Browsing by Department "Political Science"
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(1996)This paper specifies a heuristic framework fashioned from the principles of the Second Law of Thermodynamics intended to extend and broaden our explanation of the structural dynamics of change and transformation within the ...
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Growing evidence has indicated that LGBTQ+ college students and autistic college students experience sexual health disparities (Buhi, Marhefka, & Hoban, 2010; Viswanath & Kreuter, 2007). However, one area that has not been ...
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(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” ...
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(1981)The administrative hearings examiner is a quasi-judicial officer of an administrative agency whose adjudicative authority allows him significant policy input. Although administrative procedure is patterned after the more ...
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(2020-05-13)In this dissertation, I examine how military alliance participation impacts military spending. Despite long-standing expectations that alliances affect military spending, we still do not know how. One group of scholars ...
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(1984)Until President Tito's death on 4 May 1980, his great prestige and powerful personality enabled Yugoslavs to gloss over difficult problems: divisive ethnic disputes, a collapsing economy, and, most importantly, the question ...
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The evidence of a rising antisemitic quandary in the European Union has grown to a pinnacle point too severe to disregard. In the wake of decreasing amounts of religiosity, antisemitic hate attacks are increasing. While ...
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(1986)The objective of this paper is to establish a concrete framework in which to evaluate the efficacy of contemporary American political speeches on the basis of their adherence to Aristotle’s Rhetoric so that political ...
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(2015-11-16)The question of how to enhance the effectiveness of foreign aid has plagued researchers for over six decades. Although in some cases scholars have positive support regarding aid’s impact on economic growth in recipient ...
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The Best Foreign Policy Money Can Buy? An Investigation of Foreign Lobbying and U.S. Foreign Policy (2010-07-14)Does foreign lobbying affect foreign aid? In this dissertation I provide compelling evidence the answer is yes. Prior scholarship has almost unequivocally focused on international bargaining as an exchange of public goods ...
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(2015-11-05)While a growing literature in collaborative public management has made progress in our understanding of stakeholder collaboration, it has generally evaluated such efforts on criteria such as inclusiveness and the emergence ...
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(1998)The following thesis is a politically and socially relevant product of the controversy surrounding the reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act and the highly debated role that regional, multi-species habitat conservation ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The way race works to shape politics is changing as demographic patterns alter the traditional dynamic of race relations throughout the United States. One pattern is the increased tendency of African-Americans and Latinos ...
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Governments that suffer low levels of citizen trust generally have worse policy outcomes and less citizen compliance, making it difficult to pursue other policy goals. However, scholarship on government trust in low trust ...
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My project is a 50-80 page fantasy novella, dealing in themes of courage, changing institutions, and interpersonal relationships. It is the story of Vas Pennery, a young farm boy whose quiet lifestyle is threatened when a ...
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(2013-07-22)Little is known about why elected officials choose to get involved in presidential nomination struggles. Recent research argues that elected officials have a collective incentive to nominate an electorally viable and ...
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(2015-01-21)In this dissertation, I offer an answer to one of the most important questions about authoritarian politics today: why do dictatorships hold elections? In order to answer this broad question, I study the causes and ...
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(2017-05-08)Local governments are thought to be more conducive to women’s representation because they are closer to home, easier to access, and require less time and resources than positions in higher levels of government. However, ...
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(2009-05-15)Our understanding of parliamentary politics suggests that no-confidence motions have a critical place in government continuation, reorganization and termination. More specifically, we know that opposition parties use ...
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(2010-07-14)This dissertation examines two interconnected research questions: What conditions give rise and lead to the electoral success of anti-establishment parties and what are the consequences of this electoral success? Literature ...