Browsing Political science by Issue Date
Now showing items 1-20 of 118
-
The Pan American peace machinery
(1940)Since the attainment of the independence of the Latin American republics, the state of mind of the Western continent relative to international relations has been radically different from that of the Old World. The American ... -
Nationalists, Communists, and rural leaders: political dynamics in a Chinese county, 1927-1937
(1983)During the initial years of their rule, 1927 to 1937, did the Nationalists transform the politics of rural China? Through a study of Nationalist political organization and policy implementation in one particular area of ... -
Policy, law and private economic rights in China: the doctrine and practice of law on economic contracts
(1986)The Economic Contract Law of the People's Republic of China expresses the regime's willingness to extend to economic actors limited private economic rights under the new economic reform policies. The emergence of private ... -
The politics of religion in South Korea, 1974-89: the Catholic church's political opposition to the authoritarian state
(1993)What explains the South Korean Catholic Church's increased sociopolitical activity during the 1970s and 1980s after almost two centuries of relative silence and inaction? This study hypothesizes and affirms that the Church's ... -
Restructuring social bargains: the politics of trade and labor policy in the US Democrats and British Labour
(1996)Left parties are beset by political challenges to traditional goals of social justice and full employment. The literature which examines the recent politics of party program change is dominated by theories focusing on ... -
The welfare state in the global economy: the politics of social insurance retrenchment in Sweden, 1990-1998
(1998)This dissertation analyzes the relative success of retrenchment in four cases of social insurance in Sweden: old age pensions, unemployment insurance, work injury insurance, and sickness cash benefits. Retrenchment was ... -
Explaining rural calm and rural unrest in Costa Rica: the coffee and banana export sectors
(1998)This study examines, contrasts, and analyzes the near absence of unrest in the Costa Rican coffee sector and the somewhat regular unrest in the Costa Rican banana sector. An explanation for such divergent behavior within ... -
Confronting value strain: press coverage of health care reform in Sweden and the United States
(1999)This comparative content analysis study examines the health care reform debates that took place in the early 1990's in Sweden and the United States in an effort to understand the role that cultural values might play in ... -
Breaching protocol: caciquismo and administrative capacity in rural Mexico
(1999)This study explores the internal struggles of the upper ranks of the political elite in the wake of the neoliberal economic reforms in Mexico. Since, until recently, the PRI had a monopoly over the political system, the ... -
Political legitimacy and self-loss
(2000)This dissertation challenges liberal theories of political legitimacy by questioning the foundational status of autonomy in the spheres of consent and political obligation. I propose that we conceptualize political legitimacy ... -
Power and uneven globalization: coalitions and energy trade dependence in the newly independent states of Europe
(2000)The economies of the European former Soviet Union were dependent upon energy subsidies in the form of virtually free oil and natural gas imports from Russia, the loss of which implied dramatic shocks to domestic production ... -
Are NMEs our enemies?: non-market economies and western trade policies
(2001)Non-market economies (or Communist countries) are subjected to unusually high levels of Western trade protection. Why do non-market economy exports face higher levels of trade protection than other country groups, including ... -
Authorizing affluence: European Union social policy and promotion of the commerce society : a critical theoretical analysis
(2001)This dissertation analyzes three areas of contemporary European Union (EU) social policy---social exclusion, gender equality, and employment---in an attempt to understand the implications of European integration for societies ... -
Defining Americans: nation, state, and the politics of racial mixture, 1885-1905
(2002)Prevailing understandings about what it meant to be American underwent significant changes at the turn of the 20th century. This study examines how challenges posed by racial mixture contributed to defining and redefining ... -
Resisting violence in the shadow of the law: the legal consciousness and legal mobilization of battered women in Phoenix, Arizona and Seattle, Washington
(2003)This study compares the legal consciousness and legal mobilization of battered women in two cities (Seattle, Washington and Phoenix, Arizona) with similar laws but different local response to domestic violence. The comparison ... -
At the regulatory front lines: building inspectors and new public management
(2003)Those individuals at the front lines of service delivery are once again prominent figures in studies of policy implementation. Recent scholarship addressing regulatory enforcement, public management, bureaucratic control, ... -
Judges without borders: international human rights law in domestic courts
(2004)The judicial branch has long been viewed as the weakest branch of government. Yet remarkably, the domestic judiciary has emerged as a significant actor on the international stage. Around the world, domestic courts are ... -
Mimesis in communicative action: Habermas and the affective bond of understanding
(2005)Within contemporary political theory, liberals and conservatives, moderns and postmoderns, Marxists and post-Marxists alike mark out their positions vis-a-vis Jurgen Habermas' theory of communicative action and discourse ... -
Cetaceans and citizens: international norms and debates about national identity in Japan
(2007)This dissertation addresses the question of why states comply with some international norms more than others. I focus on Japan's high compliance with international norms regarding the human rights of foreign residents, ... -
The Dance of Policy Argumentation: Recasting the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
(2012-08-10)This project is motivated by a desire to examine the patterns that evolve as activists and their opponents struggle to control how the public and policymakers understand a particular issue at the center of contention. ...