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. …
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 …
India has long been an enduring puzzle in the literature on democracy and development. Even with its high levels of poverty and deeply multi-ethnic society, …
Athens in the fourth century BCE faced many economic and military pressures, to which the Athenians responded with a multitude of political experiments. This dissertation …
In 1988, social movement struggles for re-democratization in Brazil succeeded in enshrining a new constitution that promised universal and equal access to public health care …
This dissertation looks at Athenian public finance in the period between 403 and 322 B.C. from the perspective of contemporary Athenian ideas about democracy. Although …
This dissertation investigates the thought of Mill and Nietzsche in order to consider the relationship between democracy and human flourishing. Chapters One and Two argue …
The aims of this dissertation are twofold: (1) to expose the limitations of the dominant theories of democracy as regards the relationship between universal democratic …
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 …
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 …
I study experimentally (1) the impacts that a democratic process has on people?s behaviors and (2) the endogenous formation of institutions in social dilemmas.The democratic …
The extent to which fixed natural resources effect economic growth in the face of population growth has been a widely discussed topic in economics since …
During Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s nearly fifteen years in office, he was both celebrated as a revolutionary hero and vilified as an autocratic populist. The …
Drawing on contemporary democratic theory and the history of political thought, this dissertation explores questions of immigrant justice and how responsibilities might emerge in relationships …
This dissertation examines the early stages of South Korean nation building by focusing on how South Koreans responded to “American” democratic ideas. Although the United …
This dissertation traces how "Alternative Dispute Resolution" (ADR) traveled from corporate boardrooms, World Bank policy conferences, the U.S. State Department, and Harvard Negotiation Program to …
Demographic change, driven by immigration, is renewing debates over who belongs in society. However, scholars have overlooked how these debates influence democratic consolidation, or democratic …
Brazil, while largely characterized as a deeply authoritarian society, has, since its democratization, managed to establish institutional channels of effective democratic participation. The success of …
