Why do some citizens pursue civic engagement after exposure to violence while others retreat from civic life? Existing theories point toward the trauma of victimization. …
Abstract of (POST)-PARANOIA FROM HOBBES TO ARENDT, by Noga Rotem, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2021 Common responses to the seeming return of ‘the paranoid style’ …
The implicit and explicit political significance of sports is often underestimated; sports functions as an ideational community linking together millions of Americans, as well as …
Without ways to resolve conflicts between citizens, effective governance cannot happen. Many of the discussions citizens have about politics now take place on social media …
Under what conditions do governments in weakly institutionalized new democracies implement programmatic social policies that provide benefits to excluded citizens? Can the successful implementation of …
This dissertation argues that our present ways of conceptualizing responsibility inevitably fail us in the context of urgent structural challenges, such as climate change, which …
Conventional narratives of the Republican Party's relationship to the welfare state emphasize the themes of retrenchment and devolution. My research reveals, on the contrary, the …
What are the conditions and causal processes by which international financial remittances can promote development in migrant-sending countries? This dissertation develops an explanation for the …
Rentier states, that is, hydrocarbon-dependent provinces in which both state budgets and local economies rely heavily on hydrocarbon exploitation, are not only a national level …
Current research into how citizens form their opinions on tax issues does not consider the quality of the occupations through which these citizens earn their …
While subgroups of the electorate do not always vote monolithically, there is commonly an air of cohesion surrounding vote choices due to self-segregation, exposure, or …
Why do extremely similar sub-national polities exhibit divergent regime trajectories during democratization? Prevalent structural accounts of democracy, emphasizing the role of economic modernization, cannot account …
Traditional explanations of health system change have tended to focus on such factors as institutional configurations and provider power. I posit the potency of patients …
The majority of consumer technologies come from the same few countries and companies that dominate the international technology market. Device Atlas, a leading provider of …
The dissertation focuses on nonviolent action in global politics and responds to the following puzzle: how can we confront wrongs--such as violence and injustice--powerfully and …
Prior to the 2007-8 Great Financial Crisis, the global financial safety net (GFSN) for short-term liquidity financing was equipped with approximately US $5 trillion, of …
Despite the emphasis on municipalization and grassroots mobilization in much of the recent research on healthcare reform in Brazil, it is the choices made by …
At the broadest level, this project traces an origin story of conceptual contraction. It examines how a concept once multivalent and pluralistic—the corporate form—became wedded …
