Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2002. / Thesis advisor(s): Lyman Miller, Donald Abenheim. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-59). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Sociology, August 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Lyman Miller, Gaye Christoffersen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-79). Also available online.

The variation in expansion of national political parties into regional politics in Russia poses a fundamental challenge to theories of party development by presenting an empirical puzzle: why have national politics dominated in some regions yet failed to elect or even present candidates in others? Conventional explanations for party weakness in Russia invoke cultural constraints or poor institutional incentives but neither provide sufficient variation to explain these outcomes at the regional level. These failures correspond to a larger lacunae in the party literature on the process by parties become nationalized and eliminate their regional competitors. / This study addresses these empirical questions by re-examining regional elites and their ability to create informal alternatives to parties. I argue that the failure of national political party development in Russian regional politics is not simply the product of poor institutional incentives but rather due to the active opposition of regional elites. Where regional elites successfully mobilized the resources made available during transition, they prevented the entry of national parties by furnishing their own candidates with powerful financial resources and lending them reputation that resonated with the electorate. These outcomes were not predetermined by legacies of the Soviet era, however, but were rather contingent on the ability of regional executives to rapidly construct winning coalitions, particularly through the mobilization of administrative resources and the construction of patronage networks. Hence, the successful development national parties in regional politics was as much a story of weak regional regimes as it was a story of successful regional party branches.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2004. / Thesis Advisor(s): M. Tsypkin. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-89). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-271). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 266-300).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 424-469)

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Thesis (SJD) -- Bond University, 2006. / "This thesis is submitted to Bond University in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Legal Science"-- t.p. Bibliography: pages 117-125. Also available via the World Wide Web.