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Reading Between the Lines: Welfare Chauvinism and Depictions of Deservingness in Canadian Print News
Welfare chauvinism – the barring of minority groups from access to social benefits – is a major issue affecting many welfare states around the world. Although at first glance Canada appears to be an “exception” to this ... -
Governing Forced Migration in Racial Capitalism: Refugee Survival in Paris and Nairobi
This dissertation examines the international, national, and urban dimensions of refugee governance and the geographies of survival in two major refugee hosting cities in the global North and global South: Paris, France and ... -
Winning Friends and Influencing Others: Normative Balancing in the United Nations Security Council
As the game of power politics plays on, scholars have another chance to identify other early warning indicators of a seismic shift. In this dissertation, I offer a soft power mechanism that helps us understand the process ... -
Who is Responsible? Explaining How Contemporary Canadian Newspapers Frame Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pressing social issue in Canada. How the news media covers this violence has the potential to generate social responsibility or reinforce misconceptions about its causes, prevalence, and solutions. ... -
Territorial Control and Minority Reforms: A Study of the Kurdish Borderlands in Turkey
This study seeks to explain the failure of the Kurdish Opening in Turkey. I theorize that an important, hitherto largely ignored, factor in explaining this failure is the state’s policy of territorial control, which has ... -
A Genealogy of Contemporary Indianness: A Foucauldian Analysis of Identity and Society in Anti-Colonization Politics
This dissertation examines the discursive construction of Indigenous identity under the conditions of colonization on Turtle Island. I investigate how the colonial discourse on Indianness discursively produced Indigenous ... -
‘STICKY WORDS’ AND TWISTED TONGUES: Rhetoric, Symbols, and Regime Resilience in Post-Genocide Rwanda
This dissertation examines the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front’s construction and deployment of political rhetoric and symbols as key facets of authoritarian resilience and ethnic ‘control’ in post-genocide Rwanda. It ... -
Europe in Hard Times: Institutional Reconfiguration in the European Union since the 2008 Great Recession
The 2008 Great Recession was the trigger for the first real stress test of the European Monetary Union. The eurozone and the European Union were faced with a succession of three crises: financial, banking, and sovereign ... -
Winning At All Costs: Explaining Opposition Party Success and Failure in Hybrid Regimes
Why would anyone form or support an opposition political party in a country where this might land you in prison, in hospital, or even in the grave? And how is it that some of these parties become so powerful and successful, ... -
Cross-Movement Coalitions and Sexuality Politics: How activists resist political homophobias in East Africa
Sexuality is part of what structures politics. States rely on reproduction to replicate their populations. How sexuality is regulated is political, and it should be considered in political science literature. In recent ... -
Autocratization of Parliamentary Democracies: the Case of Hungary and Macedonia
In the last decade, the democratic failure that appeared in parliamentary democracies in parts of post-communist Europe defies earlier expectations about democratic consolidation in that region. This doctoral dissertation ... -
Why Organizations Fight: Wars of Choice in an Age of Instability
Why Organizations Fight: Wars of Choice in an Age of Instability examines the participation of three international organizations, the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the European Union, across ... -
Rule Egalitarianism: The Egalitarian Tilt of Classical Liberalism
Classical liberalism has wrongly been regarded as an ideology that rejects the welfare state. This study endeavours to replace this far too common reading of the classical liberal tradition with an approach I term “rule ... -
Recasting Reform: An Analysis of Electoral Reform Initiatives in Fourteen Parliamentary Democracies
While successful electoral system change has received considerable scholarly attention in recent years, comparatively little is known about the vast majority of cases where reform was unsuccessfully attempted or never ... -
Strategic Diplomacies: Indigenous Governance, International Politics, and Natural Resources in Canada
International Relations theory would predict that central governments, with their considerable material resources, would be unlikely to face a challenge from a substate government. However, substate governments, and ... -
A Historical Materialist Approach to the Eurozone Crisis: Fictitious Capital, States, and Capital Accumulation
This dissertation examines the ongoing European sovereign debt crises that began with Greece in 2009, in the wake of the US subprime mortgage crisis. Through the application of a historical materialist approach, I attempt ... -
Accommodating Muslim Minorities in Secular Societies: Public Education in England, Scotland, Ontario, and Quebec
(2016-10-07)Abstract This thesis examines one of the most sensitive challenges facing contemporary democracies: the accommodation of Muslim minorities in public institutions and services. It focuses on the field of education, and on ... -
Governing Big Data: The Political Economy of Power, Knowledge and Consumer Finance in the Digital Age
(2016-10-01)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 ... -
The political economy of industrial policy in Peru and Ecuador: 1980-2010
(2016-08-26)This dissertation focuses on industrial policy in two developing countries: Peru and Ecuador. Informed by comparative historical analysis, it explains how the Import-Substitution Industrialization policies promoted during ...
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