David C. Earnest

Old Dominion University | ODU · Department of Political Science and Geography

In this chapter, the authors consider the idea of technological lock‐ins to demonstrate the value of focusing on the idea of emergence as a primary concept in computational social sciences. The authors model the emergence of scaling in communication networks to show how simple individual rules can lead to technology adoption patterns that are robus...

What explains the timing of the liberalization of citizenship laws? Although scholars have offered a number of competing explanations for differences among citizenship regimes, few have examined the timing of liberalization and retraction of rights for non-citizens. To investigate the timing of both liberalization and reversal, this study examines...

In spite of substantial public controversy, very little reliable data exists concerning the frequency with which non-citizen immigrants participate in United States elections. Although such participation is a violation of election laws in most parts of the United States, enforcement depends principally on disclosure of citizenship status at the tim...

How do students ‘see’ globalization? How do they understand visual representations of its political, social and ethical dimensions? This article discusses the use of visual materials as a tool for teaching globalization theory. Images convey specific values and beliefs, frame understandings of global problems, provide access to distant locales and...

Historically, citizenship has been the sine qua non for the franchise. Yet in the last several decades, dozens of democracies have created some form of voting rights for resident aliens. Noncitizen voting rights are conceptually important because they suggest some democracies have fundamentally redefined the body politic. What explains the emergenc...

To what extent are states vulnerable to disruptions in trade networks? We investigate this question by simulating attacks on the intermodal shipping network, whose ubiquitous containers carry 80% to 90% of all global trade in goods. While this network has reduced transportation costs and spurred international trade, the dependence of modern economi...

Models and simulations of counter-insurgency warfare and irregular (COIN) operations are only as effective as their underlying models of insurgent behavior. Existing simulations of insurgencies rely upon strong assumptions that may limit their validity, and thus their use in training for COIN operations. This paper suggests an alternative approach...

How do states solve n-choice cooperation problems? Although classical game theory offers useful insights into how states achieve cooperation, its focus on equilibria means that it is largely silent on the processes of negotiation, particularly when multiple solutions to a cooperation problem exist. To explore the path histories of international coo...

After focusing on proofs of principle and feasibility, the new generation of agent-based applications is becoming more realistic. The use of real-world data, particularly geospatial information system (GIS) data, to set up the environment is one of the resulting challenges to be solved. This paper compares two possible approaches: discrete and cont...

Researchers have productively explored how global cities manage transnational processes, and in turn are transformed by them. Surprisingly, however, this scholarship stands mute on the question of the relationship of these cities to the institutions of the nation-state. This paper argues that by re-imbedding global cities within the institutional c...

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Why would democracies extend to aliens a right they historically have reserved for citizens—the right to vote? Some scholars argue that transnational movements and global norms increasingly moderate how states treat their aliens. If so, this is important evidence of a change in the meaning and content of sovereignty. This article investigates wheth...

Udden for patiently responding to my many questions about their respective states' policies and practices.

IR scholars argue that globalization both affords citizens new opportunities for collective action and exacerbates social inequalities, from the "digital divide" to the "democratic deficit." As a consequence, in a globalizing world citizens seek social protections from political organizations other than the nation-state. How do citizens organize to...

Meet James Bond: swinger, spy... international relations prophet?

The crisis of finance capitalism, accelerating climate change, near civil war in Pakistan - all of these recent events illustrate how poorly political science conceptualizes and models change and complexity in politics. Each also illustrates the increasingly problematic dichotomy between "domestic" and "international" politics, and questions the te...

The practice of enfranchising resident aliens lies at the heart of a theoretical debate among political scientists who study the institutions of sovereignty and citizenship. A number of such scholars cite this practice as evidence of the erosion both of the historical link between the nation and the state, and of the state's sovereign authority to...

Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Washington University, May 2004. Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. Political Science Department. Directed by: Martha Finnemore. Includes bibliographical references. Library also holds microfiche of transcript.