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The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Survival and Collapse in Latin America
(2014-02-25)
Political parties are the basic building blocks of representative democracy. They reduce information costs for voters, enhance executive accountability, and contribute to democratic governability by facilitating legislative ...
The Rational Non-Candidate: A Theory of Candidate Deterrence
(2014-06-06)
This research presents results of a multi-year, multi-site investigation into the political ambition of young eligible candidates, with a focus on ambition gaps in gender and race. Using an original survey and interviews ...
Fear, Friction, and Flooding: Methods of Online Information Control
(2014-06-06)
Many scholars have speculated that censorship efforts will be ineffective in the information age, where the possibility of accessing incriminating information about almost any political entity will benefit the masses at ...
Electoral Institutions, Party Strategies, Candidate Attributes, and the Incumbency Advantage
(2014-06-06)
In developed democracies, incumbents are consistently found to have an electoral advantage over their challengers. The normative implications of this phenomenon depend on its sources. Despite a large existing literature, ...
Forbearance as Redistribution: Enforcement Politics in Urban Latin America
(2014-06-06)
Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations, and when do they enforce them? Conventional wisdom is that state weakness erodes enforcement, particularly in the developing world. In contrast, ...
Overcoming Political Disenchantment: A New Appreciation of Campaign Finance and Political Parties
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation offers a novel argument for the democratic importance of political parties and campaign finance. Taking issue with the United States Supreme Court's campaign finance and political party jurisprudence, ...
Prejudice and Protectionism: Essays at the Intersection of International Political Economy and Psychology
(2014-06-06)
What explains public opinion toward economic globalization, and specifically, toward international trade? A wave of recent scholarship has shown that symbolic and identity-based factors--individual predispositions such as ...
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 ...
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 ...