Political Science: Recent submissions
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Repression, Elections, and Competitiveness in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Competitive authoritarian regimes are identified as a Post-Cold War phenomenon that utilize democratic institutions, but cling to authoritarian tendencies to remain in power. I posit that these authoritarian tendencies ... -
A Study on the Applicability of the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory on Welfare Policy among Emerging Democracies: Focused on Central and Eastern Europe
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This study attempts to examine if the pattern suggested by the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET) is observed in the Central and Eastern Europe countries’ (CEECs) welfare policy. This study has three distinct findings. ... -
Party and Group Dynamics on the Topic of Immigration in Western Europe
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)The predictive ability of voter behavior theories is based on their reflection of reality. Currently, research on voting behavior does not account for the distinct differences between partisans and independent voters; this ... -
Campaigning in Context: A Practical Statewide Study of Correlations between Campaign Contact Methods, Partisanship, Timing, Frequency, Population Density, and Regionalism on Voter Turnout
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Studies of campaign influence on individual voter turnout typically analyze responses from a single door-to-door, telephonic, or mail interaction involving a non-partisan source contacting individuals in a localized urban ... -
Religion and Ideology as Determinants of Contentious Politics: Terrorism and Beyond
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation includes three independent studies that jointly consider the role of non-material factors, such as ideology and religion, in operational decisions of individuals and groups. It seeks to contribute to the ... -
A study of the Sanitation Department in Lawrence
(University of Kansas, 1962-05) -
Motivated Innumeracy: Estimating the Size of the Gun Owner Population and Its Consequences for Opposition to Gun Restrictions
(Wiley, 2018-11-20)Past research suggests that people substantially overestimate the size of minority populations. Labeled “innumeracy,” inflated estimates of minority populations can have a negative impact on intergroup relations and influence ... -
Congressional Influence on Defense Policy (1993-2012)
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-12)Defense policy has two fronts to deal with: one for external threats and the other for its domestic foundations. Traditionally, defense policy has been developed to protect the United States from the threats from the outside ... -
Immigrant legislation, across and within the United States
(SAGE Publications, 2017-11-26)State governments are now the principal source of immigrant legislation in the US. Existing research presents contradictory findings concerning the sources of pro- and anti-immigration state legislation. However, research ... -
Attributional Differences Amongst the Politically Knowledgeable: How Political Knowledge Impacts the Causal Determination of Mass Shootings
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)We know a lot about the underlying characteristics which effect the causal attributions individuals make. The current literature emphasizes the effect partisanship has on whether people make internal or external attributions. ... -
The direct and moderating effects of mass shooting anxiety on political and policy attitudes
(SAGE Publications, 2018-08-27)In this article, we examine the effects of individual anxiety after the 2016 Orlando, Florida, mass shooting, which killed 49 people and wounded 58 others. Similar to prior research on the influence of anxiety, after the ... -
Amitai Etzioni: Communitarian Centrist and Principled Pluralist
(Elsevier, 2018-03)During his 60 year career at Columbia and George Washington Universities, Amitai Etzioni has made many contributions to interdisciplinary understandings of social movements, become a respected public intellectual addressing ... -
Policy Responsiveness to Protest Group Demands
(University of Chicago Press, 1975-05) -
Procuring the Cross of Iron: The Effect of Congressional Approval on the U.S. Defense Budget
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Understanding why we spend is an essential step in controlling and justifying the U.S. defense budget. Renewed study may grant perspective on the journey U.S. defense spending has taken over the last 40 years, and provide ... -
Analyzing the Criminal Justice and Military Models of Counterterrorism: Evidence from the United States
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)States’ counterterrorism strategies have been categorized into the criminal justice and military models of counterterrorism. Currently, the international relations literature lacks a systematic exploration or theorization ... -
The political thought of Mrs. Annie Besant : the English years (1847-1893)
(University of Kansas, 1973) -
The Best Subset In Validation Algorithm: Testing Political Scientific Theory Via Predictive Analytics
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)The difficulties arising from using statistical significance to demonstrate the truth and utility of a hypothesis have been known for some time (Cohen 1994). To develop a more rigorous conception of substantive significance, ... -
Moroccan Feminists: The Innovators and Drivers behind the Push to Equality: Accomplishments, Shortcomings, and Future Priorities
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This project evaluates the effect of feminist activism to challenge discriminatory articles in the 2004 Family Law and 2003 Penal Code. The Moroccan women’s movement has been divided between competing feminist and anti-feminist ... -
Explaining Foreign Policy Change in Transitional States: A Case Study of Ukraine between Two Revolutions.
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Over the span of a decade, Ukraine saw two revolutions that rocked its political and social life to the very core: the Orange revolution of 2004 and the Revolution of Dignity of 2014. In this work, I investigate the driving ... -
Of Six Minds on the Matter: A Psychology-based Typology of Hawkish and Dovish Decision Makers
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Foreign policy elites are often labeled "hawks" or "doves," and states’ foreign policies can vary widely depending on whether hawks or doves prevail. Yet seldom asked is this question: why are some elites hawks and others ...