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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 ...
CORRUPTION AND FDI: A REGIONAL STUDY OF DEVELOPING SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper examines the empirical relationship between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries of Southeast Asia. Difference General Method of Moments (GMM) is utilized to take advantage of ...
THE IMPACT OF FEMALE CANDIDATES ON VOTER TURNOUT IN STATEWIDE ELECTIONS
(Georgetown University, 2013)
THE IMPACT OF FEMALE CANDIDATES ON VOTER TURNOUT IN STATEWIDE ELECTIONS
Rocking the Vote? A Statistical Analysis of the Potential Effect of Online Voter Registration on Registration Rates
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This study explores the potential effect of online voter registration (OLVR) on registration rates by employing ordinary least squares, difference-in-difference, and fixed effects models for county-year data from 2008, ...
American Foreign Policy Opinion and the Generation Gap: A Media Perspective
(Georgetown University, 2014)
A significant amount of research in the public opinion field has explored the American people's attitudes on American foreign policy and found the course of events, elite discourse, and news media are important predictors ...
The Influence of Trade Agreements on Foreign Policy
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Since the failure of the Doha round of negotiations, the number of trade agreements between countries has increased exponentially worldwide. The premise being that trade agreements tie nations closer together lessening the ...
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 ...