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The Good, the Bad and the Cunning: How Networks Make or Break Cooperation
(2012-07-19)
Groups often find themselves in a position to self-govern: sometimes a formal governing apparatus is weak or nonexistent; sometimes the legal system is underdeveloped, heavily back-logged or inapplicable; and sometimes ...
Essays in Political Methodology
(2012-07-24)
This dissertation provides three novel methodologies to the field of political science. In the first chapter, I describe how to make causal inferences in the face of dynamic strategies. Traditional causal inference methods ...
The Rural Developmental State: Modernization Campaigns and Peasant Politics in China, Taiwan and South Korea
(2012-10-25)
This dissertation analyzes the causes of rural development in East Asia, as well as the relative success or failure of rural development policies among East Asian countries, providing detailed case studies of China, Taiwan, ...
Essays on Causality, Race, and the Law
(2012-07-26)
Making causal inferences about race is difficult because no means exist to manipulate units into treatment and control groups. Chapter 1 addresses this predicament. First, I argue that race should be defined as a composite ...
Economic Origins of War and Peace
(2012-10-31)
Why do wars happen, and what do societies fight over? Why are international relations sometimes fearful and aggressive and other times harmonious? I show that these questions can be fruitfully explored by importing some ...