Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Political Science"
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(2012-07-10)Department: Political ScienceGAVELS DEFYING GUNS: THE JUDICIAL CONTROL OF STATE POWER IN AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEMS By Rodelio Dela Cruz Manacsa ABSTRACT When do judges rein in those ...
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(2002-04-29)Department: Political ScienceThe effects of global market integration on the economies of advanced capitalist countries have revived a debate in the comparative literature over the relationship between income redistribution and economic growth. Despite ...
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(2023-11-15)Department: Political ScienceIn this project, I argue that social media platform governance drives variation in online political extremism at the community level. My argument makes two claims: first, social media platforms are a kind of private ...
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(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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(2021-07-20)Department: Political ScienceThe fall of Saddam Hussein created a power vacuum in Iraq, heightened by a deepening sectarian divide. The state of security in Iraq became more complicated as militias emerged spontaneously as means to support the ruling ...
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(2017-07-10)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation examines the ways in which the increasingly negative feelings that Americans harbor toward their political opponents influence the way they understand politics. Though the conventional understanding of ...
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Law and Order in the International COmmunity The Impact of International Law on Interstate Relations (2005-08-08)Department: Political ScienceThis study combines scholarship from the political science and legal disciplines for the purpose of highlighting and explaining the impact of international law on interstate relations. The emphases are on dispute settlements, ...
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(2017-04-01)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation draws upon research in political science, psychology, and sociology to explore how inter-and intra-group social status influences political attitudes across divergent groups and issue areas, such as ...
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(2015-06-22)Department: Political ScienceStudies of representation have shown that, generally, Representatives and Senators are responsive to constituent opinion. However, research focused on the policy congruence of elected officials has lacked attention to the ...
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(2022-08-10)Department: Political ScienceThrough a combination of formal models and multiple regression analysis, this dissertation demonstrates how relative policy or geostrategic positioning between multiple parties influence how and whether leaders or states ...
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(2023-06-08)Department: Political ScienceBureaucratic agencies need sufficient capacity to implement the programs and policies delegated to them by Congress and the president. Scholars have long predicted that elected officials have sufficient incentives to build ...
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(2014-04-09)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation has two primary goals. It first examines the ways in which subnational political and social change influences the local teachings of the Catholic Church, producing multiple, and mixed messages within a ...
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(2020-08-20)Department: Political ScienceSince the founding of the United States, immigration has been a prominent political issue. Given this significance of immigration for public opinion, scholars have worked to identify what factors shape individuals’ attitudes ...
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(2009-06-30)Department: Political ScienceIn this dissertation, I build on the framework of Feminist Political Ecology by offering a comparative analysis of the strategies of three women's environmental groups in a single country. I find that, although they face ...
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(2019-04-08)Department: Political ScienceOne of the defining social group cleavages in contemporary America is partisanship. Through the powerful force of group identity, partisanship can influence vote choice, issue positions, and attitudes towards government, ...
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(2020-07-29)Department: Political ScienceSocial norms have powerful impacts on the way that members of different social groups think and behave. Despite the fact that partisanship is perhaps the most important cleavage in the American political context, little ...
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(2018-06-15)Department: Political ScienceFederal civil servants execute the vast majority of modern policy in the United States. Democratic norms dictate that these employees disengage from politics when carrying out their job functions. Yet little empirical ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation focuses on the idea that although much canonical research on political participation focuses on either voting or participation outside the voting booth, it leaves questions about the relationship between ...
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POISONOUS INSECURITY: A POLITICAL THEORY OF THE ROOTS OF RACISM IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF COLONIALISM (2023-07-17)Department: Political SciencePolitical theorists concerned with enduring structural injustice often focus on the politics of the body, space, and knowledge. Yet, they do not always bring the body’s sensory experiences of physical space into their ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: Political ScienceDo higher or increasing levels in the number of electoral options instill a greater sense of efficacy among citizens? Scholars have argued that a larger number of parties competing in an election should promote higher ...