Browsing Department of Government Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Petropolitics and foreign policy : fiscal and institutional origins and patterns of Russian foreign policy, 1964-2012
(2014-08)Russian foreign policy from the mid-1960s has vacillated between periods of expansion and retrenchment in which the military and diplomatic reach of the state has extended to continents or been retracted to very modest ... -
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 ... -
Political ambition and Socratic philosophy : Plato's presentation of Socrates and Alcibiades
(2015-05)This dissertation examines and interprets Plato’s three major presentations of the infamous Athenian general and Socratic pupil Alcibiades as a paragon of political ambition: the Alcibiades, the Second Alcibiades, and ... -
Political choices for municipal bonds
(2014-08)Municipal Bonds represent an important but understudied source of funds for governments. This paper seeks to shed light on the previously hidden political choices that influence the choices of governments to pursue bonds, ...
