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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Comparative politics"”.
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Women's Legislative Representation: Attitudes and Institutions
<p>Two theories from two approaches to comparative politics are combined in an attempt to explain women’s legislative representation, in the single or lower house, cross-nationally, from 1995 to 2020. Attitudes toward women as leaders, and two types of political institutions: electoral systems and …
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WESTMINSTER LEGACY? EXECUTIVE AGENDA CONTROL AND LEGISLATIVE TIME IN A MULTIPARTY PARLIAMENTTHE ISRAELI KNESSET IN COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
This dissertation resolves a central puzzle in comparative politics: how Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, built on a consensual electoral framework, exhibits the powerful executive agenda control characteristic of a majoritarian Westminster system. I argue this paradox is sustained by a …
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When is it Our Time?: An Event History Model of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Rights Policy Adoption
… collective action are fundamental questions in comparative politics. While examining social movements is worthwhile, it is important to examine not only when and why a social movement forms, but also when and why a social movement is successful. This dissertation tackles the latter of these …
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Does the European Union have a reverse gear? Environmental policy dismantling, 1992-2014
… It combines for the first time insights from comparative politics studies of dismantling with EU governance literature, to offer a theoretical framework specially configured to explaining dismantling at EU level. It investigates which EU environmental policies have been targeted for policy …
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Methodological Problems in Comparative and Cross -National Analysis: Applications of Fuzzy Set Theory
… particular how it can be applied in the field of comparative politics, my dissertation addresses three basic issues. First, I show how to scale membership functions, the primary quantities necessary for fuzzy set analysis. This has been a particular deficiency of fuzzy set theory. Second, I …
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Democratization and police reform
… other hand, it is a paper from the discipline of Comparative Politics. The combined attention to international and national factors influencing police reform is reflected by the structure of this paper. Chapter 3 examines police structures and police reforms in established democracies as possible …
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Interest groups, public opinion, and path dependence: how Canada and the U.S diverged on healthcare policy
Despite being comparatively similar countries, the United States and Canada have taken very different historical tracks to developing their respective health care systems. While Canada incrementally developed a system of universal coverage through national public insurance, the United States …
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Critical Events, Commitment, and the Probability of Civil War
… of civil war. According to the literature in comparative politics, regime breakdown is caused by critical events such as economic decline, defeat in interstate war, death of a leader in office, or changes is the international balance of power. Drawing on Powell (2004, 2006), I conceptualize …
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Religion, Electoral Rules and Women's Representation: A Cross National Examination
… gender and women studies through the lenses of comparative politics frameworks; i.e. political culture, structure and economy; there are many controversies and gaps in explaining why women are underrepresented and/or varied in national parliaments. The study examines women's representation …
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Varieties of Corruption: Differential Causes and Consequences
… and practical contributions to the field of comparative politics. I incorporate rational choice perspective to explain the differences between grand and petty corruption. I also develop new measures of grand and petty corruption and construct a panel dataset. The second chapter of this …
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Geopolitics, State-Formation and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario
… contrast, this thesis brings together, through a comparative perspective, different pieces of the interconnected histories of France, Britain, the United States, Ontario, and Quebec in order to show that capitalism did not arrive on the shores of the St. Lawrence River with the first settlers. The …
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Affirmative Action Reconceived: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Precommitments to Group Preferences for Racial Minorities and Women
… on constitutionalism, constitution-making, comparative politics and racial/ethnic relations. However, the manner in which this conundrum manifests in a state’s acceptance or rejection of affirmative action has been under-discussed. Traditional approaches to the study of affirmative action …
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Swords into Ploughshares: Agricultural Recovery and Postwar Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
<p>Civil wars have long been characterized in the comparative politics literature as having profoundly negative economic effects for both individual households and countries on a larger scale. However, variation in postwar economic outcomes indicates that conflict may indeed have some curative …
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The medium matters: political communication and behavior in Latin America
… America, my study is one of the few large-N comparative studies of media and politics within comparative politics. I posit that the public uses media reputation, the accumulation of years of interactions between the press and government, as a cue about the independence of any medium. I …
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