Bolivia

This dissertation asks why authoritarian regimes are institutionalized in different ways and why they experience different outcomes. I have developed an elite conflict theory of authoritarianism and argue that how the distribution of power is institutionalized within a ruling co…

Global climate change is one of the defining issues of the 21st century. The phenomenon of natural climate variation being pushed beyond normal ranges has been fueled largely by industrial activities and those which support them (i.e. land-use change and the over-exploitation of…

The aim of this thesis is to show that poverty alleviation strategies need to be implemented more efficiently and urgently, despite the ongoing work of individual governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private foundations, and public-private partnerships, because th…

The shift from a domestic currency (peso) to dollar denominated deposits (deposit dollarization) in Argentina and Bolivia is explained with a nonlinear model that incorporates ratcheting effects, hysteresis and network externalities. There are two principal factors behind these …

This study examines the causes and consequences of repression and accommodation in post-internal war states. Elites' perceptions of their own vulnerability and subsequent war involvement in the aftermath of an internal war affect the choice between and among repressive and accom…

This dissertation analyzes the construction of the subaltern subject as an agent of cultural, social and political change based on the testimonies of Saturnino Huillca (Peru), Domitila Barrios de Chungara (Bolivia), and Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala). Testimonial literature is pro…

The government often calls for an orthodox or an unorthodox monetary reform to stabilize the rate of inflation and real exchange rate. Since the second World War, economies of many countries in the world have experienced persistently high rates of inflation and decline in the va…

The United States has engaged in widespread, varied, and comprehensive training of members of foreign militaries for more than half a century, but as the only remaining superpower, its increasing contact with foreign militaries is potentially more influential. Through a combinat…

Inclusion in the broad sense of access to, and participation in, public policy and services has been lacking in the majority of developing countries---whether authoritarian or democratic---due to highly skewed political, social and economic power structures. To understand why th…