This thesis examines Democratic and Republican party platforms over the 1980–2016 period in a content analysis to test claims of partisanship increasing on identity lines in American politics. As a key issue facing democracies in recent years, polarization has coincided with cha…
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This dissertation systematically explores the origins and evolution of the charter school movement in the United States from 1985 to 2015. I begin by analyzing the role of governors in K-12 education policymaking and find that while governors have generally placed greater emphas…
In the period between the Vietnam war and the Iraq war, the U.S. military community became highly partisan and disproportionately Republican, with substantial effects on the politics of national security issues in the United States. Recent evidence, however, suggests that partis…
This dissertation presents a unified redistributive theory of public education spending. The project develops a formal model of the cross-cutting redistributive forces that determine political preferences over education and develops from these a series of hypotheses about the ke…
Speculative attacks have successively occurred in the past forty years among Latin America, Europe, East Asian, Russia, Turkey, and the United States. Economists have provided explanation for the incidence of speculative attacks. They argue that inconsistent policy and incomplet…
Once an essential part of selecting presidential nominees, national presidential conventions have dramatically changed in recent decades. In part due to the shifts in media and the rise of personalized politics, conventions now represent a form of political theater. While previo…
Political and religious identities are tightly interwined in the U.S. today. Political attachments causally affect decisions to join and leave organized religion. While the effect of politics on broad religious affiliation is well-documented, the effect on churchgoers' decisions…
The recent rise of political polarization and political appeals against social cohesion and integration has posed unique challenges to civil society. In the U.S., through a growing convergence of social and political identities, individuals make sense of the world and understand…
January 6th, 2021 was a significant moment in the history of the United States of America. Protestors stormed the Capitol building over the results of the 2020 presidential election in which Joseph R. Biden defeated incumbent president Donald J. Trump. The Capitol riots were par…
Political science research has often examined how the actions of the police affect the public. Yet, there has been little research to examine the broader political effects of controversial policing incidents, such as police shootings. Since 2014, the U.S. public has seen, read, …
The Ukrainian diaspora in the U.S. is a growing group whose American partisanship has scarcely been examined outside of diaspora-related media. This study makes use of interviews with Ukrainians in the Seattle metropolitan area to uncover how Ukrainians in the U.S. make and expl…
Why do we like the things that we like? Why do our tastes change over time, and why are we unable to predict these changes in advance? Despite a long tradition of research into these questions, it remains notoriously difficult to predict which previously unpopular and unfashiona…
A standard practice in the sociological and comparative politics literature is to interpret ethnicity broadly as identity cleavages deriving from non-class categories such as language, religion, race and caste. In recent decades, conflicts between ‘ethnic’ communities, i.e., gro…
Since the new millennium, major Anglophone authors, including Colson Whitehead, Max Brooks, Sandra Newman, Lionel Shriver, Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Chris Beckett, Omar El Akkad and Christopher Brown have popularised post-apocalyptic genre fiction. This popularity appea…