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Warning Intelligence in Nuclear Crisis Management: Avoiding Catastrophic Miscalculation
(2018-07-23)
Despite efforts to reduce nuclear weapons proliferation and the general norm against nuclear weapons use which has survived since 1945, the threat of nuclear war between the United States and Russia continues. The United ...
Modernization and ethnicity in China: a study of everyday ethnicity and urban renewal in Hui neighborhoods
(2017-07-12)
Though much of the international attention given to China’s ethnic politics focuses on minority groups’ resistance to the Chinese state, relations between the state and ethnic Hui Muslims are not marked by resistence, ...
The role of scientists and scientific information in public policy decisions: The case of drought planning.
(2005)
In addition to general interaction between the two communities, differences within elements of the communities also are highlighted. Scientists interact with policy-makers and the public at-large through several different ...
How Far "Above the Fray"? Unpacking the Mechanisms of the Monarchical Advantage in the Arab Uprisings
(2018-05)
Every one of the eight monarchies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remained standing in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings, giving rise to claims of a “monarchical advantage” or “monarchical exceptionalism.” ...
Form Factors: Chicano Movement Form and the Factors that Influenced it in Los Angeles and San Antonio
(2022-07-18)
This dissertation has two goals. The first goal is to understand better the Chicano Movement, which is understudied in political science. The second goal is to find which movement theory best explains why movements take ...
Eastern Efficacy: Political Participation of Post-Communist Women
(2011)
My dissertation tackles an important question of democratic transition by addressing the apparent lack of political participation, specifically low intensity participation (LIP), of women across much of post-communist ...
Interest group federalism: Indian gaming and the status of Indian tribes in the American political system.
(1997)
This dissertation seeks to answer the question, "What is the status of Indian tribes in the American political system at the end of the twentieth century" by studying how New Mexico and Oklahoma tribes have attempted to ...
GOVERNANCE, IDEOLOGY, CITIZEN PERCEPTIONS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE NUCLEAR WASTE STALEMATE IN USA
(2020-07-23)
This dissertation research examines the prolonged nuclear stalemate in USA by investigating “the NIMBY syndrome” or the local opposition to spent nuclear fuel siting policy options from a public policy perspective. Nuclear ...
“It Takes a Village”: A Re-examination of Black-Interest Advocacy, Collective Representation, & the Modern Congressional Black Caucus
(2020)
This project has three explicit goals in mind. First, I aim to uncover how the CBC constructs and communicates their collective worldview to the institution. Existing literature has been essential to improving our understanding ...
The political outsiders;
(1977)