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Most models of property rights assume they are supplied by the state on demand from society. Property rights are strong when state institutions enforce the law. The strength of state institutions in the provinces determines how well property rights will be enforced on the ground…

This thesis examines the effects of foreign direct investment on Kazakhstan's political growth. Kazakhstan's transition to a market economy was plagued by corruption, and heavy investment in the oil industry generated resource dependency concerns. The regime later began to exert…

Since freeing itself from the autocratic control of the former Communist regime, the republic of Tajikistan has confronted numerous problems of underdevelopment which threaten to sink the republic in a new wave of authoritarianism and misery. Implementing democratic reforms aime…

The Hebrew Bible places Edom's foundation within the narrative context of Israel's Exodus from Egypt that scholars have traditionally dated to the thirteenth–twelfth centuries BCE. Assyrian, local Edomite documents, and material cultural remains, however, indicate that Edom deve…

This is a study of comparative political development. It focuses on Nigeria and draws on the political and constitutional developments of some selected countries from three different socio-cultural and historical perspectives. The study examines how political culture plays a rol…

Political scientists studying the United States usually limit their explanatory variables to those that can be found within the nation's borders. This standard approach omits an important causal factor: foreign wars. The under-appreciation of major U.S. wars as a causal variable…