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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…

This dissertation analyzes demographic and geographic conditions that may be associated with conflict. The first chapter investigates the relationship between subnational ethnic composition and the spread of conflict. I find that conflict arises in ethnically diverse areas only …

This dissertation addresses the political-economy implications of income distribution within a society. The first essay studies inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that under some conditions, increasing group incomes raises violence against tha…

In order to protect critical military and commercial space assets, the United States Space Surveillance Network must have the ability to positively identify and characterize all space objects. Unfortunately, positive identification and characterization of space objects is a manu…

This thesis reports on the research outcome of corrosion mechanism and corrosion rate of mild steel in different environments (saline, alkaline solutions and concrete media) using potentiodynamic polarization technique. The study also included the effect of corrosion on bond str…

This dissertation explores how social networks affect economic wellbeing, with a focus on the impact of social capital on in asset accumulation and asset distribution. The first essay of this dissertation examines the idea that how wealth is distributed across social groups fund…

X-ray polarimetry is a prime tool to investigate the unexplored compact sources and to provide crucial information that other techniques can not produce. By measuring the degree and orientation of the polarization of radiation from a cosmic source, unique inferences about the mo…

Silicon monoxide maser emission has been detected in many evolved stars in circumstellar envelopes in different vibrationally-excited rotational transitions. It is considered a good tracer to study the dynamics in a region close to the photosphere of the star. We present multi-e…

Religion and politics are two controversial topics that are deeply rooted in the identity of an individual, and have caused a number of online arguments across different social networking sites (SNS). Research has been conducted looking at how these variables are related, but no…

Polarimetric imaging is a growing topic of interest in computer vision for resolving the toughest edge cases and adversarial problems in detection and reconstruction where traditional RGB imaging falls short. The greater the fidelity of these polarimetric models, the more effect…

Following a period of relative political inactivity dating to the 1920s, the 1960s saw evangelical elites engage in politics in ways that some leaders had decried only a decade earlier. At the same time, lay evangelicals began a partisan realignment, shifting from majority Democ…

Climate change is a politically fraught policy domain. It is beset by complications including a long-term time frame, increasing severity, time-inconsistent preferences resulting in irrational economic discounting, low incentives for responsible parties to act, and more. Moreove…

Scholars are concerned established democracies have become vulnerable. For example, some argue illiberalism is more likely to prevail when citizens are deeply polarized. In addition, studies show public policies often align with the preferences of strong lobby groups and the ric…