Browsing by Subject "Congress"
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(2012-02-14)At the start of the George H.W. Bush administration, American involvement in El Salvador‘s civil war, one of the last Cold War battlegrounds, had disappeared from the foreign policy agenda. However, two events in November ...
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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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(2010-01-16)This project takes an in-depth look at the role that media coverage of both individual members of Congress and Congress as a whole plays in shaping approval of legislators and the legislative branch. I argue that by examining ...
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(2006-12-13)This research was meant to discover whether, amid accusations they have become the super branch, the judiciary envisioned by the Founders is mirrored today. Reviewing constitutional origins led to the discovery that the ...
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While independent effects of religious affiliation and gender on congressional voting behavior are well-documented, there is little research on how these two factors work together to affect congressional voting. In this ...
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(2013-11-18)This research explores the connections between campaign contributions, congressional behavior, and electoral outcomes. Previous research on the role of money in politics has focused primarily on the influence of political ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Central to the distributive theory is the idea that members of Congress can use strategic committee assignments to fund pork projects for their districts. Committees that are primarily constituency service based are ...
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(2010-07-14)Polarization, defined as the ideological distance between the Democrat and Republican parties in Congress, has increased dramatically in Congress since the 1970s. Research on polarization in the U.S. Congress primarily ...
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(2015-07-17)The composition of the two major parties, both at the mass and elite level, has changed dramatically over the past fifty years. In this period we have witnessed a notable resurgence of ideological separation between the ...
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(1997)Can the president use rhetoric to set the Congressional agenda? This study examines the president's legislative agenda as set forth in the State of the Union addresses from 1947-1993. This agenda is then compared with the ...
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(2009-05-15)Presidential policy making in Congress is a lengthy, difficult process that involves developing a policy initiative, proposing it to Congress, and winning the legislature’s support. Recent empirical findings indicate that, ...
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(2021-05-24)In this dissertation I argue that humility is a virtue of elected public officials. Specifically, this research pertains to members of the United States Congress. In Chapter II, I survey and critique contemporary scholarship ...