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"It could have been me": Empathy, civic engagement, and violence in Mexico

Description:: 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. …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Bell-Martin, Rebecca V. (creator); Snyder, Richard (Advisor); Andreas, Peter (Reader); Weitz-Shapiro, Rebecca (Reader); Blair, Rob (Reader); Brown University. Department of Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Democracy; Violence; Political science; Political violence; Empathy; Political participation (Mass political behavior); War
Collection:: Political Science; Theses and Dissertations

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A Tale of Two Mayors: Dave Bing, Kevin Johnson, and the Rise of Athletes-Turned-Politicians

Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2014
Contributor:: Coburn-Palo, Nicholas Jericho (creator); Morone, James (Director); Brettschneider, Corey (Reader); Jones-Luong, Pauline (Reader); Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: athletes-turned-politicians; celebrity; politics; social capital; Fame; Sports; Political science; Social capital (Sociology)
Collection:: Political Science; Theses and Dissertations

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City of Praise: The Politics of Encomium in Classical Athens

Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2014
Contributor:: Parks, Mitchell H (creator); Scafuro, Adele (Director); Hanink, Johanna (Reader); Reed, Joseph (Reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Athens; fourth century BCE; encomium; epideictic; political thought; Hypereides; Praise; Laudatory poetry; Rhetoric; Democracy; Political science; Xenophon; Isocrates; Plato; Demosthenes; Aeschines; Lycurgus; Hyperides; Greece--Athens
Collection:: Classics; Theses and Dissertations

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Civilizing the State: Civil Society and the Politics of Primary Public Health Care Provision in Urban Brazil

Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Gibson, Christopher (creator); Heller, Patrick (Director); Baiocchi, Gianpaolo (Reader); Chorev, Nitsan (Reader); Logan, John (Reader); Silver, Hilary (Reader); Brown University. Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: politics; Civil society; Health; Democracy; Social movements; Political science
Collection:: Sociology; Theses and Dissertations

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Comparatively Evaluating the State Role in Consumer Technology Markets in Russia and South Korea (1945-2020)

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Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Kim, Alexi M . (creator); Schiller, Wendy (thesis advisor); Edgar, Timothy (reader); Colgan, Jeffrey (reader); Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Russia; Soviet Union; History of Science; Political science; Korea (South); Neoliberalism; Cell phones; International economic integration; Capital market; Technological innovations; Science and technology libraries; Computers--Technological innovations; California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
Collection:: Political Science; Theses and Dissertations

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Democracy and the Judiciary: A study of the impact of Public Interest Litigation in India

Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Sarin, Shayna (creator); Varshney, Ashutosh (thesis advisor); Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Politics and government; Constitutional law; Political science; India
Collection:: Political Science; Theses and Dissertations

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Democracy in Context: Between Universal Ideals and Local Values

Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Banai, Hussein (creator); Brettschneider, Corey (Director); Krause, Sharon (Reader); Larmore, Charles (Reader); Tannenwald, Nina (Reader); Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: context; universal; political theory; Democracy; Values; Culture; Political science
Collection:: Political Science; Theses and Dissertations

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From Chae Chan Ping v. United States to Hernandez v. Mesa: The Price of U.S. Security and Sovereignty

Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Podugu, Priyanka R. (creator); Schiller, Wendy (thesis advisor); Brettschneider, Corey (reader); Testa, Paul (reader); Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Emigration and immigration; United States; Constitutional law; Civil rights; Political science; National security; U.S. Supreme Court
Collection:: Political Science; Theses and Dissertations

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Interpreting Video Games through the Lens of Modernity

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Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Soderman, Anton B (creator); Chun, Wendy (Director); Doane, Mary Ann (Reader); Rosen, Philip (Reader); Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: modernity; modernism; gender; marxism; politics; interactivity; flow; Csikszentmihalyi; rendering; innovation; representation; media; game studies; postmodernity; Brecht; Video games; Civilization, Modern; Digital media; Aesthetics; Modernism (Art); Sex; Communism; Capitalism; Political science; Clouds; Computer graphics; Television; Ideology; Computer games
Collection:: Modern Culture and Media; Theses and Dissertations

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Latino Leadership in City Hall

Description:: Abstract of Latino Leadership in City Hall, by Emily Farris, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2014 In recent years, there has been a large increase in …
Year:: 2014
Contributor:: Farris, Emily (creator); Orr, Marion (Director); Morone, James (Reader); Wong, Kenneth (Reader); Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: latino; urban politics; racial and ethnic politics; american politics; Political science; Hispanic Americans; Municipal government; Americans--Politics and government
Collection:: Political Science; Theses and Dissertations

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Notes toward an attentive politics: Simone Weil and the theory of decreation

Description:: 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 …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: Kurtz, Joshua (author); Nahme, Paul (advisor); Bush, Stephen (reader)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Mysticism; Ethics; Christianity; Political science
Collection:: Religious Studies; Theses and Dissertations