New Jersey City University

Doctrinal Alignment Between American Democratic Socialism and Marxist Communism: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Policy Positions and Their Anticipated Political, Economic, and Social Consequences

Public debate increasingly equates American democratic socialism with Marxist communism, yet this equation is rarely subjected to systematic, evidence-based measurement. This dissertation examines the degree to which the documented policy positions of the Democratic Socialists of...

The Establishment of Communist Governments: A Comparative-Historical and Quantitative Analysis of Onset Mechanisms Across the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Global South

This dissertation asks how communist governments were established across roughly thirty polities between 1917 and 1979, and why some of the resulting party-states endured for decades while others collapsed within a generation. Its organizing premise is that “communist takeover” i...

The Establishment of Communist Governments: A Comparative-Historical and Quantitative Analysis of Onset Mechanisms Across the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Global South

This dissertation asks how communist governments were established across roughly thirty polities between 1917 and 1979, and why some of the resulting party-states endured for decades while others collapsed within a generation. Its organizing premise is that “communist takeover” i...