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All the Ships that Never Sailed: A General Model of Transnational Illicit Market Suppression
(Georgetown University, 2014)This model predicts progress in transnational illicit market suppression campaigns by comparing the relative efficiency and support of the suppression regime vis-à-vis the targeted illicit market. Focusing on competitive ... -
American exceptionalism : from exemplar to empire
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AMERICAN HEGEMONY AND THE POLITICS OF THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION REGIME
(Georgetown University, 2016)Though nearly all states in the international system are signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the same cannot be said of the more recent nonproliferation agreements designed to advance the goals of ... -
Analisis de la Descentralizacion fiscal en Bolivia
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And Then There Were Nones: An Examination of The Rising Rate of Religious Non-Affiliation Among Millennials
(Georgetown University, 2015)AND THEN THERE WERE NONES: AN EXAMINATION OF THE RISING RATE OF RELIGIOUS NON-AFFILIATION AMONG MILLENNIALS -
ANTI-CHINA RHETORIC, PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS CHINA
(Georgetown University, 2016)Is anti-China rhetoric an effective strategy in U.S. presidential campaigns? If the answer is Yes, then to what extent does anti-China rhetoric affect them? If the answer is No, then why have so many presidential candidates ... -
Apres moi le deluge : individuals, incentives, and conflict termination
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Argentina's Informal Economy: A Case Study of Patria Grande upon the Informal Textile Industry
(Georgetown University, 2013)In order to strengthen their economic positions, developing nations like Argentina have produced laws aimed at salient informal manifestations. Argentina's 2005 law "Patria Grande" sought to answer public outcry after a ... -
Armed actors in civil resistance campaigns
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Arresting Decline: Great Powers and Strategies of System Management
(Georgetown University, 2014)How do great powers cope with relative decline? What strategies do they employ to counter or mitigate adverse shifts in the balance of power, and under what conditions will they favor one strategy over another? While ... -
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 ... -
Asociacion, solidaridad y reconstruccion de identidad en las organizaciones de inmigrantes Peruanos en Buenos Aires
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At Your Convenience: New Perspectives on Early Voting in the United States
(Georgetown University, 2013)Early voting has greatly expanded in the U.S. over the past two decades. Nearly two-thirds of states now allow any registered voter to cast a ballot in the days and weeks before Election Day. In 2008, nearly one-third of ... -
Authoritarian Counterstrategy to Cope with Western Democracy Promotion: The China Model
(Georgetown University, 2018)China is distinct for its openness to the programs of Western democracy promotion. The Chinese government has cooperated with a number of Western NGOs for the last thirty years to improve rule of law, village election, ... -
Authoritarian Management of (Cyber-) Society: Internet Regulation and the New Political Protest Movements
(Georgetown University, 2016)Over the last two decades, states around the world have struggled with the challenge of understanding the impact of the Internet and networked information and communication technologies (ICTs) within their societies and ... -
Bad Cop, Bad Cop: Corruption in the Buenos Aires Provincial Police. Contemporary Discourse and Suggestions for Future Research.
(Georgetown University, 2016)This thesis comprehensively reviews literature pertaining to police corruption in the Buenos Aires Provincial Police. In doing so, it organizes and synthesizes contemporary discourse on this topic and suggests areas for ... -
Balancing power through the market : government intervention in cross-border mergers & acquisitions
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Beating them at their own game : cooperating to compete in a realist world
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Being dear to God : due measure and moderation in late Plato
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Benevolent Secularism: The Emergence and Evolution of the Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines
(Georgetown University, 2013)What explains the emergence and endurance of what Alfred Stepan has termed the "twin tolerations" between religion and democracy? This question is of broad comparative importance, from religiously vibrant democracies in ...
