Browsing Department of Government Theses and Dissertations by Title
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A movement of one's own?: American social movements and constitutional development in the twentieth century
(2007)This dissertation examines the interaction between American social movements as they pursue their constitutional rights. The public law literature is dominated by a topdown approach to the study of constitutional politics, ... -
The myth of political participation among Asian Americans
(2012-05)Although Asian Americans have the highest growth rate, their electoral participation does not commensurate with their numerical strength. This research explores the causes of Asian Americans' low level of electoral ... -
Natural right or history? The Lincoln-Douglas debates and the moral foundations of liberalism
(2015-12)This paper re-examines the Lincoln-Douglas debates through a comparison of two works on the subject: Harry Jaffa’s Crisis of the House Divided and John Burt’s Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas and Moral Conflict. ... -
Negotiating with terrorists in the shadow of American power
(2015-05)Negotiation with terrorists is a controversial policy issue that effects both domestic actors and the international community. Current literature only focuses on the domestic characteristics of this phenomenon though. This ... -
No taxation with information on representation : a survey experiment on tax morale in China
(2016-12)Extant studies on tax morale emphasize the influence of reciprocal motivations on tax compliance behavior. This strand of literature views tax payments as a tax contract between governments and citizens, arguing that ... -
Non-citizen soldiers, veterans, and their families : defense personnel policy and the principles of American politics
(2010-12)This report examines the place of non-citizen soldiers, veterans, and their families in U.S. political and civil life. Historically, military service has allowed marginalized groups to earn their social and political status ... -
On Plato's Hipparchus
(2015-09-23)The Hipparchus, Plato’s short dialogue on the love of gain, generally receives little attention from contemporary scholars. This essay, however, argues that Socrates’ brazenly amoral defense of seeking gain provides deep ... -
On the De Regno of St. Thomas Aquinas
(2013-05)Can explicitly Christian principles be invoked and put into practice in political life without thereby rendering that politics fideistic, exclusionary and immoderate? Could such principles in fact strengthen the rule of ... -
The paradox of renter's insurance : resource stabilization funds in Venezuela and Chile
(2010-12)This report, rooted in the conflict over the control of natural resource wealth, departs from the widely-accepted findings of two disparate literatures. First, while recent analyses correctly conclude that natural resources ... -
Pathologies of terrorist target selection
(2010-08)The phenomenon of Terrorism has perplexed and fascinated policy makers and scholars. While there has been significant amount of research on Terrorism, the dynamics or Pathologies of Terrorist Target Selection have received ... -
Pathways to citizenship : the political incorporation of Latino immigrants
(2015-05)This study explores the determinants of political incorporation of Latino immigrants in the U.S. from multiple perspectives. The objective is to identify the factors that promote political incorporation along a pathway to ... -
Patterns of electoral support in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela
(2012-05)Recent surveys have found that Afro-Venezuelans vote disproportionately for Hugo Chávez as President. This paper seeks to explain why Chávez has received significant support from non-white voters. I argue that this support ... -
The person and society Rawls, Maritain, and the concept of personhood in politics
(2015-08)John Rawls, a titanic figure in political philosophy in the 20th century, thought he could make politics independent of metaphysics, that he could work up a neutral, coherent, and compelling account of justice free of ... -
Plato and Thucydides on Athenian imperialism
(2012-05)For over two thousand years, Plato’s superiority to Thucydides was taken as an article of faith in Western philosophy. Nietzsche was the first to challenge this verdict by asserting his view—on philosophical grounds—that ... -
Plato's Theaetetus and the problem of knowledge
(2010-12)In keeping with Socrates’ advice that it is “a better thing to accomplish a little well than a lot inadequately” (Theaetetus, 187d), this master’s report provides a detailed study of a few relatively short sections of ... -
Political allegiance and imperial expansion in Periclean Athens
(2012-05)This paper explores the expansion of the Athenian empire as well as her entrance into war with Sparta. It considers the movement of the three Periclean speeches, in order to understand Pericles' particularly grand attempt ... -
Political ambition and piety in Xenophon's Memorabilia
(2013-05)This thesis analyzes Books III and IV of Xenophon’s Memorabilia. The Memorabilia is Xenophon’s defense of Socrates or the philosophic life against Athens or the political community as such. In Book III, Xenophon presents ...
