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This dissertation examines the conditions that have compressed social relations and political order in Tanzania, in order to understand when and why social unity and state-society relations unravel. Further, this dissertation sheds light on the type of cleavages emerging from lo…

My dissertation is a cross-regional, mixed-methods comparison of the causal effects of changes in the level of economic liberalization upon the onset of ethnic conflict. The conventional wisdom, both in economics and political science, has argued that there is a strong linear re…

Compared to many of her counterparts, which started their privatization adventure at similar levels of economic development, Turkey's experience with privatization was extraordinarily protracted. Only by the turn of the millennium did the course of Turkey's exceptionally delayed…