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International and Area Studies
University at Albany, State University of New York
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Taming A Profession : State And Economists During China's Economic Reform, 1978-2012, Jing Li
Taming A Profession : State And Economists During China's Economic Reform, 1978-2012, Jing Li
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
As neoliberalism comes to reshape the world, economists have increasingly reconstituted themselves into a global profession with sufficient political power over national states. This dissertation examines the professional development of Chinese economists during last thirty years’ economic reform to see whether they have converged with their colleagues elsewhere and triumphed over state power.
Neoliberalism, Populist Mobilization, And State-Making In Latin America : The Cases Of Mexico And Venezuela, Anibal Francisco Gauna
Neoliberalism, Populist Mobilization, And State-Making In Latin America : The Cases Of Mexico And Venezuela, Anibal Francisco Gauna
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Populism, as the Manichean juxtaposition of the elites versus the common citizen ("the People"), has become an entrenched phenomenon of the modern moral order. Political populism, which feeds from and reinforces the “elite vs the people” confrontation in the political arena, has been a recurrent feature of Latin American politics. The present work studies one its strains, say, the successful conflation of populism and the left in Venezuela—and the lack thereof in Mexico. Through process-tracing (George & Bennet 2005) several mechanisms explaining the success of the radical populist (Chavista) movement in Venezuela are identified, while a comparison with Mexico helps …
Between Nations And The World : Negotiating Legal And Social Citizenship In The Migration Process : The Case Of Colombian And Puerto Rican Computer Engineers In The American Northeast, Lina Rincon
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation research examines the negotiations Latino professional migrants engage in to navigate the interplay between the provisions of legal and social citizenship through the migration process. In this work, legal citizenship refers to the rights given to individuals that result from their formal membership to a nation. Social citizenship refers to the real ability individuals have to enjoy those rights and experience full social inclusion in a political community.