Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Political Science"
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(2014-07-28)Department: Political ScienceThe responsiveness of government agencies to elected officials is a central question in democratic governance. While important scholarship has demonstrated that elected officials have tools they can successfully implement ...
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(2016-07-19)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation examines how stereotypes about men and women in politics affect political outcomes such as the composition of legislatures and citizens’ cognitive engagement in politics, across different contexts. The ...
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(2011-04-12)Department: Political ScienceThis project is concerned with how televised images of violence on the field of battle affect public support for war. News coverage is a powerful factor in influencing public opinion, but the majority of past empirical ...
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(2014-08-04)Department: Political ScienceWhether designing and implementing history-changing policy such as the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe after World War II or miring presidents in scandals like Watergate and the Iran-contra affair, presidential appointees ...
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(2020-06-16)Department: Political ScienceWhat determines climate change concern, prioritizing environmental protections, or preferences over environmental policy? While scholarship on these topics has grown in recent years, in this dissertation I work to broaden ...
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(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 (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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(2012-08-10)Department: Political ScienceOne bedrock finding in the study of mass politics is that religious behavior affects political behavior. However, the successes of movements such as the Christian right have complicated matters. Using a variety of methods, ...
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(2022-08-30)Department: Political Sciencen/a
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(2006-07-20)Department: Political ScienceIn 1930, twelve members of the academic community at Vanderbilt University published a book entitled, I’ll Take My Stand. The Vanderbilt Agrarians, as they came to be known, offered an intellectual foundation for understanding ...
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(2002-04-29)Department: Political ScienceA factor that has long been identified as promoting peace between states is intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). From Kantian musings to Wilsonian idealism, international organizations have been seen as mechanisms for ...
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(2016-08-03)Department: Political SciencePolitical stories are a common, yet to date, underexplored feature of elite discourse. Politicians tell stories to illustrate the stakes of public policy issues and the purpose of government programs. Journalists tell ...
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(2023-06-15)Department: Political ScienceAmid incessant inter-branch stalemates and forceful assertions of executive authority, many fear presidents freely wield unilateral directives to create policy without legislative approval. Political scientists, however, ...
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(2023-02-21)Department: Political ScienceWith increasingly long delays in the confirmation process, high rejection rates, and heightened selectiveness in presidential nominations, the consequences of the “broken” appointments process has become a highly salient ...
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(2013-08-01)Department: Political SciencePrior to the dual transition of the 1980s and 90s, governments in Latin America and the developing world often relied on semi-private or corporatist institutions to provide both public goods such as education, healthcare ...
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(2015-11-24)Department: Political ScienceUnder what circumstances do citizens turn to their neighbors to confront criminals directly? I propose that social capital and distrust in authorities interact to increase the probability that citizens will attempt to ...
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(2016-12-12)Department: Political ScienceAcross the Latin American region, invalid votes regularly “win” over candidates from smaller political parties. This dissertation assesses how individual and contextual factors affect individuals' decision to assume the ...
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(2013-02-12)Department: Political ScienceThe number of children adopted into families that do not share their race, ethnicity, and national origin has steadily increased as families in developed states have turned to foreign countries for children to adopt. I ...
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(2021-09-17)Department: Political SciencePoliticians at times abuse their office for private gain, flout campaign finance rules, engage in moral transgressions, and are involved in other types of wrongdoing. Although such politicians may attempt to conceal their ...
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(2018-03-12)Department: Political ScienceIs democracy good for local development? This dissertation argues that as the number of competitive candidates for local office increases, candidates need fewer votes to result elected. This tendency shapes how local ...