Department of Political Sciene

Completed Theses

2008

Erin Reed - "Local Capacities and Peacebuilding Success"

John Wesley Eberhard - "Attaining Empowerment: The Potential of Religious Social Capital in Microfinance Programs"

Yuanyuan Ding - "The Party, the Oil Companies, and Energy Security: Is There a Chinese Policy?"

Precious Hall - "Voting: Is it Just for Old People?"

2007

 Amanda Moll - "International Actors, Norms and Human Development"

Betsy Montgomery - "Explaining the Ineffectiveness of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: The Leadership of the Hegemon"

Claire Gowen - "IMF Conditionality and Armed Civil Conflict: An Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa"

Vanja Petricevic - "The Effects of EU Information on Support for Euroskeptic Radical Right Parties in Europe"

Valerie El'Ghaouti - "The Changing Role of Soft Money on Campaign Finance Reform: The Birth of the 527 and Its Consequences"

Brian Webb - "The Effect of Electoral Security on Partisan Support"

Tracy Fitzpatrick-Hart - "Words That Bind: An Empirical Study of Civil Religion in Presidential Inaugral Addresses"

2006

Carol Walker - "Parties in the States: A Look at Election Contests in Partisan Supreme Courts"

Patrick Burns - "Relgiion and Party Realignment: Are Catholics Realigning into the Republican Party"

Sherry Gould - "Defending the Role of the State in the Promotion of the Information Revolution"

Andrew O'Geen - "Judicial Quality and the Supreme Court Nomination Process"

2005

Shyam Sriram - "Caste and the Court: Examining Judicial Selection Bias on Bench Assignments in the Indian Supreme Court"

Andy Jensen - "Understanding Access to Essential Pharmaceuticals Durnig a Public Health Crisis"

Cynthia Frank - "The Impact of Electoral Engineering on Nationalist Party Behavior in Post-War States"

Ines Rojas - "Who, How, and What? Third-Party Intervention in Venezuela"

Yang Cai - "High Tension Without War: Interpreting Cross Taiwan Strait Relations From 1990 to 2005"

Deborah Cotton - "The Power of the Weak State: Domestic Determinants Concerning Africa's Response to US Article 98"

Stephen Joyner - "Courts and Social Change: A Multiple-Case Study of State Supreme Court Impact on Same-Sex Marriage Policy in Hawaii, Vermont, and Massachusetts"

Carrie Myers - "Supreme Strategy: Rehnquist the Associate vs. Rehnquist the Chief"

Eric Hurst - "An Examination of FCC Roll Call Behavior 1975-2000"

Leila Kennedy - "The Costs of Disability Law: Why the Supreme Court Denies Equal Protection to Americans with Disabilities"

Andrea Owens-Jones - "After the Storm: The Black Church, Civil Rights Organizations, and the Political Mobilization of African-Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era"

Brigid O'Rourke - "An Examination of Media Coverage of Mixed Gender Races"

Kathleen Barrett - "Corrupted Courts: A Cross-National Perceptial Analysis of Judicial Corruption"

Winsong Wang - "Rights Consciousness, Economics Interests, and the 2003 District-Level People's Congress Elections in China: Middle Class Motivations and Democratic Implications"

2004

Kirk Miller - "Conspiracy of Popular Movement: the Georgia Secession Convention"

Christine Crane - "Regime Survival During Exomonic Crisis: Castro's Cuba 1990 to 2000"

Kenneth Sheppard - "Cross-Party Appointments and NRLB Complaint Resolution"