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’ …
The implicit and explicit political significance of sports is often underestimated; sports functions as an ideational community linking together millions of Americans, as well as …
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 …
The majority of consumer technologies come from the same few countries and companies that dominate the international technology market. Device Atlas, a leading provider of …
This thesis considers the impact Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has had on Indian democracy. It aims to explain the evolution of PIL, grounding it within …
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 thesis argues that to maintain legitimate civil liberties, the American judiciary must consistently extend legal standing and robust due process protections to civilian litigants …
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 …
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 …
This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
This thesis examines the spiritual, ethical, and political writings of Simone Weil. In particular, I endeavor to articulate Weil's theory of \"decreation\" in the content …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
My dissertation explores a plurality of politico-ethical ideas of three anticolonial thinkers in the early and mid-twentieth century: M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, and M.N. Roy. …
Why don't old and new democracies immediately respond to health epidemics? And especially within large, highly decentralized federations, why don't central governments create effective bureaucratic …
Free will skepticism—a term that encompasses multiple arguments that cast doubt upon our free will—is on the rise in recent decades, especially in response to …
