This dissertation is comprised of three essays on the political economy of the Philippines. It combines a variety of methods---historical and qualitative analysis, interviews, and statistical analysis---to examine various aspects of the interaction of politics and economics in t…
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This PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to instituti…
Research into the European Union (EU) increasingly focuses on the policy-making processes which take place within the EU, as distinct from trying to explain or predict the broad phenomenon of European integration. This thesis adopts a similar focus on EU policy-making. Policy-ma…
This dissertation addresses the question how democracies defend themselves from political parties and groups which profess antidemocratic values and use violence as one of the means to achieve their goals. In particular this dissertation analyses the range of formal-legal measur…
The study of international politics has undergone a profound re-consideration of disciplinary assumptions about religion since the end of the Cold War. From Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations to Peter Berger's Desecularization of the World, scholars are attempting to ide…
This thesis examines through the means of a comparative perspective, factors which have allowed the British National Party to enjoy recent electoral success at the local level under the leadership of party chairman Nick Griffin. Such electoral successes have arisen despite the s…
Existing theories of party organisation, and political communication and marketing, address the issue of party evolution and electoral behaviour from opposing and largely one-dimensional angles. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a more integrated perspective to party camp…
In the years preceding the Third Wave of democracy, the prevailing belief was that democracy in Africa will not flourish unless it delivers the crucial economic goods its citizens live and die for. In an area of the world where poverty is highlighted, the individual pursuit of i…
The growing prominence of religious parties in global politics raises pressing questions. Why do religious parties feature prominently in some elections and not in others? How do patterns of religious mobilization change over time? What role do religious traditions play in shapi…
This dissertation is an investigation of the aftermath of the Arab Spring protests of 2011-2012 and their consequences for impacting contemporary discussions and efforts to promote "internet freedom" by Western democratic states. This study focuses on the key stakeholder communi…
Hassan II ruled as the highly-centralized king of Morocco from 1961 through 1999, one of the longest uninterrupted reigns in late twentieth-century history. Unlike most other Arab kings who survived the sociopolitical pressures encapsulated by Samuel Huntington as "the king's di…
This dissertation examines the links between electoral reform and political party system development in new democracies where iterated reforms are increasingly common, requiring an understanding of their causes and short-term consequences. It examines this relationship in detail…
This dissertation uses the literature of comparative politics to answer an international relations question: what causes state alignment? It assesses the significance of ethnic divisiveness, as well as the international system, as states engage in omnibalancing. The thesis focus…
What factors account for variation in Nigeria's government performance since independence? I dispute explanations based on regime type, fiscal resources, and ethnic diversity. My hypothesis tests for a causal relationship between the number of policy actors and two broad categor…
This study investigates the complex processes of political change taking place in Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. The primary task is to explain the dynamics of the transition toward democratization by analyzing how political actors pursue their preferences in a milieu of autocratic co…
Why do Muslim-majority states adopt some policies to improve women's lives but reject others? Despite concerted local and international pressure on states to adopt policies promoting women's rights, not all policies are adopted. Existing explanations focus on the role of women's…
This project examines the impact of religiosity and religious organizations on the cultural and civic integration processes of Muslim immigrant women in non-Muslim host societies. Using a multi-method research design consisting of original survey data and qualitative interviews …
In the last two decades, we have seen a significant surge in the number of Islamic fundamentalist movements, and there has not been a concise reason as to why. The main objective of this research is to determine the causes of Islamic fundamentalism, and, in so showing that an Is…