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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 between the structure of national economies and the demand for law, contending that a strong small and medium ...
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 and after the Arab Spring. The differences between Tunisia and Egypt, two of the central countries in the ...
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 two-part structure enables me to critique `obesity' both as a legitimate public health concern whose ...
Work and Freedom in Contemporary Capitalism
(2014-02-24)
Despite the centrality of employment to contemporary political and economic discourse - a position reinforced by the recent economic crisis - political theory has failed to engage with the organization of work or with the norms guiding it. This dissertation offers a deeper understanding of the political functions and significance ...
Theory of Multi-Tiered Membership
(2013-07-25)
This project examines the ways in which new members experience political socialization in a new nation, focusing primarily on the process experienced by adult Mexican immigrants. The theory of multi-tiered membership captures the complex development of informal and formal membership. Informal membership captures the attitudinal ...
The Pursuit of Victory and Incorporation: Elite Strategy, Group Pressure, and Cross-Racial Mobilization
(2013-04-17)
Cross-racial mobilization (CRM) is conscious race-targeted mobilization of blocs of voters of one racial group by politicians and campaign operatives of another racial group. To date, no theoretical framework has articulated the processes and myriad components of CRM. This dissertation fills that void. The four research ...
Violent Eruptions: Natural Disasters, War, and Peace
(2014-02-24)
Do natural disasters increase the prospects for peace or do they exacerbate civil war? Do these events generate either of these outcomes systematically? Under what conditions? This dissertation addresses these questions in a comprehensive investigation of natural disasters' effects on the trajectory of civil conflict. In so ...
Undermining Whiteness: Hannah Arendt's Participatory Freedom and the Political Ethics of Antiracism
(2014-02-24)
This dissertation seeks to develop a political ethics of antiracism through the work of 20th century political theorist Hannah Arendt. Although Arendt's political theory does not take up the particular question of antiracism, I posit that Arendt's theorization of freedom, which emphasizes the participatory and transformative ...
Politics in the Moral Universe: Burmese Buddhist Political Thought
(2013-02-25)
This dissertation is a work of comparative political theory that draws attention to how religious beliefs can generate fundamentally different conceptions of what is political. I argue that Theravada Buddhism is the source of the conceptual framework within which most Buddhists in Myanmar think about politics. Specifically, ...
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 other developing countries? Why have patterns of trade protection against non-market economies remained ...