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Testing the limit : term limits and their unintended consequences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Term limits have been in place for over 20 years; we know that term limits matter, but not to what extent.Term limits vary widely across the states that have them, impacting the structure of legislative institutions and ...
Unelected oversight : the politics of government investigations and problem monitoring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
and understudy sources of expert information. First, I consider oversight within public organizations performed by civil servants. Using survey data, I find that bureaucrats with greater knowledge of internal oversight processes and public service motivation...
Crisis of democracy : protest and affective polarization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
or leaders affect the voters' attitude toward the ruling party in democracies. Accordingly, targeted protests increase the affective polarization at the individual level in a cross-national context. I conduct a comparative study of public opinion polarization...
Elite purges in dictatorships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
-national variation), and why dictators purge only specific elites (within-regime individual-level variation). Conventional wisdom highlights dictators' fears of coups to explain purges. My central claim is that a dictator's fear of being unseated by a foreign state...
Determinants of legislative staff turnover
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
seeks to understand staff employment and work environments at both the congressional and state level with an emphasis on staff turnover to understand modern legislative capacity for policy development and constituent service. ... By studying what...
Authoritarian successor parties and political protest in Asia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
How does an authoritarian successor party (ASP) interact with civil society in East and Southeast Asia? Does an ASP's control over the executive and legislature increase or decrease protest movements? Do ASPs effectively ...
Dynamics of democracy aid allocation : from democratic donors to authoritarian regimes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze democracy aid allocation mechanisms between Western donors and authoritarian regimes in recipient countries. The theoretical mechanism explains how strategic choices of donors and ...