The proper roles of the President and the Congress in matters of war of peace

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This study looks at political coverage and media framing in two countries: the US and the UK. We focus on the entertainment frame of politics, which we define as including personal stories, scandal, soft news, and ...

In the United States, civilian control of the military is a robust and healthy norm. But the absence of the "man on horseback" does not signify the absence of all civil-military conflict. Why do the four military services ...

This dissertation argues that in order to explain the political stability of Qatar amid the region-wide tumult of the Arab Spring, we must go beyond classic rentier state explanations of economic buyoff of the citizenry. ...

In 2009, Argentina's legislature passed a radical law that aims to democratize the country's media sector, enshrining a place for non-profit broadcasters and limiting the concentration of property. Until then, the close ...

What explains the emergence and endurance of what Alfred Stepan has termed the "twin tolerations" between religion and democracy? This question is of broad comparative importance, from religiously vibrant democracies in ...

Early voting has greatly expanded in the U.S. over the past two decades. Nearly two-thirds of states now allow any registered voter to cast a ballot in the days and weeks before Election Day. In 2008, nearly one-third of ...

Despite the urgency of rogue states for U.S. policy, scholars have not developed an understanding regarding their definition and emergence. My dissertation seeks to resuscitate rogue states as a subject of inquiry for ...

Immigration is an issue that is always on the political agenda. Today we see that the United States and European countries are reassessing immigration policies based on changed realities and needs of their countries. ...