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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)We implement techniques of graph theory to international trade in order to empirically inspect the international system of trade. Examining macro and submacro levels of the international system of trade from 1962-2003, we ...
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(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2009-06-23)Between December 2007 and February 2009, Venezuelans participated twice in constitutional referenda where the elimination of presidential term limits was one of the most salient proposals. Assuming voter preferences did ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Nuclear Proliferation is a complex problem that has plagued national security strategists since the advent of the first nuclear weapons. As the cost to produce nuclear weapons has continued to decline and the availability ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This study is an analysis of the forces that shaped the overall character of a new US television system, high definition or HDTV, between the early 1980s and 2010, with a primary focus on the period leading up the Federal ...
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(2005-06-19)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)What explains variation in relatively rising state strategy towards declining great powers? This project develops and tests a theory of state strategy vis-a-vis declining great powers, termed Realist Decline Theory. Realist ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Advocates of diplomatic engagement with states of concern argue that talking to both allies and adversaries is essential for advancing U.S. foreign policy interests. Critics of this approach argue that engagement with these ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Disciples of the State seeks to explain why some former Ottoman states succeeded in effectively secularizing schooling and law and regulating religion upon independence - thereby consolidating state power- whereas others ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This dissertation assesses U.S. presidents' incentives for diversionary war. The political benefits of the use of force were measured and compared to the benefits of other dramatic foreign policy activities. Gains from ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Breaking with a long-held political stance that Germany is, despite a sizeable share of permanent immigrant residents, not a country of immigration, the German legislature has drawn up a new immigration law, which entered ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Donors versus Dictators examines the "exporting democracy debate" and the related issue of "nation-building" as manifested in the foreign aid relationship in the post-Cold War era. This dissertation centers on two in-depth ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Who controls the nomination in gubernatorial elections? This dissertation seeks to answer this simple question. Parties have classically been the organizations held responsible for throwing their collective effort behind ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis examines the relationship between public opinion and the way senators vote on specific issues, and how this "responsiveness" might vary across income groups. The independent variable of interest, state-level ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Economic globalization and growing interdependence have greatly facilitated the flows of trade, investment, and ideas among formerly hostile countries. However, political antagonism driven by nationalistic sentiments ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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