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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation assesses the international security implications of biological weapons and the strategic consequences of their proliferation. It examines the impact of biological weapons on four key areas of concern for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Practitioners, journalists, and historians believe that leaders play a crucial role in determining events. Social science theories, however, generally argue that leaders are unimportant. This dissertation proposes a two-stage ...
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Paths toward the modern fiscal state : England (1642-1752), Japan (1868-1895), and China (1850-1911) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation examines the rise of the modem fiscal state, which enabled the state to use centrally collected revenues from indirect taxes to mobilize financial resources either through long-term borrowing or issuing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Using a combination of historical case studies and insights from formal modeling, this study proposes and tests a new theory to explain one piece of a poorly understood phenomenon, namely the strategic use of population ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Governments often try to use their foreign policies to influence the choice of who will rule in other countries. However, scholars know strikingly little about this commonplace and consequential phenomenon, especially when ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)(cont.) models of local governance, questioning blanket statements about the virtues of political decentralization. The managerial elitist" model favors individual participation and technical/centralized decision-making ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis is about political change and the possibilities for politically creative individuals to achieve desired change. To identify such possibilities, I argue that we should employ a catalog of analytical tools from ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Why are some countries more technologically innovative than others? The dominant explanation amongst political-economists is that domestic institutions determine national innovation rates. However, after decades of research, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)When is non-state violence politically effective? Existing scholarship suggests that insurgency and terrorism are generally effective or ineffective based on the analysis of unitary non-state coercers operating solely at ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This dissertation develops a political liberal approach to multiculturalism as an alternative to its dismissal by some egalitarian liberals and its celebration by some multicultural liberals. Some egalitarian liberals ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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