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NGOs in the crosshairs: Non-governmental organizations and the terrorist threat.
(2004)
This study addresses the impact of terrorism and political violence on non-governmental organizations. The research is divided into two main sections. The first utilizes secondary source material to evaluate the nature and ...
Examining the Effects of Economic Knowledge
(2019)
Because of its position as a valence issue, perceptions of the economy are strongly tied to opinions on various issues, presidential and congressional assessments, and even vote choice. Among the chief assumptions made by ...
Sacred Ground: The Use of Religious Rhetoric in Inaugural Addresses and State of the Union Messages
(2009)
The examination of presidential rhetoric by scholars has provided valuable insight into the nature of presidents and the presidency. This dissertation provides the first systematic analysis of the use of religious rhetoric ...
Multilateral environmental agreements: The challenge of implementation.
(2006)
This study looks at how Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) get implemented and once implemented, how they are monitored and achieve compliance. Implementation is looked at through the lens of historical ...
We (Not Them) The People: Populist Rhetoric in the Contemporary U.S. Congress
(2023-12)
This dissertation provides evidence that populist rhetoric shapes Congress, parties and individual politicians in rich and contextual ways. I collected a dataset of over 2 million tweets (2012-2020: Chapter 2) and over ...
American conservative utopias.
(1983)
An analysis of the four utopias demonstrates that conservatism has an ideology from which utopias can be formulated; that such utopias will not presume mankind to be perfect, good, equal one to another, or completely ...
Strategic beacon in the fog of leadership: A case study of executive military leadership of the Iraq Survey Group.
(2006)
Even though the field of strategic leadership has transformed over the past quarter of a century, there is a significant shortage of serious studies. Using a qualitative investigation into strategic military leadership of ...
Compliance-gaining strategies as revealed by the contents of selected federal funding proposals.
(1982)
This study involved the testing of a typology of persuasive strategies in a descriptive setting for the first time. The "Project Narrative" portion of a set of federal funding proposals was analyzed via content analysis.
Congress, the intelligence community, and the president: Evolving institutional relationships in the Post-Cold War Era.
(2000)
This dissertation is a case study of Congressional-Executive Branch relations with respect to intelligence policy. The project utilizes the methods of secondary source assessment, interviews with key governmental officials, ...
Free College for Whom? How Policy Design and Public Management Shape Program Access and Success
(2019-07)
Drawing on theory from political science, policy process, and policy analysis/evaluation, this project investigates the different streams by which policy design influences the effectiveness of tuition-free college initiatives. ...