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As If: The Fiction of Executive Accountability and the Persistence of Corruption Networks in Weakly Institutionalized Presidential Systems. Argentina (1989-2007)
(Georgetown University, 2011)
This dissertation seeks to understand patterns of systemic corruption that undermine the quality of democracy It presents a theoretical framework to explain the limits of executive accountability in weakly institutionalized ...
The Relationship between Income and Education and Support for Democracy in Six Arab Countries
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Using public opinion survey data from Arab Barometer Project Wave I, this study investigates the relationship income and education and support for democracy in six Arab countries: Yemen, Morocco, Palestine, Algeria, Lebanon, ...
The Impact of Local Federalism with Chinese Characteristics on the Outcomes of Hu Jintao's Pro-Rural Policies
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Former Chinese President Hu Jintao launched campaigns to promote a more “scientific” development between 2002 and 2012 in order to build a “harmonious society”, indicating his determination to shift toward a more equitable, ...
PROTECTIVE PRONOUNCEMENTS: HOW SIGNING STATEMENTS HAVE UPHELD THE CONSTITUTION & WHY THE FRAMERS WOULD AGREE
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Although presidential signing statements have been used since the days of the Monroe Administration, they have received very little attention of the political science world. However, the last two presidential administrations ...
Business Influence in Public Policymaking: A Case Study of the Loan Guarantee Program Using an Assemblage-Theoretic Framework
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This thesis investigates the influence of business on the public policymaking process in the United States. A framework is proposed for categorizing policymaking contexts and mechanisms of influence, synthesized from ...
Digital Activism: Jesters in the Age of the Internet
(Georgetown University, 2018)
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 ...
A NEW WORLD ORDER: THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF AMERICAN PRIMACY
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Over the past twenty-five years, the United States has moved from optimism to considerable pessimism about its role to do well in the world. Indeed, President George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order” stands unquestionably in ...
Warfare’s wiring: Nervous system responses to combat service and the policy preferences of combat veterans
(Georgetown University, 2018)
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 ...
What's the Matter with "What's the Matter with Connecticut?"
(Georgetown University, 2018)
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 ...
Where's the Doctor? Targeting, Adoption, and Decentralized Governance of the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program and Health Policy in Brazil
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Championed by its supporters as a program for the underprivileged and criticized by its opponents as an electoral program, the Mais Médicos program aimed to provide primary care doctors to lacking regions of Brazil and is ...