Dissertations from 2010
Athens and Byzantium: Platonic political philosophy in religious empire, Jeremiah Heath Russell
Institutional design and the economy: disentangling the effects of judicial independence and judicial review on economic development, Kaitlyn Louise Sill
Maladies of modernity: scientism in politics, David Nathan Whitney
Commonality, competition, and stereotypes: can whites, blacks, and Latinos play politics together in the United States, Betina Cutaia Wilkinson
Probing the finance gap theory: does gender affect campaign contributions?, Rhonda Wrzenski
Theses from 2009
Power capabilities and similarity of interests: a test of the power transition theory, Garrett Alan Heckman
Boxing with shadows: contentious politics, culture jamming, and radical creativity in tactical innovation, David Matthew Iles, III
Public opinion and policy liberalism in Louisiana: does political trust have an effect?, Susan Quinn Lemieux
Inside the red box: North Korea's post-totalitarian politcs, Patrick McEachern
Public opinion and the Katrina disaster: linking support for rebuilding and perceptions of flood victims in New Orleans, Vincenzo Pasquantonio
Aristotelian liberalism: an inquiry into the foundations of a free and flourishing society, Geoffrey Allan Plauche
Leadership survival and the process of economic integration, Schuyler Richard Porche
SPOT-CARP symposium and collective dissent: a cross-national and sub-national analysis, Swetasree Ghosh Roy
Wendell Berry and the politics of homecoming: place, memory and time in Jayber Crow, Drew Kennedy Thompson
Theses from 2008
Factors driving Turkish foreign policy, Betul Dicle
Richard Rorty's map of political misreading, Shaun Kenan King
Roe v. Wade and its progency: the impact of state legislative and judicial actions on abortion rates in five states, Maria Klimash
Legislative participation in the American states: determinants and consequences, Mileah Kay Kromer
Latino representation in U.S. legislatures: interests, behavior, and influence, Stella M. Rouse
Institutional influences of state legislators' voting behavior, Jessica Jordan Self
Theses from 2007
Linking public opinion to state legislative behavior: the partial birth abortion issue, Michael Bruce, Jr.
Casting light into "the black hole": partisan politics of European compliance, Isa Camyar
Can I play too? A look at minor party entrance and success in U.S. gubernatorial elections, Jay Douglas Ducote
Prospects for democratization in the oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf, Julie Gauthier
Reforming Politics: The Covenant Device in Anglo-American Political Theory, Glenn A. Moots
The resurgence of the far-right in European politics: analysis of the French, Italian, Austrian, and Belgian cases, Nathan Donald Price
Which Green Policy?: an analysis of the relationship between state environmental policy and state economic growth, Renée L.A. Renegar
Multidimensionality of partisan identification revisited, Amanda Swanner
Understanding Americans' attitudes toward Latino and Asian immigration, Betina Cutaia Wilkinson
Dissertations from 2006
Heroic individualism: the hero as author in democratic culture, Alan I. Baily
Federalism, checks and the welfare state: a cross national analysis, Amanda Louise Beal
Albert Camus's meditative ascent: a search for foundations in The Plague, Brian James Blanchard
Government growth in Latin America, Carlos Eduardo Costa
Anti-Americanism: an exploration of a contested concept in Western Europe, Gregory Johnston
Socrates as citizen?: the implications of Socratic eros for contemporary models of citizenship, Jeremy John Mhire
The antipodes: on rebellion, Michael Scott Robinson
A multivariate analysis of economic reform in Latin America, 1980-1995, Ashley Dyan Ross
Assessing the role of institutions in ensuring environmental performance: a cross-national study of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Swetasree Ghosh Roy
The ideology of free trade and the Cuba exception, Michael C. Schena
Theses from 2005
Examining sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1973-2002, Kelly Marie Burke
Why not preempt?: an analysis of the impact of legal and normative constraints on the use of anticipatory military activities, Rachel Tamara Bzostek
Determinants of abstention in the United States House of Representatives: an analysis of the 102nd through the 107th sessions, Mileah Kay Kromer
The influence of presidential operational code beliefs on U.S. foreign policy actions in the Middle East, Samuel Robison
Exploring committee outliers in a weak party state legislature: the Louisiana House, 2000-2003, Trisha Mari Sandahl
Common sense philosophy and politics in America: John Witherspoon, James McCosh, and William James, Scott Philip Segrest
Evangelicals and the Republican Party: a reinforcing relationship for Israel, John Charles Tadayeski
Testing democracy: the case of the 17th amendment and constituency representation, Rhonda Wrzenski
Theses from 2004
Minimum dogma and religious toleration, Clinton Bryan Barron
Being otherworldly in the world: Michael Oakeshott on religion, aesthetics and politics, Elizabeth Campbell Corey
Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the politics of dwelling, David James Gauthier
US foreign aid and its effects on UN General Assembly voting on important votes, Leonna Dene Griffin
The gender gap in political knowledge: a comparison of political knowledge levels in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, Emily Marie Guynan
Racial attitudes and policy preferences, Jennifer Kirsten Pike
Tyranny, natural law, and secession, Geoffrey Plauche
Predicting party switching in U.S. state legislatures, Dylan Scott Rickards
Dissertations from 2003
Bureaucratic influence in congressional roll-call voting, William Blair
Continuity and revolution: the basis of the American Revolution in the Common Law and the Ancient Constitution, as explicated by John Dickinson, Joseph Leland Feeney
An integrated approach to judicial decision making: the death penalty in South Africa, Stephenie E. Franks
A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the National Endowment for Democracy, Eric T. Hale
Remembrances of things past and future: memory and its significance for politics in Nietzsche, Sophocles, and Isaiah, Michael Henderson
Voegelin's History of Political Ideas and the problem of Christian order: a critical appraisal, Jeffrey Charles Herndon
Regimes, institutions and foreign policy change, David Baker Huxsoll
The institutional determinants of property regime change in new democracies: the Russian Federation, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, R. Vanessa Krasner
Theses from 2002
Aisthetic eros and Athenian political crisis: an interpretation of Plato's Seventh Letter, John Baltes
The Greek sophists : teachers of virtue, David Dwyer Corey
The role of personal characteristics in international mediations, Joshua Paul Galliano
Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, Jeremy John Mhire
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Testing Theories of Government Growth in the Fifty States, 1945 to 1998., Branwell Dubose ravenel Kapeluck
Show Me the Money: an Analysis of the Impact of Voter Recognition on the Campaign Spending Effects of House and Senate Candidates., Nicholas Chad Long
Embracing the Void: Nietzsche's "Zarathustra" and the Political., James Daniel Stewart
The Russian Orthodox Church as a Symbol of Right Order: a Voegelinian Analysis., Lee David Trepanier
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age: the Political Thought of Jan Patocka., Edward Francis Findlay
The Effects of Government Funding on Non -Profit Organizational Behavior., Melissa Scott Flournoy
Environmental Voting in Congress., John Christopher Howell
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Understanding Congressional Responsiveness., Phillip Jude Ardoin
Chicken Pax Atomica: the Impact of Nuclear Weapons on Conflict Between Interstate Dyads., James Franklin Pasley
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Half Empty or Half Full: Explaining Black Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action., Maruice Louis Mangum
Albert Camus's Reconstruction of Symbolic Reality: Exile, Judgment, and Kingdom., Peter Alan Petrakis
School Desegregation From Brown to Fordice, 1954-1992: A Case Study in American Individualism., Albert Leon Samuels
Continued Consequences of Race-Based Redistricting: An Analysis of Incumbent Roll-Call Voting Behavior and Candidate Emergence in the 1990s., Christine Leveaux Sharpe
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
The Composition of Politics: Creativity in the Political Thought of Simone Weil and Albert Camus., John Randolph Leblanc
The Third Way: A Study of Economic Justice in the Writings of Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)., Woodard King Mott Jr
Nature and the Divine: Classical Greek Philosophy and the Political in the Thought of Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin., Todd Eric Myers
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
An-Archy and Justice: An Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas's Political Thought., William Paul Simmons
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Notions of Happiness in Rousseau's "Julie"., Peter Buttross Jr
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Eric Voegelin's Mystical Epistemology and Its Influence on Ethics and Politics., Charles Warren Burchfield
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Positionality, Structure, and Conflict in the International System., Michael Henry Murdoch
Mass Belief Systems Reconsidered: Myths and Political Thought., Bryan Douglas Vincent
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
The Unbearable Heaviness of Politics: Milan Kundera on Aesthetics, Being and Political Consciousness, Sidney S. Fazio
Black Empowerment in State Legislatures: The Impact of Black Representation on Public Welfare Expenditures in the American States, 1970-1988., James L. Llorens
Partisan Representational Form and Partisan Bias in United States State Lower-House Legislative Elections: a District-Level Approach., Kenneth Alan Wink
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Cooperation in the Liberalization of Soviet-Western Trade? A Transaction-Cost Analysis of Soviet Joint Ventures With the West., Elza Perry Ballard
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Individual Motives for Campaign Giving., Sheldon D. Beychok
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Reality and Knowledge in Voegelin's Political Philosophy. (Volumes I & II)., Seung-hyun Baek
The Treatment of Thomas Hobbes in Twentieth Century Political Thought., David Randolph Cole