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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This project sets out two broad aims. First, I seek to explain the persistence of racial inequality in an era of formal racial inequality. I offer a theory of power, historically evolved socially embedded power. The theory ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This study examines the consequences of the Gramm-Rudman super-majority budget rules on fiscal decision making in the Senate. It attempts to determine the efficacy of these rules as defined by those who advocate them, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Prestige is a term that appears in a wide range of international relations literature, but it is rarely ever defined. There is a vague consensus that prestige involves measures of status and respect, but its exact usage ...
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Reconstructing rockets--the politics of developing military technology in Brazil, India, and Israel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation analyzes the effects of Congressional redistricting in the United States using the Brookes Method, developed by R.H. Brookes, a New Zealand political scientist. The Brookes Method disaggregates electoral ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis argues that regime legitimacy creates military resilience. A regime is legitimate when its constituents believe-whether because of ideological solidarity, patriotism, nationalism, or good governance-that a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The region has emerged in the last two decades as a new field of trade-union activity. There is increasing interaction across Europe between unions, employer associations, and state actors at the subnational territorial ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Does interstate economic competition result in states weakening their environmental regulation? Scholars have long been interested in this question. Of particular concern, is whether this type of behavior leads to a "race ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The study seeks to explain the rise of "China threat" arguments in the United States and Japan in the 1990s by using three theories of states behavior- realism, organization theory, and democratic peace theory. The rise ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Where do party systems come from? The first part of this dissertation argues that party system formation depends on the rule of law, which is defined as the extent to which the state uniformly implements and enforces its ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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