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McMaster University
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Royall, W H.
Real Wages in Canada 1919-1932 With A Special Analysis of Earnings in 1931.
Degree: 2011, McMaster University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11660
► In In recent times, such phrases as, "Standard of Living" and "Purchasing Power", are on everybody's lips. And yet these everyday expressions have no…
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▼ In In recent times, such phrases as, "Standard of Living" and "Purchasing Power", are on everybody's lips. And yet these everyday expressions have no intelligible meaning for many people. We find that in trying to clarify the concept of real wages, we soon get into enough statistical difficulties, to render the conclusion less positive than we had hoped, would result. We have attempted our study in the following order. First: An historical review of real wages in Canada, obtained from wage rates, weighted with the cost of living and adjusted for unemployment. Second: An analysis of "Earnings Among Wage-Earners in Canada", as published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Bulletin No. 33 of the census of 1931. Third: An attempt is made to relate these earnings to representative budgets for that year.
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Advisors/Committee Members: Political Economy.
Subjects/Keywords: Political Economy; Political Economy
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Royall, W. H. (2011). Real Wages in Canada 1919-1932 With A Special Analysis of Earnings in 1931. (Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11660
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Royall, W H. “Real Wages in Canada 1919-1932 With A Special Analysis of Earnings in 1931.” 2011. Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11660.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Royall, W H. “Real Wages in Canada 1919-1932 With A Special Analysis of Earnings in 1931.” 2011. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Royall WH. Real Wages in Canada 1919-1932 With A Special Analysis of Earnings in 1931. [Internet] [Thesis]. McMaster University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11660.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Royall WH. Real Wages in Canada 1919-1932 With A Special Analysis of Earnings in 1931. [Thesis]. McMaster University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11660
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
2.
Goldston, Jacob.
Essays on Semiformal Financial Institutions in Rural
India.
Degree: PhD, Economics, 2013, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320621/
► In the first chapter of this dissertation, I draw together the literature on credit market failure and political commitment and propose a new channel by…
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▼ In the first chapter of this dissertation, I draw
together the literature on credit market failure and
political
commitment and propose a new channel by which a politician may
intervene in the credit market without pressuring banks to increase
or redirect lending. Instead, the politician can make a constituent
into a more attractive credit risk by making her receipt of private
government aid conditional on her loan repayment; much like
collateral, this allows the constituent to credibly commit to
repaying her loan. However, the politician’s offer to deliver
benefits is itself only credible if the politician values the
constituent’s support. I provide evidence of this interaction with
novel data from a survey of microcredit groups in South India.
Using measures of the constituent’s valuation of two forms of
government aid and exogenous variation in the probability that the
local politician is eligible for reelection, I show that a
constituent with high aid valuation receives more aid, spends more
time supporting the politician and his
political allies, and
receives more credit than a constituent with low valuation, but
only when the politician is likely to be eligible for reelection.
This analysis underscores the importance of local politicians as
brokers, which may be very relevant in many contexts across both
rich and poor countries.
In the second chapter, I examine a different aspect of the
same microcredit groups: in addition to borrowing money from banks,
these groups also engage in internal savings and lending. I compare
this behavior with that of similar groups in Africa and show that
the Indian groups suffer from a fundamental problem of undersaving.
In addition, attempts by external actors to ”bolster” the groups
may in fact have a perverse outcome by weakening the incentive of
each individual member to save.
Advisors/Committee Members: Munshi, Kaivan (Director), Levine, Ross (Reader), Knight, Brian (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: political economy
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Goldston, J. (2013). Essays on Semiformal Financial Institutions in Rural
India. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320621/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Goldston, Jacob. “Essays on Semiformal Financial Institutions in Rural
India.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320621/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Goldston, Jacob. “Essays on Semiformal Financial Institutions in Rural
India.” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Goldston J. Essays on Semiformal Financial Institutions in Rural
India. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320621/.
Council of Science Editors:
Goldston J. Essays on Semiformal Financial Institutions in Rural
India. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2013. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320621/
3.
Coleman, Nicholas S.
Essays in Government Finance.
Degree: PhD, Economics, 2013, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320549/
► In this dissertation, I contribute to the growing body of evidence on the behavior and impacts of direct government intervention in finance through government ownership…
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▼ In this dissertation, I contribute to the growing body
of evidence on the behavior and impacts of direct government
intervention in finance through government ownership of banks.
Chapter 1 uses data from Brazil to analyze the lending by
government and private banks at the national and local-level and
then assesses whether this lending translated into the real
economy
(e.g. to employment and output). I find that government banks did,
indeed, provide counter-cyclical lending at both the national and
the local level, and this lending translated into locations with an
above median share of bank branches that are government-owned
experiencing a roughly 2% relative increase in output and 1.5% in
employment.
Chapter 2 develops a theoretical model of lending by
government and private banks. Then, informed by the
political
science literature, I create a proxy for
political-connectedness of
borrowers and test the model using the World Bank Enterprise
Surveys with firms and banks around the world. This chapter expands
the literature on the lending behavior of government banks by
providing a cross-country analysis. The cited studies either have
loan-level data within a single country or have loan volume data
across many countries. While I interpret my result as consistent
with the previous literature, I am able to connect firms to banks
from a large cross-section of countries through the World Bank
Enterprise Surveys.
Chapter 3 calculates spillover effects of government
transfers using data on Brazil's (government-bank facilitated)
Bolsa Familia conditional-cash transfer program. This chapter uses
household surveys and data on Brazil's Bolsa Familia program to
assess labor market spillovers, but it has broad implications.
Understanding the general equilibrium effects of government
transfer programs, whether they are conditional-cash transfer
programs in developing countries or welfare payments in the United
States, is vital to understanding both the decisions that people
make and the expected policy implications. This chapter attempts to
understand the effects of a government transfer program in a
locality to both the recipients and the non-recipients.
Advisors/Committee Members: Levine, Ross (Director), Shleifer, Andrei (Reader), Weil, David (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: Political Economy
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Coleman, N. S. (2013). Essays in Government Finance. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320549/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Coleman, Nicholas S. “Essays in Government Finance.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320549/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Coleman, Nicholas S. “Essays in Government Finance.” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Coleman NS. Essays in Government Finance. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320549/.
Council of Science Editors:
Coleman NS. Essays in Government Finance. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2013. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320549/
4.
Tribin, Ana Maria.
Redistribution, Politics and Violence.
Degree: PhD, Economics, 2014, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386167/
► The struggle for economic resources and political power has played a key role in human history. Political institutions and the distribution of economic resources define…
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▼ The struggle for economic resources and
political
power has played a key role in human history.
Political
institutions and the distribution of economic resources define the
distribution of
political power and the rules of the
political
game. Countries with weak institutions allow politicians to make
decisions regarding the allocation of government expenditure
without significant control, which may pose a threat to the
development of some regions within the country. The ambition to
achieve power leads politicians to make promises about
redistribution and to allocate resources to regions that are of
strategic importance in elections instead of to those in need. My
dissertation examines the tactical redistribution of public
resources by an incumbent seeking re-election. I constructed a
unique data set on promises the president of Colombia made directly
to different regions he visited. The data allow for a distinction
between promises of cash transfers and public goods to the regions.
The model and the empirical results show evidence that public goods
are used to reward supporters, while cash transfers are used to
persuade voters. The details of the data allow me to infer the
incumbent's preferences when paramilitary groups are able to
influence elections in some regions. In this case the incumbent
seems to target the illegal group, rather than citizens, when
reallocating money in paramilitary- controlled areas. Another
problem of weak institutions is the violence that the struggle for
economic resources could generate. Several authors explain how the
abundance of natural resources can become a "curse" when there are
poor institutions, since the groups in the opposition will use
violence to capture rents of the resources. I addressed these
questions using data about Colombia that allow me to study the
effects of the gold rush at the local level differentiating between
legal and illegal extraction of gold. We show that only illegal
gold extraction threatens the population's security in some
regions. My results show that the most affected areas, in terms of
violence rates associated with illegal extraction, are areas where
vulnerable communities are located, as national parks and
indigenous reserves.
Advisors/Committee Members: Knight, Brian (Director), Robinson, James (Reader), Dal Bo, Pedro (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: Political economy
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Tribin, A. M. (2014). Redistribution, Politics and Violence. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386167/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tribin, Ana Maria. “Redistribution, Politics and Violence.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386167/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tribin, Ana Maria. “Redistribution, Politics and Violence.” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Tribin AM. Redistribution, Politics and Violence. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386167/.
Council of Science Editors:
Tribin AM. Redistribution, Politics and Violence. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2014. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:386167/
5.
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco.
Essays in Political Economy.
Degree: PhD, Economics, 2011, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11339/
► This dissertation studies three topics in the political economy literature: corruption, property rights and collective action.In Chapter 1, I examine the role that individuals' past…
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▼ This dissertation studies three topics in the
political economy literature: corruption, property rights and
collective action.In Chapter 1, I examine the role that
individuals' past experience with and attitudes towards corruption
play on their behavior in a bribery laboratory experiment. I find
that (i) corrupt subjects – classified based on past involvement in
bribery and accepting attitudes towards corruption – are more prone
to make choices conducive to bribery; and (ii) individuals'
corruption background can influence the outcomes of anti-corruption
measures. These findings underscore the importance of
individuals'characteristics in understanding the determinants of
corrupt behavior and impact of anti-corruption policies, and
provide support for the validity of corruption experiments.In
Chapter 2, we investigate the provision of a public good – security
of property – using laboratory experiments under various
institutional arrangements and different subjectpools (Austria,
South Korea, Mexico, Mongolia and the U.S.). Without communication
or enforceable rules, we observe inefficient amounts of voluntary
abstinence from stealing. Addition of a voluntary collective
protection technology improves outcomes modestly. Most subjects
vote to fund collective protection with a mandatory tax when
offered the opportunity. A treatment permitting pre-play
communication leads to endogenous emergence of non-theft agreements
that most subjects honor, thereby surpassing substantially the
efficiency of formal arrangements and illustrating the role of
norms. Behaviors across
subject pools are qualitatively similar,
but interesting differences are correlated with indicators of
institutional quality, trust, and actualincidence of theft in those
countries.In Chapter 3, I challenge the so-called "group size
paradox," which argues that larger interest groups, as measured by
the number of individuals whose preferences align with the causes
groups uphold, will provide less of a collective good in the form
of lobbying. I document theoretically and empirically (employing a
novel data set containing estimates of the size of groups in the
U.S.) a hump-shaped relationship between the size of groups and
their ability to provide the public good. My results suggest that
the largest provision of lobbying activity would be observed among
groups counting on the potentialsupport of 70-100 million
people.
Advisors/Committee Members: Putterman, Louis (Director), Dal Bó, Pedro (Reader), Knight, Brian (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: political economy
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APA (6th Edition):
Campos-Ortiz, F. (2011). Essays in Political Economy. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11339/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco. “Essays in Political Economy.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11339/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Campos-Ortiz, Francisco. “Essays in Political Economy.” 2011. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Campos-Ortiz F. Essays in Political Economy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11339/.
Council of Science Editors:
Campos-Ortiz F. Essays in Political Economy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2011. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11339/
6.
Teso, Edoardo.
Essays in Political Economy.
Degree: PhD, 2018, Harvard University
URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41128493
► This dissertation is composed of three essays in Political Economy. The first essay investigates the role and consequences of political connections in the selection of…
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▼ This dissertation is composed of three essays in Political Economy. The first essay investigates the role and consequences of political connections in the selection of public sector employees. The second essay examines the determinants of individual attitudes towards gender roles in the labor market. The third essay investigates the relationship between individual perceptions about intergenerational mobility and preferences for redistributions.
In the first essay, which is joint work with Emanuele Colonnelli and Mounu Prem, we study patronage in the allocation of public sector jobs in Brazilian local governments. We first document the presence of significant political favoritism in the allocation of jobs throughout the entire Brazilian public sector hierarchy. We then show that patronage is the leading explanation behind this favoritism and that patronage has significant real consequences for the quality of the selected public workers. Finally, we present evidence suggesting that patronage practices are associated with a worse provision of public services.
In the second essay, I ask whether demographic shocks can affect the long-run evolution of female labor force participation and gender norms. I trace current variation in women’s participation in the labor force within Sub-Saharan Africa to the emergence of a female- biased sex ratio during the centuries of the transatlantic slave trade: women whose ancestors were more exposed to this historical shock are today more likely to be in the labor force, have lower levels of fertility, and are more likely to participate in household decisions. I provide evidence that the marriage market and the cultural transmission of internal norms across generations represent important mechanisms explaining this long-run persistence.
In the third essay, which is joint work with Alberto Alesina and Stefanie Stantcheva, we use new cross-country survey and experimental data, to investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution. We find that Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about social mobility. We show that individuals who have more pessimistic views about mobility are more in support of redistributive policies. However, this effect is present only among left-wing respondents, possibly because right-wing respondents see the government as a “problem" and not as the “solution."
Political Economy and Government
Advisors/Committee Members: Campante, Filipe (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Political Economy
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Teso, E. (2018). Essays in Political Economy. (Doctoral Dissertation). Harvard University. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41128493
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Teso, Edoardo. “Essays in Political Economy.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41128493.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Teso, Edoardo. “Essays in Political Economy.” 2018. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Teso E. Essays in Political Economy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Harvard University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41128493.
Council of Science Editors:
Teso E. Essays in Political Economy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Harvard University; 2018. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41128493

University of Minnesota
7.
Lucius, Andrew.
Why Cities Fail: Local Political Institutions and the Fates of Metropolitan Economies.
Degree: PhD, Political Science, 2015, University of Minnesota
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175522
► What differentiates economically successful urban areas from those that fall into decline? This dissertation attempts to improve upon existing answers to this question by examining…
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▼ What differentiates economically successful urban areas from those that fall into decline? This dissertation attempts to improve upon existing answers to this question by examining the relationship between metropolitan political institutions and local economic performance. The impetus for this focus is the significant role that political institutions have come to play in explaining the structure and long-term performance of national economies. To apply this line of reasoning to the urban level, I examine three metropolitan institutions with plausible links to the local economy's structure and performance. Rather than focusing on variation in local decision-making rules (the most common approach to studying political institutions), I focus on variation in the organizational avenues available for achieving policy outcomes. The three institutional avenues I analyze are: 1) the degree of territorial–or Tiebout–competition (representing the ability to obtain policy outcomes by leveraging intergovernmental competition); 2) the revenue capacity of the primary city government (representing the ability to obtain policy outcomes by lobbying a large-scale government); and 3) the prevalence of special district governments (representing the ability to obtain policy outcomes by creating independent, specialized governments). To examine the economic effects of these institutions, I consider their characteristics in light of a three-stage theory of urban economic development. Using this framework, I derive hypotheses linking the prevalence of each institution to the structure and performance of the metropolitan economy in each stage. Testing these hypotheses via panel regression analysis, I find that both a higher capacity primary city government and an increased prevalence of special districts consistently boost metropolitan economic performance across the stages (as measured by the metropolitan income level). In contrast, a higher degree of territorial competition has a more limited impact, improving a metropolitan area's international competitiveness (but not its income level) and doing so only during the second stage of development. I finish the dissertation by applying these insights to the decline of metropolitan Detroit, demonstrating how they improve a prominent explanation found in neoclassical urban economics.
Subjects/Keywords: political economy; urban political economy; urban politics
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Lucius, A. (2015). Why Cities Fail: Local Political Institutions and the Fates of Metropolitan Economies. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Minnesota. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175522
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lucius, Andrew. “Why Cities Fail: Local Political Institutions and the Fates of Metropolitan Economies.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175522.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lucius, Andrew. “Why Cities Fail: Local Political Institutions and the Fates of Metropolitan Economies.” 2015. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lucius A. Why Cities Fail: Local Political Institutions and the Fates of Metropolitan Economies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175522.
Council of Science Editors:
Lucius A. Why Cities Fail: Local Political Institutions and the Fates of Metropolitan Economies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175522

University of Oxford
8.
Zeitz, Alexandra Olivia.
The financial statecraft of debtors : the political economy of external finance in Africa.
Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Oxford
URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:14ab0f42-ba5b-4607-a359-8e35bd12156b
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https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.786183
► How do countries' borrowing choices affect their foreign relations? More specifically, can access to new sources of external finance enhance countries' leverage when negotiating with…
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▼ How do countries' borrowing choices affect their foreign relations? More specifically, can access to new sources of external finance enhance countries' leverage when negotiating with their existing donors? This thesis investigates whether, and how, the greater diversity in African countries' portfolios of external finance in the 21st century has affected their negotiations with traditional donors and lenders. I focus specifically on the effects of Chinese lending and bond market finance, which have become the most important alternative to the development finance provided by traditional donor countries and development banks. I argue that alternative lenders act as an outside option that reduces borrowing governments' dependence on any one source of external finance, which ought to give them greater leverage in negotiations with their traditional donors. In this way, countries' borrowing choices become a basis for shaping their foreign relations, a phenomenon I refer to as the financial statecraft of debtors. However, not all countries are equally effective in translating their access to alternative finance into preferred negotiation outcomes. Both domestic political contestation in the recipient country and the significance of the recipient to donors shape variation in the success of debt-based financial statecraft. I adopt a mixed methods approach to support my argument. I use data on the terms of World Bank and US development finance to show that, across sub-Saharan African governments, access to alternative financing sources is associated with terms on traditional aid that are more aligned with government preferences. Three case studies based on extensive interview evidence – Ethiopia, Kenya, and Ghana – allow me to trace the mechanisms by which alternative finance affects negotiations with traditional donors and provide a comparison that demonstrates the conditioning effects of government and donor constraints. By explaining the potential benefits borrowing governments can derive from their portfolio of external finance, the thesis contributes to a better understanding of the international political economy of financial interdependence.
Subjects/Keywords: International political economy
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Zeitz, A. O. (2019). The financial statecraft of debtors : the political economy of external finance in Africa. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:14ab0f42-ba5b-4607-a359-8e35bd12156b ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.786183
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zeitz, Alexandra Olivia. “The financial statecraft of debtors : the political economy of external finance in Africa.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:14ab0f42-ba5b-4607-a359-8e35bd12156b ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.786183.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zeitz, Alexandra Olivia. “The financial statecraft of debtors : the political economy of external finance in Africa.” 2019. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Zeitz AO. The financial statecraft of debtors : the political economy of external finance in Africa. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:14ab0f42-ba5b-4607-a359-8e35bd12156b ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.786183.
Council of Science Editors:
Zeitz AO. The financial statecraft of debtors : the political economy of external finance in Africa. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2019. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:14ab0f42-ba5b-4607-a359-8e35bd12156b ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.786183

Princeton University
9.
Murali, Kanta.
Economic Liberalization, Electoral Coalitions and Private Investment in India
.
Degree: PhD, 2013, Princeton University
URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01n296wz25t
► What are the political conditions conducive to growth-oriented policies in poor democracies? An extensive literature on redistribution suggests that poor democracies are unlikely to focus…
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▼ What are the
political conditions conducive to growth-oriented policies in poor democracies? An extensive literature on redistribution suggests that poor democracies are unlikely to focus on growth-oriented policies. Yet, as a largely poor and highly-competitive democracy that has witnessed a notable growth transformation, India challenges this hypothesis. To address the broader question of
political conditions conducive to growth-oriented policies in poor democracies, my dissertation focuses on a specific empirical puzzle - subnational policy variation in the competition for private investment in India, which ensued after the adoption of extensive market reforms in 1991. Despite being bound by similar institutional conditions and being
subject to a common shock, some subnational governments have been far more proactive and business-friendly in the competition for investment than their counterparts; both speed and scope of policies has varied. I examine this variation and ask why some subnational governments have been more proactive and investor-friendly than others.
My dissertation makes two main claims. First, I focus on the social base of voters backing governments, which I refer to as electoral coalitions, and argue that certain configurations of electoral coalitions with a confined class basis are more favorable to growth-oriented policies than others. Specifically, narrow-right coalitions, characterized by the joint presence of core groups with similar economically-advanced profiles and substantial representation of business interests, are most conductive to growth-oriented issues. How do such narrow class coalitions emerge in the midst of a poor electorate? The second claim of my dissertation is that narrow growth-oriented coalitions can arise in poor democracies when the primary logic of electoral politics is non-economic and rests instead on symbolic concerns such as identity, ethnicity or nationalism. In such cases, both party strategies of mobilization and voter attachments are driven by social factors rather than economic interests. Where social attachments cut across economic interests, class-based electoral collaboration is impeded and narrow coalitions can emerge, even in the midst of poor electorates.
In the Indian case, I focus on the influence of identity politics, specifically on caste politics, on both party strategies and voter motivations. The primacy of identity politics has meant that underlying social cleavage patterns critically affect party strategies of coalition construction. The association between social cleavage patterns and party strategies is complemented from below by the effect of identity on voter attachments. Both these factors allow for the emergence of narrow, growth-friendly coalitions in a poor electorate.
I use a nested research design, which combines both qualitative and quantitative analysis. Specifically, four in-depth case studies are combined with a time-series cross-section analysis of 14 states between 1992 and 2010.
Advisors/Committee Members: Kohli, Atul (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Political Economy;
India
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Murali, K. (2013). Economic Liberalization, Electoral Coalitions and Private Investment in India
. (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01n296wz25t
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Murali, Kanta. “Economic Liberalization, Electoral Coalitions and Private Investment in India
.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01n296wz25t.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Murali, Kanta. “Economic Liberalization, Electoral Coalitions and Private Investment in India
.” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Murali K. Economic Liberalization, Electoral Coalitions and Private Investment in India
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01n296wz25t.
Council of Science Editors:
Murali K. Economic Liberalization, Electoral Coalitions and Private Investment in India
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2013. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01n296wz25t

University of Colorado
10.
Pripusich, James Michael.
Pocketbook in Private? How Observability Causes Individuals to Behave Sociotropically in Political Economy.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Colorado
URL: https://scholar.colorado.edu/psci_gradetds/62
► Why do individuals engage in political economy egocentrically at some times and sociotropically at others? I claim that human beings will be more likely to…
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▼ Why do individuals engage in
political economy egocentrically at some times and sociotropically at others? I claim that human beings will be more likely to demonstrate attitudes and behaviors that are in their own self-interest when in private, and those that are in the interests of others when in public. A survey of the research in mass
political economy shows a major divide over whether individuals are selfish actors or hold strong motivations to benefit the collective. While there is merit to both of these approaches, neither is a panacea. Furthermore, I demonstrate that conflicting findings in existing research need not be concerning. These broad divisions in this literature mirror those within our brains. Natural selection has endowed our minds with strong capacities to behave both egocentrically and sociotropically. The real challenge becomes explaining what causes each of these parts of us to become active. This project is about how observability changes
political behavior in predictable ways. Using data from multiple surveys across 23 countries, I am able to demonstrate the importance of social context across a diverse set of outcomes in
political economy. First, while retrospective assessments of national economic conditions exert a strong and significant effect on candidate selection in public, they largely fail to do so in private. In the absence of others, individuals are more likely to reward and punish candidates based on their personal financial situation. Second, while individuals egocentrically update their attitudes of welfare policies when in private, they largely fail to do so in the added presence of an interviewer. Finally, in a unique online experiment of
political donating behavior, I show that publishing respondent decisions in newspapers and on social media increases the propensity for individuals to benefit the country at costs to themselves. These findings hold major implications for how we participate in politics and the broader democratic process.
Advisors/Committee Members: Joseph Jupille, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Andy Baker, Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Leaf Van Boven.
Subjects/Keywords: behavior; economic voting; egocentric; political economy; sociotropic; Political Economy; Political Science
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pripusich, James Michael. “Pocketbook in Private? How Observability Causes Individuals to Behave Sociotropically in Political Economy.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Colorado. Accessed March 01, 2021.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/psci_gradetds/62.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pripusich, James Michael. “Pocketbook in Private? How Observability Causes Individuals to Behave Sociotropically in Political Economy.” 2018. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Pripusich JM. Pocketbook in Private? How Observability Causes Individuals to Behave Sociotropically in Political Economy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/psci_gradetds/62.
Council of Science Editors:
Pripusich JM. Pocketbook in Private? How Observability Causes Individuals to Behave Sociotropically in Political Economy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Colorado; 2018. Available from: https://scholar.colorado.edu/psci_gradetds/62
11.
Beckman, Tristin.
Fiscal Policy in an Economically Integrated World.
Degree: 2016, University of California – eScholarship, University of California
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7886c27h
► Eight years after the 2008 Global Financial crisis the global economy continued to muddle through weak economic growth. At the same time elected officials have…
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▼ Eight years after the 2008 Global Financial crisis the global economy continued to muddle through weak economic growth. At the same time elected officials have lashed against the post-war trend toward greater economic integration, as illustrated by the election of Donald Trump in the United States and the United Kingdom's vote to withdraw from the European Union. This dissertation argues that the relationship between economic growth and policies favoring economic integration are deeply intertwined. I argue that trade interdependence played an important role in causing policymakers to roll back expansionary fiscal policies before a robust recovery had taken hold. This anemic economic recovery then increased the policy influence of interest groups with more protectionist policy preferences. This dissertation, therefore, integrates economic interdependence with domestic politics to deepen our understanding of economic policy choices. To this point, however, the international political economy literature remains largely divided with respect to levels of analysis. At the domestic level, researchers continue to analyze domestic preferences and institutions as if they are independent from others states in the global economy; while at the systemic level, researchers tend to analyze relations between states independent from domestic politics. Much of this division is methodological. Until recently, statistical models assumed observations were independently distributed, forcing researchers to assume away interdependence in statistical analyses. This project takes advantage of recent advances in spatial econometrics that help to account for interdependence between units to offer a more complete understanding of domestic level policies.
Subjects/Keywords: Political science; Comparative Political Economy; International Political Economy
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Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Beckman, Tristin. “Fiscal Policy in an Economically Integrated World.” 2016. Thesis, University of California – eScholarship, University of California. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7886c27h.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Beckman, Tristin. “Fiscal Policy in an Economically Integrated World.” 2016. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Beckman T. Fiscal Policy in an Economically Integrated World. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – eScholarship, University of California; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7886c27h.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Beckman T. Fiscal Policy in an Economically Integrated World. [Thesis]. University of California – eScholarship, University of California; 2016. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7886c27h
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
12.
Gunjal, Shivprasad Prabhakar.
Political Intrusion on Firms: Effects of Elections on Bank Lending in India.
Degree: MSIDEC, Economics, 2017, University of San Francisco
URL: https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/239
► This paper examines the intrusion of political system on performance of Indian firms, employing state and constituency level financial borrowing panel data by firms…
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▼ This paper examines the intrusion of
political system on performance of Indian firms, employing state and constituency level financial borrowing panel data by firms from domestic banks from 2010 to 2015. Using conditional logistic and fixed effects regression models, the results suggests that firms located in regions aligned politically with the ruling party enjoy possible preferential access to financing from banks. We find average productivity efficiency loss of 2.77% in the short term as a result of politically motivated redistribution of scarce capital. These
political effects are statistically robust to the inclusion of region fixed effects, time fixed effects and other socio-economic factors.
Advisors/Committee Members: Suparna Chakraborty, Michael Jonas.
Subjects/Keywords: Political Economy; Politically Motivated Redistribution; Political Alliance; Political Economy
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Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gunjal, Shivprasad Prabhakar. “Political Intrusion on Firms: Effects of Elections on Bank Lending in India.” 2017. Thesis, University of San Francisco. Accessed March 01, 2021.
https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/239.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gunjal, Shivprasad Prabhakar. “Political Intrusion on Firms: Effects of Elections on Bank Lending in India.” 2017. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Gunjal SP. Political Intrusion on Firms: Effects of Elections on Bank Lending in India. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of San Francisco; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/239.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Gunjal SP. Political Intrusion on Firms: Effects of Elections on Bank Lending in India. [Thesis]. University of San Francisco; 2017. Available from: https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/239
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
13.
Lam, Onyi.
Essays on Political Economy of the Media.
Degree: Economics, 2017, University of California – San Diego
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/76c987rx
My research focuses on understanding the political economy of traditional and newmedia. I study these issues by exploiting natural experiments, employing data techniquesborrowed from machine learning and using both observational data from traditional andnew sources.
Subjects/Keywords: Economics; China; Media; Political Economy
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Lam, O. (2017). Essays on Political Economy of the Media. (Thesis). University of California – San Diego. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/76c987rx
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lam, Onyi. “Essays on Political Economy of the Media.” 2017. Thesis, University of California – San Diego. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/76c987rx.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Lam, Onyi. “Essays on Political Economy of the Media.” 2017. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lam O. Essays on Political Economy of the Media. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/76c987rx.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Lam O. Essays on Political Economy of the Media. [Thesis]. University of California – San Diego; 2017. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/76c987rx
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Cornell University
14.
Mukherjee, Priya.
Essays On The Role Of Social And Political Institutions In Economic Development.
Degree: PhD, Economics, 2015, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41149
► This thesis explores the causal effects of specific types of social and political institutions on economic outcomes. The first chapter presents a field experiment that…
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▼ This thesis explores the causal effects of specific types of social and
political institutions on economic outcomes. The first chapter presents a field experiment that investigates the role of social institutions in shaping individuals' beliefs, aspirations and eventual economic outcomes. Utilizing a priming methodology from social psychology, exogenous variation in the salience of one's social identity was introduced in treatment groups, and the long and short-run aspirations of subjects were recorded. Girls exhibit lower aspirations and beliefs when gender is primed, while high caste subjects have higher aspirations and beliefs when caste is primed. This is the first study in the literature to experimentally identify the effects of priming identity on outcomes with real stakes, and in a dynamic setting. The next two chapters investigate the role of
political institutions on economic policy in the context of Indonesia. The first of these two chapters studies policy choices under two selection methods for public officials: appointments and elections. I use a novel dataset and a natural experiment, wherein districts switched from appointments to direct elections (for district mayors) in a way that can be argued to be unrelated to district characteristics. Elected mayors are significantly more likely to engage in redistributive policies than their appointed counterparts: they hire and promote a significantly greater number of civil servants, and are more likely to redistribute publicly provided goods and services to households that will be more responsive to these transfers. The last chapter goes back farther in Indonesia's
political history, to Soeharto's final years in office. A large theoretical literature argues that the legacies of non-democratic regimes affect the quality of governance in new democracies, but the empirical evidence is scarce. This chapter exploits a natural experiment from the Indonesian democratic transition that generated exogenous variation on how long agents of the old regime remained in office and, hence, on the degree of control that they exerted during the transition. The results show that when old-regime mayors hold office for longer, districts exhibit worse governance outcomes. These effects persist several years after the old-regime mayors are no longer in office.
Advisors/Committee Members: Basu,Kaushik (chair), Coate,Stephen (coChair), Berry,James Wesley (committee member), Lim,Seon Hye (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Identity; Institutions; Political economy
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mukherjee, Priya. “Essays On The Role Of Social And Political Institutions In Economic Development.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41149.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mukherjee, Priya. “Essays On The Role Of Social And Political Institutions In Economic Development.” 2015. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mukherjee P. Essays On The Role Of Social And Political Institutions In Economic Development. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41149.
Council of Science Editors:
Mukherjee P. Essays On The Role Of Social And Political Institutions In Economic Development. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41149

Queens University
15.
Roderick, Leanne.
Governing Big Data: The Political Economy of Power, Knowledge and Consumer Finance in the Digital Age
.
Degree: Political Studies, 2016, Queens University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/15039
► This dissertation offers a critical international political economy (IPE) analysis of the ways in which consumer information has been governed throughout the formal history of…
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▼ This dissertation offers a critical international political economy (IPE) analysis of the ways in which consumer information has been governed throughout the formal history of consumer finance (1840 – present).
Drawing primarily on the United States, this project problematizes the notion of consumer financial big data as a ‘new era’ by tracing its roots historically from late nineteenth century through to the present. Using a qualitative case study approach, this project applies a unique theoretical framework to three instances of governance in consumer credit big data. Throughout, the historically specific means used to govern consumer credit data are rooted in dominant ideas, institutions and material factors.
Subjects/Keywords: international political economy
;
consumer data
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Roderick, L. (2016). Governing Big Data: The Political Economy of Power, Knowledge and Consumer Finance in the Digital Age
. (Thesis). Queens University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1974/15039
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Roderick, Leanne. “Governing Big Data: The Political Economy of Power, Knowledge and Consumer Finance in the Digital Age
.” 2016. Thesis, Queens University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1974/15039.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Roderick, Leanne. “Governing Big Data: The Political Economy of Power, Knowledge and Consumer Finance in the Digital Age
.” 2016. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Roderick L. Governing Big Data: The Political Economy of Power, Knowledge and Consumer Finance in the Digital Age
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Queens University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/15039.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Roderick L. Governing Big Data: The Political Economy of Power, Knowledge and Consumer Finance in the Digital Age
. [Thesis]. Queens University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/15039
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Leiden University
16.
Bartolini, Alessandro.
European Neoliberalism and its economic and political shortcomings.
Degree: 2019, Leiden University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/87502
► At the time of writing (June 2019), the European Union officially hosts another “sick man”. The European Commission has in fact recently encouraged Italy to…
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▼ At the time of writing (June 2019), the European Union officially hosts another “sick man”. The European Commission has in fact recently encouraged Italy to reconsider its economic policy in the light of a forecasted unsustainable (according to the European Commission) rise in the country’s budgetary deficit. Italy has so far been relatively used to politically challenging the European Commission when it comes to its choices in the field of macroeconomic policy. Nevertheless, the ease and the degree with which Neoliberalism (here meant as a Washington Consensus-based disciplinary ideology aiming at limiting the degree of politicization of the economic realm and the choices of states when it comes to their macroeconomic policies ) remains dominant at the EU level poses a question: Is the European Union inherently neoliberal or demand-led growth models are still possible? The reasons why finding an answer to this question is in our interest is grounded in the proliferation of radical
political responses in several European countries (including Italy, Greece and - to a lesser degree - France) partly coming as a consequence of their stagnating (whilst not declining) economies. On one hand the European Union’s
economy in the last few years has been keeping up to its self-set standards, on the other hand some countries appear to be far from catching up with the top-performers despite having structurally adjusted their economies to the taste of the neoliberal narrative. More importantly, the implementation of neoliberal policies has mostly been done at the expense of the existing welfare states, organized labor and national economic independence. Although the aforementioned growth of populist parties has yet to translate into those states actually taking real steps towards exiting the EU, the macroeconomic powerlessness of these countries seems doomed to persist, and so does the growth of radical parties and/or ideas. In this thesis I am going to argue that the EU is not an inherently neoliberal project of economic integration but it will be argued that the European
political economy under the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) entails a clear neoliberal bias which prevents the EU and its member states from pursuing alternative paths. Furthermore, it will be argued that as it is currently structured, the EMU constitutes an hinderance to growth and employment in the continent as it systematically prevents the formation of adequate levels of aggregate demand.
Advisors/Committee Members: Fynn-Paul, Jeffrey (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Neoliberalism; EU; Political Economy
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Bartolini, A. (2019). European Neoliberalism and its economic and political shortcomings. (Masters Thesis). Leiden University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1887/87502
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bartolini, Alessandro. “European Neoliberalism and its economic and political shortcomings.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Leiden University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/87502.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bartolini, Alessandro. “European Neoliberalism and its economic and political shortcomings.” 2019. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Bartolini A. European Neoliberalism and its economic and political shortcomings. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Leiden University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/87502.
Council of Science Editors:
Bartolini A. European Neoliberalism and its economic and political shortcomings. [Masters Thesis]. Leiden University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/87502
17.
Herman, Moshi Optat.
Political Economy of Wellbeing: Liberalization and Infant
Mortality in Southeast Africa, 1985-2005.
Degree: PhD, Sociology, 2012, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297745/
► The IMF and the World Bank advocated two political-economic policies that incited a conspicuous institutional makeover in sub-Saharan Africa. These neoliberal policies are Structural Adjustment…
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▼ The IMF and the World Bank advocated two
political-economic policies that incited a conspicuous
institutional makeover in sub-Saharan Africa. These neoliberal
policies are Structural Adjustment Programs (economic
liberalization) and transitions from single-party regimes to
pluralist-cum-liberal systems (
political liberalization). Even
though studies of the economic impact of liberalization abound, its
effect on social wellbeing is yet to be ascertained. In fact, the
reversal of development trajectories in Africa in the last two
decades of the 20th C, the (neo)liberalization era, still baffles
social scientists. This dissertation traces the association between
liberalization and population health-measured by infant mortality
risk— in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. Contrary to the
available literature, this dissertation considers the two
liberalization initiatives as a combined policy stemming from a
neoliberal interpretation of “good governance,” which eventually
became development policy orthodoxy in the 1990s.
Using population health as a site of study, this dissertation
makes sense of recent anomalous development trajectories in Africa,
and it underscores the potentially contradictory relationship
between
political and economic liberalization. This research, which
is among the few to include “
political economy variables” in
demographic models, uses nationally-representative surveys of
nearly 30,000 infants per country born between 1985 and 2005 merged
with macro-level socioeconomic and foreign investments indicators.
I conduct a quantitative-comparative analysis following the Nested
Analysis Approach through which I examine key variables
comparatively across strategically selected cases while paying
attention to shifting levels of analysis.
The analysis finds inconsistent associations between
introduction of multipartism and health indicators at the aggregate
level; moreover, whether a power switch from incumbents to
opposition parties happened at the transition and the salience of
ethnic cleavages in a given country determine within-country
spatial inequality. However, later stages of economic
liberalization are associated with improved health in
post-socialist Tanzania and Zambia. In particular, the analysis
finds a lower differential risk of infant mortality in Zambia,
where democratization preceded marketization, relative to Tanzania,
where the reverse sequencing took place. Finally, a detailed study
of Tanzania demonstrates how particularistic local
political
economies, such as Tanzania’s Ujamaa na Kujitegemea
pre-liberalization ethos, mediate global governance forces leading
to path-dependent developmental paths.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lindstrom, David (Director), Chorev, Nitsan (Director), Heller, Patrick (Reader), Luke, Nancy (Reader), Smith, R (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: political economy of development
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Mortality in Southeast Africa, 1985-2005. (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297745/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Herman, Moshi Optat. “Political Economy of Wellbeing: Liberalization and Infant
Mortality in Southeast Africa, 1985-2005.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297745/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Herman, Moshi Optat. “Political Economy of Wellbeing: Liberalization and Infant
Mortality in Southeast Africa, 1985-2005.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Herman MO. Political Economy of Wellbeing: Liberalization and Infant
Mortality in Southeast Africa, 1985-2005. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297745/.
Council of Science Editors:
Herman MO. Political Economy of Wellbeing: Liberalization and Infant
Mortality in Southeast Africa, 1985-2005. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2012. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297745/

Addis Ababa University
18.
TEWODROS, RETA BEREDA.
The significnce of neoliberaalism in the political economy of sub saharan africa the case of ethioapia
.
Degree: 2012, Addis Ababa University
URL: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3563
► Currently because of the age of globalization the world is becoming to be conceived as a village. One of the major projects of globalization is…
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▼ Currently because of the age of globalization the world is becoming to be conceived as a village. One of the major projects of globalization is the integration of the
political economy of the less developed regions in to the global
political economic order. Accordingly, during the past few decades the continent of Africa has been trying to integrate itself in to the international
political economy either forcefully or by consent.
The driving force of this integration is the ideology of neoliberalism. Under this integration states are recommended or forced to open up their markets to foreign companies competitions, to minimize the role of the government in the
economy including minimizing the government expense for social security and social goods, to create fertile grounds for the market to be the only means to distribute the wealth of a nation and the prices of goods and services to be determined based on the principles of demand and supply, etc…
The central question of this research is “does neoliberalism work in Africa?” The empirical discussion is made in Ethiopia. It tries to give deep explanations about the theoretical principles of neoliberalism and also this research deals with arguments for and against neoliberalism in to the
political economy of Sub-Saharan Africa. Then the research proceed to the debates between the Revolutionary Democrats and Liberal Democrats concerning to the role of ideology of liberalism (neoliberalism) in the
political economy of Ethiopia.
After analyzing some key issues of the ongoing debate, the research findings conclude that the ideology of neoliberalism doesn‟t work in Africa. It is the conclusion of this research that neoliberalism is an ideology which doesn‟t subscribe to the socio-economic and
political realities of the continent of Africa. When we come to the case of Ethiopia, after considering the strong and weak sides of both Revolutionary Democracy and Liberal Democracy, the author argues that we have to search for another
political and economic ideology that can subscribe to the realities of the country.
Key words:- Neoliberalism, Ideology, Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia,
Political-
Economy, Theoretical Principles.
Advisors/Committee Members: TAREKEGN ADEBO (Dr.) (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Africa, Ethiopia;
Political-Economy
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TEWODROS, R. B. (2012). The significnce of neoliberaalism in the political economy of sub saharan africa the case of ethioapia
. (Thesis). Addis Ababa University. Retrieved from http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3563
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
TEWODROS, RETA BEREDA. “The significnce of neoliberaalism in the political economy of sub saharan africa the case of ethioapia
.” 2012. Thesis, Addis Ababa University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3563.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
TEWODROS, RETA BEREDA. “The significnce of neoliberaalism in the political economy of sub saharan africa the case of ethioapia
.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
TEWODROS RB. The significnce of neoliberaalism in the political economy of sub saharan africa the case of ethioapia
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Addis Ababa University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3563.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
TEWODROS RB. The significnce of neoliberaalism in the political economy of sub saharan africa the case of ethioapia
. [Thesis]. Addis Ababa University; 2012. Available from: http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3563
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Nairobi
19.
Provizer, N W.
Politics and the political economy of penetration in Uganda: Afr. MFM 1978/75
.
Degree: 1978, University of Nairobi
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11295/86785
Subjects/Keywords: Political economy
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Provizer, N. W. (1978). Politics and the political economy of penetration in Uganda: Afr. MFM 1978/75
. (Thesis). University of Nairobi. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11295/86785
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Provizer, N W. “Politics and the political economy of penetration in Uganda: Afr. MFM 1978/75
.” 1978. Thesis, University of Nairobi. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11295/86785.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Provizer, N W. “Politics and the political economy of penetration in Uganda: Afr. MFM 1978/75
.” 1978. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Provizer NW. Politics and the political economy of penetration in Uganda: Afr. MFM 1978/75
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Nairobi; 1978. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11295/86785.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Provizer NW. Politics and the political economy of penetration in Uganda: Afr. MFM 1978/75
. [Thesis]. University of Nairobi; 1978. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11295/86785
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Toronto
20.
Moses, Zev.
Neo-Liberalism, the Islamic Revival, and Urban Development in Post-War, Post-Socialist Sarajevo.
Degree: 2012, University of Toronto
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33459
► This thesis examines the confluence between pan-Islamist politics, neo-liberalism and urban development in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After tracing a history of the Islamic revival…
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▼ This thesis examines the confluence between pan-Islamist politics, neo-liberalism and urban development in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After tracing a history of the Islamic revival in Bosnia, I examine the results of neo-liberal policy in post-war Bosnia, particularly regarding the promises of neo-liberal institutions and think tanks that privatization and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) would de-politicize the economy and strip ethno-religious nationalist elites of their power over state-owned firms. By analyzing three prominent new urban developments in Sarajevo, all financed by FDI from the Islamic world and brought about by the privatization of urban real-estate, I show how neo-liberal policy has had unintended outcomes in Sarajevo that contradict the assertions of policy makers. In examining urban change, I bring out the role played by the city in mediating between both elites and citizens, and between the seemingly contradictory projects of pan-Islamism and neo-liberalism.
MAST
Advisors/Committee Members: Prudham, W. Scott, Geography.
Subjects/Keywords: Urban Geography; Political-Economy; 0366
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Moses, Z. (2012). Neo-Liberalism, the Islamic Revival, and Urban Development in Post-War, Post-Socialist Sarajevo. (Masters Thesis). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33459
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Moses, Zev. “Neo-Liberalism, the Islamic Revival, and Urban Development in Post-War, Post-Socialist Sarajevo.” 2012. Masters Thesis, University of Toronto. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33459.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Moses, Zev. “Neo-Liberalism, the Islamic Revival, and Urban Development in Post-War, Post-Socialist Sarajevo.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Moses Z. Neo-Liberalism, the Islamic Revival, and Urban Development in Post-War, Post-Socialist Sarajevo. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Toronto; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33459.
Council of Science Editors:
Moses Z. Neo-Liberalism, the Islamic Revival, and Urban Development in Post-War, Post-Socialist Sarajevo. [Masters Thesis]. University of Toronto; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33459
21.
Diarra, Gaoussou.
The governance doctrine and the agenda of multilateral institutions in developing countries : an international political economy approach : La doctrine de la gouvernance et l’agenda des institutions multilatérales dans les pays en développement : une approche d’économie politique internationale.
Degree: Docteur es, Sciences économiques, 2012, Clermont-Ferrand 1
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2012CLF10387
► Cette thèse transdisciplinaire en économie et science politique étudie les divers aspects de la doctrine de la gouvernance dans les agendas des institutions et organisations…
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▼ Cette thèse transdisciplinaire en économie et science politique étudie les divers aspects de la doctrine de la gouvernance dans les agendas des institutions et organisations internationales (OIs) en adoptant les outils de l’Economie Politique Internationale. La première partie mobilise deux chapitres pour analyser la doctrine de la gouvernance dans sa genèse, conceptualisation, diffusion et appropriation dans la communauté du développement international. Le chapitre 1 montre que les approches contemporaines de la gouvernance rompent avec les approches traditionnelles sur la légitimité politique et l’efficience économique en prenant en compte l’hybridité, l’hétérogénéité et la multiplicité des acteurs et des centres de décisions. Le chapitre 2 apporte sa contribution au débat sur la diffusion des idées et normes dans la sphère des politiques de développement en prenant l’exemple de la Banque Mondiale à travers son agenda sur les normes de gouvernance. Ce chapitre montre que la Banque Mondiale a eu différents comportements vis-À-Vis de la doctrine de la gouvernance, en évoluant d’une approche économique vers une approche sociopolitique dans une optique néolibérale.Ce chapitre montre que la combinaison du pouvoir d’influence et d’injonction de la Banque Mondiale lui a permis d’utiliser ses indicateurs de gouvernance comme un moyen d’influence de sa politique d ’aide au développement de même que celles des autres principaux donneurs. A travers deux chapitres, la seconde partie effectue une investigation dans les dimensions sociales et environnementales de la gouvernance dans une perspective de développement durable dans les pays en développement. Ainsi, le chapitre 3 examine les politiques de gouvernance sociale des OIs et vise à saisir les effets de l’aide multilatérale sur les inégalités de revenu et la protection sociale dans les pays en développement. Il montre que cette aide a des effets bénéfiques uniquement dans les pays ayant une bonne qualité institutionnelle. Enfin le chapitre 4 propose un modèle de principal-Agent illustrant des interactions d’économie politique entre l’offre et la demande de bonne gouvernance dans le cas du civisme environnemental, de la corruption et de la déforestation dans les pays en développement. Il trouve que l’aide multilatérale destinée au secteur forestier est plus efficace dans la réduction de la déforestation dans les pays ayant à la fois un meilleur civisme environnemental et un état de droit.
This interdisciplinary thesis in economics and political science analyzes the multidimensional aspects of the governance doctrine in the agendas of multilateral and International Organizations (IOs) by adopting the framework of International Political Economy (IPE). The first part uses two chapters to analyze the doctrine of governance in its genesis, conceptualization, diffusion and appropriation in the international development community. Chapter 1 found that current approaches of governance break with traditional approaches of political legitimacy and economic efficiency by taking…
Advisors/Committee Members: Plane, Patrick (thesis director), Giesen, Klaus-Gerd (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Gouvernance économique; Political economy
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Diarra, G. (2012). The governance doctrine and the agenda of multilateral institutions in developing countries : an international political economy approach : La doctrine de la gouvernance et l’agenda des institutions multilatérales dans les pays en développement : une approche d’économie politique internationale. (Doctoral Dissertation). Clermont-Ferrand 1. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2012CLF10387
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Diarra, Gaoussou. “The governance doctrine and the agenda of multilateral institutions in developing countries : an international political economy approach : La doctrine de la gouvernance et l’agenda des institutions multilatérales dans les pays en développement : une approche d’économie politique internationale.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Clermont-Ferrand 1. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://www.theses.fr/2012CLF10387.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Diarra, Gaoussou. “The governance doctrine and the agenda of multilateral institutions in developing countries : an international political economy approach : La doctrine de la gouvernance et l’agenda des institutions multilatérales dans les pays en développement : une approche d’économie politique internationale.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Diarra G. The governance doctrine and the agenda of multilateral institutions in developing countries : an international political economy approach : La doctrine de la gouvernance et l’agenda des institutions multilatérales dans les pays en développement : une approche d’économie politique internationale. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Clermont-Ferrand 1; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2012CLF10387.
Council of Science Editors:
Diarra G. The governance doctrine and the agenda of multilateral institutions in developing countries : an international political economy approach : La doctrine de la gouvernance et l’agenda des institutions multilatérales dans les pays en développement : une approche d’économie politique internationale. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Clermont-Ferrand 1; 2012. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2012CLF10387

University of Manitoba
22.
Nowatzki, Nadine R.
Wealth, wealth inequality, and health: a political economy perspective.
Degree: Sociology, 2011, University of Manitoba
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4435
► The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between wealth, wealth inequality and health. The study has a cross-national focus and employs a…
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▼ The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between wealth, wealth inequality and health. The study has a cross-national focus and employs a
political economy perspective, which addresses the macro-
political determinants of health. The dissertation is comprised of two sets of analyses. In Part 1, logistic regression analyses confirm that wealth, whether measured as home ownership, the value of the home, or net worth, is a significant predictor of self-rated health in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany. The relationship between wealth and self-rated health is weakest in Germany. Case studies of the three countries indicate that this weaker relationship may be linked to more generous welfare state provisions in Germany.
In Part 2, bivariate analyses reveal that wealth inequality, whether measured as the Gini coefficient or the share of wealth held by the richest 10% of the population, is related to poorer population health outcomes in developed countries. Both unweighted and weighted correlations are strong and significant, even after controlling for a variety of potential macro-level confounders. The results are strongest for female life expectancy and infant mortality. In-depth analysis of the countries with the most equitable distribution of wealth and the best health outcomes reveals several themes: high rates of home ownership, relatively generous pensions, stronger regulatory frameworks, taxation of wealth, increased social expenditures in recent years, and social cohesion.
The results of this dissertation suggest that wealth is an axis of inequality that deserves far more attention from sociologists, particularly in relation to population health. Relying on income alone to describe inequality and form public policy is inadequate for understanding and addressing the economic and health circumstances of individuals and families. The inclusion of wealth in sociological studies of health disparities will result in a more accurate picture of social stratification, and will result in better informed social policy. Finally, the use of a
political economy framework allows us to better understand, and potentially change, the
political and economic processes through which the distribution of both wealth and health occurs.
Advisors/Committee Members: Segall, Alexander (Sociology) (supervisor), Olsen, Gregg (Sociology).
Subjects/Keywords: wealth; inequality; health; political economy
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Nowatzki, Nadine R. “Wealth, wealth inequality, and health: a political economy perspective.” 2011. Thesis, University of Manitoba. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4435.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Nowatzki, Nadine R. “Wealth, wealth inequality, and health: a political economy perspective.” 2011. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Nowatzki NR. Wealth, wealth inequality, and health: a political economy perspective. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4435.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Nowatzki NR. Wealth, wealth inequality, and health: a political economy perspective. [Thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4435
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Ghana
23.
Bukari, G.A.
Political Economy Analysis of Elections in Ghana's Fourth Republic (1992 To 2016)
.
Degree: 2017, University of Ghana
URL: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/32162
► This study analysed the determinants of participation in voting and electoral choices by citizens, and established the relationship between national presidential elections and the performance…
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▼ This study analysed the determinants of participation in voting and electoral choices by citizens, and established the relationship between national presidential elections and the performance of the economy in Ghana's Fourth Republican era from 1992 to 2016. The study proceeds within the theoretical framework of political economy which looks at the interplay between economics and politics using macro-micro approach. The study conceptualised political economy as an approach focusing on the application of economic tools of analysis to the study of economy and electoral behaviour within the multi-party democratic framework of Ghana‟s Fourth Republic.
The study utilises macro-level data (secondary district-level data) to establish the determinants of voter participation, impairment of voter participation through the incidence of spoilt ballots, and actual voter choices using the 2000 and 2012 national presidential elections results synchronised with the 2000 and 2010 population and housing censuses respectively, and involving all 216 districts. The study also analysed the determinants of voter participation and electoral choices based on micro-level data (survey data) from a random sample of 600 respondents in four electorally-swing districts in the Brong Ahafo and Central regions to examine several hypotheses concerning electoral behaviour within the multi-party democratic framework where ethnicity was not a dominant factor influencing voter choice in order to unravel the other key factors influencing voter choices beyond the ethnicity factor.
Based on the macro-level and district-level data, the analysis of the determinants of voting participation revealed that the locality factor (urban-rural) was a significant factor. However, the results were mixed with increasing urban share of the population in a district leading to increasing turnout rate of voters for the 2000 Presidential election, while the opposite result held for the 2012 Presidential election. Voter turnout tended to decrease with increasing proportion of age dependency ratio in a district. This suggested that districts with higher age dependency ratios tended to participate less in voting, a plausible outcome which also suggested that increasing poverty burden discouraged participation in voting. Voter turnout tended to increase with increasing proportion of Asantes in a district in Ghana and decreased with increasing proportion of Ewes in a district in the 2012 Presidential election; but did not produce clear results for the 2000 election. On spoilt ballots, the study found that for both 2000 and 2012 Presidential elections, the relative intensity of spoilt ballots was its literacy level with increasing levels linked with reduced spoilt ballots. Also, the regression analysis of voter choices for both the 2012 and 2000 national presidential elections clearly showed that ethnicity, with regards to these two dominant groups in Ghana, was a major determinant of electoral outcomes. Asantes and Ewes vote largely on ethnic lines for the respective parties…
Subjects/Keywords: Political Economy;
Voting Behaviour;
Democracy
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. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Ghana. Retrieved from http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/32162
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bukari, G A. “Political Economy Analysis of Elections in Ghana's Fourth Republic (1992 To 2016)
.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Ghana. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/32162.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bukari, G A. “Political Economy Analysis of Elections in Ghana's Fourth Republic (1992 To 2016)
.” 2017. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Bukari GA. Political Economy Analysis of Elections in Ghana's Fourth Republic (1992 To 2016)
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Ghana; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/32162.
Council of Science Editors:
Bukari GA. Political Economy Analysis of Elections in Ghana's Fourth Republic (1992 To 2016)
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Ghana; 2017. Available from: http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/32162

University of Cambridge
24.
Dolphin, Geoffroy Ghislain Danny.
Strategies for climate change mitigation: policy and technological considerations.
Degree: PhD, 2020, University of Cambridge
URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/304802
► The present thesis addresses the policy and technological aspects of national (and sub-national) greenhouse gases (GHG) abatement strategies. Two of the three chapters of this…
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▼ The present thesis addresses the policy and technological aspects of national (and sub-national) greenhouse gases (GHG) abatement strategies. Two of the three chapters of this thesis explore the former, respectively investigating (i) domestic political economy constraints and (ii) processes of policy diffusion across jurisdictions. One chapter focuses on the latter, advancing methodologies for the identification of firm-level innovation in (GHG- reducing) electricity supply technologies.
A key empirical contribution of this thesis, presented in the first chapter, is the construction and calculation of an average (emissions-weighted) price of carbon for the jurisdictions under study, which shows, among other insights, that the world average price remains extremely low, at about 1.5USD/tCO2e in 2018. In addition, the analysis in this chapter suggests that (i) political economy factors primarily affected policy implementation and (ii) policy stringency is a highly persistent process.
Our next chapter investigates policy diffusion processes and proposes that these are related to an alteration of the net payoffs of domestic climate policy and an update on the information about the benefits (or costs) of policy adoption derived from the adoption of a similar policy or the deployment of abatement technology in foreign juris- dictions. The evidence suggests that technology demonstration and learning from past policy experience positively affect (domestic) policy developments.
The last chapter focuses on the identification of (GHG-abating) electricity supply technologies using a machine learning search strategy based on patents’ title and abstract. This approach highlighted the role of “lateral" innovation in the development of some electricity generation technologies. In addition, by linking the identified patent set to legal entities, we uncover the role of firms’ technological entry and exit in technology transition and shed light on the business structure of technologically active entities.
The present work allowed me to address fundamental questions pertaining to the design of climate change mitigation strategies. First, our results stress the importance of the sequence of introduction of the climate policies, suggesting that policies weakening incumbents’ political and economic influence might foster subsequent implementation of more stringent policies. Second, given the weakness of most existing carbon pricing schemes, a rationale for the development of climate mitigation strategies with multiple GHG abatement tools continues to exist. Third, mechanisms of policy diffusion at play could prove highly valuable when seeking to introduce carbonpricing mechanisms in new jurisdictions. Finally, we point at the need to target public support to sustain the stream of GHG-abating electricity supply technologies primarily at new (technological) entrants.
Subjects/Keywords: climate policy; political economy; innovation
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Dolphin, Geoffroy Ghislain Danny. “Strategies for climate change mitigation: policy and technological considerations.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed March 01, 2021.
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/304802.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Dolphin, Geoffroy Ghislain Danny. “Strategies for climate change mitigation: policy and technological considerations.” 2020. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Dolphin GGD. Strategies for climate change mitigation: policy and technological considerations. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/304802.
Council of Science Editors:
Dolphin GGD. Strategies for climate change mitigation: policy and technological considerations. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/304802

University of Oxford
25.
Seddon, Jack A.
Between collapse and decline : the dissolution of international monetary systems in comparative historical perspective.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Oxford
URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ffdae3d-375a-42d5-826c-15bd9ac7c923
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https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.770334
► This thesis is concerned with varying rates (i.e. speeds) of system dissolution in the international monetary domain. International monetary systems, such as the gold-dollar system…
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▼ This thesis is concerned with varying rates (i.e. speeds) of system dissolution in the international monetary domain. International monetary systems, such as the gold-dollar system and inter-war order, often suddenly and unexpectedly collapse. Yet other monetary orders, such as the Sterling Area and the long-forgotten Latin Monetary Union, for no less obscure reasons, have declined gradually. The puzzle is why. I begin by taking seriously the initial conditions that give rise to international monetary systems, for those historical conditions shape the modalities of leadership and political conflicts that drive systems towards particular kinds of ends. In this context, I draw on the classical distinction between spontaneous and negotiated orders. Whereas spontaneous orders emerge around natural processes of trade and financial integration, without any conscious act of creation, negotiated orders emerge through deliberate and directed action. The study breaks with traditional understandings, however, in arguing that the most important legacy of these historical processes is not that spontaneous orders are decentralised while negotiated ones are hierarchical. In fact, all international monetary systems exhibit a strongly hierarchical character. Instead, I highlight, on the one hand, the centrality of collective institutionalised bargaining between integrated national monetary agencies (i.e., treasuries and central bank officials) in negotiated systems and, on the other, the absence of collective institutional bargaining in more atomised spontaneous systems. This structural distinction is the key legacy of the different historical processes of negotiated and spontaneous system formation. Contrary to conventional wisdom and intuition, I argue that spontaneous systems - plagued by non-association and lacking ready mechanisms of directed adjustment - establish the conditions for slow decline, while negotiated systems - geared to withstand economic and social change through institutionalised collective bargaining and concerted adjustment - establish the conditions for rapid collapse. My framework treats the ultimate unit of analysis as the policy choices made by leaders confronting problems. Specifically, the analysis logically deduces two distinct modalities of leadership that emerge as structural variables interact with political conflicts over preferred policy solutions. I label these modes of action appropriative and exclusory leadership. Appropriative leadership involves coopting administrative resources by negotiating with members of monetary institutions to meet problems. Exclusory leadership is geared towards retaining the non-trivial advantages that flow from not having to bargain over the terms of continuation. Under both modalities, leaders exploit their strategic position, distorting information and manipulating costs and benefits to promote their particular interests and goals. Both modalities involve tensions between leadership and membership interests and challenges to systems optimisation. But appropriative…
Subjects/Keywords: International Relations; International Political Economy
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Seddon, J. A. (2015). Between collapse and decline : the dissolution of international monetary systems in comparative historical perspective. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ffdae3d-375a-42d5-826c-15bd9ac7c923 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.770334
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Seddon, Jack A. “Between collapse and decline : the dissolution of international monetary systems in comparative historical perspective.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ffdae3d-375a-42d5-826c-15bd9ac7c923 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.770334.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Seddon, Jack A. “Between collapse and decline : the dissolution of international monetary systems in comparative historical perspective.” 2015. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Seddon JA. Between collapse and decline : the dissolution of international monetary systems in comparative historical perspective. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ffdae3d-375a-42d5-826c-15bd9ac7c923 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.770334.
Council of Science Editors:
Seddon JA. Between collapse and decline : the dissolution of international monetary systems in comparative historical perspective. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ffdae3d-375a-42d5-826c-15bd9ac7c923 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.770334

University of Victoria
26.
Zhao, Can.
Redefining Critical Industry: A Comparative Study of Inward FDI Restrictions in China and the United States.
Degree: Department of Political Science, 2015, University of Victoria
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6600
► International political economy scholarship largely focuses on the motivations and determinants of FDI flows and their effects on economic wellbeing, stability and peace. An overlooked…
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▼ International
political economy scholarship largely focuses on the motivations and determinants of FDI flows and their effects on economic wellbeing, stability and peace. An overlooked question, however, is the restrictions of inward FDI. Extant research widely regards national security and economic security as the justifications for FDI restriction. This is an oversight because there is a broad overlap in conceptualizations of national security and economic security.
In this thesis I study the phenomenon of the use of the concept “critical industry” to justify FDI restrictions. I investigate eight cases of restricted FDI transactions occurred in China and the United States between 2005 and 2012, and the relevant institutions and practices of both countries. This study argues that the protection of critical industry is the key driver of inward FDI restrictions and that the security of critical industry is better understood to protect individual industries, defense-sensitive industries, critical infrastructures, and industries pertaining to regime-security.
Advisors/Committee Members: Wu, Guoguang (supervisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Political economy; FDI transactions
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Zhao, C. (2015). Redefining Critical Industry: A Comparative Study of Inward FDI Restrictions in China and the United States. (Masters Thesis). University of Victoria. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6600
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zhao, Can. “Redefining Critical Industry: A Comparative Study of Inward FDI Restrictions in China and the United States.” 2015. Masters Thesis, University of Victoria. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6600.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zhao, Can. “Redefining Critical Industry: A Comparative Study of Inward FDI Restrictions in China and the United States.” 2015. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Zhao C. Redefining Critical Industry: A Comparative Study of Inward FDI Restrictions in China and the United States. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Victoria; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6600.
Council of Science Editors:
Zhao C. Redefining Critical Industry: A Comparative Study of Inward FDI Restrictions in China and the United States. [Masters Thesis]. University of Victoria; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6600
27.
Alam, M Injamam.
The Dust Bowl and American elections.
Degree: Department of Economics, 2018, University of Victoria
URL: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/10005
► This paper examines the American Dust Bowl to understand the political impacts of the catastrophe which devastated the American Plains during the 1930s. I use…
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▼ This paper examines the American Dust Bowl to understand the
political impacts of the catastrophe which devastated the American Plains during the 1930s. I use county-level panel analysis to analyze whether the Dust Bowl led to a change in voting patterns in more eroded counties compared to less eroded counties. I look to see whether, in the years following the Dust Bowl, there was shift in vote shares against the Democratic Party who were typically the incumbents during the period of the Dust Bowl. I use presidential, congressional, senatorial and gubernatorial election return for approximately the three decades following the Dust Bowl, i.e. between 1940 and 1968. My results show that the Dust Bowl is associated with a shift away from the Democratic Party for more affected counties. I find these effects to last for at least a decade (throughout the 1940s). I also look at the potential effects of the net migration and New Deal expenditure in the Plains. I find that less net migration may have been one of the reasons behind this change in voting behavior of counties and that New Deal expenditure could potentially have been a strong mitigative tool for the Democratic Party.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gillezeau, Rob (supervisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Dust Bowl; Economics; Political Economy
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Alam, M. I. (2018). The Dust Bowl and American elections. (Masters Thesis). University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/10005
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Alam, M Injamam. “The Dust Bowl and American elections.” 2018. Masters Thesis, University of Victoria. Accessed March 01, 2021.
https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/10005.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Alam, M Injamam. “The Dust Bowl and American elections.” 2018. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Alam MI. The Dust Bowl and American elections. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Victoria; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/10005.
Council of Science Editors:
Alam MI. The Dust Bowl and American elections. [Masters Thesis]. University of Victoria; 2018. Available from: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/10005

Virginia Tech
28.
Christiansen, William Thomas.
Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012.
Degree: MA, Political Science, 2013, Virginia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23266
► The conditionality agreements of the International Monetary Fund have received a significant amount of criticism from the 1980s and 1990s and into the 2000s. Critics…
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▼ The conditionality agreements of the International Monetary Fund have received a significant amount of criticism from the 1980s and 1990s and into the 2000s. Critics have found little reassurance from the IMF\'s attempts to reform conditionality after 2000. The 1980s marked a time where conditionality on IMF loans required structural adjustment and the imposition of austere fiscal measures. The streamlining initiative in 2000 possessed only slight quantitative modification to lending conditionality. However, recent changes in the Fund\'s lending policy occuring between 2007 and 2012 may finally display the institution\'s ability to listen, learn, and adapt policy toward a conditionality regime utilizing policy outside of the neoliberal framework. This thesis examines these new policies and their implications for neoliberalism where the term represents an approach to economic growth that demands privatization, deregulation, and weakening the role of the public sector. It provides a history of conditionality reforms and positions the most recent reforms in lending policy in the evolving neoliberal context.
Advisors/Committee Members: Nelson, Scott G. (committeechair), Stivachtis, Yannis A. (committee member), Hult, Karen M. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: conditionality; political economy; development; neoliberalism
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Christiansen, W. T. (2013). Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012. (Masters Thesis). Virginia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23266
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Christiansen, William Thomas. “Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Virginia Tech. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23266.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Christiansen, William Thomas. “Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012.” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Christiansen WT. Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23266.
Council of Science Editors:
Christiansen WT. Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012. [Masters Thesis]. Virginia Tech; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23266

Victoria University of Wellington
29.
Pickering, Dani.
Between attention and mobilisation: Proletariat political activation in a mediated Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Degree: 2019, Victoria University of Wellington
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/8634
► Stagnant pay, increased work hours and other increasingly precarious working conditions are restricting the capacity of the working class to meaningfully participate in political processes,…
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▼ Stagnant pay, increased work hours and other increasingly precarious working conditions are restricting the capacity of the working class to meaningfully participate in
political processes, worsening its economic disenfranchisement and further widening the inequality gap. At the same time,
political struggles have expanded beyond the economic. “New Social Movements” have for the last half century transformed politics by expanding the definition of “
political struggle” to include environmental, cultural and social concerns. Information and communication technologies have also advanced considerably, to the extent that information and its transmission are no longer scarce. Instead, in an “attention economy” that operates under capitalist logics, it is the human capacity to process information that has the most limited availability. Together, these developments have fundamentally changed the ways in which people participate in politics today, with no clear consensus regarding the overall merit of these emergent means of participation for the class-based social movements looking to reverse growing economic inequality.
In this thesis, I examine the role of media in class-based social movements today. Specifically, I ask how organisers for these movements use media to facilitate
political activation, or the process by which individuals disengaged from
political processes come to participate in them. Using interviews with organisers from social movement organisations seeking to activate working-class audiences, I conduct a thematic analysis of those organisations’ media use and communications strategies. The findings reveal a complex imbrication of mediated and non-mediated activities designed to enable successful navigation of the attention
economy. Through these findings, I propose new ways of connecting the individual to the collective in class-based movements through media.
Advisors/Committee Members: Kuehn, Kathleen, Daubs, Michael.
Subjects/Keywords: Political activation; Attention economy; Mediation
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Pickering, D. (2019). Between attention and mobilisation: Proletariat political activation in a mediated Aotearoa/New Zealand. (Masters Thesis). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/8634
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pickering, Dani. “Between attention and mobilisation: Proletariat political activation in a mediated Aotearoa/New Zealand.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10063/8634.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pickering, Dani. “Between attention and mobilisation: Proletariat political activation in a mediated Aotearoa/New Zealand.” 2019. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Pickering D. Between attention and mobilisation: Proletariat political activation in a mediated Aotearoa/New Zealand. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/8634.
Council of Science Editors:
Pickering D. Between attention and mobilisation: Proletariat political activation in a mediated Aotearoa/New Zealand. [Masters Thesis]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/8634

Princeton University
30.
Ferrali, Romain Reda.
Corruption as a Criminal Network
.
Degree: PhD, 2018, Princeton University
URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01z890rw94f
► Corruption is a global bad that comes in many forms. It is pervasive in developing countries, and persists in developed countries, where wide-ranging corruption scandals…
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▼ Corruption is a global bad that comes in many forms. It is pervasive in developing countries, and persists in developed countries, where wide-ranging corruption scandals regularly shake public opinion. This study looks at these wide-ranging scandals. It explains why we sometimes see small-scale, petty corruption, and sometimes wide-ranging scandals of grand corruption.
Because grand corruption is often a collective enterprise involving large, sophisticated conspiracies, it resists our traditional tools of analysis and policy-making: methodological individualism and institutional rules. Grand corruption resists these tools because the vast conspiracies that support it manage to subvert these very institutions and avert law-enforcement, even in countries where strong institutions impose swift and harsh punishment on corrupt acts.
This work examines corruption from the perspective of organizations. Its departure point is that corruption is ``organized crime within an organization.'' It proposes and tests a theory of how corruption is organized; that is, why we observe petty or grand corruption, and how this depends on the structure of the organization where corruption occurs. This approach provides a simple, easily expandable formal-theoretic framework that unifies, sharpens, and expands upon previous work.
I find that corrupt individuals have an incentive to form vast conspiracies when the help provided by additional accomplices offsets their cost in terms of resources. Organizations affect these incentives by embedding corrupt individuals into social networks. Those networks are a double-edged sword: they provide corrupt individuals with opportunities to recruit additional accomplices among close colleagues, but also expose them to the monitoring of those colleagues. Corruption persists in developed countries in the form of grand corruption supported by large conspiracies because stronger institutions make engaging into corruption costlier. Since corruption is costlier, the protection provided by additional accomplices become more desirable. However, compensating these additional accomplices comes with higher costs that can only be borne by more profitable ventures. As such, less profitable, petty corruption disappears, leading to the survival of grand corruption alone. Testing these propositions using cross-country comparisons, a lab-in-the-field experiment conducted in Morocco, and a field study with a large Moroccan company, I find strong support for the theoretical predictions.
Advisors/Committee Members: Londregan, John B (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: corruption;
development;
networks;
political economy
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Ferrali, R. R. (2018). Corruption as a Criminal Network
. (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01z890rw94f
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ferrali, Romain Reda. “Corruption as a Criminal Network
.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01z890rw94f.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ferrali, Romain Reda. “Corruption as a Criminal Network
.” 2018. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Ferrali RR. Corruption as a Criminal Network
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01z890rw94f.
Council of Science Editors:
Ferrali RR. Corruption as a Criminal Network
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2018. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01z890rw94f
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