Political Science: Dissertations
2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1987
2007 DISSERTATIONS
Austin, Leila Golestaneh (2007) Locking in economic policy reforms in Mexico and Tunisia : the role of NAFTA and the EU-FTA
Branch, Adam (2007) The political dilemmas of global justice : anti-civilian violence and the violence of humanitarianism, the case of northern Uganda
Kim, James Je Heon (2007) Constrained unilateralism : comparing institutional foundations of executive decrees in presidential democracies
Reames, Benjamin Nelson (2007) The diffusion of accountability : the spread of police oversight policies in Brazil and the United States
Trager, Robert F. (2007) Diplomatic calculus in anarchy : the construction and consequences of the space of intentions
2006 DISSERTATIONS
Farhang, Sean (2006) The litigation state : public regulation and private lawsuits in the American separation of powers system
Kemahlioglu, Ozge (2006) When the agent becomes the boss : the politics of public employment in Argentina and Turkey
Khoo, Nicholas (2006) Collateral damage : Sino-Soviet rivalry and the termination of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance , 1964-1979/
Leblond, Patrick (2006) The political economy of international monetary integration in the post-World War II period
Liu, Yu (2006) From the mass line to the Mao cult : the production of legitimate dictatorship in revolutionary China
Naoi, Megumi (2006) Contested forces? : economic openess and political responses to regional inequality in East Asia
Shirkey, Zachary (2006) Is this a private fight or may anybody join? : unexpected events and the spread of interstate war, 1815-1995
Springer, Melanie (2006) Electroral institutions, voter turnout and American democracy : the states, 1920-2000
Toloudis, Nicholas (2006) From mobilization to resistance : transgressive teachers in France and the United States, 1830-1960
Yu, Chen-Hua (2006) Essays on American welfare reform : the politics of state welfare reforms under devolution
2005 DISSERTATIONS
Akan, Murat (2005) The politics of secularization in Turkey and France: beyond orientalism and occidentalism
Ben-Artzi, Ruth (2005) Great expectations : banking on development the case of regional development banks
Cummings, Craig (2005) Is anyone listening? : an analysis of public opinion of the Supreme Court, diversity in the Courts of Appeals, and confirmations to the military highest court
Jaeger, Hans-Martin (2005) "World opinion" and world organization : governmentality, system differentiation, and the international public sphere
Khalili, Laleh (2005) Citizens of an unborn kingdom : stateless Palestinian refugees and contentious commemoration
LeBas, Adrienne (2005) From protest to parties : explaining effective opposition in democratizing Africa
Martinez Gallardo, Cecilia (2005) Designing cabinets : presidents, politics and policymaking in Latin America
Resnick, Evan (2005) "Ties that bind or ties that blind? : assessing engagement as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy
Robertson, Graeme (2005) All they need is someone to organize it : protest and politics in post-communist Russia
Stacey, Jeffrey Allen (2005) When agents defy principals : the impact of informal inter-organizational dynamics in the European Union
Venable, Sondra (2005) Networks, network change, and environmental protection : Soviet and post-Soviet policies toward Lake Baikal
2004 DISSERTATIONS
Barker, Mary (2004) The European Economic Community, the Catholic Church, and the transition to democracy in Spain
Bilgen, Ayșen (2004) The priority of political rights thesis in political theory : procedural democracy's invisible hand?
Bushell, Gerrard (2004) The politics of fical scarcity and the mobilization of political power in New York City : the electroral and governing strategies of New York City's first black mayor
Fox, David (2004) US immigration exclusions and the re-emergence of infectious diseases : the politics and science of protecting the public's health/
Kaplan, Noah (2004) Episodic voting : the logic of electoral participation in the context of multiple elections
Ortega Ortiz, Reymond Yunuen (2004) Building democracy : political parties and democratization in Spain and Mexico
Varghese, Robin (2004) Economic uncertainty and working class organization : the rise of works councial in post-war France
2003 DISSERTATIONS
Aidi, Hisham (2003) State withdrawal and political change : corporatism, capacity, and coalition politics in Egypt and Mexico
Awad, Samir (2003) Persistence of authoritarianism in the Middle East : international politics, civil society, and democracy in Palestine
Brancati, Dawn (2003) Design over conflict : managing ethnic conflict and secessionism through decentralization
Hertel, Shareen (2003) Bridging the human rights divide : transnational advocacy on labor and economic rights in the 1990s
Lofgren, Joan (2003) Effeciency versus distribution aims in Estonian privatization : the role of nationalism and personhood in explaining policy outcome
Niva, Steven (2003) Rival sovereignties : Western hegemony and normative conflict in the Middle East State-System
Papagianni, Ekaterini (2003) European integration and Eastern European nationalism: a comparative study of minority policies in Estonia, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia
Schneider, Leander (2003) Developmentalism and its failings : why rual development went wrong in 1960s and 1970s Tanzania
Sugiyama, Tomoko (2003) From international cooperation to international conflict : statesmen, soldiers, and political coalition for Japan's national security in 1930-1933
Trivedi, Shefali (2003) Caste and contentious politics : state-society interactions and non-Brahman movements in the Madras and Bombay Presidencies, 1880-1940
Yang, Alan (2003) Mass opinion change and social activism :b the politics of Knowledge and the Modern Lesbian and Gay Movement
2002 DISSERTATIONS
Adamson, Fiona (2002) Mobilizing at the margins of the system : the dynamics and security impacts of transnational mobilization by non-state actors
Aoi, Chiyuki (2002) Conditions for change in the norms governing humanitarian intervention : national interest, human rights, and justifiability of intervention
Blomqvist, Paula (2002) Idea and policy convergence : health care reforms in the Netherlands and Sweden in the 1990s
Carter, Miguel (2002) Ideal interest mobilization : explaining the formation of Brazil's landless social movement
Fine, Allison (2002) Dealing away risk : the political economy of private foreign investment in emerging telecommunications markets
Kanatsu, Takashi (2002) Technology, industrial organization & industrial policy : governments of South Korea & Taiwan in information technology industrial development
Nascimento, Paul (2002) War-proneness and peaceful disposition in democratizing states of the third wave : the case of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Argentina and Russia
Oros, Andrew (2002) The politics of domestic antimilitarism : state identity in Japan's arms export and outer space use policies
Pettus, Katherine Irene (2002) Felony disenfranchisement in the contemporary United States : an ancient practice in a modern polity
Powell, Leslie (2002) Civil society from above : mobilizing civic environmental advocacy in the post-Soviet Russian regions
Segura-Ubiergo, Alex (2002) Globalization, domestic politics and the welfare state in the developing world : Latin America in comparative perspective 1973-1997
Shankar, Shylashri (2002) The war of the worlds : political equality and religious freedom in India and Israel
Sheetz, Mark (2002) Continental drift : Franco-German relations and the shifting premises of European security
Sieff, Michelle (2002) Reconciling oder and justice? : dealing with the past in post-conflict states
Sylva, Douglas (2002) From radical incommensurability to sacred incommensurability : a reassessment of the sources, definitions, and implications of value incommensurability
Taubman, Geoffry (2002) Keeping out the outside world : blocking the cross-national diffusion of ideas and information and the risks of international cooperation
2001 DISSERTATIONS
Behar, Moshe (2001) Nationalism at its edges : Arabized-Jews and the unintended consequences of Arab and Jewish nationalism, 1917-1967
Brender, Richard (2001) Workers' of Quebec, Secede! : Quebec's labor unions and Canadian national unity, 1960-1976
Crawford, Timothy (2001) Pivotal deterrence and peacemaking : bargaining, leverage, and third party statecraft
Flibbert, Andrew (2001) Commerce in culture : institutions, markets, and competition in the world film trade
Gould, John (2001) Beyond creation owners : privatization and democratization in the Slovak and Czech Republics, 1990-1998
León, José (2001) State capacity, state autonomy and economic performance : industrial policy in Mexico, 1950-2000.
Midford, Paul (2001) Making the best of a bad reputation : Japanese and Russian grand strategies in East Asia
Minushkin, Susan (2001) Opening the floodgates : explaining financial market opening in developing countries
Nizamuddin, Ali (2001) Declining risk, the advent of liberalization, and state-multinational bargaining : Japanese automobile investment in India, Indonesia, and Malaysia
O'Brien, Karen (2001) Patterns of modernization and mobilization : nationalist movements and political patronage in Transcaucasia and Central Asia
Satyanath, Shanker (2001) Doomed to fail? : developing democracies, bank regulation, and the precipitation of currency crises under liberal capital flows
Schierholz, Thomas (2001) Imagining public health : ideas and the politics of making AIDS prevention policy in the United States and Brazil, 1981-1995
Sunami, Atsushi (2001) Learning from the Japanese : research & development policies of the UK and the US in the 1980s
Tao, Yifeng (2001) Reclaiming the commanding heights amid political succession the political economy of financial reform in post-Deng China
Tobias, Sarah (2001) Coexisting with cacophony : affirming discordant voices in feminist ethics and politics
Turner, Michael (2001) Technology, ideas and institutions : telecommunications regime change in the United States, Sweden and Japan
Varisco, Susan Leah (2001) Narrative decisionmaking and the Clinton Administration's peacekeeping experiment
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2001) Trading order for justice? : prosecuting war criminals in the aftermath of conflict
2000 DISSERTATIONS
Aras, Nandita (2000) The social bases of support for Hindu nationalism and Hindu nationalist parties
Austin, Marc (2000) Competing for global standards : the political economy of international standard setting in high technology industries
Bejarano, Ana Maria (2000) Perverse democratization : pacts, institutions, and problematic consolidation in Colombia and Venezuela
Chadwick, Bruce (2000) Democratic environments : democratization and the search for sustainable development in Brazil
Chambers, Michael (2000) Explaining China's allianes : balancing against regional and superpower threats
Crowley, Monica (2000) "Clearer than Truth" : Determining and Preserving Grand Strategy ; the evolution of American policy toward the People's Republic of China under Truman and Nixon
Hui, Tin-bor (2000) Rethinking war, state formation, and system formation : a historical comparison of ancient China, 659-221 BC, and early modern Europe, 1495-1815 AD
Kim, Taehwan (2000) Resisting the market : the politics of hierarchies and networks in Russian fuel and metallurgy industries
Langohr, Vickie (2000) Religious nationalism 101 : how the growth of state educational systems strengthened religious nationalist movements in colonial-eara Egypt, North India, and Indonesia
Lapinski, John (2000) Representation and reform : a Congress centered approach to American political development
Negretto, Gabriel (2000) Constitution-making and institutional design : distributing power between government and opposition in three Argentine constitutions (1853-60, 1949, 1994)
Rendall, Matthew (2000) Russia, the concert of Europe and the Near East, 1821-41 : a status quo state in the Vienna system
Spangler, Abigail (2000) The politics of disease : social movement responses to AIDS, breast cancer, and prostate cancer in the United States
Stanclik, Katarzyna (2000) Losing faith in miracles : electoral institutions, informational uncertainty and the formation of party systems in new democracies
Stroschein, Sherrill (2000) Contention and coexistence : Hungarian minorities and inter-ethnic relations in Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine
Sun, Zhe (2000) Party and parliament in a reforming socialist state : the remaking of the National People's Congress in China, 1979-1999
Toga, Dawit (2000) Superpower rivalry and regional conflicts in the Horn of Africa : Shifting alliances, strategic choice, and domestic politics
Vargas-Ramos, Carlos (2000) The effects of return migration on political participation in Puerto Rico
Waller, Wynne (2000) Presidential leadership and pblic opinion : polling in the Ford and Carter administrations
Western, Jon W. (2000) Warring ideas : explaining U.S. military intervention in regional and civl conflicts
Zuern, Elke (2000) Democracy from the grassroots? : civic participation and the decline of participatory democracy in South Africa's transformation process, 1979-1999
1999 DISSERTATIONS
Baldwin, Paul (1999) Innovative technology, competitiveness, and policy choices at international environmetal negotiations
Bamrungsuk, Surachart (1999) From dominance to power sharing : the military and politics in Thailand, 1973-1992
Belev, Boyan (1999) Forcing Freedom : political control of privatization and economic opening in Egypt and Tunisia
Blyth, Mark (1999) Great transformation : economic ideas and political change in the Twentieth Century
Burt, Josephine (1999) Failing states and political vacuums : the struggle for local power and the demise of democracy in Peru, 1980-1995
Chase, Judith (1999) Placating the President : legislative struggle and surrender in Russia, 1993-1996
Cooley, Alexander (1999) Depending fortunes : aid, oil and the formation of the post-Soviet, post-colonial states
Elman, Colin (1999) The logic of emulation : the diffusion of military practices in the international system
Magadía, José Cecilio (1999) Interest representation in public policy deliberations in post-authoritarian Philippines
McAllister, James (1999) The reluctant pacifier : America, the German Question, and the future of Europe
Pelaghias, Christodoulos (1999) Resolving ethnic conflict : a structural and systemic analysis, the case of Cyprus
Penfold-Becerra, Michael (1999) Institutional electoral incentives and decentralization outcomes : comparing Colombia and Venezuela
Schiemann, John (1999) "Risk, radicalism, and regime change : institutional choice in Hungary, 1989"
Seijo, Francisco (1999) The politics of fire : agrarian change and peasant resistance in Galicia, Spain from 1940 to 1992/
Selverston, Melina (1999) Contemporary indigenous politics in Ecuador : the contribution of ethno-nationalism to democratization
Smith, Raymond (1999) Overcoming the collective action dilemma : political participation in lesbian-gay-bisexual pride marches
Sperling, Katherine (1999) The forgotten dimension of financial globalization : how incoming capital flow composition affects state-business power resource balance and capital control policy in Mexico, Zaire, Argentina and the Philippines from 1975-1995
Tsai, Kellee (1999) Banking behind the state : private entrepreneurs and the political economy of informal finance in China, 1978-1998
Ugalde, Luis (1999) Executive-legislative relations in Mexico : the case of legislative oversight of public expenditures, 1970-1998
1998 DISSERTATIONS
Bose, Sumantra (1998) Democracy and national self-determination : institutional structure in Eastern Europe, Southern Europe and Southern Asia
Fioretos, Karl (1998) Anchoring adjustment : globalization, varieties of capitalism, and the domestic sources of multilateralism
Goldstein, Gordon (1998) Leadership, multilateral security, and coercive cooperation : the role of the UN Security Council in the Persian Gulf War
Groombridge, Mark (1998) The politics of industrial bargaining : the reconstructuring of State-owned enterprises in the People's Republic of China, 1978-1995
Ide, Marianne (1998) Reagan justice : civil rights litigation in a changing institutional environment
Johnson, Kimberly (1998) Governing the American states : federalism, Congress and public policy, 1877-1931
Kirschner, Kenneth Allen (1998) Spanning the levels : cognitive schemata as systemic structures in International Relations/
Martin-Gonz'alez, F'elix Esteban (1998) The longer peace in South America, 1935-1995 : the analysis and explanation of its causes and conditions
Massad, Joseph (1998) Identifying the Nation : the juridical and military bases of Jordanian national identity
Norgren, Christiana A. E. (1998) Abortion before birth control : the politics of reproduction in postwar Japan
O'Neill, Katherine Melinda (1998) International and domestic environmental regulation : the international trade in hazardous wastes among OECD countries
Ohara, Masayo (1998) The long and winding road to demogratic peace : industrialization and war in the Modern World
Park, Cheol Hee (1998) Electoral strategies in urban Japan : how institutional change affects strategic choices
Press-Barnathan, Galia (1998) Choosing cooperation strategies : the United States and regional arrangements in Asia and Europe in the early post-W.W.II years
Seferiades, Seraphim (1998) Working-class movements, 1780s-1930s, a European macro-historical analytical framework and a Greek case study
Spirtas, Michael (1998) With and without British and French policies toward economic and military cooperation
Stromseth, Jonathan (1998) Reform and response in Vietnam : state-society relations and the changing political economy
Weinthal, Erika (1998) Making or breaking the State? : building institutions for regional cooperation in the Aral Sea Basin
Wu, Jieh-min (1998) Local property rights regime in socialist reforms : a case of China's informal privatization
1997 DISSERTATIONS
Alexander, Girrard (1997) Rational choices and regime preferences : democratcic breakdown, transition, and consolidation in Spain, 1931-1986
Barnes, Douglas Alan (1997) Responding to new issues : case studies in the adaptability of established parties
Bird, Colin Peter (1997) The myth of liberal individualism : conceptions of collectivity and social agency in contemporary liberal theory
Burgerman, Susan Diane (1997) The evolution of compliance : the human rights regime, transnational networks, and united nations peacebuilding
Buyske, Susan Gail (1997) The development of financial systems in post-Socialist economies : Estonia, Russia and Hungary
Carey, Henry Frank (1997) Electoral regimes and democratic development in less developed countries : a cross-regional comparison of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, Romania, Pakistan and the Philippines
Costa, Thomaz Guedes da (1997) The formation of defense policy in Brazil : grand strategy and air power politics and doctrine during the Cold Ward (1945-1974)
Heinrich, L. William (1997) Seeking an honored place : the Japanese self-defense forces and the use of armed force abroad
Hsu, Zsu-chien (1997) The impact of rural industrialization on local state agents in post-Mao China, 1980-1994 : a comparative study of four coastal rural townships
Matthews, John Casley (1997) Domestic incentives and international opportunities : explaining aggressive foreign policies of successor states
Montero, Alfred P. (1997) Shifting states in uneven markets : Political decentralization and subnational industrial policy in contemporary Brazil and Spain
Park, Hahn-Kyu (1997) International nuclear nonproliferation pressure and Japan's domestic policy response : a comparison of plutonium utilization policies in the 1970s and the 1990s
Reinhardt, Eric Richard (1997) Posturing parliaments : ratification, uncertainty, and international bargaining
Segal, Jacob (1997) A theory of republican liberalism : the ideas of temporality and virtue in the political thought of Michael Oakeshott and Hunnah Arendt
Sinai, Joshua (1997) Resolving insurgencies : a comparative study of Sri Lanka, Britain and Northern Ireland, Israel and the Palestinians, and El Salvador
Takenaka, Akira (1997) N̕ation ̕and citizenship in Germany and Japan : a comparative study of citizenship policies toward immigrants and ethnic 'others'
UNgar, Mark Danaiel (1997) Courting justice : rule of law reform and democratization in Argentina and Venezuela
Venkateswar, Shyama (1997) Hindu nationalism in India : the impact of political and social realignments
1996 DISSERTATIONS
Adler, Edward Scott (1996) Changing the rules of the game : distributive, informational and partisan approaches to congressional reform
Candland, Christopher D. (1996) Economic legacies of political regimes : labor institutions and structural adjustment in India and Pakistan
Gavroglou, Stavros P. (1996) Labor's power and industrial performance : automobile production regimes in the U.S., Germany and Japan
Shieh, Shawn Shih-hung (1996) The entrepreneurial state : local governments, property rights, and China's transiton from state socialism, 1978-1990
Thomas, Stuart Chalker (1996) Clientelistic politics : the case of Agrarian Reform in Chile, 1967-1976
1995 DISSERTATIONS
Mesquita Neto, Paulo de (1995) From intervention to participation : the transformation of military politics in Brazil, 1974-1992
Murray, Brian Joseph (1995) Western versus Chinese realism : Soviet-American diplomacy and the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950
Scobell, Andrew Charles (1995) Civil-military relations in the Peopole's Republic of China in comparative perspective
Shehadi, Kamal S. (1995) Great powers, international institutions, and the creation of national states : a comparative study of the management of self-determination conflicts by the Concert of Europe, the League of Nations, and the United Nations
Smith, Robert Courtney (1995) "Los ausentes siempre presentes" : the imagining, making and politics of a transnational migrant community between Ticuani, Puebla, Mexico and New York City
Suzuki, Takaaki (1995) The international and domestic politics of Japanese government spending in the 1970s and 1980s
1994 DISSERTATIONS
Adler, Glenn Martin (1994) "The factory belongs to all who work in it" : race, class, and collective action in the South African motor industry, 1967-1986
Dillman, Bradford Louis (1994) The failure of Algerian development : dirigisme and the limits on state intervention in the private sector, 1970-1991
Elmandjra, Kenza Saadi (1994) Mediation during pre-negotiations in wartime : mediation efforts during the Iran-Iraq War (1980/1988)
Speakman, Jay (1994) A continuity of discord : responses of the Western allies to the Soviet invasion of Afghjanistan
1993 DISSERTATIONS
Christensen, Thomas J. (1993) Domestic mobilization and international conflict : Sino-American relations in the 1950s
Harrison, Hope Millard (1993) The bargaining power of weaker allies in bipolarity and crisis : the dynamics of Soviet-East German relations, 1953-1961
Howell, Alfred H. (1993) American educational ideals and practices and the Arab world : the case of alumni support for the American University of Beirut
Shi, Mingzheng (1993) Beijing transforms: urban infrastrucutre, public works, and social change in the Chinese capital, 1900-1928
1992 DISSERTATIONS
Nylen, William R. (1992) Small business owners fight back non-elite capital activism in "democrating Brazil" (1978-1990)
Radu, Michael (1992) The foreign policy of the African People's Republics : Angola, Mozambique, Congo and Benin, 1975-1981
Tabusa, Keiko (1992) Nuclear politics : exploring the nexus between citizens' movements and public policy in Japan
Weaver, Jefferson Hane (1992) State sovereignty in outer space : evaluating the theoretical utility of the classical realist and functionalist models as applied to the COPUOS remote sensing negotiations
1991 DISSERTATIONS
Sales, William W. (1991) Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity : a case study of Afro-American nationalism
1987 DISSERTATIONS