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- Contemporary Ethiopian is, without question, facing enormous challenges. At the core of these challenges lay a state-building process major constituencies and elite groups were either alienated from, forced to acquiesce to, or coopted into. Unable to derive political legitimacy from democratic participation, successive governments largely relied on coercion and neopatrimonialism,...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, managing diversity, constitutional law, law, states' rights, Ethiopia, political science, consociationalism, federalism, democratization, constitutionalism, intersectionality, and ethnic federalism
- Subject:
- Law and Political Science
- Creator:
- Dr. Juweria Ali, Loid Taye, Dr. Solomon Negussie, Melhik A. Bekele, Fowsia Abdulkadir, Dr. Christophe Van der Beken, Rediet Baye Ayalew, Professor Thomas Geraghty, Prof. Dr. Adeno Addis, Teguadda Alebachew, Dr. Abchu Wassihun, Dr. Mulugeta Mengist Ayalew, Prof. Dr. Assefa Fiseha, Dr. Mizanie Abate Tadesse, Dr. Getachew Assefa Wodemariam, Dr. Semir Yusuf, Abduletif Kedir Idris, Dr. Aberra Degefa, Kokebe Wolde Jemaneh, Dr. Kalkidan Negash Obse, Dr. Abadir M. Ibrahim, Dr. Zemalek Ayitenew Ayele, Dr. Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha, Dr. Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, Dr. Abdi Jibril, Dr. Sossina M. Haile, Dr. Tigist Shewarega Hussen, Dr. Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Dr. Adem K. Abebe, Dr. Mohammed Dejan Assen, Dr. Zelalem Mogessie Teferra, Gossaye Ayele, Dr. Yitayew Alemayehu, Dr. Shimelis Mulugeta Kene, and Dr. Sisay Alemahu Yeshanew
- Contributor:
- Mezgebu Tesema (cover art) and May Malone (cover design)
- Owner:
- Basia Kapolka
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries and Northwestern University Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/15/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-06-6
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- How do weak states build and maintain strong militaries that do not pose a threat? A government that presides over an institutionally weak state might reasonably fear that an effective army would be tempted to engage in coup d’état. Yet several countries in Africa with low overall institutional capacity sustain...
- Keyword:
- State-Building, Weak States, Civil Military Relations, Civil Wars, Military Effectiveness, and Coups
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Jahara Matisek
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/26/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Hannah Arendt claimed that aœtotalitarianisma emerged as a new word to designate a new form of evil in politics. However, she added, the use of a new word does not imply that we understand what this novelty consists in. This dissertation is an attempt to understand the novelty of totalitarian...
- Keyword:
- Lyotard, Arendt, Kant, Evil, Judgment, and Action
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Javier Burdman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many democratic theorists suggest that harmonious relationship between groups are critical for democracy; however, far less is known about how everyday experiences promote or impede such intergroup harmony. In this dissertation, I explore a common, but overlooked, form of intergroup contact casual, brief experiences with outgroup strangers. I propose a...
- Keyword:
- political psychology, race and ethnic politics, experiments, and intergroup contact
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Ethan C Busby
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Many key crises of international security are tied to the spread of nuclear weapons and technology, but what makes a state nuclear remains subject to controversy. The possession of nuclear technology does not always grant legal and political nuclear status”a phenomenon evident not only in the recent debate over Irans...
- Keyword:
- Nuclear Weapons and Diplomacy
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Sidra Hamidi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation provides an explanatory framework to explain the variations in battle-spaces, alternatively seen as wartime authority configurations across time and space. I place these variations along types of states along their functional dimension, and their respective forms of state power on the ground. I argue that these variations are...
- Keyword:
- Battle-Space, Nepal, Kurdistan, Turkey, Iraq, and Rebels
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Buddhika Jayamaha
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/06/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examines the political thought of Sheldon Wolin. Perceiving a crisis of technocratic liberalism in the postwar period, Wolin develops a critique of modernity that emphasizes the loss both of political vision and of local cultures and traditions. His subsequent radical democratic theory identifies a contrapuntal American tradition of...
- Keyword:
- Democracy, Totalitarianism, Liberalism, Loss, Radical, and Wolin
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Lucy Cane
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- My dissertation explores the dynamics of Northeast Asia’s island disputes, specifically the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute between Korea and Japan and the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute between Japan and China. I focus on three questions that are important for academic and policy purposes and are not well addressed by existing theories: 1) what explains...
- Keyword:
- China, Island disputes, Korea, Northeast Asia, Territorial conflict, and Japan
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Katrin Fraser Katz
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Existing political science literature tells us that the common factors of political participation include factors such as civic skills, available free time, and income. However, few have expanded their studies to include to private politics, and to see what factors influence private political participation. Private political participation refers to “the...
- Keyword:
- Political Science
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Julia Valdes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the construction and regulation of over-the-counter derivatives markets before and after the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. It addresses two questions: How did the market for derivatives traded outside traditional exchanges grow so large and crisis-prone with so little public regulation? And, why, given derivatives’ contribution to the...
- Keyword:
- regulation, governance, derivatives, markets, finance, and authority
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Erin Lockwood
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores public and private hybridity in the production of sovereign power, or hybrid sovereignty, through the cases of the English East India Company, Blackwater, International Chamber of Commerce, and Amnesty International. It asks: What forms and dynamics are featured in hybrid sovereignty? What implications does hybrid sovereignty have...
- Keyword:
- International Relations
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Swati Srivastava
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Responsibility is a central political concept, yet the dynamics of contemporary political life call into question commonsense accounts of individual moral responsibility; it is difficult to ascribe responsibility to individual agents when faced with political dilemmas like global climate change. In response to this dilemma, this project engages two questions....
- Keyword:
- Climate Change, Political Responsibility, Friedrich Nietzsche, Liberalism, Moral Responsibility, and Political Theory
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Michael Christopher Sardo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/16/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Why do the institutional outcomes of armed separatist conflicts vary? Separatist conflicts have diverse institutional effects. Though many separatists hope to create sovereign states, few achieve their aims. More often, their conflicts lead to forms of intra-state autonomy, independent but unrecognized de facto states, or territories under foreign occupation. These...
- Keyword:
- separatism, secession, recognition, self-determination, legitimacy, and civil wars
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Lee Seymour
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation project is one of the first to explicitly study the theoretical and empirical relationship between public opinion and the policies of unelected administrative agencies in the United States. This research addresses two important questions: (1) given the absence of a direct electoral connection between bureaucrats and the public,...
- Keyword:
- regulation, bureaucracy, public opinion, and Congress
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Julia Rabinovich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Though more serious during the economic reform than in Mao-era, corruption has not totally got out of hand of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It is not too rampant to control and its destructive effects appear to have been limited from impeding the economic growth. To study the "resilience" that...
- Keyword:
- Political Science
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Jiangnan Zhu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- For all its significance in world affairs, the United Nations is full of paradoxes. As a system - i.e. as a collection of independent yet interrelated entities - its contradictions derive from the juxtaposition of forces encouraging fragmentation and calls for improved harmonization. On its part, the reality of inter-organizational...
- Keyword:
- international organizations, interorganizational relations, and United Nations
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Barbara Murphy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This research investigates under what conditions political institutions may induce longer and more expensive financial crisis resolutions by assessing the impact of power distribution on government responses to crisis situations. A new model is elaborated in which power distribution plays a key role in the evolution of financial crises, from...
- Keyword:
- Political Science
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Gabriela Nava-Campos
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Late twentieth-century architecture is increasingly charged with the task of constructing sites of meaning that generate awareness and understanding in the wake of catastrophic historical events. My dissertation explores the challenges of memorializing these events, in order to recover the importance of memory for politics. Insisting on the role of...
- Keyword:
- memory, Walter Benjamin, judgment, space, memorial, and Hannah Arendt
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Uri Jacob Matatyaou
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- How can political challengers avoid co-optation and other forms of moderation? This dissertation illuminates how institutional participation led to the co-optation of the Indigenous Australian movement and the factors which equipped the Ecuadorian Indígena movement to elude a similar fate. Most contestants in political struggles must at some point consider...
- Keyword:
- government social control, institutional versus extrainstitutional participation, political process theory, agency-structure debate, protest, and social movement theory
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Karen Dawn Smith Stegen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-30
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The dissertation research examines the evolution of EU social and employment policy in regard to gender equality in the labor market and analyzes how EU guidelines of the European Employment Strategy (EES) and EU directives on social policy have different effects on political processes in the United Kingdom and Germany....
- Keyword:
- Welfare State, Gender, United Kingdom, Germany, Modes of Governance, and Euorpean Union
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Nicole Richardt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-23
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I examine the impact of core values on foreign policy opinion, the dynamics of value change, and the differences between elites and the mass public in their values change. I find that two core values - humanitarianism and democracy - strongly affect citizens' support for various anti-terrorism...
- Keyword:
- humanitarianism, democracy promotion, values, foreign policy, public opinion, and elites
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Dukhong Kim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-31
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I examine the relationship between voter turnout and legislative representation in the United States Congress. My main contention is that political elites react to electoral participation in formulating public policies. I posit that the institutional advantages of incumbency in the House of Representative reduces turnout in congressional...
- Keyword:
- Legislative Behavior, ; Election, Electoral accountability, Voter Turnout, U.S. Congress, and Political representation
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Jean-Francois Godbout
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This is a detailed study of Congress's China policy, with a view toward building a theory of congressional policymaking. I argue that committees, bicameralism, and presidential veto have severely constrained Congress's ability to legislate on China policy. I analyze China bills introduced between 1973 and 2006. I report evidence that...
- Keyword:
- Political Science
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Tao Xie
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 05-10-2007
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Studies on consolidated democracies have long concluded that there is a positive relationship between socioeconomic status and turnout. The strength of the empirical findings that linked electoral participation to socioeconomic variables elevated this correlation to a law-like principle and made it possible to assume that this electoral behavior would prevail...
- Keyword:
- socioeconomic status, USA, Mexico, Elections, and turnout
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Irina Natalia Alberro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explains why some rebel groups act in a highly coercive fashion toward local populations, only to shift to increasingly contractual behavior, and why other groups that share similar circumstances evolve in the opposite direction. Drawing upon fieldwork in Sudan, Iraq, Turkey, and Colombia, this study examines three rebel...
- Keyword:
- resources, war, insurgents, conflict, rebels, and violence
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Claire Margaret Metelis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation develops a theory of rebel-state engagement during armed conflict that links these varied interactions to processes of institutional change in the state in which they unfold. Conventional wisdom portrays conflict zones as lacking institutions or pitting armed groups and states as competitors. Yet, this dissertation finds that rebels...
- Keyword:
- Civil War, State-building, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Institutions, Rebel governance, and Political economy
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Rachel Sweet
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In an environment with limited time and resources, why do some legislators repeatedly sponsoring the same bills that never pass? Are they only appealing to constituents or lobbyists, or do they reintroduce legislation for strategic purposes? Bachrach and Baratz (1962) characterize the second-face of power as having control over agenda-setting....
- Keyword:
- crd2018
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Amanda Durso
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-03-30
- Resource Type:
- Poster
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- Description:
- The concept of deportation has become increasingly important in recent years, as states more and more turn to removal as a technique of control over population and territory. But within the field of political theory the concept of deportation has not yet received the attention it deserves. This dissertation helps...
- Keyword:
- immigration, constitutional law, removal, sovereignty, plenary, and deportation
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Charles Clarke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The growth of incarceration in the United States, a symptom of the concomitant broader institutionalization of a ‘carceral state’, is unquestionably one of the most significant developments in the nation's history. Despite this significance, the public response to the growth and deleterious consequences of incarceration has been notably restrained. This...
- Keyword:
- Political inequality, Political representation, Public opinion, Mass incarceration, Intersectionality, and Political communication
- Subject:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Kevin E Levay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation