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A Cross-National Analysis of Political Instability and Economic Development
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Aiding dependency : a cross-national analysis of foreign aid and tax compliance
… To test this argument, a new dataset of sub-national foreign aid in Uganda is used to show that aid lowers tax compliance. These findings are supported with data gathered during fieldwork in Uganda in April and May 2015, and then the findings are generalized through a cross-national analysis …
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Cross-national analysis of the association between subjective social status and health.
… issue in the sociology of health and illness across the globe. Throughout the extensive research effort, subjective social status (SSS) has emerged as a relevant tool for social science and health researchers to investigate socioeconomic disparities in health. Despite the increasing evidences …
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Methodological Problems in Comparative and Cross -National Analysis: Applications of Fuzzy Set Theory
… the primary quantities necessary for fuzzy set analysis. This has been a particular deficiency of fuzzy set theory. Second, I demonstrate how it can be used to aggregate multiple indicators so as to form indices for compound concepts. This is yet another critical aspect of the methodology, given …
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Role of Societal Quality-of-Life in National Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Cross-National Analysis
… factors affect entrepreneurial behaviours (EB) across countries to evaluate the role of QOL in an entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) at the societal level. Adopting the ecological perspective of entrepreneurship, two hypotheses are developed: H1, societal QOL has significant direct effects on …
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The contribution of civil society to combatting torture and ill-treatment: a cross-national analysis
A majority of states have signed treaties promising not to torture; torture, however, remains widespread. Something further is needed to turn de jure commitment to de facto compliance by the state. This research focuses on the contribution of civil society to this process, employing a mixed methods …
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CAN ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY COEXIST? A CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS OF ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
… for an inherent variation of Islam's role across the Muslim world. I developed a new index to assess the variation in Islam factor across Muslim countries: Islamic Institutionalization Index (III). This new index avoids the shortcomings of the current approaches to quantifying "Islam" and …
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Female Legislators and the Power of the Purse: Does Gender Affect Government Spending? A Cross-National Analysis
… by analyzing government spending data across several issue areas. The key question is: has the addition of women to national legislatures led to an increase in government spending in women's issue areas? </p> <p> Despite the quantitative nature of the data, I employed a mixed methods …
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Can You Hear Me Now: A Cross-National Analysis of Media, New ICTs, Press Freedoms and Sociopolitical Instability, Conflict, and Democracy.
Using cross-national panel data, I investigated relationships among sociopolitical instability, major intrastate conflicts, democracy levels, and media and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) penetration rates and press freedoms. I conducted similar analyses regarding all …
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Party system institutionalization and nationalization in dominant party systems
… of party system institutionalization and nationalization are believed to be positively interrelated with democratic development and party system consolidation. The goal of this dissertation is to examine the influence of dominant parties on party system institutionalization and …
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Domestic Political Structure and Social Norms: Explaining Cooperation and Conflict Towards Regime -Based Global Governance
… States towards human rights regimes. In my analysis, I trace the socioeconomic and political processes that influence cooperation and resistance towards the human rights regimes. In addition, I perform cross-national analysis drawing variables from the POLITY IIID and United Nations Treaty …
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Race to the Bottom or Move to the Middle? Globalization and Welfare Regime Transformation in the Developing World
… Arguments are tested through both quantitative cross-national analysis and comparative case studies of China, Brazil, and South Korea.
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Cultural Differences in Teacher-Student Relationships Between the U.S. And Mexico and Its Impact on Sense of Belonging and Academic Outcomes
Recent literature has largely overlooked cross-national comparisons as a means to identify cultural differences in educational institutions and understand differential outcomes in sense of belonging between countries. This study examines how teacher-student relationship quality influences students' …
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Perceptions of electoral fairness : public behaviour and institutional design compared across 80 countries
This thesis conducts a cross-national analysis of perceived electoral fairness across 80 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The main research question is focused on uncovering the determinants of perceived electoral fairness. The thesis focuses on two broad groups of variables and …
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Perceptions of electoral fairness : public behaviour and institutional design compared across 80 countries
This thesis conducts a cross-national analysis of perceived electoral fairness across 80 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The main research question is focused on uncovering the determinants of perceived electoral fairness. The thesis focuses on two broad groups of variables and …
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The Impact of Middle Class Economic Strength on Civil Liberties Performance and Domestic and External Peace
… data for 93 countries from 1972 through 2001 in cross-national analysis, this study compares the relative economic strength of a country's middle-class with its civil liberties performance and its history of domestic and external conflict. For purposes of this analysis, the relative strength of a …
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Women in politics : a cross-national demand and supply analysis
… parliaments and why is there such variation across countries? To understand gender-based inequality in political authority, we look at the various stages of candidacy and identify potential bottlenecks to women participation and election into public office. There are three stages which one …
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When Do Ties Bind? Foreign Fighters, Social Embeddedness, and Combatant Repertoires of Behavior During Civil War
… during war vary at the macro and microlevels of analysis and uses as its point of departure the presence of foreign fighters in the ranks of rebel groups engaged in civil war. I employ a cross-national analysis of insurgencies from 1989-2011, and also conduct a theory-testing comparison of the …
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Does quality matter? An evaluation of the relationship between United Nations peacekeepers and civil war violence
… a primarily quantitative study. It starts with a cross-national analysis of all intrastate conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa from 1991-2017 to determine if variation in average operational quality affects the severity of violence at the state-level. It then proceeds to a geographically disaggregated …
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