Dissertations from 2024
Humanitarian Watchdogs: The Impact of Humanitarian Aid on State Behavior, Kevin David Bradley
Martial Spirits and Marital Rites: Assessing Rousseau's Critique of Commerce's Devaluation of the Military and the Family, Jacob A. Harvey
The State of the Unions: Labor Unions, Bureaucrats, and Voting in America, 1984 – 2020, Stacey R. Terrio
The Trump Effect: How Partisanship Shapes Perceptions of the FBI, Carly A. Watts
Dissertations from 2023
Plato's Republics: A Dramatic Interpretation of the Early Cities in Plato's "Republic", Simeon Burns
Natural Lights & Natural Rights: The Problem of the New Classical Natural Law Theory, Charles Neville Cacciatore
Economic Perceptions in the American Public, Moriah Harman
Foreign State Images and Popular Foreign Policy Constraints, Cana Kim
Voting in the mall - understanding political consumerism in the United States and Europe, Kwadwo Poku-Agyemang
On the Finite Wings of the Irreducible: Pathos and the Anarchical Temptations in Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon., Stacy L. Stingle
Dissertations from 2022
Lighting the Path: Black Women and their Quest for Communal Change, Eugene Bernard Johnson
Relative Capacity and the Mode of Warfare during the Course of War, Hoo Jung Kim
Provocation & Resolve in International Politics, Dmitriy Nurullayev
American Thoughts: Terror within America’s Public, Erica B. Russell
The Influence of Perceived Realistic and Symbolic Threat on College Students’ Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration, Brook Shantel Spurlock
Of Language and Thought: American Political Discourse, Normative Reason, and Essentially Contested Concepts, Riley Clare Valentine
Dissertations from 2021
An Organic Approach to Justice: The Complementarity of Hannah Arendt and Amartya Sen’s Political Thought, Gargi Aleaz
The Impact of Foreign Workers on Democratization in Oil Countries, Nasser Almarri
Revisiting Reif and Schmitt: Second-Order Effects in European Parliament Elections, 1979-2019, Jordan Kyje Landry
Lucidity and Moral Action in the Theater of Albert Camus, Stephen Savage
Income Inequality and Polarization in the United States, Tatum Colette Taylor
Dissertations from 2020
Günter Grass: Class, Politics, and Memory, Alex Cole
Civil War Interventions: An Examination of the Roles of the Media, Political Executives, and the Domestic Opposition, Jonathan Charles Nickens
The Differences between Political Islam and the Hizmet Movement in Turkey, Fevzi Sarac
Protestant Experience and Continuity of Political Thought in Early America, 1630-1789, Stephen Michael Wolfe
Dissertations from 2019
Aristotle's Quarrel with Socrates: Friendship in Political Thought, John Boersma
The Religious Impact: Understanding the Influence of Religiosity on Attitudes Toward Policy Issues, Angela Farizo McCarthy
A State of Impermanence: Buddhism, Liberalism, and the Problem of Politics, Cory Michael Sukala
Political Parties for Protection and Profit: Explaining Opposition Party Competition under Electoral Authoritarianism, Michael David Toje
Money In and Money Out: The Effects of Race and Gender on Campaign Finance, Bertha Gabriela Vitela
Theses from 2018
Foreign Aid and Political Stability in Post-Colonial Africa: A Case Study Analysis, justine biettron
Participation and Representation: Does Risk Acceptance Influence the Decision Making of Political Actors?, Joshua Daniel Hostetter
Conflict among Comrades: Elite Purges and Political Violence in Authoritarian Regimes, Austin Scott Matthews
Rebel Governance in Civil War: Variations in Rebel Governance - A Case Study Analysis., Harriet Ann Sellers
Theses from 2017
Unlikely Allies: A Case Study on Cross Class Protest in Guatemala, Daniel B. Bollich
Partisanship, Ideology, and the Sorting of the American Mass Public, Nicholas T. Davis
American Crusade: The Political Thought of Dwight Eisenhower, John Kitch
National Electoral Winners and Losers: Satisfaction with Democracy Predicated on Institutional Context, Casey Newman Knott
The Cross-National Determinants of Legislative Party Switching, Cassie Millet Knott
A Political Theory of the Chinese Stock Market, Liang Kong
Dorothy Day's Distributism and Her Vision for Catholic Politics, William Patric Schulz
Dissertations from 2016
The Path Not Taken: Martin Heidegger & a Politics of Care, Andrea Danielle Conque
Ethnic Political Parties and Civil Conflict, Erin Nicole El Koubi
The Bread She Earns With Her Own Hands: An Examination of Lincoln's Political Economy, Rodolfo K. Hernandez
Suing Terrorists: The Politics of Civil Lawsuits Against State-Sponsors of Terrorism, Jill Elaine Hickson
Electoral Determinants of State Repression in Democracies, Tonya Kenny
Walter Lippmann's Search for a Sustainable Liberalism, Eric Schmidt
The Political Imagination of Cormac McCarthy, Drew Kennedy Thompson
The Thomism of Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Indians of the New World, Thomas Francis Xavier Varacalli
John Witherspoon and Reformed Orthodoxy: Reason, Revelation, and the American Founding, Stephen Michael Wolfe
Theses from 2015
Between Beauty and Duty: Ethics and Judgment in Camus and Kant, Alex Donovan Cole
Space Cops and Cyber Cowboys: An Institutional Comparison of the Governance of Space Exploration and the Internet, James Luther Gilley
Presidentialism: What it Holds for the Future of Turkey, Serap Gur
People’s Perception of Free Trade and Economic Sophistication, Igor Kuznetsov
Liberty, Community, and the Free Man in Magna Carta, Benjamin L. Mabry
The Political Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Ethical Problem of Tyrannicide, Brian Kendall Watson
Dissertations from 2014
Liberty Against Itself: British Freedoms in North America, Matthew Charles Connell
The Politics of U.S. Government Debt Accumulation, Carlos Ignacio García Jiménez
Between nihilism and transcendence : Albert Camus' dialogue with Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, Sean Derek Illing
Revealing the Jewishness of Hannah Arendt, Jennifer Richard
Raising the Black Flag : state capacity, geography, international law, and the resurgence of maritime crime, Samuel Richard Rohrer
Liberalism and Globalization: An Essay On Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Manent, Trevor Shelley
Accountable Actors: Politics and Poetic Imagination in Huxley, Lewis, and Orwell, Sarah Beth Vosburg
Theses from 2013
Eric Voegelin’s Quest to Resist Untruth and Restore the Roots of Order, Montgomery Carl Erfourth
The contentious performances of culture jamming : art, repertoires of contention, and social movement theory, David M. Iles III
Alexis de Tocqueville’s Political Science of Revolutions; Theory and Application, Michal Maciej Kuz
Thinking Together about the Common Good: The Political Implications of Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Conscience, Angela Concetta Miceli
Where do transnational terrorist organizations operate? : the impact of state capacity and civil conflict, Rebecca Noto
Power and purpose : U.S. foreign aid and development, Jeremy L. Wells
"What do separate and unequal schools look like in the 21st century? The legacy of state sponsored racial segregation in the South", Jerel Williams
Dissertations from 2012
Climate change displacement and global governance: a case study of three intergovernmental organizations and the conflict between the member states and bureaucracy, Andrea C. S. Berringer
En(Gendering) Policy: Gender Policies in Former Soviet Republics, Natasha Lachelle Bingham
How level of globalization affects public opinion towards globalization in particular nations, Nickolaus Bizzio
Climate change policy in the European Union: examining the Emissions Trading System, Tabitha Marie Cale
Impact of religion and religious differences on political and economic cooperation between countries, Betul Dicle
Carl Schmitt's radical democracy: Schmitt, Hobbes and the return to political identity, Ndifreke Ette
Black-woman identity centrality and interference: an examination of political efficacy and policy attitudes, Alexandra Ghara
The lost city: examining the relationship between science, philosophy and the Atlantis myth, Kimberly Hurd
The decline in trust in the European Union, Nathan Donald Price
Performance, preference, promotion: political mobility of Chinese regional leaders, Liang Qiao
The existence of preference outlier committees in the 1999-2008 Louisiana House of Representatives, Trisha Mari Sandahl
Early voting in the 2004 presidential election, James Michael Siira
Immigration, the welfare state and income inequality in sixteen OECD countries, 1970-2007, Ping Xu
Theses from 2011
Adams-Jefferson: An inquiry into human, nature, politics, and the implications for a republic, Adetoyese Itunu Adedipe
Climate Change Displacement and Global Governance: a Case Study of Three Intergovernmental Organizations and the Conflict Between the Member States and Bureaucracy, Andrea C. S. Berringer
Foreign aid's impact on economic growth: conditional on accountable institutions?, Anna Monique Castrillo
Community preferences and trial court decision-making: the influence of political, social, and economic conditions on litigation outcomes, Tao Lotus Dumas
Gay-marriage in 2004 U.S. presidential election, James Dunphy
Threat, violence, and voters: race and context in the 2008 presidential election, Matthew Fowler
Rights, needs, and the creation of ethical community, Natalie Susan Gaines
Old Europe versus New Europe: cultural similarity tolerance, religion and anti-Americanism in a divided European Union, Madalina Cristina Hanes
Asians in the American mind: how Americans view Asian Americans politically, Nhung Kim Nguyen
An empirical contribution to development theory: a covariance structure model for development as freedom, Carlos A. Rosas Lopez
Theses from 2010
The role of old-fashioned racism: disaggregating symbolic racism in the United States, Leslie Curtis Cox
The impact of structural adjustment loans on civil conflict, Lue Anda Francis
Pliny's defense of empire, Thomas Raymond Laehn
Ethnic composition and the dynamics of Civil War: a subnational analysis of India and Pakistan, Caroline Lee Payne
Agenda preference deliberations, David Pulliam
Experiential learning of U.S. presidents in the foreign policy decision-making context, Samuel Berwyn Robison