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• The revolution will be made public: The effects of international actors on protest movements in hybrid and authoritarian regimes today 

  Chereson, Peter John (2019-12-05)

  Recent years have seen an explosive increase in the number of English-language signs held by political protesters in autocracies throughout the world, signaling activists’ desire to capture the attention and interest of a ...

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• Post-Soviet ethnic politics and public goods provision 

  Estes, Kyle W. (2019-07-08)

  What explains the pattern of public goods distribution across ethnic groups in the states of the former Soviet Union? In this dissertation, I seek to demonstrate how the unique pattern of nation-state formation in the ...

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• A primer on primaries: Exploring the variation in U.S. primary election laws 

  Evans, Jillian Elizabeth (2019-07-02)

  Candidate nominations in the U.S. are governed by an intricate system of laws and party rules that vary substantially across the states. The reasons why these laws and rules differ—and the considerations that motivate state ...

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• Dangerous neighborhoods: Threats and opportunities from nearby civil wars 

  Pack, Tyler (2019-07-03)

  The consequences of civil wars are not contained by international borders, and states face externalities from an ongoing civil war that affect leaders and domestic groups alike. The immediate neighbors of civil war states ...

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• Thinking outside the box: Extra-parliamentary strategies and their effects on the development of good governance in new democracies 

  Burke, Amanda E. (2019-04-10)

  The literature on transitions and democratization overwhelmingly supports the idea that opposition parties should pursue tactics akin to those used in Westminster and other Western democracies, and those the choice to ...

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