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Trapped by Inequality: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America

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My dissertation identifies the causes of inequality traps - i.e., high and persistent levels of economic inequality - in Latin America and explains how and why some countries manage to escape such traps and embark on paths of diminishing inequality. I argue that the Redistributive State Power shapes the main...

Keyword:

Redistributive Politics, State, Inequality, Political Economy, and Economic Elites

Subject:

Political science

Creator:

Garcia-Montoya, Laura

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15228 and etdadmin_upload_762761
Freedom Gates: Building Peace and Democracy in Liberia, 1988-2018

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

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peace, democracy, and governance

Subject:

Political science

Creator:

Brandon Ayersman and Alex Smith

Contributor:

Richard Joseph

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

08/02/2018

Date Modified:

08/02/2018

Date Created:

2018-06-01

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Video
Religious Passions in International Politics

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From colonial practices designed to civilize indigenous communities, to counter-terrorism initiatives aimed at de-radicalizing dissidents in the wake of the War on Terror, to controversies over blasphemy and religious harm cases in international law, religious passions have been cast as a specter of unreason, treason, and radicalization. These assumptions sustain...

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Emotion, Religion, International Law, Affect, Human Rights, and Political Theory

Subject:

Religion, International relations, and Political science

Creator:

Giliberti, Gina Camille

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/16/2023

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2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16359 and etdadmin_upload_946425
Ethiopia: A Turn to Democracy?

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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...

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ethiopia

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Ethiopia, Political science, and Africa

Creator:

Richard Joseph

Depositor:

Chris Diaz

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Richard A Joseph

Date Uploaded:

11/21/2018

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11/23/2018

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2018

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Research Paper
The Law and Politics of Trade Secrecy

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In this dissertation, I provide insight into different aspects of the law and politics of trade secrecy at four levels of analysis. Part I examines trade secrecy from an international and comparative perspective. It encompasses Chapters 2 and 3 and focuses on (#1) international law and (#2) comparative national policy....

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Law and Political science

Creator:

Dinkel, Christopher P.

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

09/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_926007 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16202
Contemporary Subnational State Building through Democratization: Colombia in Comparative Perspective

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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...

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state building, regime building, subnational, democratization, trajectories, and contemporary

Subject:

Political science

Creator:

LOPEZ HERNANDEZ, CLAUDIA NAYIBE

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_666891 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14698
Truth in the Milieu of Politics: Knowledge, Authority, and Democratic Freedom

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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...

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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
Aristotle on Political Activity

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
The Social Origins of Perpetual Civil Wars

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This dissertation uses the case of Colombia to examine the causes and reproductive mechanisms of civil wars that last more than fifty years, which I call perpetual civil wars. It draws on network analysis of violent events and political claims, content analysis of official archival documents and historical records of...

Keyword:

Political Discourse, Violence, Communism, and Civil Wars

Subject:

Sociology and Political science

Creator:

Acosta, Laura

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

08/23/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_1013759 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16765
The Legacies of Liberation: Revolution, Liberal Reformism, and Political Development in Southern Africa

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The political history of late twentieth-century Southern Africa was dominated by violent liberation struggles against settler-colonial domination in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. All five countries experienced prolonged settler colonialism, followed by conflicts in which revolutionary national liberation movements (NLMs) sought to both end settler-colonial domination and build...

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Sociology, Political science, and African studies

Creator:

Noor, Salih O.

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

08/23/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16731 and etdadmin_upload_1012926

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