Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Degrees "M.A., Political Science"
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Alliance dissolution : a constructivist approach.
(2018)Alliance dissolution is an understudied pattern in international politics. Independent studies by Walt, Leeds, and Snyder, within the realist tradition of international relations theory, have all touched on alliance ... -
Analyzing PAC's.
(2013)Political action committees have been the subject of controversial court cases and legislative reform. Judicial decisions and legislative reforms are the product of creating campaign finance aiming at the creation of a ... -
Binary democracy : voter confidence and voting technologies.
(2017)The specific type of voting machine used by voters could have an affect on the amount of confidence they feel about the accuracy of their votes being recorded. This thesis studies different types of voting machines and the ... -
China, Japan, South Korea and the United States : Resisting Change in Northeast Asia.
(2019)Though it appears much has changed for the players in Northeast Asia, when considering actual shifts in military resources and alliance strategy, many things have stayed the same. When taking the role of the United States ... -
Chinese foreign policy decision-making : a neoclassical realist approach.
(2011)Despite its sudden rise, China has not engaged in balancing US power contrary to the prediction of the balance of power theory. The structure of a unipolar world restricts balancing which is effectively a revisionist act ... -
Consociationalism and corruption : an exploration of the consociational system's susceptibility to corruption.
(2013)Countries whose societies are fragmented, and which are in the process of transitioning to democracies, face the question of which political system best manages social conflict. Among those political systems that deal with ... -
Democracy in South Sudan : prospects and pitfalls.
(2012)Democracy in one among many other things in the nation building package that the South Sudan government is looking to achieve. Where or what are the hopes? what is it that will work this rime around?. Almost all African ... -
Democratization and gender inequality in Egypt.
(2012)This thesis offers a qualitative analysis of the condition of women's social and political roles in Egyptian society prior to and during their current transition to a legitimate democracy. It argues that without mitigation ... -
Democratization and Islam : the Senegalese exception
(2015)This thesis analyzes the factors conducive to secularism in Senegal. It shows that Islam is in fact compatible with democracy and freedom. Indeed, despite the persistence of authoritarianism in many Islamic societies, ... -
Economic sanctions as tools of economic imperialism.
(2018)Economic sanctions have come under scrutiny in recent political scholarship. Sanction regimes are analyzed for effectiveness, intended targets, and societal impact. The theory of liberal internationalism greatly influences ... -
Educating with the arts : how art education policy impacts educational outcomes
(2015)The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of art education policy on educational outcomes. While past literature focuses on how art in the classroom can raise individual test scores, this research takes a broader ... -
EU and immigration : case studies of anti-immigration parties.
(2012)The goal of this research project is to determine anti-immigration party strength within the European Union. The question of concern is whether or not right-wing parties are stronger because of the changing nature of ... -
George W. Bush and the Iraq War of 2003
(2015)The George W. Bush administration invaded Iraq in 2003, capitalizing on the public fear and paranoia generated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In arguing for war, the Bush administration utilized flawed and biased intelligence ... -
Human rights : the search for universality.
(2012)Human rights in large part have become a topic of seemingly global appeal. They have become a part of the fabric of the global conversation. Especially within the context of the last sixty years, human rights have become ... -
International law & the death penalty.
(2017)In the beginning there was the death penalty. And it was good. Or so the countries of the world and international laws thought. But times do change and there have been many changes on many fronts in international law, ... -
It must be the money : family structure, child well-being, and public policy.
(2008)This study proposed to examine the interactions between income, family structure, race and child well-being. Educational achievement was used as a proxy for child well-being. -
Judicial activism : a study of the Warren through Rehnquist courts.
(2009)Despite the dismissive attitude toward the concept of judicial activism among some members of the academic community, it nevertheless continues to be a relevant theme in politics. Conservatives tend to use this phrase as ... -
Linkage politics in Sino-American relations.
(2011)A common phenomenon that exists in any complex relationship between two countries is "linkage" across different policy issues. Linkage means to establish a relationship making progress in one area dependent on, or affecting ... -
Macedonian national identity : origins, tensions, and challenges.
(2012)During the Ottoman period Balkan collective identities existed without national content. As the historian Eric Hobsbawm has observed, the 'ethnicity of any people in southeastern Europe is an eternal matter of debate'. ... -
National identities and the decolonization experiences of France and Great Britain.
(2018)By the late twentieth century, both France and Great Britain achieved a similar status as economically-developed democracies of middling size within a global capitalist system. Yet each entered the twentieth century ...