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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM
(2020-05-08)
This study reveals the two dimensions of religious freedom – religious groups and individuals – with empirical data, and it offers theoretical arguments on how these two dimensions are different. Individual rights provision ...
Managerial Perceptions and Demographic Changes Within The Higher Education Landscape at Public Four-Year Institutions
(2023-05-12)
Drawing on theory from within public policy, administration, and several types of management this project looks to explore how campus leaders at public four-year higher education institutions have responded to shifts within ...
Working in conflict: how bureaucrats navigate accountability pressures
(2022)
Bureaucrats make policy. So, understanding their motivations behind discretionary choices, or ultimate decisions about their role and agency are pivotal toward examining policy outcomes. This dissertation attempts to expand ...
The policy and electoral implications of increasing gender representation in politics
(2021-05-14)
Despite more than a century since the first woman was elected to the U.S. Congress and women gained the right to vote, women remain underrepresented in Washington D.C., making up only about a quarter of lawmakers. In three ...
Empty Chairs in an Empty Chamber: Deconstructing the Myth of Debate in the U.S. Senate
(2022)
Debate in the U.S. Senate has been revered and mythologized throughout much of our history. The historical impression of Senate debate is that it is robust, civil, and well informed. At the same time, the terms deliberation ...
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 ...
Form Factors: Chicano Movement Form and the Factors that Influenced it in Los Angeles and San Antonio
(2022-07-18)
This dissertation has two goals. The first goal is to understand better the Chicano Movement, which is understudied in political science. The second goal is to find which movement theory best explains why movements take ...
GOVERNANCE, IDEOLOGY, CITIZEN PERCEPTIONS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE NUCLEAR WASTE STALEMATE IN USA
(2020-07-23)
This dissertation research examines the prolonged nuclear stalemate in USA by investigating “the NIMBY syndrome” or the local opposition to spent nuclear fuel siting policy options from a public policy perspective. Nuclear ...
“It Takes a Village”: A Re-examination of Black-Interest Advocacy, Collective Representation, & the Modern Congressional Black Caucus
(2020)
This project has three explicit goals in mind. First, I aim to uncover how the CBC constructs and communicates their collective worldview to the institution. Existing literature has been essential to improving our understanding ...
Citizens and Sectors: An Examination of Sector Preferences and Blame Attribution During Times of Certainty and Uncertainty
(2022)
The current era of sector convergence and blurred sector boundaries has important implications for the study of public and private management and how citizens interact, perceive, and experience public service deliveries ...