Browsing Political Science - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Sacred politics : religious leaders and conflict in Israel
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)My dissertation examines why religious leaders adopt nationalist positions and how these positions contribute to the duration of an ongoing conflict. I propose a general framework of sacred politics that incorporates the ... -
Scientists and the ABM.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971) -
Selective leviathans : explaining state strategies of counterinsurgency and consolidation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)States respond to rebellion differently, often shaping the intensity, duration, and outcome of the conflict as well as prospects for stability and state consolidation. Puzzling cross-national variation in counterinsurgen ... -
Sense and credibility : the role of science in environmental policymaking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999) -
Shooting up : the impact of illicit economics on military conflict
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The study explores the nexus between illicit economies and military conflicts. It investigates when and how access by belligerents to the production and trafficking of illicit substances affects the strength of belligerents ... -
The social contract for science : Congress, the National Institutes of Health, and the boundary between politics and science
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) -
Sooner is better : covert action to prevent realignment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Why do states intervene covertly in some places and not others? This is a pressing question for theorists and policymakers because covert action is widespread, costly, and consequential. I argue that states wield it-whether ... -
Sorry states : apologies in international politics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Are apologies and other acts of contrition necessary to reduce threat and build trust between former adversaries? This has become an accepted conventional wisdom, despite the fact that the effects of contrition have not ... -
The spread of violent civil conflict : rare state-driven, and preventable
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This dissertation advances and tests an explanation for the spread of violent civil conflict from one state to another. The fear of such "substate conflict contagion" is frequently invoked by American policymakers as a ... -
The stability of coerced economic reform : the case of IPR
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Theories in international relations posit, and empirical evidence has verified, that unwilling states can be compelled by another state or by an international institution to enact domestic policy reform. However, these ... -
State-building and the politics of food in Japan and China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981) -
States of the nations : nationalism, narratives and normative change in Postwar Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This dissertation evaluates claims that nationalism is rising in post-Cold War Japan by first noting the disconnect between existent social science conceptions of nationalism and those needed to examine how nationalism ... -
"Stop or i'll shoot, comply and I won't" : coercive assurance in international politics/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Why do some coercive threats succeed while others fail? Successful coercion requires not only that I credibly threaten you until you comply, but also that I credibly assure you that I will not punish you after you comply. ... -
Street level democracy : a theory of popular pragmatic deliberation and its practice in Chicago school reform and community policing, 1988-1997
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999) -
Student political activism in the Viet Nam conflict : a case study of the evolution of activist student politics in Viet Nam, from independence to the Paris Accords, l954-l973.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975) -
Sub-state nationalism and social solidarity : essays on Spain and the United Kingdom
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)This dissertation focuses on sub-state nationalism in Europe, concentrating on the critical cases of Spain and the United Kingdom, where recent independence referenda in Catalonia and Scotland illustrate that sub-state ... -
The subnational politics of structured adjustment in Argentina : the case of San Luis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The launching of liberal economic reforms in emerging democratic societies during the 1980s and 1990s arouse widespread scholarly interest. The Argentine policy shift to structural adjustment under President Carlos Menem ... -
The systemic and ideological sources of grand strategic doctrine : American foreign policy in the twentieth century
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)What explains the puzzling variation in America's foreign policy posture? This study proposes and tests a theory of American grand strategy that places an emphasis on two key variables: the ideological content of American ... -
Technological development, strategic behavior and government policy in information technology industries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989) -
Television and political party identification in the states : is there a relationship?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
