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 …
This dissertation examines the production and circulation of policy evaluation as an instrument of democratic accountability in contemporary Mexico. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic …
Increasingly, transnational life has raised issues of overseas citizenship. I use the concept of political remittances to highlight long-distance entrepreneurship aimed at homeland politics. Emigrant …
The transformation of rebel organizations into political parties is a widespread phenomenon with important implications for peace-building and post-conflict democracy. Why do some rebel groups …
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 …
This dissertation investigates the truism that the middle class and democracy go hand-in-hand by studying how massive middle class protests are related to democratic development. …
This dissertation examines the causes of forced displacement—the phenomenon wherein individuals leave their homes due to violence—within and from cities in the Global South. Non-state …