Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Bicycle politics in New York City: Rights to the City on Bedford Avenue and Prospect Park West

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2013-January-01
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This thesis investigates how right to the city conflicts regarding the (de)construction of bicycle lanes in Brooklyn, New York affect the development of a more environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive city. Through an examination of two particular cases – those...

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Branding the Globe: The Real Madrid Takeover

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2014-January-01
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Real Madrid got its start in 1902, but it wasn't until the 1950s under Santiago Bernabéu as president and his squad of international superstars that the team began to make a name for themselves as the best, winning five championships...

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Political Regime and Corruption Control: Information Quality and an Optimal Mechanism

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2015-January-01
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Different political regimes have principals that possess different in- formation regarding agents' behavior. This paper studies how this difference affects the comparative efficiency of corruption control between a democratic regime and an authoritarian regime. We ob- serve that such comparative...

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