Browsing by Department "Political Science"
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(2021-05-07)Perspective-taking is when an individual takes the point of view of a different, marginalized, or negatively viewed group in order to facilitate an understanding towards their situation and improve the marginalized group’s ...
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(2015-05-06)This dissertation project tries to answer the following question: How is collective political trust generated from individual political trust across federal and local levels? As a function of maintaining democracy, political ...
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This project addresses the impact of civil society on the quality of democracies in former Yugoslavian countries. Many of these new republics have witnessed some degree of democratic backsliding in the last twenty years. ...
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As a result of ideological opposition or the reduction of his writing to mere propaganda, the legacy of Thomas Paine within mainstream political theory has remained largely unexplored. Never a friend to the elite or powerful, ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation addresses generalized trust in Post-Communist Europe. I examine trust stressing two sets of factors: the impact of attitudes associated with cleavages coming out of transition to democracy, and the ...
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This project intends to answer the question of how rising disaster losses correlate to essential climate change variables. Despite the substantial upward trend in economic losses from disaster, there is still debate over ...
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(2019-03-19)In contrast to initial expectations, a recent literature has identified coalition formation as being almost as common in presidential systems as in parliamentary systems. However, few studies have analyzed the dynamics of ...
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(2013-04-11)The Head Start Program aims to equip pre-school age children from low-income families with the social, academic and emotional development that is essential upon entry to Kindergarten. While much research and debate exists ...
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(2009-05-15)What is the role of political leadership in the mechanisms that bind general masses and political elites behind a certain policy program? And what factors account for the changes in political leadership? The mechanisms ...
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(2009-05-15)This is a comprehensive study of tobacco control policy and politics in the European Union, 1970-2000. I develop an instrumental theory of public policy which establishes an approach for connecting policy instruments to ...
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(2016-04-08)In recent years, political theorists witnessed two explosions of Aristotle scholarship. One, which I call commentary scholarship, aims to uncover Aristotle’s argument. The other, which I call appropriation scholarship, ...
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(2022-04-04)Why do rebel groups establish governance institutions? What motivates their institutional choices of governance? This dissertation advances an institutional choice theory to explain why rebel groups establish governance ...
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(2012-02-14)Many scholars believe in order to have democratic legitimacy, females should be represented in governing bodies at all levels. Significant literature on female descriptive representation in the U.S. for women’s policy ...
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(2014-05-07)This dissertation analyzes partisanship in America. I lay out a new theory of partisanship that shows that how strongly an American identifies with the Democrats or Republicans is due to how likely he or she is to take ...
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The 2012 attacks on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya, caused a lasting impact on U.S. politics continuing today. However, little research regarding how the attack came to create such an impact, has been conducted. By ...
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(1993)In 1988, the Institute for the Contemporary Gallery of Art used a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to exhibit art works by the photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe. Unfortunately for the art world ...
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(2011-08-08)The question of the executive’s authority over foreign affairs has been debated constantly over the life of the Constitution. Rather than try to discern the answer to this question from only the well-known Framers, this ...
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(2022-04-22)In contrast to initial expectations of canonical economic development models, economic in-formality has remained a key feature of developing countries. Not only does informality create fiscal problems, but it is also ...
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(2013-10-21)This dissertation investigates the effects of private security firms (PSFs) on conflict outcomes. PSFs are corporations that are publicly or individually owned that provide security services for hire. Security services ...