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Constitutions, Cleavages and Coordination: A Socio-Institutional Theory of Public Goods Provision.
(2009)
Why do some developing democracies outperform others in the provision of health and education? This dissertation explores a socio-institutional theory of why politicians choose to allocate resources either broadly across ...
Siamese "Slavery": the Institution and Its Abolition.
(1982)
This dissertation studies the Siamese (Thai) institution of servitude and its abolition, two related issues which have not yet been sufficiently treated or integrated into one study. Part I examines the institution of ...
Punic Bronze Coinage: Circulation, Mint Attribution and Chronology. (Volumes I and II).
(1985)
Punic bronze coins struck under the authority of Carthage in the central Mediterranean have survived in very large numbers, yet no systematic study of these issues has hitherto been attempted. Since lack of data on provenance ...
Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation: National Communism in Soviet Ukraine, 1918-1933.
(1981)
From 1918 to 1933 Ukrainian national aspirations were expressed through the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine, despite the fact that the group originated as a mere geographical organization of Russian Bolsheviks. The ...
Jack Gould: Social Critic of the Television Medium, 1947--1972.
(1980)
The columns John Ludlow ("Jack") Gould wrote as the television critic for the New York Times reflected a strong social point of view. During his tenure, Gould regarded the medium of commercial television as a social ...