Browsing by Author "Herrick, Rebekah"
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Active-positive leader: Applying James Barber to Theodore Roosevelt's life
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Are Hispanics who have negative attitudes toward law enforcement more likely to have lower levels of trust toward the government?
Rogers, Kiaralexis (2019-03-15)In the past decade, new policies have caused the U.S immigration and customs enforcement to adopt stricter techniques towards undocumented people. These stricter immigration policies have profoundly affected Hispanics' ... -
Critical actors in subnational legislatures: A new frontier in women’s representation?
Pritzlaff, Riley (Oklahoma State University, 2023-04-27)This study examines women’s issues and critical actors in Republican-controlled and Democrat-controlled U.S. state legislatures by examining publicly available legislative data. I study individual authors as potential ... -
Do Women Count? Women Negotiators and the Content of Peace Agreements
Windham, Julianne C. (2019-05-01)International organizations, including the United Nations, have worked hard to brand gender equality as a tool for attaining long lasting peace (Bell and Rourke 2010). These efforts have persisted for decades, notably ... -
Economics of Abortion: A Comparative Analysis of Mexico and the United States
Alford, Conner O'brien (2016-05-01)An extensive body of literature suggests that abortion is a normal economic good and that legal restrictions may reduce the rate at which it occurs by increasing its cost relative to alternative forms of family planning ... -
Effect of candidate experience on split-ticket outcomes in gubernatorial elections
Sultana, Abida (2023-05)The phenomenon of split-ticket outcomes in gubernatorial elections is essentially unexplored in political science. By analyzing the impact of candidate experience on split-ticket results in gubernatorial elections, this ... -
Effects of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on mobilization: Analysis of mobilization as a compliance mechanism
Vaca Moreno, Laura Michelle (2023-05)Human rights treaty compliance remains an open question in comparative politics literature. There have been treaties like CEDAW, which have achieved remarkable women’s rights improvement. But how this treaty accomplishes ... -
Gay and Lesbian Candidate Electability
Harvey, Jerry (Oklahoma State University, 2015-05-01)There is a sizable literature researching how individual's demographics (gender, age, race/ethnicity, religiosity, and political ideology) affect their opinions toward gays and lesbians, homosexuality, and LGBT rights. ... -
Governor as university president - Campus perceptions: A case study
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Immigration: The Shaping of Partisan Identity and Presidential Vote Choice
Whitney, Blake Evans (2018-05-01)Immigration as an issue is salient in U.S. politics, particularly regarding the 2016 presidential election. Building a wall on the southern border of the United States, expanding border patrol units, and deporting all ... -
Influence of country of origin on naturalized citizen voting behavior
Masvikeni, Tsitsi Florence (2019-12)How does the regime type of their country of origin influence the likelihood of naturalized citizens' participating in voting? Voting behavior of different demographics is a long studied topic within Political Science ... -
Legislating from the minority: An analysis of women's substantive representation in the Oklahoma legislature
Pritzlaff, Riley (Oklahoma State University, 2022-04-19)Women currently constitute approximately 21% of Oklahoma's legislature, a very low proportion compared to other U.S. states. This statistic raises an important question in terms of substantive (policy) representation for ... -
Party and punishment: How party control affects the adoption of drug sentencing reform at the state level
Sylvester, Mara (2022-12)How does state party control affect the adoption of drug sentencing reforms? Historically, both elected Democrats and Republicans have supported harsh sentencing policies and tough-on-crime policy attitudes. Recently, there ... -
Race, incarceration, and inmates' political motivation
Colvin, Roshaun (2021-05)How does race affect an inmate's intention to vote? The effects of incarceration on the political motivation of current and former inmates have not received sufficient attention in scholarly literature. My research adds ... -
Surprising effects of drug policy
Flournoy, Emma (2022-12)Overdose death rates have been increasing exponentially since 1979, leading me to ask how state-level drug access policy is affecting this trend. Previous research identifies three main approaches states take: restricting ... -
Understanding the formation and maintenance of the conservative identity in Oklahoma
Howard, J. Marsh (2014-07)This qualitative study explored how Oklahoma conservatives constructed and understood their conservative identities, as well as the ideas and people they attributed as influencing their identities. Drawing upon ethnographic ... -
Women, power, and anger: A phenomenological investigation of female mayors
Klein, Teresa Lee (2011-12)Scope and Method of Study: The following is a phenomenological study of the role anger in women's lives. Though much research on women's anger explores the pathological side of anger and attempts to control the emotion, ...