Year Name Thesis Title
2023 Moreno, Marie Espinola A Regional Perspective on Global Nuclear Security:   The Role of Latin America and the Caribbean in Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation
2023 Smith, Matthew  American Teachers’ Unions as Education Policymakers
2022 Dowling, Ideal International Governance on Climate Change Forced Migration
2022 Gottlieb, Celia Divisive Concepts, Divided Government:  The Impact of Divisive Concepts Legislation on School Board Policy Outcomes
2022 Hartnett, Isabelle Voting Behavior on Abortion Referenda to Amend State Constitutions
2022 Korpi, Elsa “Governing Digital Disruption”:  Effects of Competing Global Governance Interests on Cross-Border Mobile Money Adoption
2022 Larson, Isabel Political (Non) Apologies in Argentina and Russia
2022 McLaughlin, Cat The Enemy of the People:  Contemporary Right-Wing Populism and Media Ecology in the United States 
2022 Rochat, Lucie News Consumption and Political Opinions:  How Different News Mediums Contribute to Political Polarization in America
2021 Andrews, Colson Political Legitimacy in Contemporary China:  An Application of David Beetham’s The Legitimation of Power to the Xi Jinping Regime
2021 Baljon, Mendel Private Platforms and Online Hate Speech:  Evaluating Effectiveness of and Motivations for Moderating Social Media Content
2021 Clark, Sophie “First, They Came for the Jewish Space Lasers”:  A Study on Six Candidates Using Antisemitism in their 2020 Campaigns
2021 Dianno, Jake How the Drafting and Implementation of an Effective Consent Decree Could Begin to Reform Police Behavior in Minneapolis
2021 Gunesch, Nathan In Search of the Public Good:  Applying Rousseau’s Citizen and Civic Virtue to Contemporary U.S. Environmental Politics 
2021 Kapp, Caroline Pawns of War:  The Intentional Targeting of Children in Armed Conflict
2021 Koppisetti, Akhil For Whom do the Congressional Bells Toll?   Assessing the Influence of High-, Middle-, Low-Income Constitutent Preferences on the Voting Behavior of Members of the 113th and 114th Congresses (2012-2016)
2021 LaPrade, Abbott Take the Money and Run:  An Analysis of the Relative Efficacy of Money Across Senate, Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State Races from 2016-2020
2021 Panday, Saif Sovereign Wealth Funds in Developing Countries:  Governance and Transparency Challenges
2021 Pollard, Amelia The Private Police:  Distrust and Security Privatization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
2021 Sachleben, Audrey Assessing the Impact of Representatives with State Legislative Experience on the Ideological Polarization of the House of Representatives
2021 Skaerved, Wilfred Neoliberal Development and the Rise of 21st Centry Far-Right Populism:  A Comparative Case Study of Denmark and the United Kingdom
2020 Cacciatore, Charlie The Originalism of Antonin Scalia
2020 Chowdhury, Akhila NaMo Says N Mo (Democracy):  India’s Declining Democracy under the BJP e
2020 Groustra, Ben America’s Welfare States: Analyzing State by State Variation in TANF Policy
2020 Laallam, Abla Saint Joseph v. Shukrun Amicus Briefs
2020 Marsh, Owen The Punishment Fits the Crime:  A Comparative Analysis of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws, Beccaria’s on Crimes and Punishments, and their Influence on American Jurisprudence
2020 Vedock, Grace Gender Equality, Sexual Violence, and the Revolutionary Potential of Political Empowerment:  A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women’s Post-Conflict Mobilization
2019 Cohen, Ethan The America Demagogue:  A Re-Examination through Classical Athens
2019 Druckman, Adam Cultural and Social Factors Contributing to Wrongful Conviction:  A Comparative Analysis of the United States, Canada, England and Wales
2019 Hinchman, Abigail Standing Upright:  The Life and Thought of the Grimke Sisters
2019 Salzman, Dylan English Attitudes Towards Colonization in the Seventeenth Century
2019 Senftleber, Nora An Analysis of Abortion Precedent in American Constitutional Law and Its Recent Interpretations Under the Undue  Burden Standard
2019 Snell, Caroline The Free Exercise of Religion as a Positive Right:   American Case Law and Principles
2019 Stabler, Emily In the Wake of Tragedy - Investigating Claims of Racial and Religious Prejudice in Media Coverage of Mass Shooters 
2019 Trichka, Mary  Resetting the International Order:  Interactions Between Russia ad the West in Response to the Conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine
2018 Callison, James Pressed to The Margin:  How the News Media in the United States and United Kingdom Discuss Immigration
2018 Gerson, Julian The Trouble is Mine Alone
2018 Graham, Margot Referenda and Self-Determination Movements: Implications for the Scottish Indepdence Referendum
2018 Laird, Hanna “What Happened Last Night in Sweden?”
2018 Lenhard, Nora A Culture of Health:  How Political Factors Shape Preventative Healthcare Policies in the U.S. and Chile
2018 McDonald, William Polarization in Modern American Politics: Assessing the Impact of Social and New Media on the Partisan Divide
2018 Streeter, Otis Whetstone Private Conservation & Rural Gentrification: Exploring Vermont’s Affordability Crisis
2018 Turnage, Jonathan The Electric Cord:  The Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln’s Political Goals
2018 Van Gessel, Erin Evaluating Legislative Gender Equality: A Comparison of the Male-Dominated U.S. Congress to the More Gender-Balanced South African Parliament
2017 Berger, Martina In the Middle of Nowhere:  How Broadened Conceptions of the Middle Class Have Removed Its Practical Identity Implications
2017 Caci, Nicole ISIS Recruitment in the West:  New Media and the Creation of a Global Terrorist Network
2017 Grigg, Lindsay The Moral Dimensions of Middle-Earth:  On War and Heroic Virtue in the Lord of the Rings
2017 Hack, Madelaine Infectious Diseases as Threats to Security?  A Case Study on the West African Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak of 2014-2016
2017 Khan, Alexander Revolution and Reform in John Locke, Algernon Sidney, Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine
2017 Naunov, Martin A First Amendment Right to Discriminate?  Lessons Regarding Religious Liberty, Freedom of Speech, and Gay Equality
2017 Reed-Kelly, Oisin Measuring nthe Impact of Gentrification on Aggregate Voting Behavior in Municipal Elections
2017 Reinmuth, Katherine Does the Party Actually Decide?  Assessing Voter and Party Power Dynamics in Presidential Nominating Contests from 1980 to 2016
2017 Robins, Day The Impact of Citizens United v. FEC and Speechnow.org v. FEC on Independent Spending in General Election Senate Races 2004-2016
2017 Treesh, Claire Securitization of Immigration in American Discourse
2016 Brush, Somers Police and Prejudice:  An Analysis of State Responses to Race-Related Incidents of Police Brutality
2016 Fernald, Yasmine Unequal Opportunities:  Education Funding Policy and the Achievement Gap
2016 Frank, Rachel Equality and The Pursuit of Happiness for Women in the American Constitutional Polity
2016 Friedman, Shelby Online Public Discourse on Foreign Policy:  Assessing Quality of Discourse in Digital Deliberation
2016 Gold, Theodore The Drone Dilemma:  Lessons from the U.S. Drone Program in Pakistan
2016 Perry, Mitchell Down in DOMA:  Examining the Source(s) of the Shift in Marriage Equality Policy in the United States from 1996 to 2015
2016 Ning, Sean Wan Cicero and Machiavelli on Duty and Human Virtue in Politics
2016 Steinberg, Sarah Biased Representation:  How Compulsory Voting and Campaign Finance Interact to Influence Government Responsiveness
2015 Custer, Taylor Confidence at Home and Respectability Abroad:  Liberty, Republicans, and National Power in the Statesmanship of Alexander Hamilton
2015 Gevertz, William Out of the Frying Pan:  Reflections on International State Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2015 Lifhits, Jenna Preserving Human Greatness:  Education for Citizenship in Aristotle and Tocqueville
2015 Welsh, Julia  
2015 Wilmoth, Maxmarie Beyond Corporations and Contraception:  Hobby, Lobby, RFRA and the Relationship Between Religion and Government in America
2015 Wilwerding, Chloe State of the Arts:  Democracy and Art in deTocqueville and Nietzsche
2014  Bragg, Lucia  Scandal and the Public-Private Divide
2014 Drennen, Zachary Getting to “Yea”: Explaining and Predicting Support for Energy Policy Mechanisms in the United States Senate
2014 Hall, Matthew Affirmative Action in America:  The Case in Higher Education
2014 Kagan, Max Cruelties Well Used?  The Efficacy of Indiscriminate Violence in Counterinsurgency
2014 Kallas, Ben Broader Horizons, Blurred Lines:  Asymmetric Warfare in the Information Age
2014 Kogan, Rachel Freedom, Firearms, and the Constitution:  The Effect of the Expanding Individual Right to Bear Arms on Firearms Regulation
2014 Klos, Felix Understanding European Integration:  The Power of Politics
2014 Lynch, Tom Intervention, the State, and the United Nations:  The Effects of Reputation on Unilateral vs. Multilateral Interventions
2014 Morse, Brianna Assessing the Determinants of Gun Ownership in Vermont
2014 Nutt, Caroline The Booms and Busts of the Brotherhood:  Navigating the Waves of Dissolution
2014 Parrish, Mitchell Transparency and Trust in Government
2014 Peisch, Sam Are Good Samaritans Good for Development?  The Impact of NGOs on Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
2014 Perry, Mikaela Sex and Stigmatization:  Explaining Variations of HIV/AIDS Rates Across Sub-Saharan Africa
2014 Sans, Nathaniel General Dysfunction:   Closer to a Theory of Civil-Military Punishment
2013 Ament, Michael State Building in the Pacific:  An Historical Institutionalist Analysis of the Political Development Palau
2013 Arnowitz, Charles China’s Great Firewall:  Internet Censorship and Regime Durability
2013 Brooke, Jason To Intervene or Not to Intervene?  Examining Motivations for Humanitarian Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era
2013 Esten, Anna The Power Beside the Throne:  An Analysis of First Ladies’ Independent Power in Modern American Politics
2013 Guiterman, Carina Social Segregation and Community Cohesion:  A Theoretical Perspective on Immigrant Integration in Western Europe
2013 Hamilton, Zoe Hate Speece:  Judicial Decision-Making in the French High Courts
2013 Hurwitz, Marissa Give Peace a Chance:  How Peace Can Last in Sub-Saharan Africa
2013 Pfander, Sarah Women and the World Wide Web of Political Campaigning:  Examining the Communication and Self-Presentation Decisions of Female Senate Candidates Through Campaign Websites
2013 Smoller, Michelle “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”:  A Case Study of the Casual Processes of Group Fragmentation in Self-Determination Movements
2013 Wagman, Emily Reevaluatinh the Buckley Standard:  Determining the Constitutionality of Campaign Finance Legislation
2013 Witek, Owen The Politics of Wave Elections
2012 Cherezova, Oksana History, Memory and Politics in Russia under Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin and Dmitriy Medvedev
2012 Cutler, David UNRWA and the Palestinian Refugees:  Evaluating 62 Years of Temporary Relief and Development
2012 Edes, Cullen Ethniticy, Trade, and Inequality:  Implications for Civil War Onset and Duration
2012 Foster, Alison Grace Learning from the Past?  Analogical Reasoning in the Decision to Intervene in Libya
2012 Hunter, Kyle Present at the Creation:  Norm Promotion and LGBT Rights in South Africa and International Politics
2012 King-Musza, Emilia Left, Right and Center:  The Effects of the Radical Right on Socialist Immigration Policy and Rhetoric in France
2012 Moreau, Madeleine A Decade After 9/11:  The Evolution of Al-Qaeda’s Use of Violence
2012 Polebaum, Michael A Mandate to Regulate:  The Constitutionality of the Minimum Essential Coverage Provision of the Affordable Care Act
2012 Schaffer, Adam Prosecute or Pardon:  Explaining Divergent Outcomes in Transitional Justice
2012 Strangfeld, Kate Policies Addressing the Obesity Epidemic:  What’s Effective?  Assessing the Impact of Nutrition Policies on Consumption Rates of Fruits, Vegetables, Sugar, and Saturated Fat
2012 Wemyss-Dunn, Charlie The  Youngest Generation Forced to Fight:  Causes of Child Soldier Recruitment and Lessons for Reintegration
2011 Brown, Harrison Urban Politics and Disaster Management:  Nashville’s 2010 Flood
2011 Brown, Logan The Importance of Public Space in the Reconstruction of a Shattered Cambodian ‘World’
2011 Davis, Austin “Islam is the Solution” is a Meaningless Oversimplication:  Connections Between and Objectives Behind Multifunction Sub-national Islamist Groups
2011 Fuller, Jaime “An Orchestration for the Administration’s Multiple Voices”  The Path-Dependent Evolution of the White House Office of Communications
2011 Garofano, Jeffrey The Politics of Merit Pay in the American Federalist System
2011 Henderson, Stephanie Controlling a Social Disease:  A Normative Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention
2011 Hoar, Samuel The Incumbency Advantage, Perquisites of Office, and Congressional Communications in the Age of Email
2011 Khalil, Jahd The Political Arsenal:  Hezbollah’s Contentious Repertoires
2011 Lowe, Amanda Seeds for Success:  Applying Counterinsurgency Strategy to Counterdrug Efforts in Source Countries
2011 Mackey, Wil Identity and Revolt in the Verandah of Mecca: The House of Islam and the Free Aceh Movement in Aceh, Indonesia
2011 Moslander, Margaret The First Amendment of National Security:  An Examination of the Pentagon Papers Case and Wikileaks
2011 Parshley, Lois Cooperation and Conflict in Times of Scarcity:  An Investigation of the Jordan River Basin
2011 Peduto, David The Taliban Insurgency in Post-2001 Afghanistan Reasons for Expansion
2011 Quisol, Ashley Natural Gas and Neo-Mercantilism:  The Impact of Russia’s Evolving Energy Strategy on Foreign Policy
2011 Rowell, Annie The Formation of Policy Change in Small Communities
2011 Singh, Ruchi Poverty Alleviation North & South of the Himalayas:  Why has China Alleviated More Poverty than India? 
2010 Ackerly, Nathan Taming the Dogs of  War:  A Bureaucratic Analysis of Contracting in the War on Terror
2010 Baumann, Peter Projecting the Future:  The Youth Vote in Presidential Elections as a Predictor for Subsequent Election Cycles
2010 Goodrich, Christopher Arctic Resources and the Northern Passages Governing the Polar North
2010 Gubb, Jesse Unilateral Politics and George W. Bush:  Bargaining Channels, Executive Orders, and Legislative Proposals
2010 Huusko, Saila In the Shadow of Pinochet:  A Study of the Presidential Elections of 2009-2010 and the Persistence of the Right in Post-Authoritarian Chile
2010 Lim, Leslie Kay The Decay of Consent:  Why Belligerents Withdraw Cooperation During UN Peacekeeping Operations
2010 Mody, Vrutika How to Win Friends and Influence People:  Chinese Non-Coercive Power Strategies in South Asia and the Impact on Indian Foreign Policy
2010 White, Avery An Empire of Tolerance:  John Stuart Mill and the Ethics and Conduct of Intervention
2009 Blum, Abigail Overcoming the Hollow Ring:  The Implementation of Socioeconomic Rights Rulings in South Africa
2009 Fallon, James Political Violence in Post-War Lebanon
2009 Fox, Harriet Will of the People:  NGO Strategy and the Progressive Realization of Human Rights in South Africa
2009 Hackett, William Dangerous Liberty:  An Examination of How the Supreme Court Erred in Heller and What that Error Means for Gun-Control in the United States
2009 Johnson, Dane Water Chaos:  The Endangered Species Act, Collaboration, and Changing United States Water Policy
2009 Murali, Michael The End of War:  Comparative Peacemaking in Israel and Northern Ireland
2009 Pentifallo, Caitlin Going for the Gold:  Explaining Motivation for Olympic Games Bidding
2009 Putz, Emily The Road to Community-Based Malaria Control:  The Importance of Local Micro-Variables in the Success of Prevention and Control Programs
2009 Sahin, Emre Romani Political Mobilization in Spain and Turkey
2009 Saito, Garrett Winning Congressional Campaigns:  Eleven Case Studies in 2008
2008 Colodny, Aaron Emanuel Lifting Supranational Goals:  The Strength of Judicial Activism in the European Union
2008 Eliot, Emily Evangelical Political Behavior: Why do American Evangelicals Vote Republican?
2008 Goodwin, Amanda Ethnic Minority Voting Behavior Explained:  Resources, Mobilization, and Motivation in Context of the 2005 British General Election
2008 Goodwin, Andrew The Economic Logic of Political Reform in China:  Institutional Capacity and the Enduring Problem of Local Noncompliance
2008 Kenna, Olivia The Third Wave of Transitional Justice in Argentina
2008 Nardini, Thomas Maxwell Compassion vs. the Constitution?  The Tension Between Government Funded Faith-Based Social Service Providers and the Establishment Clause
2008 Shaw, Conor Marcus Lincoln and the Republican Dilemma:  Executive Power and the Rule of Law
2007 Babin, Kathryn Party Competitiveness and Social Service Spending in 3 Upstate NY Counties
2007 Boeve, May Interest Groups and Municipal Policy:  Automakers in Detroit
2007 Campbell, Liz The EU and Humanitarian Intervention in Kosovo
2007 Kuipers, Jake Influences on Presidential Decision-Making at Times of International Conflict
2006 Campbell, Doug Federal Judicial Confirmation Process
2006 Coriell, David Presidential Agenda-Setting and Legislative Outcomes
2006 Davies, Annie Refugee Policy and Internal Conflicts in African States
2006 Doorley, Katherine The Fighting Edge?  An Examination of the Impact of War on Presidential Legislative Success
2006 Fisher, Christine Interest Group Politics and Government Actions Related to Obesity
2006 Garner, Calvin Russia’s Strategic Relationship with Iran
2006 Hayes-Rusnov, Sasha U.S. Policy Toward States in the Caspian Sea Region
2006 Kayani, Uzair Ethical Government and the War on Terrorism:  The Case of Detentions
2006 Kehl, Phil Why Did Spain Remain Neutral During World War II?
2006 Messing, Maren Media, Press Freedom, and Globalization in the Middle East
2006 Schwesinger, Stephanie If He is Free, He Must Believe:  Tocqueville, Religion and American Democracy Today
2006 Smith, Andrew Comparative Study of Church-State Relations in EU Nations
2006 Snyder, Zach Electoral Participation of Islamist Parties
2005 Belanich, David The New Political Science of Alexis de Tocqueville
2005 Eriksen, Gregory It’s Not Unusual to be Attacked by Anyone:  counter-Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy
2005 Lartey, Leslie Examining the Link Between Democracy and Decentralization in West Africa:  A Case Study of Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire
2005 McAlpine, Kiernan The Politics of Death and Innocence in the Realms of Political Philosophy, American Constitutionalism, and Contemporary Criminal Proceedings
2005 Siegel, Elizabeth The Media and Presidential Campaigns
2005 Stauch, Jeffrey Popular Monopolies:  A Study of Separatist Violence and Restraint in Western Europe Since 1945
2005 Tigner, Teal Popular Music a Form of Political Communication:  A Musical Case Study of Apartheid-Era South Africa and Vietnam-Era America
2004 Areshidze, Giorgi Moral Relativism &  Modern Liberalism
2004 Dye, Sarah Islam & Democracy
2004 Eriksen, Gregory Terrorism & Failed States
2004 Everly, Jillian Reforming the Education Bureaucracy
2004 Farquhar, Margaret Judicial Reform in Latin America
2004 Larson, Jessica UN Rapid Deployment Force:  Problems and Prospects
2004 Lowell, Brian UN & Iraq:  Limits of Collective Security
2004 Tiao, Jesslyn French and American Views on the Iraq War
2003 Amin, Samia Machiavelli’s Prince:  Dictatorships in the Modern Era
2003 De Silva, Shihani Creating Peace:  Negotiating with Terrorists
2003 Kido, Rika International Institutions:  An Arena for Proactive Japanese Foreign Policy?
2002 Beyer, Stefanie Genes, Justice and the Death Penalty:  Evaluating Influence on Federal Capital Punishment DNA Legislation
2002 Caragliano, David On the Associational Threshold:  State-Society Relations in the People’s Republic of China
2002 Donnan, Elizabeth Sounds of Silence:  Understanding the Conditions under which American Presidents Claim Executive  Privilege
2002 Michaels, Johanna Challenges to Change:  The Political Process of Innovative State Health Care Reform
2002 Nestor, Peter Affirmative Action, Higher Education and the Courts
2002 Rahman, Wasim Clash of Civilizations?  Islam and the West
2002 Syed, Abdur-Rahim Rural Development in South Asia:  An Inquiry into the Political Economy of Local Participation
2001 Cohen, David Locke, Jefferson, and Madison on Religious Freedom:  As Applied to Primary and Secondary Public Schools in American Constitutional Jurisprudence
2001 Coll, Kevin Taiwan Stands Up:  The Politics of Taiwanese Nationalism
2001 Dettman, Samuel A Commentary on Rousseau’s Emile
2001 Husain, Adil Blind Man’s Bluff:  Nuclear Weapons in the India-Pakistan Rivalry
2001 Mitchell, Megan An Evaluation of Economic Sanctions in the 1990s:  US Policies Towards Iraq, Iran, Haiti, and Pakistan
2001 Wood-Smith, Phillip The Intersection of Public Forum Doctrine and the Establishment Clause in Public School Forums
2000 Areshidze, Irakly American Federalism, Commerce and the Constitution
2000 Condliffe, Kate Ambitious Reform; Little Resolve:  Community, Coalitions, Leadership and the Limits of City Government
2000 Deese, Brian The Fate of Regional Integration in Argentina:  Historical Perspectives and Future Prospects
2000 Dougherty, Toby Saving the Privileges or Immunities Clause from the Slaughter-House
2000 Ferguson-Cradler, Greg Primordialism or Manipulation:  The Origins of the Ingush-Ossetian Conflict in the North Caucasus
2000 Hattan, Andrea Problems, Policy and Politics:  Understanding the Current High-Stakes Testing Craze in America
2000 Jankowsky, David In Mussolini’s Shadow:  The Ebb and Flow of the Radical Right in Italy
2000 Sands, Darin Dying in America:  Physician-Assisted Suicide and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century
2000 Stoll, Alison The Role of Public Environmental Education Programs for Endangered Species Recovery
2000 Winmyint, Nicholas Deepening and Widening:  The Politics of European Integration
1999 Block, Benjamin M. Impermissible Burdens:  The Independent Counsel and Executive Accountability
1999 Chapman, Ginette Citizen Participation in College Town Planning
1999 Culley, Grace B. The U.S. War on Drugs in the Andes:  Cocaine Politics and Policy Failure
1999 Dixon,  Andrew European Monetary Union:  The Forces Behind its Implementation
1999 Zarakol, Ayse Arguing for Democracy:  Why Turkey Should Allow for More Freedom of Speech
1998 Andrejevic, Slavko The Western Involvement in the Wars of Yugoslav Dissolution
1998 Baldwin, Brandon Third Party Politics in the American Two-Party System
1998 Clark, Caleb Developing with the Market:  Institutions, Capital and the Struggle for Autonomy
1998 Dubin, Elizabeth The Phenomenon of Leadership and its Importance in Democratizing Regimes: Understood through a Case Study of Nelson Mandela
1998 Harter, Ryan Argentina, Menem and Economic Reform
1998 Hosford, Katie E. Homosexuality and the Constitution: An examination of Bowers v. Hardwick and Romer v. Evans
1998 Kang, Ana Corruption in Developing Countries
1998 Krea, Adam Why the Individual Matters:  Reagan, Bush, and Clinton’s Reassertion of Presidential Power in Foreign Policy
1998 Nottberg, Peter Pacific Tides: The Ebb and Flow of U.S.-Japanese Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations from 1945-1997
1998 Portny, Caroline The Quality of Chilean Democracy:  Institutional Shadows of the Pinochet Regime
1998 Rosenthal, Paul A. The Status and Future of the United Nations Security Council
1998 Salerno, R. Kirby United States’ Role in Legal Transfer to Latin America: 1960-Present
1998 Schowengerdt, John The Constitutionality of Free Exercise Exemptions
1998 Stewart, Lauren A Natural Response?  Acting on Environmental Concerns in France and the United States
1998 Weld, Timothy Anti-Castroism and the Cuban-American Community: The Sources of US Policy Towards Cuba in the 1990’s
1997 Adams, Kip J. With No Help in Sight:  The Transformation of Organized Labor and Presidential Politics at the Hands of the Reagan Administration
1997 Appel, Lauren J. Explaining Change in U.S. Foreign Policy:  The Development of a Response to Human Rights Violations in Argentina, 1976-1981
1997 Burrell, Jennifer M. Setting the Agenda:  Chilean Business and the Politics of South American Integration
1997 Cooper, Kathleen The Judicial Philosophy of the Conservative Court:  The Relationship Between Liberty and Property
1997 Driscoll, Suzanne E. Factions to Foreign Policy:  Interest Groups and the Involvement of the U.S. in the Middle East
1997 Hallowell, Zachary Backlash!  A Study of the Causal Factors Behind Periods of Nativism in the United States:  1790-1996
1997 Heckman, Betsy Fascist Movements of the  Interwar Period:  A Comparative Study of France and Germany
1997 Sartori, Maria E. Citizens and Non-Citizens:   A Comparative Study of Multicultural Politics in Germany and Sweden
1997 Thompson, Heather B. Religion in the Public Classroom:  Constitutional and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in a Democratic Republic
1997 Wong, Aran J. The Tragedy of Yugoslavia:  The Violent Dismemberment of a Multi-Ethnic Federation
1996 Bittner, Jeffrey D. Financial Institutionalization and the Russian Capital Market
1996 Braunstein, Joshua A. The Fish in the Sea and the Beached Whale: Failure of American Counterinsurgency Efforts in China, the Philippines, and Vietnam
1996 Clark, William B.

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1996 Figlewski, Brett M. Modern Liberal Theory and the Common Law Tradition
1996 Flather, Lucie B. Three Obstacles to International Cooperation on the Global Environment
1996 Hengst, Elias R. The Chicago Boys and Chile
1996 Herzberg, David W. Argentina’s New Tango: Peronists and Neoliberalism Cheek to Cheek
1996 Khalil, Samy K. Education, Democratic Citizenship and Political Unity
1996 Lust, Aleksander Just About Right?: The British Labour Party and the German SPD in the 1990s
1996 Nath, Sameer D. China, India and the United States: A Comparative Analysis of the Dynamics of U.S. Foreign Investment in China and India 1980-present
1996 Stacker, Nicholas A. On Democratizing Transition:  The Politics of Point “X”
1995 Albertson, Jeffrey R. The “Mixed System”: Presidential Persuasion in Public and in Congress
1995 Devos, Erica Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements and Divergence of French and American Nuclear Energy Policy
1995 Fenwick, Toby J. Imperial Destiny: British Governmental Decision Making During the Suez Crisis
1995 Fogarty, Edward A. Alliance and Democratic Consolidation: Assessing the Westernizing Powers of NATO
1995 Haley, Daniel P. The Role of the “Religious Right” in National and Republican Party Politics
1995 Holmes, Lindsey S. Leftist Guerrilla Organizations and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo: Tow Forms of Autonomous Protest Under a Bureaucratic Authoritarian Regime in Argentine
1995 Murphy, W. Brendan Religious Freedom in the Liberal Regime: The Establishment Clause, the Wall of Separation, and the American Founding
1995 Pettibone, Stephen P. Postmaterialism and the Stagnation of the German Greens
1995 Vreeland, Alison B. Prospects for Democracy in Central Asia: Language Policies as a Barometer of Success
1995 Waite, Jason M. A Critical Examination of National Forest Policy in the United States
1994 Blankson, Kojo A. U.N. Peacekeeping in Africa: Using the Congo and Somalia as Study Cases
1994 Castellucci, Marc A. The True Nature of the Beast
1994 Chapin, Johanna Bedfellows Make Strange Politics:  Hillary Rodham Clinton as a “New” First Lady
1994 Chew, Delbert Ethnic Nationalism and Nation-Building in Malaysia
1994 Garretson, Heather Ann An Analysis of Tort Reform Prospects in the United States
1994 Laliberte, Peter Agricultural Reform and Political Development in the Chinese Countryside
1994 Righi, Peter A. Social Democratic Success Throughout a Decade: The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party
1994 Savodnik, Peter Realist and Idealist Doctrine and the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina:  A Case Study
1994 Schlesinger, Robert E.K. Television, the Parties, and the Future of the American Political System
1994 Walter, Nicholas Risk, Regulation, and Innovation:  California’s Proposition 65
1993 Bragton, Heather Garretson An Analysis of Tort Reform Prospects in the United States
1993 Hoenck, Matthew E. The Catch-All Dilemma of the German Volkspartei: A Study of Parteienverdrossenheit
1993 Houston, A. Clancey An Exploration of Conflict Resolution: The Potential for the Reunification of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan
1993 Olson, Nancy L. A Comparative Analysis of the Media’s Role in the 1992 Campaigns:  Britain and the United States
1993 Poftak, Steven M. Did George Ruin Everything?: The Past, Present, and Future of the Reagan Coalition
1993 Spencer, Jeffrey D. Teaching Old Mosques New Tricks: Modernization, Political Islam, and the “Woman Question” in Algeria and Tunisia
1993 Summersgill, Michael J. The Campaign Message
1993 Upham, David R. The Original Understanding and the Free Exercise Clause:  The Case for Religious Exemptions from Neutral Laws
1992 Donavan, Jake S. Ongoing Struggle for Basque Independence: Legitimate or Terrorist?
1992 Donovan, Faith J. The New Hampshire Primary:  Why It is “Always First and Always Right”
1992 Dowgiallo, Mary Beth Presidential Foreign Policymaking in the Legislative Arena: A Case Study of Presidents Truman and Bush
1992 Mirani, Viraj M. The end of European Neutrality: Neutral Duties vs. EC Benefits
1992 Richards, Kelsey A. The Supreme Court’s Role as an Unelected Body in a Democratic Government
1992 Scaia, Laureen M. The Evolution of the ‘Evil Empire’:  An Analysis of the Reagan Administration’s Foreign  Policy Towards the Soviet Union
1992 Schumaker, Jennifer J. Campaign Finance Reform: An Analysis of its Failure in the 102nd Congress
1992 Tziampiris, Aristotelis The Emergence of a New Power? An Examination of European Community Power Actualization
1992 Van Orman, Robin The Political Power of Montana’s Natural Resource Industries: A Century of Study
1991 Mattie, Sean The Contest Between Poetry and Philosophy in Plato’s Republic
1991 Moriarty, Kate The Prospects for Democratic Stability in Plural Societies:  A Comparative Study of the Netherlands and Northern Ireland
1991 Wilcox, Paul S. Restructuring the International System: The Case of the European Community
1991 Wilson, Ali The Favorite of the Laws:  Race and the Constitution, the Legal Thought of Thurgood Marshall
1990 Chaplin, John H. The Dynamics of Soviet Language Policy
1990 Dalmer, Derek C. Property Rights, The Supreme Court and the Constitutions
1990 Gill, Glennis The Implementation of Federal Urban Development Programs
1990

Gottesfield, Miriam B.

(Russian & Soviet studies)

Russian Nationalism:  The Contending Ideology in the Soviet Union Today
1990 Northrop, Daniel D. Race and the Equal Protection Clause:  School Desegregation, Purposeful Discrimination, in Constitutional Law
1990 Sambanis, Nicholas PA.SO.K’s Populism and Socialism:  An Analysis of the Movement’s Origins, Structure, Ideology, and Development
1990

Perkins, Jonathan

(Russian & Soviet studies)

The Fault of Soviet Federalism
1990 Vitrano, Victoria J. Plato and Machiavelli on the Political Education of Rulers
1990 Wiss, Bradford W. Behind the Lithuanian Secession Crisis Nationalism and Independence in the Soviet Baltic Republics
1989 Ball, Porter The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
1989 Bauman, Patricia A Search for the Transcendent:  Kant, Augustine and Aristotle
1989 Cahill, Christopher B. The Regulation of Broadcast Indecency:  F.C.C. v. Pacifica
1989 Carrese, Paul Owen The Constitution, The Supreme Court, and Substantive Justice:  The Unenumerated Right of Privacy
1989 Latchford, Jennifer K. Media/Television and its Interaction with Campaigns for the Presidency
1989 Lynch, Margaret A. Leadership, Communication, and Public Opinion:  The Reagan-Congress Relationship 1981-1989
1989 McDonough, Patrick F., Jr. The Boston City Council in the 20th century:  The Decline and Possible Resurgency of the City’s Legislature
1988 Makridis, Odisseas The Political History of Thucydides; Peloponnesian War
1988 McCarthy, Kevin T. Japan’s Success:  What America Can Learn
1988 Nionakis, Dimitri J. The Relationship Between the Executive and the Legislature in the Area of Foreign Affairs
1988 Ricciardelli, Paula Women and Sex-Based Wage Discrimination
1988 Van Genderen, Sara E. Petticoat Equality:  The Political History of Women in Wyoming
1987 Barry, Kevin M. The Establishment of a Two-Party South
1987 Neff, Michael W.P. The Role of the U.S. Government in the Dairy Sector
1987 Walpin, Edward A. A Matter of Necessity:  Religion and Freedom in the Thought of Karl Marx
1987 Ward, John P., Jr. Ghosts in a Machine:  American MIAs in Vietnam
1986 Joyce, Thomas The Development of Hegel’s Theory of the State in his Early Writings
1986 Kahan, Dan Michael Community in Modernity:  The Political Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville
1986 Maguire, Mary E. Nicaragua:  United States’ Pressure and World Bank
1986 Reilly, Stephen C. American Federalism Debated, 1787 to 1985:  National League of Cities and Garcia v. SAMTA in Historical Perspective
1986 Schlotman, Laura Baines Arms Control Decision-making:  A Function of Presidential Dominance or Bureaucratic Politics?
1986 Winters, Christopher V. Latin American liberation Theology:  Orthodoxy and Marxism
1985 Klinck, John L., Jr. Pressure Politics in American Government:  Case Study of Interest Groups
1985 Lendhardt, W. Christopher The Dilemmas of Interdependence:  Changing the Balance of Power Between Congress and the Executive
1985

Wall, Christopher

(American Studies)

Harry S. Truman and the President’s Committee on Civil Rights:  Clarion Call in the Fight for Justice
1984 Bayless, Rebecca Reflections on Education in the American Regime
1984 Daniels, Katherine Francis Bacon and the Debate on Genetic Engineering
1984 Eide, Lorraine Military Regimes and Political Development in Africa
1984 Elwell, Peter Bostelman The Politics of Community Development:  Studies of Citizen Participation in Four American Cities
1984 Giuiffra, Lisa M. Soviet Moslems on the Russian Chessboard:  An Ethnopolitical Perspective
1984 Hannon, Deborah G. The Absence of an Anti-Nuclear Movement:  The  Uniquely French Perspective
1984 Hess, Lori Melissa An Essay Toward the Recovery of  Political Rhetoric
1984 Joseph, Jonathan Mitchell The United States’ National Interest v. United Nations Peacekeeping:  Changing Patterns of Support, 1950-1973
1984 Kammerer, Tracey Claire The Right of Privacy and the First Amendment
1984

Keenan, Martha A.

(American Studies)

The Native American in the 1830s and the 1980s:  Change and Stagnation in American Literature and Government Policy
1984 Littlefield, Stacy Wildern Presidential Rhetoric and the Defense Policy Process
1984 Pineault, Melissa A Question of Tolerance:  Communism in the American Regime:  The Implications of the First Amendment for an Understanding of Political Freedom in the United States
1984 Siegel, Stephen J. George Orwell:  The Writer’s Attempt to Make a Difference
1984 Stueber, David S. Economic Decision Making in the White  House
1983 Boucher, Pamela Anne The Government’s Police Power v. Individual Rights:  Two Interpretations
1983

Brown, Edward

(American Studies)

Gun Control in America — The Lobbies and their Propaganda:  Emotionalizing the Issue
1983 Burroughs, Allison D. Politics, Literature, and Education:  Reconciling First Amendment Freedoms with the Inculcative Function of Education
1983

Gilroy, Jeanne

(American Studies)

Piety, Politics, and Patriotism:  Three American Figures
1983

Mullin, Stephen F.

(American Studies)

School Desegregation Seattle Style
1983 Shively, George The Right of Abortion in America Today:  A Study in Traditions and Change
1983

Varnum, Deborah

(American Studies)

Should God Go to School?  A Critical Survey of the Historical Church/State/Education Relationship and its Application to the Current Controversy on Prayer in Public Schools
1983 Webster, Hugh Dual Federalism
1982 Friedman, Eric H. Economic Dependency and Foreign Policy:  Cause and Effect?  Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, 1954-1982
1982 Goldman, Brian The Brezhnev Succession:  Continuity, Crisis, and Change
1982 Haft, William De Gaulle and Post-War French Foreign Policy:  In Pursuit of Grandeur
1982 Kaufman, Eric Reflection of a Study of Rawls
1982 Pearce, Elizabeth S. Religion and the American Republic
1982 Rosen, Caroline Italian Communism:  A Study in the Development and Behavior of a Western Communist Party
1982 Taylor, David F. Affirmative Action, The Supreme court and Equality:  Bakke, Weber and Fullilove and the Acceptance of Affirmative Action
1981 Chun, Rosemary S. The Hostage Crisis in Iran:  The World Response
1981 Harris, Catherine Interaction of Groups and Government in Energy Policy Decisions:  Implications for Energy Planning
1981 Marderosian, George A. The Constitutional Veto, The Constitution, and the Administration of Government
1981 O’Connor, Gail A. Economic Sanctions:  A U.S. Foreign Policy Tool for the 1980’s?
1981 Pitney, Henry United States Recognition Toward Revolutionary Regimes:  Three Case Studies Mexico, Russia and China
1980 Friedhofer, Jan Elizabeth Chinese Foreign Policy, 1965 to 1979:  From Ideology to Pragmatism
1979 Goodman, John B. Alternative Détente Strategies:  The Debate over the Jackson Amendment
1979 Weidlin, Mary C. Peace of Revolution:  Decolonization and Efforts to Achieve a Coalition Solution in Algeria and Rhodesia
1978 Cohen, Cindi The Due Process Clause:  Hugo Black and the Theory of Incorporation
1978 Figel, Reid M. The Federal Communications Commission and Media Cross Ownership:  Betrayal of the Public Interest
1978 Fleming, Wendy C. American Wilderness Consciousness in Literature and in Action
1978 Frankenburg, Victoria Hope Desegregation and the Courts
1978 Languedoc, Ronald S. International Protection of Human Rights:  The Role of the Carter Initiative, 1977
1978 Pittman, Craig S. Political Control of Bureaucracy:  A Comparative Study of France and the United States
1978 Polebaum, Beth Merle Judaism and Modernity:  Nineteenth Century Germany
1977 Bove, Fredi-Ellen The Principles of Liberal Democracy Through an Examination of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
1977 Hebel, Howard Liberation Theology in Latin America
1977 Hilmer, Abigail A Study of the American Hero Through the Persons of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt
1977 Holland, Hillary Cyprus:  From Coup to Crisis in 1974
1977 Jones, Virginia L. In Defense of Idealism:  The  Political Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
1977 Kritchersky, Barbara Alexander Meiklejohn and Political Freedom
1977

Larmon, Marcy J.

(American Studies)

Campaign Coverage in the New York Times:  1852, 1876, and 1912
1977 Martyn, Thomas H. Chinese Foreign Policy Goals and the United Nations:  1971-1976
1977 Peck, Amy The Crisis of Radical Feminism:  A Case Study in the Tensions and Cycles of a Social Movement
1977 Shapiro, Jay Bureaucracy:  Analysis and Criticism Through Literature
1977 Slutsker, Gary D. Pretrial Publicity and Fair Trials:  A Review of Due Process Proposals
1977 Stoner, James R., Jr. Religion and the Basis of Hobbes’ Political Philosophy
1977 Strauss, William Marc Democratic Party Reform:  A Question of Representation
1976 Marsh, Pamela A. War Powers and the Constitution:  The War Powers Resolution of 1973
1975 Hackett, Richard Anthony James Madison and His Changing Views of Federal Government
1974 Anderson, Barbara Presidential Power and War:  The Original Constitutional Understanding
1974 Anderson, Lisa Loft Republican Government and the First Amendment:  A Critique of George Anastaplo’s Constitutionalist
1974 Athan, Lawrence L. A Faithful Execution of the Laws?  A Study of War Powers Exercised by Lincoln
1974

Hylander, Sandra

(American Studies)

Southern Agrarians and Politics:  The Meaning of a Metaphor
1973 McGarry, Martha The School Desegregation Cases and the Paradox of Equal Protection
1972 Polebaum, Elliot Edmund Burke on Representative Government
1971 Kitner, Michael R. Robert F. Kennedy and American Politics of the Sixties
1970 Ishiyama, Koichi Zengakuren:  The Search of a New Identity in Tokyo, 1960
1969 Hitchens, Christy A. The Enigma of Adam Smith
1969 Mwanamwanba, Amusa K. The Determinants of  Zambia’s Foreign Policy
1968 Goodrich, Gerry E. Open Housing:  The Constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1966 Under the 14thAmendment
1968 McLoughlin, Philip R. Food for Peace:  A Study in Administrative Responsibility
1968 Rabinowitz, Michael J. The Impact of Automation as a Casual Factor on Federal Reserve Employment Trends:  1956-1965
1967 Sheldon, Thomas E. Political Opinions and Their Relationships to the Backgrounds of American College Students:  A Questionnaire Based Study in the Areas of Civil Liberties and Domestic Economic Policy
1966 Zupanec, Donald M. The Role of Public Opinion in the Making of Foreign Policy:  Vietnam - A Case Study
1964 Denton, Judith M. The Individual and Soviet Justice Since the Death of Stalin
1964 Godson, Roy S. Qualitative Limitations on the Use and Possession of Armaments
1964 Holmes, David R. Problems of American Foreign Aid: The Vietnam Case
1963 Alexander, James Council-Manager Government in Perspective:  Ashbury Park, New Jersey
1963 Hasselkus, Julie S. Political Neutrality and Economic Warfare:  Switzerland, 1914-1945
1962 Riess, Michael D. Postwar Changes in the Japanese Police Force
1961 Tuttle, George E. On the Origins of States’ Action
1960 Greene, Richard S. Dean Acheson & NATO:  A Study of Personality in Diplomacy
1960 Smith, Caroline E. “Complaint of Aggression Upon the Republic of Korea”:  A Case Study of the Response of the United Nations Security Council to a Breach of the Peace
1959 Harvey, Charles E. Massachusetts Executive Council - Retain, Amend or Abolish?
1959 Moody, Henry F. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute:  A Study in Small Power Diplomacy
1900 Horton, Guy B. The Economic Influence of Industrial Combinations of Prices
1890 Lavery, Adelbert A. The Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces of Democracy
1884 Piper, Clarence R. The Method of the Science of Political Economy