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Political Science Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Unequal State Air Pollution: Adopting and Adapting to State Clean Air Policy
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation looks at the relationship between American subnational governments and clean air policy in three different cases. I investigate the impact of state reduction policies on the emission of Greenhouse emissions, ... -
Racial and Political Inequalities in State Voter ID Laws
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Voter ID laws have become increasingly popular throughout the states since the passage of the Help America Vote Act in 2002. Currently, thirty-four state legislatures have adopted laws that require voters to present ... -
Rise of the Mama Grizzlies: Rethinking Women’s Descriptive and Substantive Representation in the American States
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Prior theoretical and empirical research focusing on descriptive and substantive representation by gender frequently assumes that the election of women improves substantive representation by moving policy in a feminist-oriented ... -
Veto Players, Punctuated Equilibria, and Budgetary Dymanics: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, United Kingdom, and Denmark
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Punctuated equilibrium and veto player theories are both well-established political science models. Punctuated equilibrium theory is a model of the public policy process which holds that policy changes typically occur in ... -
The law of trade disputes- common law and statutory
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On the Creation of the BeSiVa Algorithm to Predict Voter Support
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)An algorithm was created for a political campaign in Fall 2014 to help find the best way to take voter data and use it to predict the likelihood of voter support. Survey workers collected individual surveys from potential ... -
Questioning Precision: Discourse Ethics and the Recognition of Noncombatants in Drone Warfare
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)The study of discourse assists scholars in understanding and explaining the ways in which words, utterances, and dialogue impact occurrences within international relations. Jürgen Habermas' discourse ethics situates ... -
CONSEQUENCES OF PARTY SYSTEM INSTITUTIONALIZATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Intrastate conflict plagues many countries within sub-Saharan Africa. A significant portion of research asserts that conflict in this region results from high levels of ethnic heterogeneity or weak national institutions ... -
A History of the Administration on Education in Kansas
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Celebrity Power: Spotlighting and Persuasion in the Media
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)As technological and business demands have transformed the operation and demands on news and entertainment media, celebrity activists have proliferated. Only a few years ago, the notion that these celebrities were anything ... -
HISPANIC GROWTH IN RURAL AMERICA: PUBLIC POLICY AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Immigration has historically been a federal issue; recently however, localities, counties, and states have passed their own laws aimed at immigrants. The majority of these ordinances have occurred at the local-level, and ... -
FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY STABILITY: THE ROLE OF FEDERALISM IN VETO PLAYERS THEORY
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)The veto players theory claims that there are institutional and partisan actors, individual or collective, that act as veto points in the process of legislation. Each veto point must give its consent for a new law to pass, ... -
Persuasion and Consensus: Dissent Management in the European Parliament
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)What explains the variation of dissent levels among party groups in the European Parliament and why are party group cohesion levels on the whole so high? How do party group leaders manage dissent and how does this impact ... -
The Stranger Across the Kill Floor or The Friend You Choose: Social Contact Effects on Immigration Related Policies In Rural America
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This paper seeks to reconcile the effects of the racial threat hypothesis and social contact theory. While seemingly contradictory and competing, this paper demonstrates that the influence of each may vary by context. The ... -
FRAMING ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES: EFFECTS OF RESPONSIBILITY ATTRIBUTION, DISASTER PROXIMITY AND POLICY ATTITUDES
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)People displaced by climate change and environmental disasters are currently not covered by international legal frameworks. There are three broad narratives applied in literature to discuss this multi-faceted issue, mainly ... -
The Politics of Land Reform in Uganda
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)When do citizens obey the law? What determines when people conform to or dismiss legal/institutional arrangements? Citizens pursue economic interests, and governments capture the productive potential of their citizenry ... -
The Public Presidency: Increasing Return on Investment
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Despite greater access to the media, greater resources to craft the perfect message and greater knowledge of the contours of public opinion (Heith 2000), presidents seem to be less persuasive (Edwards 2003, 2007, 2009). ... -
Their Minds Will Follow: Examining the Role of Voters' Emotions When Formulating Attitudes on Campaign Issues in the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Elections
(University of Kansas, 2012-12-31)Emotions and voters' feelings in political contexts are not typically the focal point of voting behavior research. Political science has traditionally emphasized the rational component of voting behavior. Classic scholars ... -
Why do they fight? Explaining participation in the War in Croatia
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)This project explains voluntary participation in the War in Croatia, using a data set of daily interval event data and interviews with Croatian war veterans. It challenges the previous findings of macro level based research ... -
Principal-Agent Theory and the EU: Evaluating a Changing Relationship
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)Principal-agent (PA) theory has been employed to characterize the relationship between states and the international organizations (IOs) that they are members of. While the European Union (EU) has been considered a model ...