While linguistics has historically separated language from speech and defined language as a structured system of linguistic signs, psycholinguistics has reclaimed speech acts and their psychological and neurological effects ...

This thesis examines the causes of financial malfeasance in the largest U.S. telecommunications corporations between 1995 and 2004. Specifically, it examines whether or not the executive compensation package influences ...

In this thesis, I investigate the relationship between black-white residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas, and the amount of political fragmentation within the metro area. Using the dissimilarity index calculated ...

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The fact that a nation's economic performance depends on the cohesion of political and economic markets is fairly obvious. However, few studies exist which make clear the specific links between politics and economics. ...

My dissertation examines political participation in non-democratic countries. Specifically, it looks into China's urban political participation in the past decade and examines how Chinese urban citizens are mobilized to ...

This dissertation looks at Aristotelian political thinkers of the later Middle Ages and argues that they meet all of the criteria of a mature Kuhnian science. Scholars of medieval Europe have spent decades arguing over ...

This dissertation positions American nonprofit organizations as important, but oft overlooked American political institutions and challenges our current understanding of the purpose and function of the U.S. nonprofit sector. ...