Browsing Department of Government Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Foreign direct investment and authoritarian regimes : an empirical analysis
(2015-05)Recent work on foreign direct investment has emphasized the weight of political factors in explaining variation across countries. While the aspects of democracies that make them more or less favorable to FDI have been ... -
Framing the immigration debate
(2013-05)A common theme in immigration studies in the United States is that the discourse around immigration has changed over time. Once a bipartisan issue where unlikely coalitions and partners were common, recent research has ... -
Framing the National School Lunch Program
(2012-12)The National School Lunch Program, established in 1946 under the National School Lunch Act, has grown from a commodity surplus distribution program in its early days, to its current incarnation as a nutrition program for ... -
The French Constitutional Council and deciding to delegate
(2012-12)Political actors are often perceived as self-preserving, rational actors who rarely give power away voluntarily. Yet the proliferation of independent constitutional courts presents the puzzle of why politicians are willing ... -
From competition to monopoly : establishing party dominance in post-communist Russia
(2014-12)What explains dominant party emergence and strength and opposition party weakness in Russia? Important structural underpinnings of party dominance, namely a weak party system, were present in Russia even in the 1990s, but ... -
From linguistic nationalism to ethnic conflict : Sri Lanka in comparative perspective
(2001-08)Theories of ethnic conflict typically focus on primordialist (historical and psychological), constructivist (sociological), and instrumentalist (elite and rational choice) explanations, thereby under-emphasizing how ... -
From Marxist-Leninism to market liberalism? : the varied adaptation of Latin America's leftist parties
(2013-05)There has been tremendous variation in the development trajectories of Latin America's leftist parties. Whereas some have successfully entrenched roots in society, built their party organization, and become relevant national ... -
From parliamentarianism to terrorism and back again
(2011-05)What are the conditions under which terrorist groups turn to party politics? Under what conditions do political parties turn to terrorism? What types of political groups are more likely to turn to or from terrorism? ... -
Genes, judgments, and evolution : the social and political consequences of distributional and differential conflict
(2012-05)The following argument offers a sharper micro-foundational lens for studying human political and social behavior by demonstrating how political science might better incorporate the theory of evolution into its behavioral ... -
Global gatekeeping : domestic politics, grand strategy, and power transition theory
(2013-05)Which grand strategies do Great Powers adopt towards rising challengers? When do Great Powers conciliate their potential rivals, and when do they opt for strategies of containment? In this master’s report, I outline an ... -
Global gatekeeping : how Great Powers respond to rising states
(2015-05)Why do some shifts in power between states pass off peacefully while others result in conflict? Scholars have debated the implications of international power transitions at least since Thucydides in his History of the ... -
God save this honorable court : religion as a source of judicial policy preferences
(2012-05)If Supreme Court behavior is structured largely by the policy preferences of the justices, political scientists ought to consider the source of those preferences. Religion is one force that can strongly shape a judge’s ... -
The governing cycle and the dynamics of new majority formation
(2009-12)In this dissertation I advance a new, regime style, governing cycle theory to account for the constitutional origins and political dynamics of new majority formation. It is these periodic attempts to reorder politics and ... -
Grand army of the republic or grand army of the Republicans?: political party and ideological preferences of American enlisted personnel
(2009-08)While much research has been conducted into the political behavior and attitudes of American military officers, little has been accomplished with respect to enlisted personnel. Most reports assume that the American military ... -
Harmony of city and soul : Plato and the classical virtue of moderation
(2014-12)This study examines and defends moderation as a moral, political, and philosophic virtue. I argue that modern political theory, despite its success in curbing certain excesses, is unable to account fully for our contemporary ... -
High-end demand : markets for legal services and pressure for judicial autonomy in urban China
(2015-05)Most scholars of comparative judicial politics suggest that judicial autonomy emerges from various forms of democratic competition or from a need to assuage the concerns of those investing capital in countries controlled ... -
How they fight : accountability, ideology, organization and rebel strategy
(2017-05)Why do rebel strategies vary? In this master’s report, I provide evidence that strategy as a whole—rather than individual aspects of insurgent behavior such as military doctrine, negotiating behavior, and civilian ...
