Browsing by Author "Mintz, Alex"
Now showing items 1-9 of 9
-
Podliska, Bradley Florian (2009-06-02)The premise of this dissertation is straight-forward – the U.S., as hegemon, acts unilaterally given the power disparity between it and the rest of the world. In solving the puzzle of why presidents make the “wrong” ...
-
Vedlitz, Arnold; Mintz, Alex; Redd, Steven B.; Liu, Xinsheng; Alston, Letitia T. (ORIGINAL: Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; DIGITAL: Texas A&M University Libraries, 2005)
-
Yang, Yi (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Prospect theory is a descriptive model of individual decision-making under risk (Kahneman and Tversky 1979). The central tenet of prospect theory posits that the risk orientation of decision-makers is affected by the gains ...
-
Rae, Michelle Frasher (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The United States acted unilaterally to terminate the Bretton Woods monetary system in August 1971, and international exchange rate management went from a regime of fixed to floating parities, much to the displeasure of ...
-
Stevenson, Randolph T. (1991)The question of how defense spending affects economic growth has been important to both economist and political scientists for many years. The numerous works that have been written on the subject, however, have failed to ...
-
Park, Joon Guan (2012-07-16)This dissertation examines an increasingly common phenomenon in the post-Cold War context, the military coalition. At the heart of the dissertation is thus the question: what explains political leaders’ participation and ...
-
Attar, Riad A (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)This study assesses the effect of politics on economic growth in developing societies. In this study I developed and applied an augmented production function model to 69 developing countries with several political variables: ...
-
Brule, David J (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This dissertation explores the role of public opinion in U.S. presidential decisions to employ various alternatives in response to an international crisis. Presidents may choose from a range of force alternatives, including ...
-
Trusty, Brian (1995)This essay sets out to illustrate that when certain variables, or dimensions, are altered, this effect begins to break down. The variables that will be investigated in this study belong in two issue areas: the economic and ...