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Rethinking Athenian Democracy
(2013-03-18)
Conventional accounts of classical Athenian democracy represent the assembly as the primary democratic institution in the Athenian political system. This looks reasonable in the light of modern democracy, which has typically ...
Blood and Treasure: Money and Military Force in Irregular Warfare
(2013-03-15)
Among the most important choices made by groups fighting a civil war -- governments and rebels alike -- is how to allocate available military and pecuniary resources across the contested areas of a conflict-ridden territory. ...
Three Essays on Politics in Kenya
(2013-03-08)
This dissertation examines ethnic patronage, local conflict, and election fraud in Kenya in three separate essays. Fraud, violence, and ethnicity are difficult to measure, and they often play a central role in narratives ...
Preservation, Conversion, and Innovation: The Evaluation of Political Novelty from Plato to Machiavelli
(2013-04-15)
A premier distinction of liberal democracy is its praise of novelty and change, in the form of technological innovations and new expressions of personal liberty. To understand and critique our dedication to innovation, I ...
How Rebellion Begins: Insurgent Group Formation and Viability in Uganda
(2013-03-19)
How do armed rebellions begin? Scholars often probe the “origins” and “onset” of internal conflict, but rarely scrutinize how violence initially emerges. This study does so by examining the inception of all rebel groups ...
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 ...
Democratic Theory and the Question of Character
(2013-02-12)
This dissertation uses the history of political thought to shed light on the disconnect between the prominent place of judgments about the character in American democratic life, and the marginalized place of those judgments ...
Business Orders under Disordered Bureaucracies: Firms, Associations and the Post-Communist State
(2013-02-06)
The dissertation analyzes the behavior of post-communist firms and business associations, and explores how business interests and organization are affected by the types of states that firms confront. Focusing on the ...
Identity and Security: Identity Distance Theory and Regional Affairs in Northeast and Southeast Asia
(2013-01-02)
The dissertation explores the relationship between identity and international security, and tests the effect of the former on the latter by analyzing a set of puzzling phenomena in East Asia—the emergence of mutual threat ...
Fighting for Status
(2013-02-11)
Fighting for Status investigates how status concerns affect states’ decisions in the domain of international security. Ironically, while there is widespread agreement within the political science discipline and the foreign ...