In 1991, Samuel Huntington identified what he called the “third wave” of democratization transforming the global political environment. Although an enormous body of literature has emerged to explain these democratic transitions, significantly less attention has been given to a n…
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This dissertation examines the contemporary (1985-1993) debate over the value basis of authority in Indonesian politics. It focuses on how Islamic organizations and their leaders, the Armed Forces, President Soeharto, and others, interpret the national ideology, Pancasila. For n…
In June 1992, when Yitzhak Rabin was elected to head Israel's government, a window of opportunity was opened for establishing a self-rule regime in the West Bank and Gaza that would incorporate substantial elements of pluralism. The key to building such a regime was local elites…
Can Islamic groups play a positive role in democratization? If so, under what conditions? I examine the case of Indonesia, where Islamic actors variously resisted, supported, and acquiesced with a secularist dictatorship over three decades. At the beginning of that timeframe, th…
This research project focuses on the states with emerging/transitional democracy from authoritarian governments in the Post-Cold War periphery world, namely, Andean South America (Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) and the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan). The study limits its…
This thesis examines whether and under what conditions the recent decentralization of irrigation management in Turkey can deepen democracy through a comparative study of irrigation management decentralization in two provinces in Turkey: Urfa and Aydin. In Turkey, the state agenc…
This study examines when, where and how meritocratic bureaucracies emerge in Africa. Meritocratic bureaucracies offer their employees rewarding career paths, performance incentives and adequate insulation from negative political interventions. They are a key component of develop…
Historically, the state has established patrimonial ties with relatively homogenous local elites, and used them to make rural life accessible and identifiable for the center. While rural life was reorganized chiefly in functional and territorial terms, the patrimonial ties were …
Though democratization has become a central element of the international prescription for peace after the Cold War, it often leads instead to violent internal conflict, usually between ethnic groups. This dissertation studies how to make democratization work for peace, supposing…
This study of recent Armenian identity politics raises two intertwined theoretical questions. First, it asks whether there can be contesting national identities in an ethnically homogeneous state. Second, following theoretical propositions of liberal nationalism it explores whet…
In this dissertation I explore the effects of domestic and international pressures on human rights accountability in states undergoing profound political transformations. My work is rooted in theories of democratization and transitional justice (those legal responses to a former…
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have similar colonial histories, population sizes and standards of living, yet they have very different experiences with democratization since transitioning from authoritarianism in the early 1990s. Data from various sources show that Mali has establ…
The dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of the European Union as an actor of peace in post-conflict Bosnia Herzegovina. While doing that it discusses the use of democratization as a form of peacebuilding in a post-conflict society. The EU membership perspective that has bee…
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…
This study is about democracy and its non-democratic institutions in an era of stalled liberalization. Among the states that have moved from authoritarianism in the past 15 years, most have not moved beyond the mere procedures of democracy. They remain entrenched in a "gray area…
The dissertation examines the rise of radical Islamist and Kurdish movements in Turkey and considers their possibility to moderate and integrate into plural political systems. In contrast to popular views, ethnic or religious demands are not always superior to economic interests…
How would globalization and democratization affect government education provision in East Asia? My dissertation conducts the first systematic statistical and comparative case study in South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong (before 1997), Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and T…
The question of the impact of privatizations on the process of democratization remains untouched in the political science literature. One of the best ways to study the linkages between privatizations and democratization is to analyze the changes in the group of society most affe…
Analysis of cross-sectional survey data at the country and individual level, as well as the results of an experiment conducted in Bosnia & Herzegovina, substantiate the Internet's interactive effect on satisfaction with democracy. Whereas the Internet positively influences democ…