Few empirical studies examine the relationship between ideology and lethality among terrorist organizations. In this paper, I test how ideological affiliation may affect a terrorist organization’s overall lethality. I ...

What drives policy change and innovation when food policy meets health promotion and prevention? My dissertation studies contemporary and historical policy change in the context of obesity-related food and public health ...

Refugee programs bolster global human rights by promoting responsibility-sharing and assisting the 25.9 million people who have been forced to flee their countries for fear of war or persecution. As refugee numbers soar ...

It is estimated that a third of the world population has no access to adequate housing and infrastructure (UN-HABITAT, 2003). This situation has a strong impact on vulnerable populations and on the economic growth of ...

In recent years, multiple government officials, members of civil society, industry representatives, and academic scholars have suggested that a direct relationship exists between a country’s data privacy framework and ...

Since 2006, the United States has been the world’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment (“FDI”). However, the United States experienced a 40 percent decrease in FDI inflow from 2016 to 2017, coinciding with the ...

After its passage in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became a lightening rode around which each major political party rallied either in fierce defense or fervent opposition. However, as individuals have begun to feel ...

Since the 1990s, school choice has become a common phenomenon in China. Parents choose schools for their kids through various channels: spending money, abusing power for privilege, or purchasing houses in specific educational ...

Gentrification, or large increases in average socioeconomic status (SES) in previously low-income, urban neighborhoods, have increased substantially in the U.S. over the past two decades. However, gentrification has generated ...

This thesis looks at U.S. security and governance-focused foreign assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa, to evaluate its impact on recipient-state violence against civilians, from 2002 to 2017. I combine U.S. security and ...