Browsing Political Science - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Bombs unbuilt : power, ideas and institutions in international politics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Nuclear weapons are the most powerful weapons in human history, but contrary to virtually every prediction by scholars, relatively few states have acquired them. Why are there so few nuclear weapons states? What factors ... -
Border fixity : when good fences make bad neighbors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Since the end of the Second World War, a norm of "border fixity" - a proscription of foreign conquest and annexation of homeland territory - has become prevalent in world politics. Such practices are no longer acceptable ... -
Brass cities : Innovation policy and local economic transformation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)How have some former industrial cities become hubs for high-wage jobs while others continue to grapple with economic stagnation? This dissertation aims to show how government interventions have shaped U.S. cities' paths ... -
Building markets : the liberalization of the European telecommunications industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This dissertation examines the process through which distinct national market structures and competitive dynamics could endure in the telecom industry, even as telecom markets were liberalized throughout the Europe Union. ... -
Bullets or ballots? : transnational alliance and regime transition in the Philippines, 1898-1986
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Calculating bully : explaining Chinese coercion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Since 1990, China has used coercion for territorial disputes, foreign arms sales to Taiwan, and foreign leaders' meetings with the Dalai Lama, despite adverse implications for its international image. China is also curiously ... -
Catalysts of conflict : how refugee crises lead to the spread of civil war
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)The spread of civil war due to refugee crises has occurred repeatedly throughout history. In some refugee crises, the sending state pursues the refugees, subjecting them to military attack. In other cases, militant exiles ... -
Causal inference with time-series cross-sectional data : with applications to positive political economy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) data are widely used in today's social sciences. Researchers often rely on two-way fixed effect models to estimate causal quantities of interest with TSCS data. However, they face the ... -
The causes of religious wars : holy nations, sacred spaces, and religious revolutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)In the wake of September 11th, policy analysts, journalists, and academics have tried to make sense of the rise of militant Islam, particularly its role as a motivating and legitimating force for violence against the US. ... -
Change agents : who leads and why in the execution of US national security policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation examines the factors affecting national security mission assignment decisions. It focuses on cases in which military or civilian agents are selected in lieu of the other. Six factors are identified for ... -
Chinese international conflict behavior, 1949-1978
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981) -
Citizenship, exclusion, and political organizations : political response to immigrant policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)The dissertation examines whether policy can foster the political incorporation and democratic participation of immigrants. The study compares immigrants' political responses to immigrant policy in Sweden and Germany. ... -
Claiming the state : citizen-state relations and service delivery in rural India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Who makes claims on the state and how? This dissertation examines the processes through which citizens seek to secure public resources from the state and, by extension, the patterns of participation and citizen-state ... -
Communities rule : intra-service politics in the United States Army
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Intra-service politics can help explain many behaviors and outcomes across a variety of military services and countries. The thesis begins by developing a framework for understanding intra-service politics based on a review ... -
Community carrots and social sticks : why the poor vote in a dominant-party system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)In dominant-party states, why do individuals vote in elections with foregone conclusions when they are neither bought nor coerced? It is especially curious in these cases why the rural poor decide to cast their ballots. I ... -
Community unions in Baltimore and Long Island : beyond the politics of particularism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This dissertation explores newly emergent community-based organizations that are tackling work and wage issues at the local level and includes two lengthy case studies of the Workplace Project in Long Island and Solidarity ... -
The comparative political economy of working time
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)The social organization of working time profoundly shapes the lives of workers, families and societies, and has historically been the subject of intense social and political contestation. Yet work time has been relatively ... -
Compensated liberalization : using side payments to humanize and facilitate freer trade in the United States and the European Community
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) -
Competing conceptions of the liberal state and the governance of technological innovation in the U.S., 1933-1953
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Competitive intervention and its consequences for civil wars
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)This dissertation explores two interrelated puzzles about external intervention and internal war. The first asks why rebels, governments, and third party interveners often continue to invest in costly and protracted conflicts ...
