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Description:: The surge in gender quotas across Africa raises questions about the varied impact of these measures on women’s leadership equity in legislatures. With its focus on the international diffusion of these laws, the existing scholarly literature has yet to fully consider how domestic factors at the...
Author:: Arendt, Christie Marie
Keyword:: Political Parties, Africa, Gender Quotas, Tanzania, Political Participation, and Gender
GW Unit:: Political Science
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Morgan, Kimberly J.
Committee Member(s):: Brinkerhoff, Jennifer and Kramon, Eric
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Why is kinship more politically salient in some states than others? Why does the political salience of kinship identity vary across states with similar forms of governance? While existing work describes why kinship retains salience in the first place (Anderson 1986, Layne, 1994), there is little...
Author:: Weiner, Scott
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GW Unit:: Political Science
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Brown, Nathan J
Committee Member(s):: Hale, Henry, Lynch, Marc, Kramon, Eric, and Darden, Keith
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: For over a century in Somaliland, international interveners recruited clan elders to carry out aid activities. But over the past twenty years this longstanding routine changed. Now young, highly educated Somalilanders with transnational experience are put in charge, displacing their traditional...
Author:: Anderson, Jessica Luffman
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GW Unit:: Political Science
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Barnett, Michael N
Committee Member(s):: Kramon, Eric and Finnemore, Martha
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: New African authoritarian regimes have emerged and maintained power for long periods since the promise of democratization in the early 1990s. A single ethnic group holds the most powerful positions in many of these governments, yet they endure despite excluding large ethnic groups and introducing...
Keyword:: Ethnicity, African politics, Comparative politics, Authoritarianism, Development, and Political economy
GW Unit:: Political Science
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Hale, Henry E
Committee Member(s):: Kramon, Eric and Miller, Michael K
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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