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Conflict or Resignation: Motivating Political Behavior in Germany's Diverse Cities
(Georgetown University, 2015)
In this dissertation I develop a theory of diversity and political behavior. I argue that both national and local governments are important to the management of diversity, and thus the political participation of native ...
Exile in America: Political Expulsion and the Limits of Liberal Government
(Georgetown University, 2015)
"Exile," as a concept, remains largely neglected by political theory. Of the few pieces addressing it, most approach exile as a phenomenon peculiar to ancient cultures, or as a tool of the illiberal, even authoritarian, ...
UNDERSTANDING THE COST OF ENACTING LEGISLATION: LEGISLATIVE EFFICIENCY AND THE IMPACT OF SESSION LENGTH
(Georgetown University, 2015)
In this thesis, I try to find a state legislature's most efficient point between the length of its legislative session and its price per bill. Unlike previous studies of legislative productivity and efficiency, I attempt ...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REGIME TYPE AND CORRUPTION: A CROSS NATIONAL ANALYSIS
(Georgetown University, 2015)
How does an economies regime type affect corruption rates observed within a nation? Past empirical studies have looked at both regime type and corruption rates using several different techniques; however past empirical ...
UN PEACEKEEPING AND THE LINKS BETWEEN CIVIL WAR PEACE PROCESSES
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Why do combatants in civil wars engage in UN-led negotiations even when they believe the UN is a failed, flawed contributor to the peace process? Drawing on regression analysis, extensive archival work, interviews, and two ...
By Other Means: Combatant Capabilities, Institutional Choice, and Electoral Competition after Civil War
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Since the end of the Cold War, democratization has been treated in both theory and practice as a crucial element of peacebuilding after civil war, promising the transfer of social conflict from the battlefield to the ballot ...
Modernity and Political Realism: A Comparison of Islamic and Western Perspectives
(Georgetown University, 2015)
My dissertation project examines problems related to modernity in the Arab world and the West. It touches on the persistent effects of modernization processes in these parts of the world including dependency and instrumental ...
THE HISTORY OF THE NICARAGUAN SOCIAL SECURITY INSTITUTE/ AN ANALYSIS OF PATH DEPENDENCY
(Georgetown University, 2015)
The use of path dependency in political science explanations of institutional development, especially social security helps us to better understand continuities and departures of a policy. The lack of theoretical work on ...
New Political Actors in the Age of Big Data
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Senior Account Executive at Twitter. Senior Account Executive at Google. Information about people who recently bought a brand new Lincoln vehicle or a brand new Mazda vehicle. The primary in which you last voted. Volunteered ...
Assessing the Influence of Politics on California Wildfire Disaster Declaration Decisions at the County Level
(Georgetown University, 2015)
California suffers from the highest number of wildfires in the United States and has overrun its wildfire-fighting budget every year for the past decade (Hubbard). To make matters worse, climate change impacts are lengthening ...