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In this dissertation I address the question of what accounts for the success or failure of privatization efforts in middle-income developing countries. I have looked for an answer in the context of the interaction between the central government as the major agent of the reform a…

On a general level, the problem taken up may be stated as that of the institutionalization of rational-legal rule in Iran, and its relation to Islam and the Islamic Law. The attempt to reconcile the principles of Islam with constitutionalism and parliamentary democracy has manif…

This dissertation argues that surveillance and social control in North Korea was always more complex than often depicted, even in the decades preceding the famine of the 1990s and early 2000s. At the same time, disobedience and resistance among the grassroots population did not …