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Property Rights and the Historical Development of Texas and Alberta's Oil and Gas Industries: An Institutional Perspective
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Property rights, as a set of institutions, are often identified as a core component of economic development. Yet, their composition can differ substantially between jurisdictions. This research examines how jurisdictions with different forms of property rights can achieve similar degrees of...
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Racial Terror in Toronto's Gay Village: A Critical Race analysis of the Bruce McArthur case and police inclusion in Toronto Pride
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This thesis undertakes a parallel reading of the Bruce McArthur serial killings of predominantly racialized, queer men in the Toronto gay village and debates about police participation in Toronto Pride. This reading illuminates a homonationalist, state-making project that reasserts white...
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Spring 2012
The purpose of this work was to develop a greater understanding of Rawls’s liberal-egalitarianism within the context of political participation. In A Theory of Justice, his first comprehensive statement of his theory of justice, Rawls introduced the idea of fair opportunity, which holds all...
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Spring 2021
This thesis asks two interrelated questions: why are religious converts significantly overrepresented among acts of terrorism in North America and Europe, and can this tell us anything about the nature of radicalization in general? To answer these questions, three key arguments are advanced....
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Reading Rawls’s Lectures on Hobbes’s Leviathan: Pluralism, Stability, and Political Consensus
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This work examines Rawls’s lectures on Hobbes, which are delivered at a time when Rawls is developing his political liberalism. It especially seeks to question the foundations of Rawls’s interpretation of Hobbes’s Leviathan as presenting a core “political” doctrine based around prudential egoism....
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Reclaiming Islam and Modernity: A Neo-Shariati Revisiting of Ali Shariati's Intellectual Discourse in Post-revolutionary Iran
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Over three and a half decades after his death, Ali Shariati (1933-1977) continues to occupy a major place in the ongoing academic and public debates about the relationship between Islam and modernity. Seldom, however, have commentators attended to the ways in which Shariati's intellectual...