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…
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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…