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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, 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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Explaining ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus : Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)(cont.) the USSR and finds that a focus on opportunity provides the best explanation for the presence or absence of mass mobilization. Finally, the dissertation argues that conventional state security concerns best explain ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(2009-11-25)The February 2008 Survey of the Performance of American Elections studied experiences with election administration during the "Super Tuesday" presidential primary in 2008. The survey covered the 15 states that held primaries ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)In this dissertation, I ask four inter-related questions about state-sponsored terrorism. First, under what conditions do states choose to support foreign terrorist groups? Second, when do sponsor states stop supporting ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Ethnic civil wars are the most abundant form of large-scale, deadly conflict in the world today, yet the dedicated study of ethnic civil war is relatively new within political science. One empirical observation repeated ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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