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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)How can states with weak and politicized bureaucracies enforce labor and environmental regulations? Through a study of subnational variation in Argentina, this dissertation develops a framework to explain why bureaucrats ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Despite the benefits of economic globalization, popular opposition to foreign investment continues to influence policy debates. What explains opposition to foreign investment? Standard political economy theories suggest ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This study explains the construction and maintenance of a one-party dominant democratic political system in South Africa between 1994 and 1999. Against conventional explanations that rely on historical conditions and voting ...
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(American Political Science Review, 2002-12)
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Essays in management of technology : collaborative strategies for the American technology industries (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The central goal of this dissertation is to contribute to our understanding of the link between political representation and policy outcomes. In particular, this collection of essays examines how the institutional arrangements ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This dissertation explores two main puzzles. First, why do some countries have more generous welfare policies than others? Second, why do some people support welfare policies more than others? This collection of essays ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Foreign bribery - the payment of bribes across borders - poses a classic collective action problem in theory. A firm may extract benefits through the payment of bribes to foreign public officials without its own country ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This study examines the statistical correlations between metrics of ethnic fractionalization and categories of violence in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1970 to 1995. By examining these correlations both prior to and after ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Group identifications - in particular, those based on ethnicity and class - are central to political mobilization during elections. This dissertation asks: when and why does the salience of ethnic and class categories vary ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)I evaluate the practical utility of psychological bias theory by examining two historical cases - the US decision to cross the 38th parallel in 1950 and the British policy of appeasement towards Germany in the 1930s - ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Although there have been several attempts to tabulate civilian casualties in the Iraq War, the effect of these casualties on the Iraqi population and insurgent organizations has not been thoroughly examined. From the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Under what circumstances can political entrepreneurs shape policy change? By relying upon the multiple streams framework, this research studies some of the factors that underpin decision-making in the public sector. Through ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This dissertation examines the adoption of new work organization practices in the small firm, manufacturing sector through an in-depth examination of the metalworking industry in western Massachusetts. An original survey ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Civil-military relations describe the interactions and balance of power between the civilians and the military in a nation state. Due to the organizational apparatus and capacity for forcible coercion that the military ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The internal unity and discipline of insurgent groups helps us understand the military effectiveness of armed groups, patterns of violence against civilians, and the ability of insurgent organizations to negotiate and ...
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