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Scholars and statesmen alike have often maintained that military institutions define the boundaries of the nation. Yet despite much suggestive commentary, a theory laying out the conditions under which and the causal pathways through which military institutions exert such effect…

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…

In this dissertation, I explain how the predominant concern among reformers and policymakers in education policy in the United States shifted from one focused on inequitable access in the 1960s to one focused on higher expectations of students and better standards in the 1980s a…