Citizenship is a pertinent issue in our time, when questions of statelessness, rightlessness, and the deprivation of humanity have once again resurfaced in face of …
Brazil is both praised and criticized as a country that is willing and able to resist international commitments to protect local industries. Yet, puzzlingly, since …
This study investigates both the opportunities and constraints for civil society in China to effect political change. Diverging from the dominant approach of state-society relations, …
If settler colonialism operates on a logic of elimination, what accounts for the explosion of the American Indian census category in recent decades? How does …
For non-white South Africans, the implications of apartheid reached well beyond racial segregation. Racial disparities were also embedded in the allocation of public investment across …
Through its diaspora engagement policy, Ghana’s government invites Black Americans, a group with nebulous claims to a singular ancestral homeland, to return to a country …
In the last decades, the Latin American middle-class is growing in size while becoming more heterogeneous. Sustained economic growth explains its increasing size. Nevertheless behind …
This dissertation examines the Republican Party’s shift to the libertarian right at the state level. It does so through a comparative-historical analysis of right-to-work (RTW) …
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 …
This dissertation examines the production of caste data during India’s first nationwide caste count in the post-colonial period. Building upon a scholarly tradition that makes …
This dissertation was conceived in response to the rising literature on the increasing number of immigrants settling in America’s heartland, which for generations had been …
