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      • A moral psychological primary source analysis of Brown v. Board of Education 

        Hardee, Benjamin Dawson (2017-12-06)
        This work applies the social intuitionist psychological model of moral judgment to explain the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education (1954) decision-making process. Based on an examination of the available Brown ...
      • Accommodating Copts in Mubarak's Egypt : research design and historical review 

        Mishrikey, Joshua Fred (2012-05)
        Several scholars have examined how Middle East states preserve their autocratic character. Some focus on competitive multi-party elections, which either “ease important forms of distributional conflict” (Blaydes 2011) or ...
      • The administration of the Texas prison system 

        Reynolds, James Robert (1925)
      • After the revolution : natural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition 

        Dyer, Justin Buckley (2009-12)
        Public actors associated with the tradition of American antislavery constitutionalism in the nineteenth-century insisted that the Constitution of 1787 contained certain inbuilt purposes or animating principles, which ought ...
      • After the supreme word: the effect of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on public opinion 

        Unger, Michael Andrew, 1977- (2007)
        This project explores the role that the United States Supreme Court plays in shaping public opinion. Previous scholars have successfully demonstrated that political elites influence public opinion, but those researching ...
      • Aiding dependency : a cross-national analysis of foreign aid and tax compliance 

        Marineau, Josiah Franklin (2016-08)
        This dissertation investigates whether foreign aid helps or hinders the development of state capacity through its influence on tax compliance. The dissertation argues that tax compliance is the product of a bargaining ...
      • The aim of dialectics In Plato's Euthyphro 

        Fallis, Lewis Bartlett (2015-12)
        This dissertation presents an analysis of Plato’s dialogue on piety, the Euthyphro. The aim of the dissertation is to understand the nature of piety and its connection with morality. Chapter One introduces the topic of the ...
      • American civil religion : continuity and change 

        Hanson, Darrin Mark (2009-12)
        American civil religion is a topic in which there is a lot of interest but very little current scholarly activity. This is primarily due to there currently being no common understanding of American civil religion, hindering ...
      • American military presence abroad: trends and analsysis 

        Stravers, Andrew Joel; 0000-0002-2458-2784 (2015-12-04)
        This paper examines one basic question: what explains trends in American military deployments abroad? In other words, why does the U.S. military establish a non- combat presence in particular countries and at particular ...
      • American state supreme courts in the Jacksonian decade, 1828-1837 : an exploration of the role of early American court decisions in societal change 

        Nelson, Ronald Lee (2002-08)
        This dissertation concerns the relationship between the American state supreme courts and American society during the Jacksonian Era. Many scholars have emphasized a view of American courts during this period as institutions ...
      • An analysis of Plato's Meno 

        Duggan, Nicholas James (2015-10-16)
        This thesis offers an analysis of Plato’s Meno, in which the Greek philosopher addresses more directly than in any other dialogue the character of human virtue. Believing that Plato has considerable guidance to offer us ...
      • Anarchy, uncertainty, and dispute settlement : an endogenous-war model 

        Kim, Dong-won (2002-05)
        Belligerents are usually bargainers–they negotiate to reach an agreement and they fight to affect the negotiations. In general, a government at war considers a compromise peace when it has become sufficiently skeptical of ...
      • Ancient and modern approaches to the question of punishment : Hobbes, Kant and Plato 

        Shuster, Arthur (2010-08)
        The modern criminal justice system is experiencing what may be called a moral crisis brought about by a fundamental disagreement regarding the just and humane treatment of criminals and the purpose of punishment. This ...
      • Anger and the politics of compromise 

        Blank, Joshua M.; 0000-0003-0173-7015 (2015-12)
        In recent years, the inability of the federal government to respond to public policy crises with a timely, commensurate solution has been a seemingly regular cause for alarm. These inactions have not been due to constitutional ...
      • Aristotle and Plato on Law : the Nicomachean Ethics and the Minos 

        Kushner, Jeremy Christopher (2011-08)
        In this paper, I examine the treatments of law contained within Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Plato’s Minos. I find that both offer powerful and complementary critiques of law, while recognizing law’s power and promise ...
      • Aristotle on rhetoric and rationality : a study of Aristotelian political psychology 

        Verbitsky, Mark Stephen (2014-12)
        This study explores Aristotle’s political psychology, focusing on the lessons it teaches regarding the character of human reasoning. Contemporary political science has largely adopted the behavioral-economic model of ...
      • Attitudes in transition : Chechen refugees and the politics of violence 

        Dennis, Michael Patrick (2011-12)
        What drives refugees displaced by war to hold attitudes supporting violence to achieve political ends? The conventional wisdom suggests that refugee communities are breeding grounds for the emergence of political violence, ...
      • Authority at twilight : civil society, social services, and the state in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo 

        Seay, Laura Elizabeth (2009-05)
        dissertation examines the role of civil society actors in the social service sectors of two cities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Although existing scholarship addresses the nature of state-society relations ...
      • Bargaining and fighting in the moonlight 

        Cohen, Matthew Leonard (2011-08)
        "Audience costs" models of international relations suggest a purely informational role for domestic politics in conflict settings. Here, domestic politics serve as a rich signal of belligerents' true intentions, allowing ...
      • Better than they knew: the constitution's implicit moral design 

        DeHart, Paul R. (2005)
        This study seeks to describe and evaluate the Constitution’s implicit normative structure. The first part of the argument distinguishes the Constitution’s intention from the subjective intentions of the framers and teases ...
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