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 …
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 …
Debates about the political impact of digital platforms often revolve around a central, limiting dichotomy: Does digital media revitalize or undermine democracy? This project shifts …
Why have people across the world turned towards populist politics? What are the impacts of populism on democracy? In contrast to typical top-down explanations for …
Alain Locke, the “Dean” of the Harlem Renaissance, is widely remembered today as a cultural figure rather than a political thinker. This dissertation aims to …
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; …
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 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 interrogates the evolution of the most ambitious phase of rights-based welfare expansion in post-colonial India and its effects on local governance and civic …
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 traces how "Alternative Dispute Resolution" (ADR) traveled from corporate boardrooms, World Bank policy conferences, the U.S. State Department, and Harvard Negotiation Program to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …