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Ph.D. Dissertations
Graduate Ph.D. Dissertations, 1997-2003
UCLA graduate students are expected to be actively involved in
research. The range of research interests to be found among them, we
believe, speaks for itself. In the past 6 years, over 90 graduate
students have completed dissertations on diverse topics and employing
diverse methodologies. Many more have secured publication in scholarly
and professional journals during their stay with us (either as sole
author or in collaboration with faculty members) and/or attained other
marks of distinction as well.
- AMERICAN
- Explaining Regulatory Decision Making at the Federal Communications Commission: The Regulation and Deregulation of Cable Television
- Obstruction in the U.S. House and Senate: A Bicameral Analysis of Institutional Choice
- Parties, Institutions, and Gridlock in the United States
- Representation Reconsidered: the Influence of Constituent Heterogeneity, Intensity and Ideology
- Rules, Reversals, and Legislators' Internal Parliaments
- Shifting Ground: Bureaucratic Politics and Redevelopment in Los Angeles, 1948-1998
- Shortcut Voting: Candidate Characteristics and Voter Inference
- The Politics of Immigration: An Analysis of Policy Reform in Congress, 1965-1996
- The Uses of History in Church-State Litigation
- The Winning Message?: Candidate Behavior, Campaign Discourse and Democracy
- Voting in American Cities: the Group Interest Theory of Local Voting Behavior
- Who Are We On Election Day?: Mass Media and the Salience of Group Identities During Political Campaigns
- The Character of Congress: Scandals in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1966-1996
- COMPARATIVE
- Decentralization and Economic Reforms in Developing Countries: The Important Influence of Sub-National Politics
- Economic Adjustment and Targeted Social Spending: the Politics of Poverty Alleviation in the Developing World
- Elections, Electoral Pressure, Macroeconomic Policy: The Political Economy of Elections in Korea and Taiwan
- European Integration and Member State Parliament Participation in European Union Decision-Making: European Affairs Committees in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom
- General Equilibrium Parliamentary Government
- Institutional Theories, Societal Realities, and Party Politics in Brazil
- Judicial Independence as a Key to Justice: An Analysis of Latin America in the 1990s
- Neo-Institutionalism and the Japanese Public Policy: Electoral Politics and Tax Policy Making
- Organizing to Win: How Organizational Structure Affects the Outcome of Strategic Interaction in Politicized Group Conflicts
- Party of Entrepreneurs: The Chinese Communist Party's Survival and Adaptation in the Age of Reform
- Patronage Games: Economic Reform, Political Institutions, and the Decline of Party Stability in Latin America. 2001
- Playing Favorites: Government Aid and Industrial Restructuring in Post-Socialist Poland
- Presidents Have Problems Too: the Logic of Intra-Branch Delegation in New Democracies. 2002
- Radical Right Parties in Context: Immigration, Institutions and Parties in Western Europe. 2000.
- Strategic Predictors of Women's Parliamentary Participation: A Comparative Study of Twenty-Three Democracies
- Strategy of Ethnic Conflict: Rational Choice in Ethnic Organization and Politics
- The Policy Implications of Electoral Reform: Explaining Japan's Big Bang
- The Political Economy of Privatization in Eastern Europe: Transformative Politics and Competing Imperatives of Privatization in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic
- Winning Votes in Mexico: The Effects of Electoral Reforms and Party Competition on Campaign Strategies
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS/INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
- A Window on the World: Packaging the United States' Foreign Policy
- Arms and Allies: the Production and Exchange of Military Capabilities
- Foreign Direct Investment and War: Economic Deterrence to Armed Conflict
- Guarded Gates: Factor Mobility, Domestic Coalitions, and the Political Economy of American Immigration Control
- Interdependence and Elections: Election Timing and Electoral Politics in the Open Economy
- International Pressure, Domestic Structure, and Pro-Consumer Reform: the U.S.-Japan Trade Conflicts and Revision of the LSRS Law
- Intervention After the Cold War: the Motivations and Goals of Contemporary Multilateral Intervention
- Managing Hegemonic Decline: Dilemmas of Strategy and Finance
- Opening To the Outside World: the Political Economy of Trade and Foreign Investment in the People's Republic of China
- Presidents as Kingmakers: U.S. Decisions to Overthrow Foreign Governments
- Sectors, Firms, and Regional Trade Blocs: Building Blocks Or Stumbling Blocks For the Liberalization of World Trade?
- Security, Sovereignty, and International Migration: the Economic and Societal Dimensions of Trading State Grand Strategy
- Structure and Strategy: Cooperation Successes and Failures in U.S.-Soviet and Inter-Korean Relations
- The Power of Beliefs and Experience: Dispositional Versus Situational Policy Choices in U.S. Policy Towards the Soviet Union
- Trade and Social Insurance: the Development of National Unemployment Insurance in Advanced Industrial Democracies
- POLITICAL THEORY
- A Revolution in Morals and Manners: the Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate
- Democracy as a Way of Life: Deweyan Pragmatism and the Challenge of Capitalism for Liberalism in Thought and Practice
- Democracy in Joseph Schumpeter's Political and Social Thought
- Hegel and the Sociality of Freedom
- Homelessness, Citizenship, and Identity
- Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile
- Understanding the Burdens of Judgment: Moral Pluralism, Causal Ambiguity, and the Limits of Consequentialist Public Reason