Browsing Political Science - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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National approaches to consumer protection in France and Germany, 1970-1990
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)This research investigates the growth of product market regulation in France and Germany from 1970 to 1990. It finds that these countries have pursued divergent strategies for regulating their domestic product markets. ... -
National security panics : overestimating threats to national security
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Three times in this century the US public has panicked with fear because of exaggerations of external threats to the nation. These panics peaked in 1950,1960, and 1980. Why did the U.S. markedly exaggerate the Soviet threat ... -
New forces yet undetermined : the challenge of biodefense
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This dissertation finds that the full implementation of the traditional security approaches of prevention, deterrence and defense would not be effective at protecting the United States from a catastrophic biological attack. ... -
The new politics of welfare in post-socialist Central Eastern Europe
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This dissertation explores the evolution of welfare systems in post-socialist countries. Utilizing a range of data on social policy legislation and outcomes across countries, the author shows the extent to which post-socialist ... -
Nodes without roads : pockets of success, networks of failure in Chinese industrial technology development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis examines technological innovation capabilities in the Chinese machine tool, automobile, telecommunications equipment, and information technology sectors in the era of reform ( 1979-2002). Contrary to other ... -
Not in your backyard : transitive compellence, base states, and violent non-state groups
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Violent non-state actors have consistently served as a destabilizing force within the international system. These groups create a base within a state's sovereign territory, the "base state," and utilize this platform to ... -
Nuclear bargaining : using carrots and sticks in nuclear counter-proliferation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation explores how states can use positive inducements and negative sanctions to successfully bargain with nuclear proliferators and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. It seeks to answer the following ... -
Nuclear weapons and foreign policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)How do states change their foreign policies when they acquire nuclear weapons? This question is central to both academic and policy debates about the consequences of nuclear proliferation, and the lengths that the United ... -
Obligations abroad : towards a just foreign policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation considers three implications of collective self-government for just foreign policies in an imperfect world. Individuals are the appropriate moral unit of analysis, constrained to govern themselves justly, ... -
On death ground : why weak states resist great powers explaining coercion failure in asymmetric interstate conflict
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Great Powers often adopt coercive strategies, threatening or using limited force to convince weak states to comply with their demands. While coercive strategies have succeeded in just over half of asymmetric crises since ... -
On the fringes of formality : organizational capability in street-level bureaucracies in Brazil
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Middle capability countries have over the last few decades implemented a range of reforms to improve their service delivery systems - and yet have made only marginal progress. Despite better macroeconomic conditions, service ... -
One fighting machine : joint learning and tactical airpower operations in World War II
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)militaries learn in war by developing and testing a theory of wartime military learning in the joint operational context. In doing so, the dissertation makes three related arguments. First, it examines not just whether ... -
Open economies and regulations : convergence and competition among jurisdictions
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Organization and community : the determinants of insurgent military effectiveness
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)The United States and other members of the international community have expended billions of dollars and thousands of lives confronting insurgent organizations across the globe. Strikingly, however, there has been little ... -
Organizational behavior, social scientists, and Soviet foreign policymaking
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Organizing coercion in authoritarian Chile
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Coercion is at the center of politics, yet how it is organized has remained poorly understood. This dissertation analyzes how the Chilean military regime (1973-90) organized coercion, focusing especially on two major shifts ... -
Overcoming shadows of the past : post-conflict interstate reconciliation in East Asia and Europe
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation explores the origins of interstate reconciliation after traumatic conflicts, mainly through the comparative study of postwar Sino-Japanese and (West) German-Polish relations. While Germany and Poland have ... -
Participation is not enough : associations and local government in the social fund of Nicaragua
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Community participation in development projects, in which billions of dollars are invested every year, has become quite controversial. While these initiatives can be beneficial, many participatory projects fall short of ... -
Participatory autocracy : private entrepreneurs, legislatures, and property protection in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This dissertation addresses the puzzle of why individuals in authoritarian systems seek office in formal institutions, which are often dismissed as weak and ineffective. I argue that individuals seek office mainly to protect ... -
Party positions and the seats/votes relationship with ideological voters
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Chapter 2 is based on two axioms: party members must run under common platforms, but are made up of incumbents who seek their own individual re-election. Politicians seek to win their own seats in the legislature, but they ...
