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Citizens of the Market: New Forms of International Migration and their Consequences for People, Parties and Political Systems
(2014-02-25)
How does high-mobility migration affect politics in the migrants' countries of origin? This dissertation examines the socio-political effects of intra-EU migrations using quantitative and qualitative data from Romania and ...
A Choice, Not an Echo: Polarization and the Transformation of the American Party System
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation offers an intellectual and institutional history of party polarization and ideological realignment in the postwar United States. It treats the construction of an ideologically sorted party system as a ...
Fear, Hope, and War: Peacemaking Improves Outcomes
(2014-06-06)
How do states win wars against other states? We have three explanations. By selection, states enter more winnable wars. By warfighting, states use negative inducements so enemies fear fighting. By peacemaking, states ...
Hunting for Happiness: Aristotle and the Good of Action
(2014-02-25)
The starting point of the dissertation is a special kind of intentional action -- Aristotelian praxis, or, in a more metaphysical register, energeia -- a kind whose agent's intention in acting must be expressible as the ...
Combative Pasts: Politics and Remembering in the Post-Communist Space
(2014-02-25)
More than two decades after the Polish Roundtable Agreement inaugurated the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, political conversations in the post-communist space remain remarkably attuned to symbolic and ethical questions. ...
Popular Opinion and Public Reasoning: Intellectual Changes and Institutional Innovations in Late Ming China (1580s-1640s)
(2014-06-06)
This study examines the rise of popularist discourse in the realms of intellectual transformation, political reforms, institutional innovations, social activism, and cultural construction from the 1580s to the 1680s. ...
Private Virtues, Public Vices: Governing Philanthropy
(2014-06-06)
Philanthropy is often considered an unproblematic way for individuals (and especially the rich) to benefit recipients and society by "giving their money away." But philanthropy also gives donors influence and authority, ...
A Theory of Indiscriminate Violence
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation addresses a simple puzzle: why do governments use indiscriminate violence against civilians? To deter a population from rebelling, a government should make rebellion costlier than the alternatives. Yet ...
Essays on Interservice Rivalry and American Civil-Military Relations
(2014-06-06)
How does interservice rivalry affect American civil-military relations? In three essays, I develop theoretical propositions about the relationship between interservice rivalry and civil-military outcomes; propose a two-stage ...
Time and Political Power
(2014-06-06)
Limited time is an important constraint and resource that is fundamental to governing. This dissertation studies the connection between limited time and political power in three different contexts.