At the broadest level, the conflict regarding immigration has typically been attributed to two threats posed by immigrants: a competition over resources and a struggle to mitigate cultural threat. This thesis investigates ...

Why would a state export warships that could be used against it? Strategic logic suggests that increasing another state's combat power is bad policy, as the United Kingdom discovered when it faced British-built destroyers ...

What explains differences in electoral authoritarian outcomes? Why are some regimes able to utterly dominate elections with comparatively lower levels of fraud and coercion, while in other cases regimes can only muster ...

Latin American political systems are characterized by powerful presidential institutions vis à vis legislatures. Presidents hold significant power resources to control the budget process, leaving the congress as a mere ...

Exploro los determinantes del desarrollo politico y economico que ayudan a que mas mujeres sean electas en los congresos

Do reforms to campaign finance laws affect citizens' views toward government responsiveness? The bedrock of all campaign finance laws in the United States is the government's compelling interest in preventing "corruption ...

In the last two decades, openness of public budgeting processes garnered the attention of governments, non-governmental organizations and donors, evidenced by a proliferation of budget transparency and accountability ...

THE IMPACT OF FEMALE CANDIDATES ON VOTER TURNOUT IN STATEWIDE ELECTIONS

U.S. visa policy--the challenge of facilitating legitimate travel to the United States while keeping out travelers with harmful intent, and at the same time advancing American interests and policy priorities--is a policy ...

In recent years, political scientists have learned a great deal about the sources of mass public attitudes towards sexual minorities, but we still know very little about the public opinions and behaviors of sexual minorities ...