Browsing Department of Political Science by Title
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Japan's delayed antinuclear power mobilization after 3.11
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The meltdown of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear plant was one of three disasters that rocked Japan on 11 March 2011, a day often referred to as "3.11." This nuclear accident led to increased attention to and disapproval of ... -
Japanese space policy in the changing world
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
Justice and the demands of realism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The dissertation examines how concerns about the demands of realism should be addressed in political theories of justice. It asks whether the demands of realism should affect the construction of principles of justice and, ... -
Justifying power : ruling group dominance and regime justification in multi-ethnic states
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The current but inconsistent upheaval in the Middle East suggests variations in what will topple regimes, and thus in how regimes have laid the groundwork to remain in power. This thesis examines variation in a social ... -
Knights in shining armor? : when humanitarian military intervention works and when it does not
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)Military intervention for stated humanitarian purposes has been undertaken on several occasions since the end of the Cold War. It is bound to be attempted again, yet academics and policy makers have left fundamental questions ... -
Konfrontasi : rethinking explanations for the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, 1963-1966
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis is a study of the causes of "Konfrontasi" or Confrontation, the low-intensity war waged by the Republic of Indonesia, under the leadership of President Sukarno, against the Federation of Malaysia, which became ... -
Labor export, development, and the state : the political economy of Portuguese emigration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984) -
Language, politics, and method : grounding a computational hermeneutic
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989) -
Law of Peoples and the duty of assistance : Rawls on redistributive justice among people
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)In The Law of Peoples (1999) Rawls offers a model of the world, divided into countries without pressures of nationalism, which he calls "peoples." If some of those peoples were liberal democracies, others consult all ... -
Learning the lessons of war : the impact of World War I upon the interwar great powers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) -
Leashes or lemmings? : alliances as restraining devices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Does alliance restraint happen in international affairs? What theories explain the success or failure of restraint efforts? Do states ever form alliances in order to restrain? Alliance restraint - an actual or anticipated ... -
Legal services lawyers encounter clients : a study in street level bureaucracy.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976) -
Legions or legends : assessing U.S. Army and Marine effectiveness in the Korean War, 1950-1951
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This study compares the military effectiveness of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps during the first 10 months of the Korean War. Representative battles selected from the Pusan Perimeter, the Liberation ... -
Legislative Bargaining Under Weighted Voting
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Legislative ethics regulation in the American states : explaining conflict of interest legislation, 1954-1996
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This dissertation examines the regulation of conflicts of interest involving state legislators through the passage of ethics laws during the period from 1954-1996. The aim is to explain why legislators, who are notoriously ... -
Leon Trotsky: a psychobiographical study.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968) -
Lessons and Trends in E-Voting: Initiatives in the U.S. and Abroad
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-09-01)Since the 2000 election, there has been a debate over the role of voting technology in the election process. In 2000 and 2001, this debate focused on the deficiencies associated with paper ballots—especially the punch ... -
Lessons from the 2012 Election Administration and Voting Survey
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2013-08-03)Since our country’s inception, collecting appropriate data on elections and the administration of elections has been somewhat problematic, due to the fact that multiple levels of government are involved in running elections ... -
Liberal democracy and industrial order : autoworkers under the New Deal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
