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State (In)security: The Impact of Insurgencies on Economic Integration
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do we witness divergent levels of economic integration around the world? Predominant explanations focus on the dampening effect of inter-state conflict on integration. However, internal security considerations have ...
Governing the Militia: Insurgent Command and Control in the Levant
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do some insurgencies struggle to maintain a clear chain of command while other insurgencies do not? Although some conceptualize rebel groups as monolithic militant organizations, nearly all of these actors are formally ...
Characteristics and Trends of the Voter Registration and Turnout Rate of Asian Americans in U.S. Elections: A Demographic Study of Asian American Political Participation
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The political participation of Asian Americans has long been a topic discussed and even questioned by the media and the public. Asian Americans’ relatively low engagement in politics is largely reflected in their low ...
Disempowered: Electricity, Citizenship, and the Politics of Privatization in South Asia
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The ability to maintain political control over public goods is at the heart of the debate on distributive politics. Scholarship on patronage suggests that citizens’ dependence on political representatives for selective ...
In the Shadow of the Dutch: Anglophone Political Economy and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This dissertation offers a new interpretation of Adam Smith’s political thought by exploring his engagement with earlier Anglophone debates about the political and economic institutions of the seventeenth century Dutch ...
Liberalism Outsourced: Why Oligarchs and Autocrats Fight in Foreign Courts
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Globalization allows business to arbitrage liberal institutions. Actors from the same emerging market can now adjudicate their domestic disputes abroad: Kazakh banks sue Kazakh billionaires, and Nigerian royals sue Nigerian ...
Voting the Straight Ticket: Media Discourse as a Tool for Transforming Ideologies about LGBTQ People into Law
(Georgetown University, 2019)
On May 8, 2012, the citizens of North Carolina voted to amend their state constitution to establish marriage between a man and a woman as the only domestic legal union that would be valid or recognized by the state. Although ...
How Ceasefires Contribute to the Proliferation of Armed Groups
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has lasted over 25 years and saw 140 armed groups at its height. Conversely, other conflicts, such as the one in Nigeria, have never seen high levels of proliferation ...
The Digital Divide and E-Government: How Internet Access and Online Applications Impact Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The past two decades have seen an explosive rise in access to high-speed internet. At the same time, local, state, and national governments have greatly expanded the range of services available through the internet, including ...
White Voters are Different: How the Racialization of Poverty Contributes to Republican Party Support Among Low-to-Working-Class White Voters
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In the past 60 years, the number of low-to-working class White voters who have deserted the Democratic Party and instead support Republican candidates has steadily increased. Low-to-working-class Americans of other races ...