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Essays on Regulation of Media, Entertainment, and Telecommunications.
(2009)
The three essays in this dissertation study either how telecommunications regulation shapes the way media industries are organized or how copyright law constrains the creative works that the entertainment industry ...
The Effect of Organizational Form on Firm Performance.
(2009)
While much empirical literature studies agency conflict and firm performance within the corporate form of legal organization, this dissertation studies agency conflict and firm performance across two organizational forms, ...
Creon's Secretaries: Theories of Bureaucracy and Social Order in 18th and Early 19th Century Prussia.
(2009)
This dissertation argues for conceptualizations of bureaucracies not merely as tools of policy implementation but also as a locus of state legitimacy creation. In arguing this point, this dissertation does three things: ...
Perspectives on Law and Legal Institutions as Complex Adaptive Systems.
(2011)
This dissertation employs various theoretical and methodological perspectives to consider the “evolution” of the law and “law as a complex adaptive system.” Chapter 2 addresses the strategic institutional conditions that ...
The Rise and Fall of Wealth Taxation: An Inquiry into the Fiscal History of the American States.
(2010)
This dissertation examines the history of fiscal politics and policy in the American states. It provides a narrative synthesis from the antebellum period through the 1930s, during which state governments created a fiscal ...
Chicago's First Urban Indians - the Potawatomi.
(2011)
For the last several decades, scholars have been intrigued with the ways that some American Indians resisted assimilation into the mainstream of the dominant culture of the United States. “Chicago’s First Urban Indians – ...
Exploring Fractures within Human Rights: An Empirical Study of Resistance.
(2010)
Why, despite all of the inspiring rhetoric in support of human rights, do flagrant violations endure? Enforcement, treaty ratification, geopolitics, and economic concerns are all very important pieces of this puzzle that ...
Why has there been a fall in child labour and an increase in school attendance in Mexico?
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Public Affairs, 2022-11)
In Communities We Trust Institutional Failures and Sustained Solutions for Vaccine Hesitancy
(2021)
In winter 2020, a novel coronavirus (SARS-
CoV-2) that caused COVID-19 started its
spread across the globe, and by July 2020,
over 500,000 people worldwide had died
of the disease. By March 2021, there were
over 120 ...
WHAT’S IN THE CHATTERBOX? LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS, WHY THEY MATTER, AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO ABOUT THEM
(2022-04)
Large language models (LLMs)—machine
learning algorithms that can recognize,
summarize, translate, predict, and generate
human languages on the basis of very large
text-based datasets—are likely to provide
the most ...