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- Description:
- Undergraduate research on Liberia. Presentation followed by remarks and discussion. This video can be downloaded, but we refer you to the YouTube version for online streaming: https://youtu.be/OWNCehsxBeA
- Keyword:
- peace, democracy, and governance
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Brandon Ayersman and Alex Smith
- Contributor:
- Richard Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/02/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018-06-01
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- Description:
- In May 1991 the allied armies of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) and the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) overthrew the 27-year military regime (Dergue) in Ethiopia. During the succeeding 27 years, the EPRDF-dominated government attracted one of the highest per capita levels of external aid in the...
- Keyword:
- ethiopia
- Subject:
- Ethiopia, Political science, and Africa
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Nature and Civilization is a focused interpretation of Kant’s politics insofar as it bears on the distinction between nature and civilization. It seeks to answer the question, How is Kant’s distinction between nature and civilization informing his global political thought? Kant thinks that in moving from the state of nature...
- Keyword:
- History of Race, Colonialism, Kant, Rousseau, Habermas, and Indigenous Political Theory
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Kellner, Alan Joseph
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14763 and etdadmin_upload_678767
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- Description:
- The National Rifle Association (NRA) is much more politically powerful than we might expect it to be. Despite both shockingly high rates of gun violence and deep, durable public support for stricter rules on gun ownership, the NRA regularly defeats or weakens the content of gun control legislation. Its influence...
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Lacombe, Matthew James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14547 and etdadmin_upload_645456
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- Description:
- Political leaders often engage in open fights for recognition, announcing that some crucial element of their state’s identity, status, or history, has not been properly acknowledged and respected in the conduct of diplomacy. Among international relations scholars, these instances are usually ascribed to the fact that states, like individuals, need...
- Keyword:
- Identity, Recognition, Israel-Palestine, Status, Armenia-Turkey, and Britain-EU
- Subject:
- International relations, International law, and Political science
- Creator:
- Freedman, Joshua
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_660729 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14591
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- Description:
- What explains the difference in the timing of female enfranchisement in Latin America? Despite constituting an essential process of inclusion for democratization, no comparative analysis of the region has sought to explain the differences observed in the timing of reform. Common explanations – developed for other regions – concerning the...
- Keyword:
- Democratization, Women's suffrage, and Latin America
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Castillo, Isabel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_683911 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14791
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- Description:
- A functional democratic society rests on the premise that the mass public holds clear preferences for policies, candidates, and more. To arrive at these preferences, many citizens rely on their social identities, making political decisions based on what they see as benefitting the groups to which they belong. They may...
- Subject:
- Social psychology and Political science
- Creator:
- Howat, Adam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_682262 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14780
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- Description:
- Abstract The relationship between truth and politics is an ancient and venerable problem in political philosophy. But just as the traditional subordination of politics to philosophy has obscured central categories and experiences of politics (like action and freedom), it has also obscured the distinctive problem of truth in politics, or...
- Keyword:
- Truth, Earth, Arendt, Lying, Authority, and Science
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Neame, Alexandra Catherine
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_627550 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14478
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- Description:
- My dissertation is entitled “Post-civil Rights in the Hold: Neoliberalism, Race and the Politics of Historical Memory in the Deep South.” Post-civil rights discourse as a specific object of investigation has been under theorized, it has primarily been understood as a fundamental marker of racial progress in the United States...
- Keyword:
- Southern Studies, Race, Immigration, Neoliberalism, Historical Memory, and Civil Rights
- Subject:
- African American studies, History, and Political science
- Creator:
- Foster, Theodore Roosevelt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14847 and etdadmin_upload_686541
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- Description:
- My dissertation examines group dynamics of minority populations during times of violent conflict. By applying a comparative analysis to case studies drawn from the conflicts in Lebanon and Syria, I shed light on how and why minority groups decide to join a conflict, stay on the sidelines, go it alone,...
- Keyword:
- institutions, Syria, conflict, and Lebanon
- Subject:
- Middle Eastern studies and Political science
- Creator:
- Lee, Sean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686155 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14830
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- Description:
- In the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, I find that Aristotle endorses two distinct forms of political activity. The first form, which I term statesman activity, is intrinsically valuable. Aristotle thinks that we should value this kind of political activity because it is constitutive of human well-being. The second form, which...
- Keyword:
- experience, education, political activity, Aristotle, and ethics
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical literature, and Political science
- Creator:
- Cumella, Giuseppe Angelo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14472 and etdadmin_upload_627287
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- Description:
- The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (or “GRH”), which unprecedentedly provided for “sequestration”, a doomsday device to enforce fiscal discipline upon Congress and the President, was passed with bipartisan support on December 12, 1985. How did GRH take place, and why did it assume its final form? Casting GRH’s enactment in functionalist and...
- Keyword:
- business interests, interest groups, and congressional budget process
- Subject:
- Public policy and Political science
- Creator:
- Shan, Wangqing
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14586 and etdadmin_upload_659990
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Contemporary Subnational State Building through Democratization: Colombia in Comparative Perspective
- Description:
- ABSTRACT Variation of stateness across the territory and population of sovereign states is a notorious, but understudied phenomenon with important implications for issues such as global security, environmental sustainability, and political stability. This dissertation engages in theory-building research to explain subnational variation of stateness in the contemporary world, focusing on...
- Keyword:
- state building, regime building, subnational, democratization, trajectories, and contemporary
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- LOPEZ HERNANDEZ, CLAUDIA NAYIBE
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_666891 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14698
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a broad study on individual and firm-level financial conditions and their effects on politics. In the first chapter, I study the effect of economic conditions on political polarization using micro-data on house prices, mortgages, and individual political contributions. I argue that shocks to housing wealth --- the...
- Keyword:
- Financial Crises, Political Polarization, Housing Markets, Mortgages, and Voting
- Subject:
- Economics, Finance, and Political science
- Creator:
- van Straelen, Hendrik Philip
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662641 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14651
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- Description:
- Thinkers attempting to challenge existing conceptions of political life often find that they encounter limitations in dominant modes of spectatorship and communication. If popular audiences are unsuitably oriented toward the presentation of certain content, this introduces a fundamental obstacle for political theoretic efforts to shape ideas and interactions. This dissertation...
- Keyword:
- Machiavelli, Arendt, Rhetoric, History of Political Thought, Rousseau, and Democratic Theory
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Litvin, Boris
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14619 and etdadmin_upload_661977
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- Description:
- This dissertation explains the heterogeneous effects of armed conflict on sub-national governance in the North Caucasus. While acknowledging the role of inherited institutions, my multimethod investigation shows how they were strategically transformed during the breakup of the Soviet Union, creating unintended consequences and the basis for governance today. My main...
- Keyword:
- State-Building, Civil War, Governance, Armed Conflict, North Caucasus, and Institutional Change
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Klyachkina, Alexandra
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_685963 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14820
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- Description:
- This dissertation is composed of three articles that focus on the electoral support coalitions of populist parties in Latin America. Using typologies, comparative-historical analysis, and experimental methods, the articles conceptualize and explain variation across several dimensions of these coalitions: their size and scope, their level of organization, and the identities...
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Barrenechea Carpio, Rodrigo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14777 and etdadmin_upload_681023
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the role and relation of capitalism in contemporary political life, with the aim to reveal the inherent oppression of what I refer to as capitalist culture. To this end, the project follows three main objectives: (1) to identify the widespread and pervasive nature of capitalist culture (2)...
- Keyword:
- feminist, culture, oppression, social, politics, and capitalism
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Gender studies, and Political science
- Creator:
- LoTempio, Christina Frances
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_673759 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14733
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- Description:
- Clientelism has been largely defined as an electoral strategy in which politicians distribute resources to voters to gather their support. This study proposes a new framework to understand clientelism by inverting the perspective of this practice, focusing on voters rather than politicians. This study proposes that clientelism should be understood...
- Keyword:
- POLITICAL PARTIES, BRAZIL, ETHNOGRAPHY, and CLIENTELISM
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Borges Martins da silva, Mariana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_677195 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14755
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- Description:
- The social groups to which individuals belong, as well as the identities that result from these group memberships, exert powerful influences on their political attitudes. Additionally, political elites offer cues that shape these same preferences—often by targeting and interacting with identities. However, there remain underexplored pathways by which elites can...
- Keyword:
- political psychology, political elites, political communication, identity, intergroup relations, and political behavior
- Subject:
- Political science
- Creator:
- Rothschild, Jacob
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15103 and etdadmin_upload_742932
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