Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Government"
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A Theory of Protest Escalation
(2017-09-13)Based on 18 months of extensive field-work, I engage in an in-depth comparison of two major episodes of contentious action - the Brazilian and Turkish street protests that took place in 2013, the largest ever recorded in ... -
Accountability and Advice in Greek Political Thought
(2013-02-15)This dissertation offers a new reading of Athenian democracy, focusing on the connection between the politics of accountability and the dynamics of political advice. I analyze Athenian institutions, norms, and practices ... -
Adverse selection and growth under IMF programs
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2013)The dominant approach to studying the effects of IMF programs has emphasized moral hazard, but we find that adverse selection has more impressive effects. We propose a novel strategic selection model to study the growth ... -
After the Crisis: Domestic Politics and the Challenge of Rebalancing
(Center for Economic Policy Research, 2009) -
After the Fall: The Future of Global Cooperation
(Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2012) -
The Agrarian Origins of Mau Mau: A Structural Account
(Published for the Agricultural History Society by the University of California Press, 1987) -
Aid, Agency, and the Malleability of International Law: The Post-2003 Iraqi Refugee Crisis
(2013-03-06)Why do states tolerate large numbers of refugees? This dissertation offers an answer to this puzzle by examining changes in policy responses by the international community toward Iraqis displaced after the U.S. invasion ... -
Aid, Violence, and Intervention: Three Essays on the Transnational Implications of Refugee Polic
(2017-05-10)This collection of papers develops theory and empirical evidence to respond to three pressing questions on the implications of refugee policy. The first paper explains how large population flows can cause violence in their ... -
Ambivalence About Equality in the United States or, Did Tocqueville Get it Wrong and Why Does that Matter?
(Springer Verlag, 2006)Alexis de Tocqueville believed that “democratic peoples’... passion for equality is ardent, insatiable, eternal, and invincible.” This article examines whether and under what conditions residents of the United States ... -
America in the World Economy: From the American Century to Globalization
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The American Public's Energy Choice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2012)Public opinion about energy can be understood in a uni½ed framework. First, people evaluate key attributes of energy sources, particularly a fuel’s cost and environmental harms. Americans, for example, view coal as relatively ... -
Americans' Belief in Linked Fate: Does the Measure Capture the Concept?
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016)For decades, scholars have attributed Black Americans' unified political and policy views, despite growing internal class and status differences, to a strong perception of linked fate. In recent years, the concept has been ... -
Analytic Narratives Revisited
(Duke University Press, 2000) -
The Analytical Narrative Project
(Cambridge University Press, 2000) -
Ancient Polities, Modern States
(2016-02-23)Political science is concerned with the study of polities. However, remarkably few scholars are familiar with the polities of the premodern era, such as Vijayanagara, Siam, Abyssinia, the Kingdoms of Kongo or Mutapa, or ... -
Anti-Americanism and Anti-Interventionism in Arabic Twitter Discourses
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015-03)Systematic investigation of attitudes expressed in Arabic on Twitter towards the United States and Iran during 2012-13 shows how the analysis of social media can illuminate the politics of contemporary political discourses ... -
'Anti-Benthamism': Utilitarianism and the French Liberal Tradition
(Cambridge University Press, 2012) -
Appreciating Housing: The Role of Housing in Politics
(2016-05-03)While the economic implications of housing have been examined extensively, surprisingly limited attention has been devoted to how the housing market impacts politics. My dissertation is a three paper compilation that ... -
Are American Elections Sufficiently Democratic?
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013-12-31) -
Area Studies and the Discipline: A Useful Controversy?
(Cambridge University Press, 1997)