Past Theses
| Year | Name | Thesis Title |
| 2024 | Manahan, Matthew | Genocide, Sanctions and Soybeans: Describing, Assessing and Constructing U.S. Policy Responses to the Uyghur Genocide |
| 2024 | McNerney, Kyra | The Meta Oversight Board: A Model for Private Speech Governance, or a Defense Against Government Regulation? |
| 2024 | Moreno, Marie Espinola | A Regional Perspective on Global Nuclear Security: The Role of Latin America and the Caribbean in Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation |
| 2024 | Vermillion, Claire | Rhetoric or Reality: To What Extent Does News Media Coverage Distort the Ideology of Members of Congress? |
| 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 Constituent 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 |