5 hours writing, 2 hours processing data, page count = 215 (plus 3-page abstract)
Continued moving forward today on the La Violencia chapter, including processing data regarding allocation of security forces around the 1947 election. The data confirm the politicized nature of the security forces and the disconnect between the army and police. They were tools used for different purposes; the army just went were the people were, but the police were sent where electoral competitiveness was particularly high, indicating more political criteria at play.
I also took care of some cosmetic stuff on the manuscript, inserting the prefatory pages and updating the list of tables and figures. It looks like a real dissertation! I'll wait to write the acknowledgments after I turn in the manuscript; I want to take my time and enjoy the process of recording my gratitude in detail.
Into the homestretch tomorrow!
From June 2007 to June 2008, I posted each weekday regarding progress on my dissertation. This blog was called "It Takes a Village to Write a Dissertation."
On August 15, 2008, I filed my dissertation, completing all the requirements for my Ph.D in Political Science from UC Berkeley. Friends and family, thank you for keeping me honest. Mission accomplished!
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STATUS OF CHAPTERS
Chapter 1: Armed Challenges, Security-Force Configurations, and Party Systems
PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY BACKGROUND
Chapter 2: Regionalism, "Two-Partyism," and the Struggle for a Central-Federal Balance: 19th-Century Antecedents to State Formation
PART II: POLITICIANS, PARTIES, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE IN ANTIOQUIA'S RECURRING LOCAL INSURRECTION (1946-54)
Chapter 4: Antioquia in Context
PART III: LA VIOLENCIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 7: Security-Forces, Party Systems, and Armed Challenges in Latin American Context
Complete
PART I: THE 19TH CENTURY BACKGROUND
Chapter 2: Regionalism, "Two-Partyism," and the Struggle for a Central-Federal Balance: 19th-Century Antecedents to State Formation
CompleteChapter 3: Designing the Colombian Security Forces (1886-1910)
Complete
PART II: POLITICIANS, PARTIES, SOLDIERS, AND POLICE IN ANTIOQUIA'S RECURRING LOCAL INSURRECTION (1946-54)
Chapter 4: Antioquia in Context
CompleteChapter 5: Conflict Rising: Politicized Security Forces and the Escalation of La Violencia (1945-48)
CompleteChapter 6: Generalized Conflict: Security Forces and Politicians in the "High" Period of La Violencia (1948-54)
Complete
PART III: LA VIOLENCIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Chapter 7: Security-Forces, Party Systems, and Armed Challenges in Latin American Context
CompleteConclusion
Complete
2 comments:
You're on the home stretch.... just a wee bit more.
see you soon!!
Are you going to be writing this thing right up to the last possible minute??
:) I can imagine you, even now when it's got to be in the small hours of the morning in NYC, slaving away.
You and Cathy are going to deserve a massive holiday at the end of all this.. :)
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