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‘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 ... -
Political Parties and Democratic Development in Ghana: From Transition to Consolidation and Beyond
(2016-01-21)At the time of the Ghana’s independence in March 1957, a democratic system of government was instituted, but the process of political development was derailed and often interrupted by frequent coups. This is evident in the ... -
Re-politicizing State Sovereignty in Global Governance: A Political Economy of Transparency in the Oil Sectors of Gabon and Ghana
(2015-12-14)In the last two decades, the study of transnational corporations (TNCs) and other non-state actors has gained an undisputed momentum in the fields of International Political Economy (IPE) and global governance, thus ... -
William Thompson and Anna Wheeler: Equality and Utilitarianism in the 19th Century
(2015-08-07)This dissertation examines the work of William Thompson and Anna Wheeler in relation to more prominent feminist political theorists of the period. It argues that, read in light of Thompson and Wheeler’s "Appeal of One ... -
North Atlantic Quadrangle: The Importance of France in Canadian Strategic Culture, 1760-1949
(2015-04-10)The objective of this dissertation is to answer the puzzle raised by political scientist John Kirton: Why has Canada, for the last century, gone to war for and beside France? In other words, I assess France’s relative ... -
FROM REVELATION TO REVOLUTION: MUHAMMAD’S DEPLOYMENT OF STRATEGIC SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION IN TRANSFORMING THE IDEATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE ARABIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM - 570 AD
(2015-02-17)There has been relatively little study of system change among scholars of international relations. Several academics have referred to the subject as the “evaded dimension” of IR. The reasons for the omission are complex ... -
Homohegemony and the Other: Canada and Jamaica
(2015-01-09)Existing scholarship on LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer/questioning) rights, regulation, “homonationalism,” and citizenship fails to consider lesbian and gay inclusion as a hegemonic state ideology. ... -
Ethnic Affinity Voting in Canada
(2015-01-08)As immigration transforms the electorates of contemporary democracies, the political activity of newcomers will have increasingly powerful effects on political life. This thesis examines one important dimension of this ...
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