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Browsing Theses - Political Science by Title
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Economic globalization and growing interdependence have greatly facilitated the flows of trade, investment, and ideas among formerly hostile countries. However, political antagonism driven by nationalistic sentiments ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This study is about Chinese economic statecraft: what it is, how it works and why it is more or less effective. The study builds a theory of economic statecraft that provides an explanation of how states use firms to pursue ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Ever since Latin American economies collapsed in the 1980s and early 1990s, traditional redistributive programs began to coexist with new anti-poverty programs that usually took the form of conditional cash transfers (CCT). ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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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, 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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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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