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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.
Businesses or Beneficiaries: the Submerged Consequences of Workfare Policy Design , Morgan Alexander Lowder
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
A Comparative Measure of Judicial Legitimacy , Rahul Hemrajani
Where the Constitution Is Silent: Indigenous Rights Jurisprudence in the United States , Anthony Wayne Hobert Jr.
Prosecutorial Discretion: District Attorneys, Public Opinion,and the Localized Rule of Law , Yu-Hsien Sung
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Changing Environment. Changing Attitudes? , Lindsey Brooke Hendren
Interstate Rivalry, Domestic Politics, and Economic Coercion , Shaoshuang Wen
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
International Conflict, Political Leaders, and Accountability , William Thomas Christiansen
Liberalization First, Democratization Later: The Linkage Between Income Inequality, Economic Development, and Democratization , Yi-Tzu Lin
Social Trust and Soft Power: The Role of Social Trust in Democratic Countries’ Soft Power Use , Judit Trunkos
Economic Interdependence, Power, and Peace: A Rationalist Study of Commercial Liberalism , Yuleng Zeng
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Essays on the Political Economy of International Trade and Coups , William Akoto
Judicial Legitimacy and the Dearth of State Supreme Court Knowledge , TJ Kimel
Women in the Governor's Mansion: Breaking the Barrier to Competition , Helen Adair King
Causes and Consequences of Police Militarization , Edward Eugene Lawson, Jr.
Dynamic Environments and Judicial Power , Monica Lineberger
The Dynamics of Vote Buying in Developing Democracies: Party Attachment and Party Competition in Southeast Asia , Matthew Louis Wagner
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Deepening Democracy: Inclusion, Deliberation, And Voice In The Grassroots South , Annie L. Boiter-Jolley
Evangelicals, Perceived Marginalization and Expressive Mobilization , Christin E. McMasters
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
The Economic Foundations of Authoritarian Rule , Clay Robert Fuller
Partisan Polarization, Social Identity, and Deliberative Democracy in the United States , Ryan Strickler
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Being Strategic: Black Legislative Representation In The Republican-Controlled South Carolina House of Representatives , Willie James Black
Leaders in Search of the Bomb: Institutional Incentives for Nuclear Decisions , Paige Price Cone
The Three Dimensionality Model Of State Security And Armed Conflict: Internal And External Dimensions And Lessons From The Middle East , Juri Kim
The Impact of Supreme Court Precedent in a Judicial Hierarchy , Ali Masood
How The European Union’s Criteria For Membership Move Public Opinion , Douglas Page
Information Heterogeneity and Economic Voting: A Cross-National Analysis , Chia-yin Wei
Nothing is the Matter with Kansas: White Southern Exceptionalism in American Politics , Paul White Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
The Turkish Foreign Policy Under The Justice And Development Party (AKP): A Paradigm Shift? , Ali Demirdas
The Liberal Commercial Peace, Regional Considerations: International Relations of Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the European Union Countries , Chienwu Hsueh
The Political Economy of Property Rights In China: Local Officials, Incentive Structure, And Private Enterprises , Ingrid Yingxia Li
The Domestic Adoption of International Human Rights Law: the Roles of Regional and National High Courts in Latin America , Rebecca Ann Reid
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
TOWARDS COMMON EUROPEAN ENERGY POLICY , Mariam Dekanozishvili
Essays on Battle Clusters in Internal Armed Conflicts and Insurgencies: Concept, Causes and Consequences , Chifeng Liu
The Effects of Political Control and Institutional Structure on State Ethics Commissions , William Jonathan Rauh
Do Americans’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Prejudice Impact Their Racial Policy Preferences? Investigating Meta-Stereotypes as a Potential Causal Mechanism , Alexandra Reckendorf
How Much Do Groups Still Matter to Politics? An Examination of Group Influences on Public Opinion , Lauren E. Smith
Microfinance and Poverty Reduction: How Risks Associated With Government Policies Affect Whether Microfinance Alleviates Poverty in Latin-America , Brian Warby
Taking Interests and International Conflict More Seriously , Chong-Han Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Protracted Social Conflict: A Reconceptualization and Case Analysis , Melissa M. C. Beaudoin
Race, Class, Gender, and Linked Fate: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of African American Political Partisanship, 1996 and 2004 , Sherral Yolanda Brown-Guinyard
Holding International Public-Private Partnership Accountable: An Analysis of Sensitivity and Vulnerability Dynamics In Ghana'S Water Sector Reform and Its Impact On the Target Population , Xi Chen
The Impact of Ideology and Attorneys On Precedent Usage: An Analysis of State High Courts , Benjamin Kassow
Environmental Footprints of Violent Conflict , Swapna Pathak
Economic Agreements and Interstate Conflict: A Policy Substitution Model of Coercion , Matthew Daniel-Marion Shaffer
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Religion, Electoral Rules and Women's Representation: A Cross National Examination , Wafaa Adnan Alaradi
Postcolonial and Constructivist Theoretical Explanations of Women'S Traditional Agency In Sociopolitical Participation and Reproductive Rights In Present Day Mali and the Pilipinas , Jennifer Almeda
South Africa In Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Integration In the Southern African Development Community Using Hegemonic Stability Theory , William Andrew Jennings
The Relationship Between State Dissatisfaction and the Level of Conflict In State Dyads: the Revised Power Transition Theory , Hsiao-chuan Liao
Fighting In Space: Understanding the Opportunity and Willingness to Pursue Space Weapons , Michael James Martindale
Capital offenses, Non-Capital offenses, and Party Capability: Habeas Corpus Litigation in U.S. District Courts , Nicholas A. Mostardo
How Rivalries End: Understanding Dynamics of the Rivalry Termination Process , Soonkun Oh
State Implementation of the Children's Health Insurance Program: Analyses of Variation In Policy Adoption , Rebecca Layne Russ-Sellers
Female Legislators and the Power of the Purse: Does Gender Affect Government Spending? A Cross-National Analysis , Jennifer Suzanne Tison
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Judging the Bureaucrats: Understanding the Dynamics of Court-Agency Interaction , Michael P. Fix
La Ruta Maya: The Effects of tourism and the State On the Political Behavior Choices of the Maya , Heather Lea Hawn
Presidents and Terminal Logic Behavior: Term Limits and Executive Action In the United States, Brazil, and Argentina , Genevieve M. Kehoe
The Questions of Compliance With the NPT Regime and Complex Multilateral Nuclear Negotiations: A Comparative Analysis of North Korea and Iran As Defector States , Jihyun Kim
The Rule of Law In Times of War: A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of War On High Court Decision-Making , Susanne Schorpp
Between and Beyond Borders: Conflict, International Response, and Forced Migration , Young Hoon Song
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
The War On Terrorism In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. An Academic Analysis of the Growing Phenomenon of Political Violence In the Kingdom. , Faisal M. Al-Madhi
Re-Defining Public Service In An Era of Networked Governance: An Examination of the Influence of Public Service Motivation On Contractors In Homeland Security , Alexa Haddock Bigwarfe
The Power and Authority of the Committee On the Rights of the Child , Aleksandra Chauhan
Does Foreign Direct Investment (Fdi) Affect Conflict? theIntertwined Relationship Between Multinational Corporations (Mncs) and Nation-States , Yi-Hung Chiou
Counterinsurgency Colonels: The Role of the Practitioner In the Evolution of Modern Counterinsurgency , Garrett Scott DeWitt
The Geometry of Racial Politics: The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs In Fostering Triangulation Among U.S. Racial and Ethnic Groups, 1800-1964 , Athena M. King
Passionate Political Talk: Social Networks and the Emotional Impact of Political Discussion , Bryan Michael Parsons
Judges and Their Loyalties: A Comparative Study Focused On the Venezuelan Supreme Court , Raul A. Sanchez Urribarri
International Law In the Supreme Court of the United States: An Empirical Analysis , Alan Michael Tauber
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Wolves In Chic Clothing: Gender, Media and the Securitization of Female Suicide Bombers , Mekell Mikell
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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: GEOGRAPHIC QUALITIES OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND MILITARY COUPS , William O'Connell
Ruling in the Shadows: Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Use of the ‘Shadow Docket’ and its Effects , EmiLee Smart
Public Justice: Analyzing the Interactions of Supreme Court Justices with the American Public , Abbie Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
Welcome Visitor or Nosy Neighbor: Executive Branch Presence in Federal and State Judicial Affairs , Audrey Baricovich
The Spread of Nuclear Technology: The Difficulty of Arms Control and the Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation , Bryce Allen Beschorner
Home Is Where the Heart Is: Rural Residents, Deprivation, and the Impact of PRD on Governmental Representation , Mary Rachael Blandau
Citizen Demand for Cultural Censorship: A Mixed Methods Study , Kelly Grenier
Damsels in Defense: Exploring the Relationship Between Women and Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict , Baylee Harrell
Circumvention Theory: Rethinking Gray Zones, Understanding Bounded Competition, and Examining State Response to Unipolar Structure in the Twenty-First Century. , Damian M. Jones
COALITION OF THE ENDING: WHY STATES WITHDRAW FROM INTERNATIONAL MILITARY COALITIONS , Weiss Mehrabi
The UN-Intended Effects of Risky Mandates , Robert Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
NEWS TREATMENT OF THE SUPREME COURT: LANGUAGE SELECTION, IDEOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS, AND PUBLIC SUPPORT , Alexander Denison
STAYING COMPLIANT OR STAYING IN OFFICE? INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, POST-COUP SIGNALS, AND COUP-BORN REGIMES , Jennifer Flinchum
THE INFLUENCE OF THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY ON JUDICAL POLITICS AND LAW IN THE UNITED STATES , Peter S. K. Lynch
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
The Transnational Diffusion of Human Trafficking Policy , Glenn M. Harden
THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF STATE ACTION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: HOW VICTIMS AND NON-VICTIMS FORM OPINIONS ABOUT GOVERNMENT , Helen Rabello Kras
International Cooperation Networks and Economic Sanction Effectiveness , Gargi Vyas
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Piecing Together Coalition War: Threat, Politics, and Coalition Structure , Stephen Joiner
BETTER DEVILS OF OUR NATURE: THE ROLE OF VIOLENCE-JUSTIFYING IDEOLOGIES IN OPINION FORMATION , Steven Kaiser
FROM HOBBES TO HABERMAS: THE ANTI-CULTURAL TURN IN WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT , Ralph Gert Schoellhammer
Predicting Positive Attitudes toward Immigrants with Altruism , Kati Elizabeth Stafford
Judicial Elections, Public Opinion, and their Impact on State Criminal Justice Policy , Travis N. Taylor
Why Weak States Balance: National Mobilization and the Security Strategies of Post-Soviet States , Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
SEEDS OF SUSPICION: THE PERPETUAL CYCLE OF ANTI-MUSLIM STEREOTYPES, MIDDLE EAST INTERVENTION, AND TERRORISM , Christopher Ledford
PERCEPTIONS OF FAIRNESS AND POLITICAL SUPPORT IN THE FACE OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY , Gregory W. Saxton
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Party over Democracy? When Do Americans Stand by Democratic Principles , Zenat Ahmed
What's Next: How and Why States Strengthen Treaties Through Deepening Commitments , Joseph Maestas
Establishing Consent: The Role of Women Representatives in Passing Informed Consent Laws , Sophia Stockham
New Perspectives on Peace Settlements: The Significance of Power-Sharing and Hierarchies on Negotiation Dynamics , Alejandra Vásquez Gutiérrez
Human Rights Regime in West Africa: The Case of ECOWAS and the Journey to Nigeria's Fourth Republic , Fatima Mercy Aigbomian
The Impacts of Local Property Taxes on Nebraska's State Legislator Elections and State Legislator Voting , Taylor Gold
The Power of Weakness: Coercion in the American Alliance Network in Asia , Noelle Claire Troutman
The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Improving Human Rights in Iraq , Naser A. Yahya
Private Interests in the Public Sphere: The Evolution of Private Interest Before and During the American Revolution , Jensen Alexander Humphrey
Navigating Non-Physical Borders: An Examination of the Boundaries of Exclusion and Ideas About Inclusion of Immigrants in American Communities , Alison O'Toole
Alliance Cohesion: Connecting the Disconnect in Alliance Reliability , Noelle Troutman
Cruising Into Conflict: A Mixed Methods Examination of Cruise Missile Possession and the Initiation of Military Force , Dennis Crawford
Inconsistent Interventions? : The Effect of Operational Feasibility on U.S. Presidential Military Intervention Decisions , Matthew D. Eberhart
Financial Socialization and Its Effects on Food Insecurity Among College Students , Jamie Morrissey
Rebel Group Compliance with International Humanitarian Law and Foreign State Sponsorship , Hannah Read
The Prosecution Paradox: How the International Criminal Court Affects Civil War Peace Negotiations , Julia Reilly
THOUSANDS OF SMALL BATTLES: A CASE STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL DISCUSSION NETWORKS ON VOTE CHOICE IN CAUCUSES , Jonathan Jackson
Shield or Glue? Key Policy Issues Constraining or Enhancing Multinational Collective Ballistic Missile Defense , Marxen Kyriss
Preferential Politics , Cary Wolbers
An Examination of Political Attitudes and Behavior Using Regulatory Focus Theory , Kristen D. Deppe
Congruence and Participation - Does the Discrepancy between the Elite's and the Public's Ideology Come at the Cost of Reduced Participation? , Balazs Feher-Gavra
Thinking about Race: How Group Biases Interact with Ideological Principles to Yield Attitudes toward Government Assistance , Frank John Gonzalez
The Seeds of Change: Attitudinal Stability and the Direction of Attitudinal Change across the Lifespan , Johnathan C. Peterson
Active Shooter Security at the University of Nebraska: The Case for Training and Door Locks , Randall Bowdish
Can International Criminal Law Deter Rebel Groups?: The Case of Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army, and the International Criminal Court , Julia Reilly
Place Matters? Place and Legislative Behavior in Nebraska , Melissa Lee Trueblood
Truth and Justice? Towards Comprehensive Transitional Justice in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo , Alicia Weaver
Competing for Attention: A Comparative Study of Social Movements and News Media in Abortion Debates , Katherine Eugene LeBreton Hunt
Influences on Student Attitudes About U.S. Involvement in Nation-Building , Tobin C. Beck
Creatures of Incoherence: Dissecting the Drivers, History, and Cognition of Attitudinal Incongruence in the American Body Politic , Timothy Collins
Changing Times: Population Movements and Education Quality , Nicholas J. Cordonier
Coercive Airpower in the Precision Age: The Effects of Precision Guided Munitions on Air Campaign Duration , Brett A. King
Disproportional Representation: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Educational Attainment Representation in State Government , Jayme l. Neiman
Military Strategy: Theory and Concepts , Randall G. Bowdish
The American Ideal of Representative Democracy: The Roles of National Identity and Perceived Consensus and Homogeneity Among the American People , Frank John Gonzalez
Emotion and Public Attention to Political Issues , Michael W. Gruszczynski
Defining Scavenger-Actors: Understanding a Global Menace , James Harrold
Private Soldiers in Africa: A Look at the Effects of Private Military Contractors and Mercenaries on the Duration of Civil Wars in Africa from 1960 to 2003. , Seth H. Loven
SUICIDE ATTACKS IN AFGHANISTAN: WHY NOW? , Ghulam Farooq Mujaddidi
Political Hate Machines: Outside Groups and the 2012 Presidential Campaign Advertising Market , Martin Nader
DETERRING THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA: THE ROLE OF JAPAN’S BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE , Jonathan Trexel
Regional Regimes for the Defense of Democracy and Coups d'Etat , Jacob P. Wobig
Examining the Covariance of Political and Religious Beliefs Within Individuals and Across Generations , Amanda Balzer
Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Multilateral Development Banks , Daniel Braaten
Reluctance or Power Hunger: Whom do Voters Prefer? A Test of the Wary Cooperator Theory and Evolutionary Political Behavior , Timothy Collins
Neural basis of egalitarian behavior , Christopher T. Dawes, Peter John Loewen, Darren Schreiber, Alan N. Simmons, Taru Flagan, Richard McElreath, Scott E. Bokemper, James H. Fowler, and Martin P. Paulus
Processing Facial Emotions: An EEG Study of the Differences between Conservatives and Liberals and Across Political Participation , Karl Evan Giuseffi
A Sanctuary for Discussion: Liberal Religion and Foreign Policy Attitudes , Madeline M. Hoffer
Understanding Africa’s China Policy: A Test of Dependency Theory and a Study of African Motivations in Increasing Engagement with China , Nkemjika E. Kalu
Patronage Politics and Public Goods Provision in Africa , Alex M. Kroeger
From Boon To Bust: State Lottery Policy & How Stakeholder-Created Beneficiary Fund Structure Determines Vulnerability To Future Legislative Grabs , Lisa Mathews
Terrorism Warnings as Strategic Appeals: An Analysis of Press Reporting and Public Reactions , Eric Whitaker
Populism and Human Rights in Theory and Practice: Chavez's Venezuela and Fujimori's Peru , Joseph P. Braun
Returning Attention to Policy Content in Diffusion Study , John M. Fulwider
Hellfire and Grey Drones: An Empirical Examination of the Effectiveness of Targeted Killings , Matthew A. Morehouse
Framing Traits: The Role of Personality in Framing Effects , Kristen D. Anderson
And Justice for All: Developing Rule of Law in the Balkans , Ryan M. Lowry
Fairness, Justice and an Individual Basis for Public Policy , Douglas R. Oxley
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, IDENTITY, AND NATIONAL SELF INTEREST: THE ENDURING NATURE OF NATIONAL IDENTITY , Tyler R. White
An Empirical Study of What Governmental Processes Ordinary People Really Want in South Korea , Gang-hoon Kim
Ganging Up Against the Courts: Congressional Curtailment of Judicial Review, 1988-2004 , Benjamin J. Keele
Corruption and Democratic Performance , Levente Littvay
THE ADAPTIVENESS OF PUNISHING BEHAVIOR: A BASELINE STUDY , Levente Littvay
The Use of the Congressional Resolution as an Instrument of Influence over Foreign Policy: 1925–1950 , Robert Lee Munkres
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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.
Violence, Rents, and Elites: Institutional Determinants of Political Order in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and South Sudan , Kaleb Demerew
Standing Her Ground: Legal Constraints on Women Who have been Victims of Violence , Janae E. Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Struggling Against the Odds: Social Movements in Pakistan During Authoritarian Regimes , Sajjad Hussain
The Domestic Reality of Foreign Policy: The 1994 Clinton Administration Response to the Crises in Rwanda and Haiti , Camara Kemanini Silver
American Military Service and Identity: From the Militia to the All-Volunteer Force , Andrew C. Sparks
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Decolonizing Human Trafficking: A Case Study of Human Trafficking in Edo State Nigeria , Oyinkansola Adepitan
Borges, el Escritor Italiano: Precursores Italianos en/desde Borges , Sara Boscagli
A Dangerous New Era: Analyzing the Impact of Cyber Technology on International Conflict , Kenneth Brown
Networks in the Norm Life Cycle and the Diffusion of Environmental Norms , James E. Fry
Power, Property Rights, and Political Development: A property rights theory of political development and its application to the study of development in Honduras and Costa Rica , Ricardo R. Noé
Bodily Harm: An Analysis of the Phenomenological and Linguistic Aspects of Harm and Trauma , Grant Samuel Peeler
Mystic Medicine: Afro-Jamaican Religio-Cultural Epistemology and the Decolonization of Health , Jake Wumkes
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
The Humanitarian Gaze and the Spectatorial Nature of Sympathy , Michelle Assaad
The Progressive Transformation of Medellín- Colombia: A Successful Case of Women's Political Agency , María Auxiliadora González-Malabet
Restoring International Justice: Exposing the Limitations of Retributive Justice and Proposing a Restorative Dimension , Nazek Jawad
Human Rights, Emotion, and Critical Realism: Proposing an Emotional Ontology of International Human Rights , Ben Luongo
When Faced with a Democracy: political socialization of first-generation ethnic Russian immigrants in Central and South Florida , Marina Seraphine Mendez
Structure of Turkey-USA Bilateral Relations and Analysis of Factors Affecting Bilateral Relations , Hanifi Ozkarakaya
Soviet Nationality Policy: Impact on Ethnic Conflict in Abkhazia and South Ossetia , Nevzat Torun
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
The Influence of The Armenian Diaspora on The American Foreign Policy , Fatih Aydogan
Discourse, Affinity and Attraction: A Case Study of Iran's Soft Power Strategy in Afghanistan , Hiva Feizi
Becoming Legitimate: How PMSCs are Seeking Legitimacy in the International System , Sommer Mitchell
De Mestizas a Indígenas: Reindigenization as a Political Strategy in Ecuador , Pamela X. Pareja
Star Power, Pandemics, and Politics: The Role of Cultural Elites in Global Health Security , Holly Lynne Swayne
Strategic Negligence: Why the United States Failed to Provide Military Support to the Syrian Resistance in 2011-2014 , Konrad J. Trautman
The Viability of Democratic Governance in De Facto States: A Comparative Case Study of Iraqi Kurdistan and Syria Rojava , Chelsea Vogel
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Cyber Deterrence against Cyberwar between the United States and China: A Power Transition Theory Perspective , Yavuz Akdag
The Role of Elites in the Formation of National Identities: The Case of Montenegro , Muhammed F. Erdem
Measuring Trust in Post-Communist States: Making the Case for Particularized Trust. , Nicole M. Ford
Hidden: A Case Study on Human Trafficking in Costa Rica , Timothy Adam Golob
Latino Subgroups Political Participation in American Politics: The Other Latinos’ Electoral Behavior , Angelica Maria Leon Velez
Re-ethnicization of Second Generation Non-Muslim Asian Indians in the U.S. , Radha Moorthy
Structural Racism: Racists without Racism in Liberal Institutions within Colorblind States , Alexis Nicole Mootoo
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Venezuela, from Charisma to Mimicry: The Rise and Fall of a Televised Political Drama , Rebecca Blackwell
Containment: A Failed American Foreign Policy and How the Truman Doctrine Led to the Rise in Islamic Extremism in the Muslim World , Christopher Jonathan Gerber
The Role of Religion in Mitigating Cancer Disparities Among Black Americans , Samar Hennawi
Where is the Survivor’s Voice? An Examination of the Individual and Structural Challenges to the Reintegration of Immigrant Human Trafficking Survivors , Michelle Cristina Angelo Dantas Rocha
Changes and Challenges in Diplomacy: An Evaluation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Dominican Republic , Yudelka Santana
How Presidents Can Become "Hip" by Using High Definition Metaphors Strategic Communication of Leadership in a Digital Age , Mirela Camelia Stimus
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
At the Intersection of Human Agency and Technology: Genetically Modified Organisms , James Libengood
The Triumvirate of Intersectionality: a Case Study on the Mobilization of Domésticas in Brazil , Kristen Lei Nash
Strategic Missile Defense: Russian and U.S. Policies and Their Effects on Future Weapons Proliferation , Diana Marie Nesbitt
Staring Down the Mukhabarat: Rhizomatic Social Movements and the Egyptian and Syrian Arab Spring , Stephen Michael Strenges
The Effect of Neoliberalism on Capabilities: Evaluating the Case of Mexico , James Paul Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Human Trafficking from Southern Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala: Why These Victims are Trafficked into Modern Day Florida , Timothy Adam Golob
The Effects of U.S. Middle East Foreign Policy on American Muslims: A Case Study of Muslims in Tampa Bay , Mark G. Grzegorzewski
Does Revolution Breed Radicalism? An Analysis of the Stalled Revolution in Syria and the Radical Forces Since Unleashed , Ryan King Little
The United States Prison System: A Comparative Analysis , Rachel O'connor
Fair Trade in Transition: Evolution, Popular Discourse, and the Case of the CADO Cooperative in Cotopaxi, Ecuador , Robyn Michelle Odegard
Challenging the Democratic Peace Theory - The Role of US-China Relationship , Toni Ann Pazienza
Continuation in US Foreign Policy: An Offensive Realist Perspective , Bledar Prifti
The Syrian Civil War: Four Concentric Forces of Tensions , Majid Rafizadeh
Key Ingredients in the Rule of Law Recipe: The Role of Judicial Independence in the Effective Establishment of the Rule of Law , Lauren A. Shumate
Leges, Plebiscita, et Rogationes: Democratization and Legislative Action, 494 - 88 BC , Eric Wolters
An Analysis of State Building: The Relationship between Pashtun 'Para-State' Institutions and Political Instability in Afghanistan , Rebecca Young Greven
Accessibility's Influence on Population Location near Light Rail in the Denver Region , Christophe Michael Zuppa
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
A Comparative Study: How Educational and Healthcare Preparedness Affected Marketization of the Chinese and Indian Economies , Cindy Arjoon
Accidental Detention: A Threat to the Legitimacy of Venezuelan Democracy , Mabel Gabriela Durán-Sánchez
European Union Institutions, Democratic Discourse, and the Color Revolutions , Lizette G. Howard
The End of Anarchy: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the States System , Gregory Edward Johnson
Trends in the Contracting out of Local Government Services , Cristiane Carvalho Keetch
Framing Colombian Women's Beliefs, Values and Attitude Towards Sex and Sexual High-Risk Behaviors , Rosa Ore
Impacts of U.S. Foreign Policy and Intervention on Guatemala: Mid-20th Century , Patricia M. Plantamura
Maximizing Citizenship with Minimal Representation: An Analysis of Afro-Argentine Civil Society Organizing Strategies , Prisca Suarez
From Zaire to the DRC: A Case Study of State Failure , Adam Zachariah Trautman
Guanxi, Networks and Economic Development: The Impact of Cultural Connections , Patricia Anne Weeks
Comparative Political Corruption in the United States: The Florida Perspective , Andrew Jonathon Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Modernization From Above: Social Mobilization, Political Institutionalization and Instability: A Case Study of Iran (1953-1979) , Jeffrey Robert Cobb
The Relationship between the Social Construction of Race and the Black/White Test Score Gap in , Toriano M. Dempsey
The Causes and Effects of Get Tough: A Look at How Tough-on-Crime Policies Rose to the Agenda and an Examination of Their Effects on Prison Populations and Crime , Cheyenne Morales Harty
Hegemonic Rivalry in the Maghreb: Algeria and Morocco in the Western Sahara Conflict , Michael D. Jacobs
The Politics of Pentecostalism; Does it Help or Hinder Democratic Consolidation in Brazil? , Amber S. Johansen
Women's Political Representation in Europe: An Analysis of Structural and Attitudinal Factors , Jenna Elaine Mcculloch
Examining the Relationship between Participatory Democracy and Nonwhite Domestic Workers in Porto Alegre, Brazil: Issues of Race, Class and Privilege , Alexis Nicole Mootoo
The Indigenous Movement and the Struggle for Political Representation in Bolivia , Angelica T. Nieves
MAS and the Indigenous People of Bolivia , Maral Shoaei
Cyberwar and International Law: An English School Perspective , Anthony F. Sinopoli
The Homegrown Jihad: A Comparative Study of Youth Radicalization in the United States and Europe , William Wolfberg
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
The State and the Legalization of Dual Citizenship/Dual Nationality: A Case Study of Mexico and the Philippines , Pamela Kim Anderson
The Integration of African Muslim Minority: A Critique of French Philosophy and Policy , Amber Nichole Dillender
Elections and Tensions and Constitutions! Oh, My! A Process-Oriented Analysis of Bolivian Democratization from 1993 to 2009 , Laurel Kristin Dwyer
Cuban Medical Internationalism: A Case for International Solidarity in Foreign Policy Decision Making , Eric James Fiske
The Threat to Democracy in Brazil's Public Sphere , Daniel Nettuno
Prospects for Political Reform in China , Jody Lee Tomlin
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
The Positive- and Negative-Right Conceptions of Freedom of Speech and the Specter of Reimposing the Broadcast Fairness Doctrine ... or Something Like It , Adam Fowler
The Christian Zionist Lobby and U.S.-Israel Policy , Mark G. Grzegorzewski
An Analysis of U.S. Policies Targeting the Iranian Nuclear Program , Bryan T. Hamilton
Religion and Resistance: The Role of Islamic Doctrine in Hamas and Hezbollah , Matthew Lawson
Prospects for Nuclear Non-Proliferation: An Actor-Oriented Case Study of Iran’s Future , James Martin Lockwood
Impact of Globalization on Socio-Economic and Political Development of the Central Asian Countries , Karina Orozalieva
Mubarak’s Machine: The Durability of the Authoritarian Regime in Egypt , Andrea M. Perkins
International Society Cosmopolitan Politics and World Society , Kimberly Weaver
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
From China to Cuba: Guerilla Warfare as a Mechanism for Mobilizing Resources , Jorge Barrera
Neoliberalism and Dependence: A Case Study of The Orphan Care Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa , Christine Concetta Gibson
City Level Development New Key to Successful Development , Gina Herron
The neoconservative war on modernity: The Bush Doctrine and its resistance to legitimation , Ben Luongo
The Security and Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran: An Offensive Realism Perspective , Bledar Prifti
Transdiscursive cosmopolitanism: Foucauldian freedom, subjectivity, and the power of resistance , Joanna Rozpedowski
Making and Keeping the Peace: An Analysis of African Union Efficacy , Nicholas Temple
Social Implications of Fair Trade Coffee in Chiapas, Mexico: Toward Alternative Economic Integration , Joseph J. Torok
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This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of Wilfrid Laurier University students from 1982 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students can choose to withdraw their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via e-mail or by telephone at 519-884-0710 ext. 2073.
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Assessing the Stability of Elite Political Culture: An Empirical Analysis of the Attitudes of Elected Officials in Canada , Lydia Summerlee
Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008
Opportunity, Tools and Support: NGO Engagement in the Security and Disarmament Field , Sarah Estabrooks
Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999
Autonomy and genetic predisposition: The relationship between original organizational configuration and the tendency for autonomy. An analysis of three drop-in centres servicing street youth , Heike Mertins
Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997
Cognitive assimilation-contrast effects among partisan identifiers: An analysis of the 1993 Canadian national election , Jordan Colby
Gaining the competitive advantage: Ontario universities and the global economy , Jonathan Sidney Greene
Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996
Selective incentives and the formation of interest groups: The case of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) , Peter Dow Arthur
Theses/Dissertations from 1994 1994
Collective consciousness and self-societal definition: A theory and model for a direct democracy , John Blaikie Armstrong
A tripolar world? A framework for analysis , Heidi J. Bachert-Burke
Theses/Dissertations from 1993 1993
Government and interest group relations: An analysis of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport , Susan Lesley Forbes
Theses/Dissertations from 1990 1990
Turkey's experience with corporatism , Nilgun Onder
Theses/Dissertations from 1989 1989
The impact of home entertainment technologies on government's ability to regulate sexually explicit materials , Mike Strathdee
Negativity in the evaluations of political leaders , Timothy John Stanford Utting
Theses/Dissertations from 1988 1988
Party images and party identification in Canada , Ian Cotter
Theses/Dissertations from 1987 1987
The impact of trait attributions on evaluations of political leaders , Cathy Widdis Barr
Theses/Dissertations from 1986 1986
Quebec-US Relations Under the Parti Quebecois , D. Keith Heintzman
Theses/Dissertations from 1984 1984
The effect of political partisanship on the allocation of funds for job creation in the province of Ontario , Darrell Jay Bricker
Nationalism and integration , Allan Harold Moore
Theses/Dissertations from 1983 1983
The technical, legal and political implications of remote sensing satellites , Matthew Mahoney
The effects of different competitive situations on the political content of daily newspapers , Deborah Joan Stalker
Theses/Dissertations from 1981 1981
Federal-Provincial Fiscal Stabilization Policy Response to Political and Economic Conditions in the Provinces: Canada, 1960–79 , Scott Alexander McAlpine
Theses/Dissertations from 1980 1980
The Appropriateness of the Concept of the Individual , Frank Clancy
Maintenance of an Empire: Soviet Foreign Behaviour in the ’80s , Pierre Eugene LaCompte
Theses/Dissertations from 1979 1979
A Critique and Analysis of the Decline-of-Ideology Thesis , George Nikolakakos
Civil Rights and the Anglo-Jewish Press in Canada: 1930-1970 , Irwin Pollock
Theses/Dissertations from 1978 1978
A Thematic Analysis of National Science Policy in Canada, 1963–1977 , Donald James Naulls
The Origin of Ideology: Marx’s Method of Human Liberation and Husserl’s Investigation of Judgments , Bryce Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 1977 1977
A Theoretical Inquiry into the Problematic Nature of Canadian Defence Policy , Dennis William Barber
The Influence of Political Leaders on the Provincial Performance of the Liberal Party in British Columbia , Henrik J. von Winthus
Theses/Dissertations from 1975 1975
Defence Policy and the Unification of the Canadian Armed Forces: An Analysis , John C. Hood
Schlagende Verbindungen: Modern Communitarians? , R.G.S. Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 1974 1974
African Political Instability: Theoretical Implications , Jo Ann Mourides
The Structure of Party Solidarity in the Ontario Legislative Assembly , James Edward Twiss
Theses/Dissertations from 1973 1973
The Political Implications of the Canada-United States Automobile Agreement , William G. Park
Theses/Dissertations from 1971 1971
Contemporary Student Radicals and Their Belief Systems , Lloyd M. Tataryn
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The Harvard University Archives ’ collection of theses, dissertations, and prize papers document the wide range of academic research undertaken by Harvard students over the course of the University’s history.
Beyond their value as pieces of original research, these collections document the history of American higher education, chronicling both the growth of Harvard as a major research institution as well as the development of numerous academic fields. They are also an important source of biographical information, offering insight into the academic careers of the authors.
Spanning from the ‘theses and quaestiones’ of the 17th and 18th centuries to the current yearly output of student research, they include both the first Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (by William Byerly, Ph.D . 1873) and the dissertation of the first woman to earn a doctorate from Harvard ( Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson , Ed.D. 1922).
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- The collection of Mathematical theses, 1782-1839
- The 1895 Ph.D. dissertation of W.E.B. Du Bois, The suppression of the African slave trade in the United States, 1638-1871
- Ph.D. dissertations of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Ph.D. 1925) and physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Ph.D. 1922)
- Undergraduate honors theses of novelist John Updike (A.B. 1954), filmmaker Terrence Malick (A.B. 1966), and U.S. poet laureate Tracy Smith (A.B. 1994)
- Undergraduate prize papers and dissertations of philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson (A.B. 1821), George Santayana (Ph.D. 1889), and W.V. Quine (Ph.D. 1932)
- Undergraduate honors theses of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (A.B. 1940) and Chief Justice John Roberts (A.B. 1976)
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The following theses are recent examples of outstanding work:.
- Avery Goods: "An Inconvenient Group: The Effect of Motivated Messages on Climate Change Attitudes and Behaviors of Skeptic Audiences" 2019 Janda Prize Winner for Best Honors Thesis
- Joshua Varcie: "The Artificial Incumbency Advantage: How Bipartisan Redistricting Schemes Protect Incumbents" 2019 Janda Prize Honorable Mention for Distinguished Honors Thesis
- Benjamin Alan Weinberg: " Ballot Challenge: Explaining Voting Rights Restrictions in 21st-Century America" 2018 Janda Prize Winner for Best Honors Thesis
- Logan Scott Peretz: "How Hillary May Have Lost the White House: The Electoral Effects of Presidential Campaign Visits in 2016" 2018 Janda Prize Honorable Mention for Distinguished Honors Thesis
- Aaron Gordon: "An Empirical Appraisal of the Liberty of Contract" 2017 Janda Prize Winner for Best Honors Thesis
- Hayley Hopkins: "Restrict the Vote: Disenfranchisement as a Political Strategy" 2017 Janda Prize Winner for Best Honors Thesis
- Matthew Gates: "Ideological Basis for the Gay Rights Movement" 2017 Janda Prize Honorable Mention for Distinguished Honors Thesis
- Elena Barham: "Passing the Buck: World Bank Anti-Corruption Reform and the Politics of Implementation" 2016 Janda Prize Winner for Best Honors Thesis
- Remy Smith: "Inherently Unequal: The Effects of Equal Representation on Senate Policy Outcomes" 2016 Janda Prize Honorable Mention for Distinguished Honors Thesis
- Laura Rozier: "The Media, the Innocent, and the Public: A Nuanced Look at Exonerations and Public Opinion of the Death Penalty" 2015 Janda Prize Winner for Best Honors Thesis
- Kaitlyn Chriswell: “Cross-cutting cleavages: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, Terra Lliure, and the centrality of networks” , 2014 Janda Prize Winner for Best Honors Thesis
- Jordan Fein: "Searching for Health Care Reform: Studying Media Coverage and Framing Public Opinion of the 2009-2010 Health Care Debate" , 2011 Janda Prize Winner for Best Honors Thesis
- Dylan Lewis: “Unpaid Protectors: Volunteerism and the Diminishing Role of Federal Responsibility in the National Park Service” , 2011 Janda Prize Honorable Mention for Distinguished Honors Thesis
- Benjamin Zhu: “Resource Distribution in Post‐PRI Mexico: De‐Politicized or Re‐Politicized?” , 2011 Senior Marshall for Distinguished Honors Thesis
- Ben Armstrong: “Ne Touche Pas Ma Constitution: Pressures and Presidential Term Limits” , 2011 Barry Farrell Prize for Academic Achievement
- Jeffrey Paller: “Where are the people? The Relationship between Government and Civil Society in South Africa” , 2006 Janda Prize Co-Winner for Best Honors Thesis
- Samir Mayekar: “The Piquetero Effect: Examining the Argentine Government’s Response to the Piquetero Movement” , 2006 Janda Prize Co-Winner for Best Honors Thesis
Janda PRIZE for DISTINGUISHED Honors Thesis REcipients
The Kenneth F. Janda Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis in Political Science is awarded annually for the best undergraduate Honors thesis of the year.
Student name | Year |
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Kelly Miller | 2022 |
Andrew Myers (Honorable Mention) | 2022 |
Julian Freiberg | 2021 |
Akash Palani | 2021 |
Thomas Abers Lourenço (Honorable Mention) | 2021 |
Hayden Richardson (Honorable Mention) | 2021 |
Natalie Sands | 2020 |
Jonathan Goldberg (Honorable Mention) | 2020 |
Avery Goods | 2019 |
Joshua Varcie (Honorable Mention) | 2019 |
Benjamin Weinberg | 2018 |
Logan Peretz (Honorable Mention) | 2018 |
Aaron Gordon | 2017 |
Hayley Hopkins | 2017 |
Matthew Gates (Honorable Mention) | 2017 |
Elena Frances Barham | 2016 |
Remy Smith | 2016 |
Laura Rozier | 2015 |
Alexander Fredendall (Honorable Mention) | 2015 |
Kaitlyn Chriswell | 2014 |
Katie Singh | 2013 |
Niabi Schmaltz | 2013 |
Alex Samuel Grubman | 2012 |
Lilly Yang Liu | 2012 |
Jordan Fein | 2011 |
Dylan Lewis (Honorable Mention) | 2011 |
Harold Wiliford | 2010 |
Caitlyn Carpenter (Honorable Mention) | 2010 |
Kelly Bronk | 2009 |
David Felton (Honorable Mention) | 2009 |
Kristi St. Charles | 2008 |
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Honorable Mention) | 2008 |
Derek Linkous (Honorable Mention) | 2008 |
Emily Luken | 2007 |
Samir S. Mayekar | 2006 |
Jeffrey W. Paller | 2006 |
Sarah S. Bush | 2005 |
Meeggan I. Maczek (Honorable Mention) | 2005 |
Jennie A. Taylor | 2004 |
Miriam Lieberman (Honorable Mention) | 2004 |
Julie Skaff | 2003 |
Nicole Sadler (Honorable Mention) | 2003 |
John J. Luyat | 2002 |
Molly Newcomb (Honorable Mention) | 2002 |
Brett Theodos (Honorable Mention) | 2002 |
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Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
The New Profits of Pleasure: Reality Television and Affective Exploitation in Post-Pandemic Neoliberalism , Sophia Aepfelbacher
Committees in the Oregon State Legislature: Partisan, Distributive, or Informational , Woodrow C. Moore
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Gender Equity and State-Mosque Relations in Middle East North Africa: A Case Study of Tunisia , Joy Amarachi Agbugba
Comparative Foreign Aid Analysis: Replacing the Competition Between Donors with Complementary Aid Policies , Emily Melinda Baker
Legislative Procedures and Perceptions of Legitimacy , Megan Elizabeth Cox
The Meaning and Measure of Deliberative Systems , Darren Michael McCormick
Same Game, Different Rules: Pointillist Imperialism and the New Cartography of Great Power Competition , Andrew Jesse Shaughnessy
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Trump's Legacy in the Middle East: Strategic Shift and the Geopolitics of American Foreign Policy in the Region , Bilel Kriaa
Freedom vs. Security: Analyzing the Connection between States' Prioritization of Security over Civil Liberties and Citizen Support for Democratic Norms , Carlyn Trumbull Madden
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Follow the (Electronic) Money: How Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology Are "Shaking the System" , Jim Robert Mignano
The Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Debate: Do Savings Provisions Influence Arbitration Outcomes? , Ryan Manning Moore
Understanding Evangelical Support for, and Opposition to Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election , Joseph Thomas Zichterman
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
How Does Wasta Bolster Regimes? The Case of Tunisia , Issrar Chamekh
Indigenous Party Formation and Success: the Strategic Roles of Reserved Seats, Parties, and Horizontal Accountability , Michael FitzGerald
Arctic Security: the Race for the Arctic through the Prism of International Relations Theory , Michael Gregory Morgan Trujillo
Grappling with the African E-Waste Pandemic: Contributing Factors and Future Deterrence , Brittany Nicole Wideman
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Using the Syrian Civil War to Measure Hierarchy: Regional Power Transition in the Middle East , Eric Michael Clary
Understanding ASEAN : An Alternative Approach to International Relations Theory in Asia , Ryan Grimstad Driver
Evaluating the Impact of Oregon's Citizen Initiative Review (CIR) on Voter Decisions , Ari Joaquin Wubbold
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
The 2016 Presidential Election: Demographic Transformation and Racial Backlash , Skyler Lillian Brocker-Knapp
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Manufacturing Consent in the Maghreb: How Mohammed VI of Morocco Survived the Arab Spring , David Michael Duke II
Substantive Representation by the Unelected: The Role of Staff Gender on Mayoral Priorities in U.S. Cities , Sara M. Hottman
BEE CAUSE: Is Legislative Action Protecting Bees from Neonicotinoids Justified? , Ursula A. Squire
Democratization, Political Performance, and Income Distribution in Argentina and Brazil , Nicholas Paul Stowell
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
The Europeanization of Political Parties: A Study of Political Parties in Poland 2009-2014 , Dennis Jan Blew
An Examination of Factors that Catalyze LGBTQ Movements in Middle Eastern and North African Authoritarian Regimes , Michael Anthony Figueredo
Liberalization, Contention, and Threat: Institutional Determinates of Societal Preferences and the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Morocco , Matthew Thomas Lacouture
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
The Responsibility to Protect and International Law: Moral, Legal and Practical Perspectives on Kosovo, Libya, and Syria , William R. Blackford
Synthesizing the Vertical and the Horizontal: A World-Ecological Analysis of 'the Industrial Revolution', Part I , Christopher R. Cox
Exploring Connections Between Efforts to Restrict Same-Sex Marriage and Surging Public Opinion Support for Same-Sex Marriage Rights: Could Efforts to Restrict Gay Rights Help to Explain Increases in Public Opinion Support for Same-Sex Marriage? , Samuel Everett Christian Dunlop
Moving Beyond Regulatory Mechanisms: A Typology of Internet Control Regimes , Richard Reid Hunt
The Effect of Social Media on Public Awareness and Extra-Judicial Effects: The Gay Marriage Cases and Litigating for New Rights , Sarahfina Aubrey Peterson
Explaining Ballot Initiative Contest Outcomes in California, Oregon, and Washington , Hans Daniel Stroo
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Macroeconomic and Political Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in the Middle East , Robin Barnaby Calver
The Strategic Effects of Counterinsurgency Operations at Religious Sites: Lessons from India, Thailand, and Israel , Timothy L. Christopher
Fated to Pretend?: Culture Crisis and the Fate of the Individual , Rebecca Jade Ok
Economic Inequality's Correlation with Political Inequality and Inequality of Opportunity and the Implications for Social Justice Theory , Staci Leigh Schoff
A Dissatisfied Partner: A Conflict - Integration Analysis of Britain's Membership in the European Union , Osman Goktug Tanrikulu
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Supranationalism in the Fight Against Transnational Threats: A Comparative Study of ASEAN and EU Policy Responses to Human Trafficking , Nicholas M. Klynn
The Crisis of Cooperation: A Critical Analysis of Russian-Iranian Relations in the Post-Soviet Era , Eric D. Moore
Public Participation in Emergency Management , Jason Alexander Rood
A Strategic Model for INGO Accountability Systems , Sarah Elizabeth Wardwell
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
The Fourth Amendment and Cyberspace: Conflict or Cohesion? , Federico Alberto Cantón
The Institutional Development of the American Vice Presidency , James Emory Hite
African Regime Types and International Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organizations: A Comparative Study of the Relationships of Friends and Enemies. , Krista Noel Lane
From Blooming Judicial Philosophies to Castrated Legislation: Sexuality, Desire, and Nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States , Adam Michael McMahon
The Expressive Goals of Bias Crime Legislation and the Media , Louis Panush
In or Out: Interpretation of European Union Membership Criteria and its Effect on the EU Accession Process for Candidate and Potential Member States of Southeastern Europe , Ashley Marie Rasmussen
Citizenship, Duty and Virtue: A Vision of Jefferson's America , Anthony Philip Stine
Diminished Democracy? Portland Radio News/Public Affairs After the Telecom Act of 1996 , Rebecca Webb
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
Northeast Asia and the Avoidance of a Nuclear Arms Race , Samuel Fogleman
Regional Integration in East Asia , Amaleia E. Kolovos
Rashomon Comes to the Courtroom: the Adoption of the Lay Judge System in Japan, Its Impact on Jurisprudence, and the Implications for Civic Engagement , Bryan Matthew Thompson
Limitation Riders in the Postreform House: A Test of Procedural Cartel and Conditional Party Government Theories , Jessica Scott Tollestrup
Nihilism Unbound: Strauss, Nietzsche and Foucault as Nihilist Thinkers , Jeffrey Jacob Wade
Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007
Radicalism in American Political Thought : Black Power, the Black Panthers, and the American Creed , Christopher Thomas Cooney
Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006
Social Regulatory Policy : A Challenge to Federalism , Kimberly Janet Russell
Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004
Prospect Theory and the Cyprus Conflict: Analyzing Decisionmaking in the Turkish Cypriot President , Tarah Marie Wheeler
Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002
Presidential Domain: An Exploratory Study of Prospect Theory and US Climate Policy Since 1998 , Hal T. Nelson
Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000
International Environmental Regimes and Latin America : The Role of Environmental Non-governmental Organizations , Jennifer T. Eller
Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998
An Analysis of the Principal Arguments in Support of a Congressional Term Limit , Paul William Cadero-Smith
The Impact of Relative Gains on Interstate Cooperation in the Areas of Security and International Economy , Renato Corbetta
Free Trade, Regionalism, and the Democratic Peace Theory , Julia B. Johnson
Tocqueville’s Civic Republicanism : The Balance Between Equality and Liberty in American Democracy , Clifford Brantley Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997
The Minimal Role of Legal Traditions at the International Court of Justice , Kalley Rae Aman
Virtue, Liberty, and the Good : A Critical Analysis of Civic Republicanism , Nathan Douglas Austin
Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts : An Examination of Why States Participate , Andrew L. Blum
Public Interest Group Politics and American Political Culture , Patrick Henry Brennan
The Reemergence of Kantian Ethics: Have We Adequately Responded to Hegel's Objections? , Gwen C. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 1996 1996
Oregon's Carry Concealed Weapon Laws: A Historical Review of the Right to Personal Protection , Richard Meek Bash
Neorealism and Environmental Cooperation: Towards a Structural Explanation of International Environmental Matters , Anthony David Lott
The Dangers of Nuclear Proliferation: Five Reasons More May Not Be Better , Matthew MacArthur
Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995
Gaining State Response on Global Environmental Problem-Solving: Developing a State-centric Approach , Heather MacGregor Bothwell
Liberalism, Community, and the Context of Choice , Marta R. Colburn
Sustainable Development in the Third World: A New Paradigm? , Terry A. Gentry
Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology , Todd Nathaniel Gilman
John Rawls, Feminism, and the Gendered Self , Lori Kinder MacArthur
Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strategies for Self-help in Food Production, Case Study of Kenya , Dieudonne Mayi
State Cooperation on Regulatory Policies for Transboundary Environmental Issues , Jennifer Lyn Pennell
North vs. South: Sovereign Equality and the Environment in the Twentieth Century , Thomas Schlesinger
Theses/Dissertations from 1994 1994
A Study of Japan's Foreign Policy Behavior: The Discrepancy between Japan's Foreign Policy and Its Voting Behavior in the United Nations General Assembly , Atsuko Sato
Theses/Dissertations from 1993 1993
The Liberal-Communitarian Debate and the Development of a Political Conception of the Person , Kenneth Howard Biggs
Common Security: a Conceptual Blueprint for an Israeli-Palestinian Political Settlement , Robert Arthur Horenstein
The United States-Japan Security Treaty of 1951: An Essay on the Origins of Postwar Japanese-American Relation , Christopher S. Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 1991 1991
A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Foreign Policy in Iran and the Philippines , Christina M. Blumel
Chinese Intellectual Dissidents , Meiru Liu
Theses/Dissertations from 1990 1990
John Rawls, the conception of a liberal self, and the communitarian critique , Johnathan Edward Mansfield
Politics and Education: The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade , Teresa Squires Osborne
Theses/Dissertations from 1989 1989
An Analysis of US/Soviet Arms Control: Adding a Subsystem Perspective , Peter Millard Olson
Theses/Dissertations from 1987 1987
Hugo Grotius and the liberal tradition , Karen Diane Csajko
American Foreign Policy: The Utility of Force as an Influence, Bargaining, or Coercive Force in the Caribbean Basin , Susan M. Marandas
Theses/Dissertations from 1986 1986
Manipulation or education? : symbolic language, belief system and the Truman Doctrine , John Gunn Tilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1985 1985
Formulation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 , Gary G. Skalangya
Theses/Dissertations from 1984 1984
Integration in West Africa : an empirical examination of ECOWAS , Stephen C. Adkisson
Theses/Dissertations from 1983 1983
Polish foreign policy and the development of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe , Keijiro Yasui
Theses/Dissertations from 1982 1982
Congressional Power and Presidential Prerogative: The War Powers Question , Gerald Michael Worley
Theses/Dissertations from 1979 1979
The political integration of the Kurds in Turkey , Kathleen Palmer Ertur
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Writing a research proposal
The research proposal is the main way in which we evaluate the quality of your research plans. You should aim to make your proposal about 1500-2000 words long.
Your proposal should include the following:
The title indicates the overall question or topic of the PhD. It should include any key concepts, empirical focus, or lines of inquiry that you aim to pursue, and it should be concise and descriptive. You can normally discuss changes in the title with your supervisor(s) should you be successful but it is important to try to choose a clear and engaging title.
Research questions
What are the questions or problems for politics or international relations that you are trying to understand and solve? In explaining these, it will be helpful to spell out what else we need to know in order to understand why you are framing the problem this way.
Research aims
In answering these questions, what will your research project do? What will it shed light on or help us to understand that we don’t really understand better?
Contribution
Why this project? Explain why your project is interesting, what its broader implications are, and – if you think this is relevant – why you are particularly well placed to tackle it. It is also valuable to reflect on who has worked on the topic before and to provide a brief literature review. Are there any good approaches to the topic, or particular articles or books, that you are drawing on or bad ones you want to push back against?
What are the sources you plan to use to answer your research questions? These will vary according to the nature of your research but may include study of particular texts, interviews, published or unpublished data, archival or policy documents, or field site visits, among others. Try to be as specific as you can and assess the possibility of access to relevant sources.
This includes thinking about the research methods you will use to analyse empirical sources (e.g., sampling, survey or interview design, data collection, discourse analysis) but may also include setting out the kind of theoretical framework you will employ or your approach to history or political ideas. What prior knowledge and skills do you bring to the project? What extra training may you need?
Structure and timetable
Include a provisional chapter structure and timetable to completion, covering the three years of the full-time programme or six years of the part-time programme, as appropriate.
To help you with your application here are some examples of PhD proposals which were successful in obtaining funding: PhD sample research proposal 1 (PDF , 96kb) PhD sample research proposal 2 (PDF , 79kb) PhD sample research proposal 3 (PDF , 197kb)
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Juan José Rivas Moreno is a historian of global trade and finance during the Early Modern period, specialising in the Spanish Pacific trade and the capital market of Manila during the long eighteenth century. Juan José received the Economic History Society (UK) Power Fellowship 2023/2024, and obtained his PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2023 with a dissertation entitled ‘An Alternative Model for long-distance Trade Finance: The Capital Market of Manila, 1668-1838’. Juan José is interested in the history of monetary flows and of capital markets; his research sits at the intersection of trade, finance, and business history from a global and comparative perspective. He was the beneficiary of an ESRC doctoral training partnership, and a Newberry Library short-term fellowship. Juan José has written on the organisation of the capital market of Manila, accounting practices in Early Modern religious institutions, and the connection between Manila and the English East India Company for Spanish, Italian, and British publications, and is currently working on the monograph of his first book. As a Max Weber Fellow, Juan José plans on expanding his research to study the connection between the Pacific and the Indo-European trade circuits during the eighteenth century, in order to assess the impact of Pacific silver flows in the organisation and evolution of European trade within maritime Asia.
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Browse the list of political science theses and dissertations from 2012 to 2023. Find topics such as judicial legitimacy, international conflict, social trust, women's representation, and more.
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THE DISSERTATION'S TITLE. A Dissertation Proposal Submitted to the Political Science Department by Jane Doe 1 Main Street / Apt. A Boston, MA 02115 617-373-2796 janedoe@email Month Day, Year. Primary Reader. Secondary Reader. Tertiary Reader (if known) Primary Reader. Secondary Reader. PhD Program Director.
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Minor parties and democratic governance in Ghana's fourth republic, 1992 - 2022. Yobo, Eric (University of Pretoria, 2023-08) Despite the rising interest in party politics in Africa, minor party activism remains largely understudied, particularly in the context of plurality-based two-party systems. This study therefore examined minor parties in ...
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Life as a Politics PhD researcher 1 The Political Studies Association (PSA) exists to develop and promote the study of politics. Founded in 1950, we are the leading Association in our field in the United Kingdom, with an international membership including academics in political science and current affairs, theorists and
Sections, like paragraphs, should have both coherence and cohesion, and should make use of appropriate linguistic devices to lead the reader logically and clearly through the stages of the writer's analysis or exposition. 4. Language and Style. The thesis should be written in an appropriate formal academic style.
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