In recent years, labor activists have increasingly started mobilizing human rights in order to draw attention to precarious working conditions and restrictions on labor activism. Through analyzing the legal mobilization ...