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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 ...
Three Essays on Lobbying
(2014-06-06)
My dissertation consists of three essays on lobbying activities by special interest groups. The first paper, "Ex Post Lobbying," systematically documents ex post lobbying, the process by which firms allocate resources ...
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 ...
The Private State: A New Perspective on the European Partition of Africa
(2014-06-06)
In the 1880s there was a race on among Europeans in Africa, spanning virtually the entire continent from Tunisia in the North to the Orange River in the South. Some European nicknames for this race are familiar: the Course ...
Religion, Parties, and Policymaking: Health Policy Debates in the United States and Brazil
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation examines the role of religion, political parties, and strategic alliances in three contemporary health policy debates in the United States and Brazil.
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 ...