We live in an age of rising political cynicism about essentially every major traditional political institution. Yet the advent of the internet has made it easier than ever to get involved in politics – how do these two ...

How effective is aid in reducing conflicts? Are there any differential effects of development aid and democracy aid? This study builds on the neo-liberal theory of inter-democratic peace and that economic development leads ...

Through a comparative historical analysis of Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan in the early decades of the twentieth century, this study seeks to help us understand how and why the introduction of European models of governance ...

U.S. foreign military aid amounts to billions of dollars per year spread across nearly every nation in a variety of programs. However, the actual impact of this aid on the civil-military relations of recipient nations ...

Why do many countries vacillate between periods of greater state ownership in the economy and periods of increased market laissez-faire, between policies of privatization and policies of nationalization? Why do these waves ...

My dissertation project “Three Essays on Investment Treaties and Investor-State Arbitration” advances our understanding of how multinational corporations (MNCs) interact with bilateral investment treaties (BITs) at all ...

En el presente trabajo se aborda la evaluación en tanto política pública de la reforma electoral que implementó las Primarias Abiertas, Simultáneas y Obligatorias (PASO) y la Boleta Única Electrónica (BUE) en la Ciudad de ...

This dissertation provides an explanation for the workings of clientelism and some preliminary insights on the conditions under which it can recede.

Americans prize military service, particularly combat service, in their political decision-makers. Indeed, combat service is supposed to create a colloquial 'band of brothers' among veterans—a homogeneous group expected ...

Gelman et al. (2007) argue that the marginal effect of income on voting Republican decreases in richer states -- that "income matters more in Red America than in Blue America''. I model individual-level and state-level ...