Browsing by Author "W. James Booth"
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Moreno Morales, Daniel Eduardo (2008-04-21)Department: Political ScienceUsing the Latin American cases of Bolivia and Guatemala, this dissertation has produced findings in four different areas related to the relationship between ethnic identities and national politics: First, the definition ...
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Harbour, Michael David (2010-09-06)Department: PhilosophyThe core commitment of liberalism is that individual liberty is in some sense primary. There is, however, much disagreement over the concept of liberty itself. In this dissertation, I attempt to determine which conception ...
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Vaprin, Nathanael William (2013-08-16)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation is intended as an intervention in the interminable and apparently antinomical philosophical exchange between political theories of radical democracy descended from Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and ...
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Clifford, Stacy Anne (2011-12-10)Department: Political ScienceIn my dissertation, I argue that democratic theory harbors a paradox of personhood in which theorists hinge human equality to the concept of personhood, but then invest personhood with a cluster of cognitive requirements ...
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Frederiksen, Jens (2010-04-20)Department: Political ScienceIn this project, I examine Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism as a model for radical democracy. In so doing, I focus upon Mouffe’s simultaneous emphasis on liberalism as a necessary condition for the possibility of radical ...
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Reckoning with a Violent and Lawless Past: A Study of Race, Violence and Reconciliation in Tennessee Russell, Carrie Archie (2010-08-05)Department: Political ScienceThis project examines acts of violence and injustice directed toward Black Tennesseans in the forms of slavery, Jim Crow legislation, lynching, pogroms and race riots between 1865 and 1946. After systemic research of ...
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Paltzer, Daniel Minnekus (2008-07-17)Department: Political ScienceThis thesis concerns the development of the concept of the unitary nation state and anarchic European political system in 16th and 17th century political theory, and will argue that Thomas Hobbes provided the paradigmatic ...
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Kusmierczyk, Ireneusz W. (2010-04-20)Department: Political ScienceBilateral environmental relations between Canada and the United States have been studied from the perspective of federal, state, and provincial governments including non-state actors. However, the role local governments ...
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DeSante, Christopher David (2007-04-14)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis thesis examines the role of Reason-guided reason-giving in the deliberative democratic arena as a response to the theories of Iris Young, Chantal Mouffe and Lynn Sanders. I will aim to do two things. First, I will ...