Chinese Americans, as a subgroup of Asian Americans, have lower levels of political participation, while having higher levels of educational attainment and a higher socioeconomic status. This inconsistency challenges the ...

My thesis looks at the factors which cause a social movement to achieve policy outcomes faster than others. My research shows how the internal dynamics of social movement coalitions influence the achievement of a movement’s ...

In the current war in Yemen, there has been much scholarship on the roles and motivations of the main parties to the war, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Yemeni government, the Houthi movement, ...

For its first seventeen years of existence, the involuntary celibate or “incel” online community was largely unknown. What began as an online forum for both men and women to commiserate about their dating woes has morphed ...

Economists get the opportunity and the responsibility of helping to design public policies. This implies that not only the big picture is necessary but also the details that will make those policies to actually work. This ...

The rise and fall of great powers produce a wave of regime changes. Why do some states take part in the wave but others do not? During the post-Cold War wave of democratization, for instance, why did some states become ...

In my dissertation, I examine (i) how U.S. voters comprehend the terms "Democrat" and "Republican" and (ii) how their understanding of party labels leads to affective polarization. Previous literature on mass partisanship ...

Why have European states adopted similar approaches to managing irregular migration? Existing explanations of migration policy development posit that the relative political power of interest groups that are favorably or ...

Las mujeres que acceden a las posiciones de liderazgo enfrentan problemáticas relacionadas a la tensión que se produce ante el desarrollo de múltiples roles – cuidadoras en la esfera familiar y líder empresarial en la ...

Research over the past decade has shown increasingly polarized views of higher education in the United States according to party affiliation. For example, as of 2019, a minority of Republicans and independents who lean ...