1997 Dissertation Data
Studies: 8
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After the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe in late 1989, the region's new democratically-elected leaders were left with the vexing problem of how to revive moribund, long state-run ...

hdl:1902.1/YMCAZQBTWX
8 downloads
Updated: Aug 25, 2008
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Using social choice theory, I argue that the confrontation between Russia's President and its parliament, which led to the collapse of the first democratically elected Russian national legislature since ...

hdl:1902.1/YWURPWGFXE
18 downloads + analyses
Updated: Aug 25, 2008
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What happens to a bill once signed into law? While many details of the legislative process have been subject to exhaustive study, scholars of American politics have done surprisingly little systematic ...

hdl:1902.1/ZJGFMDJCGB
7 downloads + analyses
Updated: Aug 25, 2008
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This project examines variation in the development of state and national family and medical leave policies between 1985 and 1993. The project identifies four types of variables that facilitate policy ...

hdl:1902.1/JLZKNJCSCB
15 downloads + analyses
Updated: Apr 7, 2008
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During critical moments of political uncertainty, university students are traditionally a dynamic force in society. Why, then, have university students been politically inactive during the period of ...

hdl:1902.1/FFTPVXLAWT
6 downloads + analyses
Updated: Apr 7, 2008
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Taking charge: Black electoral success and the In the 32 years since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the number of black elected officials in the United States has skyrocketed to nearly 8,000, including ...

hdl:1902.1/KWZMCJEKES
39 downloads + analyses
Updated: Apr 7, 2008
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Despite extensive efforts to reform urban school districts in recent decades, there has been little significant change. This is because urban school reform is more a political than an educational exercise. In ...

hdl:1902.1/MYJORUAWIW
14 downloads + analyses
Updated: Dec 6, 2007
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What impact will term limits have on legislative decision making in the United States? This dissertation adds to a growing academic literature on this issue. The work is composed of three related essays, which ...

hdl:1902.1/XXWAGMRURQ
13 downloads + analyses
Updated: Dec 6, 2007