Current Dissertation Year Fellows

2017-2018 Criminalized Electoral Politics: The Socio-Political Foundations of Electoral Violence in Democratic Brazil

2017-2018 Expiration Date: Mega-Events and Police Reform in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas

2017-2018 Strategies of Domination: The Politics of Foreign Rule, 1900-2015

2017-2018 Reconciling Charisma: Healing, Conflict, and Identity in Catholic Charismatic Movements

2017-2018 Monteros, Domesticas and Cultivateurs: Unfree Labor and Constructed Race in Santo Domingo, 1768-1844

2016-2017 Campaign Effects and Party System Institutionalization

2016-2017 Colonial Influences Revisited - The Jesuit Biblical Commentary in Latin America

2016-2017 The Effect of Institutional and Contextual Factors in Campaign Strategies

2016-2017 Business and Human Rights: A Theory of Legal Responsibility

2016-2017 Faiths and Fortune: Religion and the Professional Middle Class in Contemporary China

2015-2016 “Localizing” the Legitimacy of Human Rights: How Particularistic Cultural Models about Religion Matter for the Universalization of Support for International Human Rights

2015-2016 Legitimate Autocrats: The Erosion of Democracy in Latin America

2015-2016 Religion, Revolution, and the Realm of the Literary in the Central American Novel

2015-2016 The Transnationalization of Mexico’s Catholic Right: Secularization, Modernity and Church-State Conflict, 1930-1939

2014-2015 When Democratic Accountability Fails and Corruption Thrives: Institutional and Attitudinal Explanations for Why Informed Voters Do Not Punish Corrupt Politicians

2014-2015 The Idea of Human Rights in the Latin American Constitutional Tradition

2014-2015 The Impact of Intra-Country on Agricultural Trade Flows

2014-2015 Essays on the Effects of Education Policy Reforms in Developing Countries

2013-2014 Trade Imbalance and Revaluing the Renminbi: United States VS China

2013-2014 Domestic Enforcement of the American Convention on Human Rights: the Doctrine of Conventionality Control

2013-2014 The Mexican Diaspora in the Industrial Midwest: Mexican Women and the Fluidity of Citizenship in Gary, IN, 1919-1941

2013-2014 The Long-Term Consequences of Short-term Health Shocks

2013-2014 Combating Legacies of Inequality: Religious Organizations & Social Change in South Africa

2012-2013 Emissaries of Light: Local Officialdom and the Classical Imperial Social Order’s Rise and Fall in Provincial Russia, 1780-1880

2012-2013 Political Learning and Democratic Commitment in New Democracies

2011-2012 US Assault Weapons and the Homicide Rate in Mexico

2011-2012 Slaveholders, Mobilization, and Social Change

2011-2012 Did Economic Reforms Cause China’s Rapid Economic Growth and Increase Inequity?

2011-2012 From Kuraka to Varayoc: Transformations of Indigenous Political Culture in the Late-Colonial Southern Andes

2011-2012 Explaining Political Linkages at the Individual and Sub-National Levels: Programmatic, Clientelistic, and Personalist Politician-Voter Connections in Peru

2011-2012 Secularization in the East?: Capitalism and Catholicism in Bangalore and Dubai

2011-2012 Under the Falling Red Star: The Lives of Eastern Ukraine’s Military Families

2010-2011 The Future of Peru Is in the Hands of a Woman: Gender and Military Nationalism in Peru (1960–1980)

2010-2011 The Politics of the Iron Fist: Media Framing, Public Opinion, and Political Rhetoric in Latin America

2010-2011 Surrendering Souls: The Role of Rhenish Missionaries in the Herero Genocide, 1904–1908

2010-2011 Soviet Scientific Intelligentsia from Stalin to Gorbachev, 1956–1985: A History of a Town That Did Not Exist

2009-2010 Religion and Democratization in the Mediterranean

2009-2010 Politicizing Religion: A Comparative Look at the Origins and Development of Muslim Incorporation Policies in France, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945–2008

2009-2010 Supreme Courts and the Justiciability of Human Rights in Latin America’s Third Wave of Democratization

2009-2010 How Do Governments Shape Insurgency? Nation-States, Democracy, and Armed Insurgency in Post-Independence Latin America, 1820–1920

2009-2010 State Response to Violence Against Women in Latin America

2008-2009 Explaining Variation in Vote Buying: Political Competition, Information Flows, and Political Trust in Mexico

2008-2009 The Impact of Social Movements on Public Policy: Women and Human Rights Movements in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay

2008-2009 The First Sin, the Master Sin, and the Common Sin: Sacrilege in Early Modern England

2008-2009 The Colonial Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: British Rule and the Post Independence Regimes of the Caribbean and Africa

2008-2009 Dictatorship, Revolution, and Democracy: Nicaraguan Political Regimes, National Representations and Uses of the Past (1936–1996)

2008-2009 Religious Mission, Central American Conflict, and US Cold War Politics, 1944–1996

2007-2008 A Rentier Theory of Subnational Democracy: The Politically Regressive Effects of Redistributive Fiscal Federalism in Argentina

2007-2008 Primus Contra Pares: Presidents, Governors, and the Politics of Distribution of Federal Resources in Argentina and Brazil

2007-2008 Insurgencies, Counterinsurgencies, and Civil Military Relations: When, How, and Why Do Civilians Prevail?

2007-2008 The Couples for Christ: Organizational Framing and Sociopolitical Mobilizations in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal

2006-2007 Party Systems and Democracy after the Conflicts

2006-2007 The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War

2006-2007 Political Parties and Electoral Mobilization in Argentina

2006-2007 Political Elites and Indigenous Peoples: Explaining Multicultural Institutions in Central America

2005-2006 Subnational Particularism: Decentralization, Political Competition,and the Composition of Local Public Goods in Latin America

2005-2006 Three Essays on Aggregate Demand and Growth

2005-2006 The Political Economy of Bank Regulation in Latin America: An Embedded-Agency Approach

2005-2006 Public Support and Democracy: Identifying Causal Mechanisms for Erosion of Democracy in Latin America

2005-2006 Regimes and Policy-making on the European Periphery: New Spaces, Actors, and Ideas in the Forging of Responses to Labor Market Challenges in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, 1975-2005

2004-2005 Three Essays on Financial Liberalization, Country Risk and Low Growth Traps in Argentina, Mexico, and Turkey

2004-2005 The Relationship between Contentious Collective Action and State Repression: A Dynamic, Continuous-Time Model

2004-2005 Dissertation-Year Fellowship

2004-2005 Dissertation-Year Fellowship

2003-2004 Religious Conflict and Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Orthodoxy and the Protestant Challenge, 1812-1905

2003-2004 The NPT vs. Great Power Politics: Re-examining the Nuclear Proliferation Puzzle

2003-2004 Cartel or Catch-all? Political Finance and Party Organization in Federal Systems

2003-2004 How Has a Chinese Village Become Catholic? Local Culture and the Interculturation of Catholicism in Northern China

2002-2003 Policy Making in Transition: Decision Rules, Decision Makers, and Distributive Politics in Lithuania and Ukraine

2002-2003 Sources and Processes of Cultural Innovation: A Comparison Between Local and Center Communities in the Making of the Mercosur

2002-2003 Through the Eye of the Needle: Legislative Coalitions, Information Institutions and Economic Reform in Third Wave Democracies

2002-2003 Shouldering the State Security Burden: The Composition of Militaries, Regime Type and International Conflict Behavior

2001-2002 From Silent Acquiescence to Active Resistance: Labor Leaders’ Responses to Market-oriented Reforms

2000-2001 War and Peace in Sri Lanka and Malaysia: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics in Divided Societies

2000-2001 Reconstructing National Identity: Religious Nationalism in Post-Communist Poland

2000-2001 Stabilization-cum-Liberalization and Endogenous Financial Crises

2000-2001 Changes in the Chilean Party System after the Transition: Causes and Consequences

1999-2000 Retrenchment vs. Maintenance: The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Chile and Uruguay, 1973-98

1999-2000 Financial Liberalization and Monetary Control in a Developing Country

1999-2000 Crisis without Breakdown: The Politics of Impeachment in Latin America

1999-2000 Organizational Determinants of the Gender Gap in Evaluative Ratings in the Uruguayan State

1999-2000 A New Vision for Protestant Missions: William Cameron Townsend and the Wycliffe Bible Translators in Latin America

1998-1999 Politics of Coalition Formation and Survival in Multiparty Presidential Democracies

1998-1999 The Task of Political Repression and Social Control: Institutional Root of Police Brutality

1998-1999 Toward an Understanding of the Significance of the Language of Social Sin in Magisterial Teaching

1997-1998 Ethics in the Context of a Communist Society: A Case Study of the Hungarian Lutheran Church, 1945-89

1997-1998 Sharpening the Bite: A Framework for Monitoring Multilateral Economic Sanctions

1997-1998 Accountability and Party Competition in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

1997-1998 Bringing Perpetrators of Gross Human Rights Violations and War Crimes to Justice: Possibilities and Limitations of Universal Criminal Jurisdiction

1996-1997 The Political Economy of Industrial Stagnation: The Case of Peru’s Manufacturing Sector

1996-1997 Economic-Environmental Linkages in a Small Developing Country: The Case of Boliva

1996-1997 Public Financing in Economic Transitions: The Case of Local Government in Russia

1996-1997 Democratization and Opposition Parties in Mexico: A Study of the PAN and the PRD, 1988-95

1996-1997 Privatization and State Reform in a Stable Democracy

1995-1996 Essays on Sectoral Linkages in Developing Countries

1995-1996 Roman Catholicism in Mid-Nineteenth Century Russia: Father Jean Cagarin and the Orgins of Russian Ecumenism

1995-1996 Institutionalized Instability? Questions for Democracy from Peru, 1980- 1992

1995-1996 North American Evangelicalism: Cultural Influences on Religious Conservatives

1994-1995 The Impacts of Central Planning Legacies on the Transformation of East German Enterprises

1994-1995 Instrument of War or Peace? The Utility of US Economic Sanctions against the Republic of Panama, 1987-89

1994-1995 Indian Economic Development: The Problem of Regional Disparities between States in India

1993-1994 Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa

1993-1994 Industrial Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from Four Countries

1992-1993 Rabula Revisited: The South African Land Issue in the Light of a Village-Level Study

1992-1993 Poverty Looks at Democracy: Political Thinking of Poor People in Argentina during an Economic Crisis

1991-1992 The Rise and Demise of the Chilean Developmentalist State: Politics, Institutions, and Ideas (1938-1978)

1991-1992 The White-Collar Labor Movements and the Transition to Democracy in South Korea

1991-1992 Changing Constraints on Indian Economic Growth