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If You Build It, They Will Stay: Evaluating Citizen Support for Public Financing of Sport Facilities (2003)Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the construction of publicly financed sport facilities. The costs associated with these projects frequently necessitate voter approval through the referendum process. This ...
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(1985)The objective of this study is to explain the impact of Soviet and American images of the strategic environment on defense policy and its formulation. This objective is accomplished by comparing the structure of Soviet and ...
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(2010-01-06)People’s experiences throughout their lives influence their later thoughts and actions, including thoughts and actions about politics. This straightforward logic motivates attention to childhood political socialization, ...
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(1980)One of the fundamental problems in a democracy is how to make government officials responsive to the desires of those they represent. To solve this problem representative democracies employ the mechanism of periodic free ...
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(2018-12-02)This dissertation explores the impact of incomplete democratic transitions on international peace and security. Since the end of the Second World War, the number of democracies has seen a five-fold increase. Countries do ...
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(1999)The goal of this dissertation is to make a series of interrelated points regarding the relationship between ideas, institutions, and behavior with respect to indirect election and the United States Senate. The dissertation ...
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(2007)This project contributes to an increased understanding of the sources of interest group influence, the nature of informational lobbying in Congress and how Congress responds to new issues on the policy agenda.
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(2019-04-10)Electoral environments in democracies are complex. One of the key tools voters use to simplify the information environment in elections is the party-label heuristic. However, party labels themselves change and with ...
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(1994)Existing approaches to explaining integration, such as neofunctionalism and intergovernmental institutionalism, are insufficient to explain the development of the European Community and its successor, the European Union, ...
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(2007)This dissertation focuses on the interactions of armed groups that challenge the sovereignty of a state and raises the question: under what conditions do rebel groups cooperate or compete with each other? It deviates from ...
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(2012-09-18)This project focuses on domestic political pressures in response to different kinds of international threat. In explaining the domestic politics of external threat, I seek to answer why states choose escalate conflicts ...
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(2003)One of the most striking developments in the security structure of developing societies has been the rise of parallel military organizations (armed forces such as constabularies and militias outside the regular military ...
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(1999)The final section of this study examines the institutional design, scope, and domain of the missile regime. It notes the advantages of expanding the missile regime's scope beyond supply-side technology barriers to build ...
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