The theory of this dissertation posits that variations in the foreign policies of different types of authoritarian regimes can be explained by focusing on the nature and interaction of three crucial domestic-level variables: the level of political capacity of the regime; whether…
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The argument that globalization ‘withers away’ the state has become a commonly accepted thesis in the social sciences. Those advocating the ‘globalization thesis’ argue that globalization's impact on the scope and speed of interactions makes it impossible for the state to contin…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between adult participants' ratings of their mother's and father's parenting styles and participants' levels of nonviolence in adulthood. Utilizing Baumrind's (1971) typology of authoritarian, authoritative and permissive…
This dissertation posits that the relationship between processes of regime change and cultural pluralism are mutually informing. It explains why it is possible that, despite the recurrence of ethnic tensions in a multicultural state like the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a cou…
My dissertation focuses on the activities of the human rights organization LBH (Lembaga Bantuan Hukum, the Legal Aid Institute) in Indonesia as a case study to assess its role in the rise of civil society, and possibly democratization. I argue that the academic foci on democrati…
Since the 1970s, authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have been enacting rule-of-law reforms--political and institutional changes codified legally--with greater frequency, despite the uncertainty and moderate risk reforms introduce. Autocrats in the r…
This study attempts to explore the strategies that have succeeded in preventing democracy from establishing itself as a viable system of government in the Middle East. It measures authoritarian success not only by total years of non-democratic rule, but also through an assessmen…
Capable and accountable public authority has proven elusive throughout the developing world, but not entirely unattainable. Southeast Asia exhibits as much if not more cross-case variation than any other region in terms of both state capacity and levels of democratic accountabil…
From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis seeks to evaluate the role of Torri…