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Participation, Power and Preferences in International Development
(2015-09-28)
Participatory development is widely touted as the remedy for ineffective and disempowering top-down development models of the past. However, participation can take many different forms, so an important open question for ...
The Clash of Brothers: Wars to Avoid Diffusion in a Contagious World
(2015-05-18)
My dissertation explores macro-level questions in Political Economy. Using the toolbox of Economics, I find a new reason for international conflict: cultural similarity.
Two culturally similar nations may have very different ...
Essays on Political Economy
(2015-05-19)
This dissertation consists of three essays on political economy.
The first essay studies the effect of competition on media bias in the context of U.S. newspapers in the period 1870-1910. We measure bias as the intensity ...
Essays on Social Influence in Political Economy: How Expectations and Identity Affect Pro-Social Leading and Following
(2015-05-18)
By social influence I understand the change in an individual’s thoughts, feelings, attitudes or behaviors that results from interactions with another individual or group. Political, commercial and public health campaigns ...
The Effect of Network Structure on Political Conversations on Twitter
(2016-06-22)
Twitter has become an increasingly important tool for politicians to communicate with voters, and also a popular way for voters to discuss their views about politicians. In this paper, I examine the effect of ideological ...
Taxation, Corruption, and Engagement With the Formal State: Experimental Evidence From the D.R. Congo
(2018-05-13)
Few countries achieve peace and prosperity without a capable and accountable government. Political scientists and historians have documented the consolidation of modern nation states in Europe, and the emergence of accountable ...
Essays on Political Economy of Media and Trust
(2018-04-27)
The current essays generally concern the topic of inter-personal, inter-institutional, person-to-institution, and institution-to-person communications as well as their reliability as means of information transmission and ...
The Pursuit of Happiness: Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Evidence for the Causal Effect of Election Outcomes on Well-Being
(2017-10-13)
This study measures the causal effect of U.S. presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial election outcomes on self-reported happiness using both quasi-experimental and experimental research designs in four parts. In ...