Institutional bypass is a reform strategy that creates alternative institutional regimes to give citizens a choice of service provider and create a form of competition between the dominant institution and the institutional bypass. While novel in the academic literature, the conc…
"Institutional bypass is a reform strategy that creates alternative institutional regimes to give citizens a choice of service provider and create a form of competition between the dominant institution and the institutional bypass. While novel in the academic literature, the con…
Institutional bypass is a reform strategy that creates alternative institutional regimes to give citizens a choice of service provider and create a form of competition between the dominant institution and the institutional bypass. While novel in the academic literature, the conc…
This dissertation focuses on external factors that influence the sustainability of a development assistance project (KIMEP) in the nation of Kazakhstan. I argue that ethno-political factors couple with presidential compliance dynamics are strong indicators of whether or not an i…
Scholarly attention on the global progress and measurement of democratic consolidation has recently included assessing the experience of the African states. Yet, more than a decade after the third wave of global democratization broke in Africa's shore there is still a dispute ov…
This dissertation analyzes the development of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim-American religious association, from the Iranian Revolution to the inauguration of our nation's first African-American president. This case study of ISNA, the largest Muslim-Ameri…
