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Seeing and Being Seen: Toward a Liberal Democratic Theory of Spectatorship
(Georgetown University, 2019)
Digital media provides us with many ways of satisfying our desires to see and be seen. Democratic theorists have introduced concepts such as “audience democracy,” “ocular power,” and “spectatorship” to emphasize the ...
Primary Elections and Political Polarization: Exploring Ideological Heterogeneity in Primary Electorates
(Georgetown University, 2019)
Are congressional primary electorates ideologically representative of nonvoters? Previous literature exploring the policy preferences held by primary voters neglects both cross-cycle changing electoral conditions and ...
Non-Nuclear Threats to Nuclear Deterrence and Stability: The Case of South Korea
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The United States’ most vulnerable allies in East Asia are beginning to rethink their security strategies. Historically, “nuclear umbrella” states in East Asia, or major non-nuclear U.S. allies who are threatened by the ...
Explaining Cambodia’s Foreign Policy: The Importance of Domestic Factors and Sino-Cambodia Relations on ASEAN
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This paper studies the Cambodia decision to block the ASEAN Foreign Minister Statement from supporting the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s reward to the Philippines in the Philippines v China 2016 case on their disputed ...
Three Essays on Civil Associations in America
(Georgetown University, 2020)
My dissertation includes three articles united by a focus on the normative value of civil associations. In the first article, I offer a novel interpretation of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s political theory. Emerson sometimes ...
The Impact of Congressional Representation on Defense Dollar Apportionment Among the States
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Throughout the history of representative government, elected representatives have faced pressure to direct pooled resources towards the community that empowered them. While the corruption and pork barrel politics of the ...
La paridad Política en la provincia de Buenos Aires durante la elección legislativa 2017
(Georgetown University, 2019)
Las políticas de género se han convertido en un mecanismo fundamental para la equidad social. En este campo de la política pública, Argentina es, de hecho, uno de los países que realizaron un fast track en términos de ...
The Impact of Health on Political Attitudes: Does Suffering from a Hampering Health Condition Make Individuals More Egalitarian?
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The study of the impact of hampering health conditions on political behavior is particularly relevant in light of current debates about the government’s role in ensuring access to healthcare, and the extent to which it ...
Women's Worth: Evaluating the Effects of the Gender Wage Gap on the Success of Female Candidates for the US House of Representatives
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Gender-based economic inequality in the United States is insidious; its far-reaching implications impact community structure, family stability, and the nation’s economic future. While some effects are widely known, there ...