Browsing by Department "Political Science"
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(2015-06-25)Department: Political ScienceMany political decisions have actual life or death consequences. I examine how rhetoric used to discuss these life or death consequences, along with personality predispositions, influence political attitudes. In my first ...
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(2009-07-23)Department: Political ScienceThis project seeks to understand the meaning and importance of judicial independence. The capacity of a judicial system to administrate justice without outside influences is a necessary requisite for the consolidation of ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: Political ScienceThis project brings together three areas of international relations research: security cooperation, the effects of geography on international outcomes, and United States foreign policy. Each chapter incorporates elements ...
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(2021-08-16)Department: Political ScienceSocial network analysis (SNA) has recently become a key approach for migration scholars to understand how immigrants socialize and build personal connections in new environments, while maintaining ties to their former ...
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(2014-04-26)Department: Political ScienceAs the importance of the European Union increases in the world, through the expansion of the members, further integration, and numerous other factors, there is still a question about whether or not parties represent the ...
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(2021-08-11)Department: Political ScienceOn average, women are both higher-quality candidates and stronger performers in political office, compared to their male colleagues. Yet, men and women perform equally well at the ballot box. Is this because high-achieving ...
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(2023-01-09)Department: Political SciencePolitical equality is fundamental for democracy. Yet, globally, women are not equally represented in political offices. Gender bias against women politicians has been identified as one of the main sources of political ...
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(2009-08-26)Department: Political ScienceContinuity tends to characterize political attitudes with parents tending to transmit their opinions to their offspring. Given these orthodox conceptions, why have attitudes towards lesbians and gays liberalized in recent ...
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(2003-04-22)Department: Political SciencePOLITICAL SCIENCE CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS AND THE NUCLEAR ISSUE 1945-1985: A MODEL OF PRESSURES AND CONSTRAINTS KATHA MILLER-WINDER Dissertation under the direction of Professor George J. Graham This work examines the ...
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(2014-04-16)Department: Political ScienceIn recent years, the influence of the New Left has grown in Latin America, posing a serious challenge to representative democracy. Governments of the New Left have undertaken extensive institutional reforms that have ...
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(2023-07-12)Department: Political ScienceThe committee system is central to our understanding the workings of the United States Congress. This dissertation examines three distinct aspects of committees in the House of Representatives: How seniority plays into ...
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(2016-07-14)Department: Political ScienceMy dissertation uses several different methods to examine the role of compassion in politics, both at the citizen and elite level. I explore elite appeals to compassion through a content analysis of a selection of ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Political ScienceDespite growing interest in traditional leaders in Africa, studies have paid little attention to political competition and its role in service delivery and accountability for the unelected leaders. This dissertation focuses ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: Political ScienceOver the last two decades, Latin American countries have adopted conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs as their primary means of providing social assistance to their citizens living in poverty. Political scientists have ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: Political ScienceIn this dissertation, I present and test a political theory of mass indiscriminate violence (i.e. genocide or politicide). Extant scholarship explains mass indiscriminate violence as a counter-guerrilla strategy. Almost ...
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(2013-04-16)Department: Political ScienceWhat factors lead to the support of female political candidates in the Latin American and Caribbean region? I focus on one part of this broader question by examining the relationship between gender stereotypes and perceptions ...
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(2023-06-28)Department: Political ScienceWhat are the relationships between incidences of crime, perceptions of crime, and vote choice? In this paper, I study the 1988 American presidential election (a race marked by its focus on crime) and compare it to the 1984 ...
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(2011-03-29)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation develops and tests a theory of political survival of local elites in order to explain the uneven effects of decentralization on Latin American and Caribbean participatory democracies. This theory rests ...
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(2020-03-28)Department: Political ScienceThe defense appropriations process is an understudied portion of American politics despite its importance for domestic and international politics. Much of this neglect is due to a lack of access to the process and those ...
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(2022-08-14)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation investigates the relationship between defense spending and alliance reliability. I begin with a formal, game theoretic model in which a targeted member of a military alliance anticipates a challenge and ...