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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...