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Pawns among Kings: The Influence of Small Powers in Post-Cold War NATO
(2010)
The purpose of this study is to scrutinize the relationship between general material capabilities (i.e. power) and influence in a specific military alliance: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. I shed light on the ...
Faith in the Anthropocene: Contested Theologies of Nature and Political Attitudes on Environmental Stewardship
(2017)
This dissertation improves upon past understanding of politics, religion, and nature through a close exploration of the role Christian theology plays in opinion formation. It does so by probing the varieties of religiously ...
A study in acculturation and political development :
(1980)
A fundamental concept of this study is that the basic element of determining the nature of a political culture is the kind of orientation towards authority which characterizes it. Parochial, subject, and participant cultures, ...
The tenuous majority: The effect of two-party competition on the House of Representatives.
(1999)
This dissertation relies on interviews of members of Congress and their staff, in conjunction with the historical record, to illustrate how the new race for the House and the new era of tenuous, narrow House majorities is ...
Images of decision-making and the launch of the Challenger space shuttle.
(1997)
Furthermore, I found that the interpretation of events leading to the Challenger decision was subject to the analyst's preconception of what transpired. I confined my research primarily to theoretical interpretations of ...
Executive budget success: Evidence from the American states.
(2006)
Budgeting is among the executive's most important powers in a separated political system. The extent to which executive budget proposals are adopted by the legislature is an important measure of the executive's political ...
Is Winning Everything? Why Campaign Consultants Operate in the American Political System
(2011)
Is Winning Everything? Why Campaign Professionals Operate in the American Political System
Factors influencing organizational change in the Department of Defense
(2010)
This study explores factors that can influence attempts by DOD organizations to change their internal processes or policies. When one considers how widespread attempts to change organizations are and the reported massive ...