Political Science: Recent submissions
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Protracted Refugee Situations: A Feminist Perspective on Refugee Depiction by UNHCR
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Protracted refugee situations are some of the most complex political, human rights, and humanitarian challenges facing the international community today. While scholarship on the phenomenon typically focuses on empirical ... -
Identity and Representation within the Contemporary Brazilian LGBT Movement
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Social movements engage in processes of identity work to construct and reconstruct collective identities. Within movements characterized by identity differences, such as contemporary LGBT movements, demands for representation ... -
CONFLICT, CORRUPTION, AND CONSENT: AN ANALYSIS OF POPULAR SUPPORT IN AFGHANISTAN
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)Who cares about corruption in conflict? Afghans do. This dissertation considers the intersection of governmental support and corruption during periods of instability. Although there are studies connecting popular support ... -
Aligned Across Difference: Structural Injustice, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)Feminist scholars and activists engage in meaningful, contentious debates about the relationships among sex, gender, power, and society. One of the most recent iterations of these arguments reinscribes the pleasure of sex ... -
Islam and power legitimation: instrumentalisation of religion in Central Asian States
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-03)How can Islam play multiple and contradictory roles as a source of violence and peace, and a marker of identity differences and national unity? This study argues that religion, as a system of beliefs, manifests itself ... -
The proposed Austro-German Customs Union
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The sixth Pan-American Conference, Havana, 1928
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Beyond the Natasha Effect: Determinants of Human Trafficking Policy Variation in the Post-Soviet Region
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)This dissertation examined how human trafficking policies diffused in the post-Soviet region, a significant source region for female victims of sex trafficking dubbed Natashas. The main research question examined why some ... -
Not a Woman, but a Soldier: Exploring Identity through Translocational Positionality
(Springer Verlag, 2016-08-09)Recent debate over integrating women into U.S. military combat units presents an opportunity to examine the gender identities and experiences of women in the military. Here, we examine the context-dependent prominence of ... -
The political theories of Harold J. Laski considered particularly in relation to recent developments of political thought
(University of Kansas, 1929) -
An outline of county government in Kansas
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John Rawls, Barack Obama, and the Pluralist Political Consensus
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-10-01)To counter partisan polarization, political theorists like John Rawls and political leaders like Barack Obama have sought to locate and express consensual elements of American culture that can appeal to or at least be ... -
A study of municipal airports
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Talking Politics on Facebook: Network Centrality and Political Discussion Practices in Social Media
(SAGE Publications, 2015)This study examines the relationship between political discussion on Facebook and social network location. It uses a survey name generator to map friendship ties between students at a university and to calculate their ... -
Criticism in News and Its Effects on Authoritarian Duration in China
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This study explains the varying levels of criticism in news coverage in China and tests the news effects on public opinion. It proposes a revision to the traditional censorship paradigm--fractured censorship system. It ... -
Putting the Public into Public Health: Health Policy Related Opinion and Public Policy
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Understanding how public opinion towards health issues shape policy preferences and confidence in government requires not only understanding why such events engage public sentiments but also why they should matter to ... -
The Politics of Climate Adaptation
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Emerging research highlights increasing subnational activity on climate change. While most researchers explore mitigation of climate change, far less attention has been directed towards climate adaptation. In this dissertation ... -
The Impact of Perceptions of Democratic Decline: Explaining French and German Foreign Policy toward Russia
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)In the last ten years, Russia’s growing assertiveness in international affairs has morphed into aggression as exemplified in Moscow’s military interventions first in Georgia in 2008 and subsequently in Ukraine in 2014. ... -
Boley : a study of a Negro city
(University of Kansas, 1930)