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Does the Application of Benford's Law Reliably Identify Fraud on Election Day?
(Georgetown University, 2012)
In an attempt to bring mathematical certainty to uncertain situations, some have tried developing "election forensics" tools as a way of evaluating the quality of an election. Most election forensics tools involve applying ...
Ambassador Doraemon: Japan's Pop Culture Diplomacy in China and South Korea
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Despite a growing literature on Japanese soft power and public diplomacy, little research quantifies its effects or orients it in policy discussions. This paper investigates the relationship of consumption of Japanese ...
An Assessment of the Social and Economics Determinants of Provincial Voting Behavior in Turkey
(Georgetown University, 2012)
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF PROVINCIAL VOTING BEHAVIOR IN TURKEY
Do Political Contributions Influence Public Policy? The Case of Private Prisons
(Georgetown University, 2012)
A major public policy issue faced by all States recently has been the decision whether to privatize prisons. However, the dramatic increase in the number of private prisons in the United States since the early 2000s has ...
The Relationships between Permissive and Restrictive State Immigration Laws and Violent Crime Rates in Big Cities
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Traditionally a responsibility of the federal government, immigration policymaking has become more common in state legislatures. The majority of new state laws addressing immigration have been restrictive in the sense that ...
Raising Voices not Dollars? The Effects of Citizens United on Political Efficacy
(Georgetown University, 2013)
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 ...
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 ...
Are Large-scale Poverty Alleviation Programmes Implemented with Electoral Goals in Mind? A Study of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Impact evaluations of poverty alleviation programmes often do not take into account political placement and implementation effort while estimating effectiveness. This can give rise to biased estimates if politicians make ...
Does Openness Enhance Public Trust: A Cross-Country Assessment of the Relationship Between Openness of Budgeting Processes and Perceptions of Government Corruption
(Georgetown University, 2013)
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 ...
Exploring The Relationship Between Educational Inequality and Group-Level Armed Conflict Within a Country
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Several researchers have found a link between inequality across groups within a country and armed conflict. However, this research has focused almost exclusively on inequalities in income and political access, forsaking ...