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’ …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Under what conditions do societies experience modern market development characterized by increased integration, competition, and greater varieties of goods and services supported by dense and …
Drawing on resources in religious studies, Black studies, and political theory, the dissertation is a study of W.E.B. Du Bois’s critical theoretical response to the …
This dissertation reconceives what is known as “the environmentalism of the poor” for the purpose of cultivating a non-dualistic approach to nature and promoting environmental …
Drawing on the sociology of science, this dissertation sets out to reexamine patterns of continuity and change in macroeconomic scientific paradigms from the Great Depression …
Within a unitary state, why are some ethnic minorities more politically engaged and have peaceful or cooperative relationships with the state, while some others are …
Recent advances in biomedical and genetic sciences and technologies (BGST) have the potential to alter human biology and human environments. Two controversial applications of BGST …
Why and how do states decide to develop different weapon capabilities within a particular military domain? Contrary to arguments that point to the role of …
“Imagining Together: Political Community, Domination, and Freedom,” examines how racism in the US is sustained and challenged through political imagination. In conversation with contemporary democratic …
This dissertation presents three empirical papers on the politics of punishment, vigilantism and justice attitudes in Mexico. It combines original interviews, surveys, focus groups, and …
What effect does international law have on state space programs? Many theories on international law exist in the field of international relations, but none explore …
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 …
