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 …
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 …
This dissertation explores the process of democratic deepening in the global South and illuminates the complex mechanisms underlying diverse state-civil society relations and the distinct …
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 role of media in shaping political subjectivity. My analysis emerges from La Victoria, a highly politicized low-income neighborhood in Santiago, Chile; …
Large hydroelectric dams have well-documented negative impacts, particularly on marginalized communities and the natural environment. Nevertheless, Brazil continues to construct dams in an effort to …
How should liberal democracies craft citizens through civic education in schools? This dissertation offers a new answer to this pressing question. Typically, responses must negotiate …