Since Senegal's independence, scholars have critically examined each president on how his policies shaped contemporary Senegalese art and its promotion at home and abroad. The presidential patronage of the arts garners an international authority based on cultural supremacy. This…
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Numerous art historians and anthropologists such as Rudolf Wittkower, Michael Baxandal and Alfred Gell have addressed the question of how art reflected the people by and for whom it was produced in the context of different cultures and periods. In my dissertation, I intend to co…
South Africa has a ruling dominant party, the African National Congress (ANC), which has been in power since apartheid ended in 1994. In national elections, the ANC has consistently received an overwhelming majority of the vote, even though the majority of South Africa's citizen…
This study explores the role of the assassination of President James Abram Garfield and the midterm election of 1882 in compelling the 47 th Congress to pass the Pendleton Civil Service Act in January 1883. Relying on the manuscript collections of major Gilded Age political figu…
From Mussolini to Mao, from Kim Il Sung to Saddam, leader cults have been a staple feature of twentieth-century authoritarian politics. This dissertation examines the cult of Joseph Stalin from its inception in December 1929, the date of Stalin's fiftieth birthday, to his death …
In contrasting the political trajectories of two post-Soviet Central Asian states this study addresses one of the defining questions of political science: what factors shape regime change? Despite their shared seven decades of Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has, since communism's colla…
This thesis addresses the question of how the exalted Jesus relates to the God of Israel in Paul's theology, and the function of Jesus' subordination within that relationship. In approaching christology, scholars frequently turn to analogies that can shed light on the portrayal …
This thesis offers a new interpretation of the origins of eighteenth-century popular political consciousness in Scotland during the second half of the eighteenth century by considering the relationship between Presbyterianism, literacy and political activity, and it examines the…
The African state has received numerous analyses in academic literature. The vast majority of these studies focus on the essence of the state rather than how it is experienced and lived by its citizens and therefore sacrifice empirical knowledge of state function in favour of ab…
This thesis deals with the role of sponsorship and patronage in the process of migration and in the formation of Biraderi based relationships and various sociological questions posed in the local context within which ethnicity is a defining element. For example, it demonstrates …
This thesis analyses the emergence of Cuba as a sovereign nation, and the political corruption that plagued the republic. It investigates in detail, not only the independence movement that established this republic in its various wars against the Spanish empire, and its fracture…
This dissertation is an examination of Queen Melisende's piety, power, and patronage in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem of the twelfth century. The principal sources used to assess her reign are William of Tyre's A History of the Deeds Done Beyond the Sea and the royal charters i…
Since the Roman arch monument came into use some 2,200 years ago, it has been subject to an increasingly narrow range of interpretations. This dissertation aims to reveal the monument's original significance, which has become obscured by a steadfast triumphalist reading. Most an…
The assertion that corruption is not favorable for business is not new. In our research we concentrate on the opposite question: can business benefit from corrupt environment? We answer this question using firm-level data from Indonesia and use firm political connection as the p…
This dissertation examines the development of an Indo-Islamic capital city in the age of colonialism. Between 1750 and 1950, Hyderabad served as the capital of the Asaf Jahs (known more popularly as the Nizams), a dynasty whose sovereignty was constrained by the pressures of Bri…
Understanding the dynamics of regimes that combine the external trappings of democracy with the substance of authoritarian rule is a central puzzle facing comparative political scientists. Thus far, much of the literature addressing hybrid regimes has focused on the importance o…
Much attention has been paid to the religious practices and ideas of early Christianity. A fuller and more accurate picture of this religious community can be had by paying close attention to social values and behavior. One area in which Jesus and his followers taught substantia…
Since the Islamic Revolution, parastatal organizations have emerged as powerful economic actors in Iran. Vested initially with much of the expropriated wealth of the former elite, these institutions were intended to provide charitable assistance to politically favored strata, in…
In the late-fourth century of the Roman empire, the province of Cappadocia housed a population of persons from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. While other studies have emphasized the "christianization" of eastern Rome, this dissertation examines the manner through wh…