Most LDC regimes, especially those with a colonial past, suffer from a deficit in legitimacy. Basing their rule on the personality and achievements of one person, these regimes have failed to pass on their legitimacy to their successors, or sometimes even secure legitimacy for t…
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The social and economic experiences of older people in Scotland over the past two centuries provides a particularised lens through which larger themes of change and adaptation may be analysed. Older age cohorts are examined as specific identity groups within the context of a soc…
Placing politics in time can greatly enrich our understanding of complex social dynamics. The question this thesis tries to answer is which mechanism led to the change in attitudes of the German Social Democratic Party and the British Labour Party towards the welfare state durin…
The first two chapters examine the party's policy towards the wage-stop and the poverty trap. Until 1963 the party ignored the wage-stop but from then until 1975 a section of the party campaigned against the regulation expressing moral revulsion and concern about its administrat…
Why has the Islamic Republic of Iran endured amidst recurring predictions of collapse due to war, social conflict, and economic turmoil? Existing explanations concentrate on the state's oil revenue, ideological orientation, and patron-client networks, but fail to account for the…
In a global interacting world, there is a natural tendency to look abroad, to see how other countries have responded to similar problems, and to share ideas and experience. This dissertation examines policy diffusion using a case study of a Welfare-to-Work reform from the United…
This Dissertation looks at the interactive relationship between welfare transfers, income distribution, and political stability. The main question is whether welfare transfers tend to reduce income inequality, while they enhance political instability, controlling for critical de…
This dissertation, "Authoritarian Regimes and Nongovernmental Organizations: Transitions in Health Care Provision in Central Asia," is a comparative analysis of why and how authoritarian regimes manipulate health care strategies as a tool of regime survival in post-Soviet Kazakh…