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’ …
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 …
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 …
Federal anti-poverty policies may vary in popularity and purported legibility. Some are delivered as tax-based transfer programs, whereas others are delivered in more concrete, immediate …
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 …
How do politicians’ incentives and resources shape the type of policies that they adopt? One of the key redistributive roles of governments is to provide …
Since the Supreme Court decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, states have passed hundreds of laws to restrict or expand access to abortion. It …
Religious rhetoric is a common feature of political communications on both the American right and the American left, but the left has, since the 1970s, …
Why do the leading states sometimes build institutions that constrain their naval dominance? Theories of sea power and hegemonic order all predict that maritime dominance …
The dissertation examines the unlikely phenomenon of rules-based taxation levied by armed groups among four indigenous communities in Northeast India even as they lack exclusive …