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 …
What does it mean to “become” American? And, how do political and social context affect this process? This dissertation begins to answer these questions, with …
Monopoly Politics: Municipal Takeovers and Community Impact in Michigan, is motivated by a two-part question: How does the state’s intervention into fiscally distressed cities impact …
This dissertation focuses on what I call “the War on Poverty Paradox.” How could scholars of every persuasion nearly unanimously agree that the War on …
