"In The Whips, C. Lawrence Evans offers a comprehensive, systematic, and historical exploration of party coalition building and legislative strategy in the U.S. House and Senate, ranging from the relatively bipartisan, committee-dominated chambers of the 1950s to the highly pola…
"Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse. While the contrast between the countries that have escaped from the crisis relatively quickly and those still suffering from serious problems is beco…
"How do advocates for the poor gain influence in American policymaking? Strange Bedfellows argues that groups representing low-income populations compensate for a lack of resources by collaborating with diverse partners in their lobbying efforts. This study develops a theory of …
"How do advocates for the poor gain influence in American policymaking? Strange Bedfellows argues that groups representing low-income populations compensate for a lack of resources by collaborating with diverse partners in their lobbying efforts. This study develops a theory of …
"Understanding Ecological Programming: Merging Theory, Research, and Practice contains vital information to help you become a better community-based youth program designer using ecological programming. Focused on the basic concept of the ecological programming model-that people'…
"The millions of Egyptians who returned to the heart of Cairo and Egypt's other major cities for 18 days until the eventual toppling of the Mubarak regime were orderly without an organisation, inspired without a leader, and single-minded without one guiding political ideology. T…
A central debate in the Comparative Foreign Policy literature concerns the role of government composition on the international behavior of parliamentary democracies. For the past two decades, a multitude of studies have discussed whether single-party governments were more or les…
Most studies of post-colonial political development focus on the reasons why states in the developing world typically have not generated high levels of state capacity akin to those found in Europe. This wrongly implies relative uniformity in outcomes. In fact, there is substanti…
Economic crises place great pressures on authoritarian regimes. Why do some authoritarian regimes survive economic crises by adopting adjustment policies that their supporters demand, while other authoritarian regimes offer inconsistent adjustment policies and subsequently colla…
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, social justice activists in the United States initiated two coalition based campaigns aimed at ameliorating the violence associated with extractive industries in Angola, Sierra Leone and Sudan. The ideological diversity and the disparate intere…
Survivor is often credited with launching the reality television fad of the 2000s and remains a widely popular show today, yet very few empirical studies have focused on this topic. This paper examines the factors affecting whether an alliance will stay together or break apart. …
Previous scholars have addressed the principle of church-state separation and education in the courts as well as by the political process. Little in previous works addresses the impact of principles and politics upon one another in modern education policy. The reason for, this i…
In the past few decades, numerous countries around the world have gone through a process of political liberalization. These political liberalizations have occurred contemporaneously with increasing trade integration among countries around the world. This dissertation examines th…
The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) developed by Hank Jenkins-Smith and Paul Sabatier assumes but is not necessarily limited to a Western-style democratic politic system. This project applied the ACF to three policy subfields within the Egyptian housing arena: Rent control, d…
The end of the Cold War has changed the international political system and this has changed the strategic landscape for the United States. Though a major threat has been removed, the new security environment has important implications for U.S, national security policy and milita…
The dissertation examines the conditions under which social movements were able to successfully campaign for democratic change with recourse to progressive Islamic discourses in one case, Indonesia, and not the other, Iran. While both societies have generated over the past half …
Analysis of political events which lead up to the storming to power of Syriza in Greece in January 2015. Beginning with the origins of the turbulent Greek political climate; from the postwar beginnings of the KKE and the worker's movement, encompassing the civil war, the rise an…
