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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)What is economic democracy? What, if anything, justifies it? This thesis argues that liberal theories of justice are objectionable insofar as they emphasize the distribution of resources, having little to say about how ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This dissertation argues that the disintegration and collapse of empires cause wars and crises by creating some of the conditions and causes of war commonly identified by scholars. When empires disintegrate and collapse, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Nuclear weapon testing is the final step in the nuclear development process, an announcement of ability and strength. The consequences of a nuclear test are far from easy to bear, however: economic sanctions can be crippling ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)This project evaluates how elected officials communicate with their constituents and whether voters can tell if their interests are being represented. Specifically, I examine whether political communication strategies may ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)State failure is becoming increasingly prevalent across the globe, creating human suffering, black markets, lost economic opportunities, and safe havens for militant actors. It is imperative that the international community ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This dissertation explores the causes of, and possible remedies for, extremely violent ethnic conflict. It starts from a robust yet under-explored finding in the literature: Most groups that fall victim to genocidal violence ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This dissertation seeks to deepen our understanding of intergroup relations by employing a behavioral experimental method to empirically measure intergroup norms of behavior and the motivations that drive them, within a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Can pernicious views about history exacerbate conflict among states, and if so, how? How can we prevent such ideas from emerging, or dampen their more malevolent effects? Despite a long history of scholarly writing on ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)American and European political scientists have claimed that subnational elections record lower voter turnout than national elections in most democracies. Contrary to this conventional wisdom, Japanese municipal elections ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Contrary to widely held assumptions in the ethnic conflict literature, ethnic rebellions do not have to be separatist. Indeed, roughly one third of the largest ethnic rebellions since World War II have been attempts to ...
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