Economists get the opportunity and the responsibility of helping to design public policies. This implies that not only the big picture is necessary but also the details that will make those policies to actually work. This ...

The rise and fall of great powers produce a wave of regime changes. Why do some states take part in the wave but others do not? During the post-Cold War wave of democratization, for instance, why did some states become ...

In my dissertation, I examine (i) how U.S. voters comprehend the terms "Democrat" and "Republican" and (ii) how their understanding of party labels leads to affective polarization. Previous literature on mass partisanship ...

Why have European states adopted similar approaches to managing irregular migration? Existing explanations of migration policy development posit that the relative political power of interest groups that are favorably or ...

This thesis investigates to what extent political discourse in America’s Founding Era, from the enactment of the Stamp Act in 1765 to the ratification of the Constitution in 1788, was influenced by classical authors and ...

Las mujeres que acceden a las posiciones de liderazgo enfrentan problemáticas relacionadas a la tensión que se produce ante el desarrollo de múltiples roles – cuidadoras en la esfera familiar y líder empresarial en la ...

Research over the past decade has shown increasingly polarized views of higher education in the United States according to party affiliation. For example, as of 2019, a minority of Republicans and independents who lean ...

Early voting is an increasingly common method of voting in U.S. federalelections. But the empirical record on its actual impact on turnout is mixed, with national surveys often finding negligible improvements to voter ...

In response to the massive human and economic losses across the country due to COVID-19, US federal policymakers provided unprecedented levels of funding to state and local governments, designed to support communities and ...

Recent years have seen increased calls for justice and equality across different ethnic groups in the United States. The present research focuses on income inequality and its effects on generalized trust. The question I ...