From the arrival of the first European settlers, indigenous groups in the Americas have experienced near-constant extraction of their land, labor, and capital, but they have also sometimes been offered greater autonomy over their local affairs. This dissertation explores the eme…
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Under what conditions do multiethnic political parties win elections in deeply divided societies? Using the cases of India, Indonesia, and South Africa, this dissertation first argues that the nature of liberation movements creates a soft path dependence that affects party forma…
This dissertation begins by uncovering a puzzle in Spain's two North African cities: why are significantly fewer native-born and foreign-born residents of Melilla Spanish citizens than comparable residents of Ceuta, despite the two cities sharing many social, political, economic…
What explains the variation in ethnic conflict in federal systems? Existing theory and empirical evidence are mixed, with some saying it decreases violence, and some saying increases it. This puzzle also leads to a number of research questions: why does federalism fail to resolv…
This dissertation examines the impact of patterns of political competition on the promotion of good governance in post-conflict societies. There is a well-established link between robust political competition and governments that govern well (Grindle 2007; Grzymala-Busse 2007; S…
Military coups have posed a persistent threat to political stability in Africa—undermining democratization efforts, initiating lasting cycles of intra-military violence, and even descending into civil war. Since decolonization, over 200 coup attempts have been made across the co…
Purpose . The purpose of this study was to examine the historical experiences of Nigerians under parliamentary and presidential governance, and military dictatorship. It also assessed Nigerian civic attitudes on the recent democratic developments in the country. This study exami…
The Arab-American community lies at the nexus of intersecting lines of political power, and is subject to pervasive discursive misrecognition, that is, the limiting of members' ability to act as persons capable of taking any position in ongoing social and political discourses. E…
In the study of ethnicity on public goods provision, the concept of ethnicity has largely been under specified, resulting in ambiguity in what specific attributes of ethnicity can prove to be deleterious to public goods provision. This dissertation focuses on how two specific as…
This study is about efforts to formally recognize ethnic places, or areas of noted ethnic spatial concentration. What we now see with efforts to formally recognize ethnic places is a sense of voluntary spatial concentration that is also actively claimed and asserted--i.e., volun…
Globalization, Informal Markets and the Collective Action. The Development of Islamic and Ethnic Politics in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia explains why structurally similar relationships to the international economy produce very different domestic political outcomes. Egypt, Sudan and…
This study examines ethnic politics as an explanation for the contrast in democratic performance of Taiwan and Malaysia, two ethnically bipolar states, from the 1950s to the early 1990s. During this period, the level of democracy increased in Taiwan but decreased in Malaysia. Gi…
Many observers attribute the United States' continued efforts to isolate the island of Cuba, its on-again, off-again involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its engagement and disengagement in the conflict in Northern Ireland to the influence of well-organized, well…
This dissertation presents three essays based on the theme of ethnicity and institutions, utilizing insights and data collected from Lebanon and Yemen, two Arab societies within which ethnicity (sect, tribe, and region) is salient socially and politically, but which use differen…
The dissertation examines the recent trend in several African states toward the use of more local languages in early education, a curious phenomenon given empirical and historical preference for linguistic homogeneity in state-building. The explanation for these recent changes r…
In this dissertation I examine the impact of transformation in opportunity space, organizational structure, and cultural framing efforts of the political actors on Kurdish political identity. Applying a synthesis of social movement theories and theories on nationalism, I seek to…
The pig industry in Malaysia is unique as it is controlled by ethnic Chinese in a country that is purportedly Islamic and led by Malay-Muslim political elites. Through first hand interviews (with pig farmers as well as industry officials and NGOs) and archival research, this stu…