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Affective Action in Organizations: Social Media, Personalized Communication and Advocacy in the European Union
Civil society organizations such as citizen groups and NGOs are the cornerstone of democratic pluralism but face a significant engagement problem: people are more interested in unconventional forms of participation than ... -
Anticorruption Agencies in Democracies
This dissertation explains how governments can take meaningful (and less meaningful) steps to fight corruption when they face intense domestic pressure to clean up their act. Lawmakers create anticorruption agencies - ... -
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 ... -
At Liberty and In Love
In this dissertation, I present three essays that study the significance of erōs in Plato's political philosophy and explore its practical implication for the principle of democratic liberty. The love the word erōs refers ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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? ... -
Beyond Presence: Gender Quotas, Female Leadership, and Symbolic Representation
This dissertation examines how electoral gender quotas affect citizens' attitudes and behavior towards women in political office. A policy experiment with the random assignment of local-level single-member electoral districts ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Bums, Revolutionaries, or Citizens? A Political History of Youth in Twentieth-Century America
Under what conditions do political elites begin to fear that young people will fail to become responsible citizens? What do these conditions and the solutions adopted tell us about the values and skills associated with ... -
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, ... -
China's New Social Governance
This dissertation explores the sources and mechanisms of social policy change in China during the reform era. In it, I first argue that, starting in the late 1990s, China's leadership began shifting social policy away from ... -
Church, State and Sex: How Africa's transnational churches shape human rights
Why have East African mainline churches adopted select transnational rights agendas while opposing others, and what are the consequences of these politics for women and sexual minorities? This research examines mainlines' ... -
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 ... -
Colonial Policy, Social Trust, and Economic Resilience: The Long-term Impacts of Imperial Russian Settlement in Southern Kazakhstan
Almost every country on the planet has a colonial past as colonizer or colonized. Yet scholars still do not fully understand how differential experiences of colonialism affect social and economic processes in the long-term. ... -
The Color of Fat: Racial Biopolitics of Obesity
(2014-02-24)This dissertation employs the analytics of biopolitics, critical race theory, and feminist theory to explore the racial and gender dynamics of the political and medical construction of the American `obesity epidemic.' Its ... -
Community, Liberalism and the Capabilities Approach
The decline of community institutions and the increasing erosion of community infrastructure is a serious problem with consequences for human well-being. The political and economic theories of liberalism have contributed ...