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The Weakest Power: A Theory of Strategic Unilateral Executive Authority (thesis)
Aside from executive orders, this paper was exploring executive power as a whole using executive orders only as a proxy. Even by just looking at executive orders, the picture of American politics we see today is so much ...
Nietzsche's Forgotten Spirit: Woman in Nietzsche's Philosophy (thesis)
In this thesis, I will attempt first to show how some major themes in Nietzsche's philosophy such as the rejection of dualisms and capital-T truths make room for an interpretation that suggests many of the same ideas that ...
Operationalizing Inequality: Low Caste Status, Village Composition, and Public Goods Access in Rural India
Using data from the 2005 Indian Human Development Survey, this paper seeks to differentiate the effects of systemic and interpersonal discrimination by examining whether low caste individuals and households in India have ...
Not All African Women Want to be Saved: Examining Colonialism and Cultural Relativism in the Female Genital Cutting Discourse Using the Capabilities Approach
In this paper, I use Sen and Nussbaum's capabilities approach to examine the global female genital cutting debate. In doing so, I explore how and why African feminists protest the intrusion of Western feminism into this ...
Misdemeanors, Crime, and Police: Broken Windows and America's Poor
This paper studies broken windows policing theory and its impact on the poor. Broken windows policing, through the collateral consequences of its arrests and convictions, further marginalizes an already marginalized poor ...
Determining the Effects of Aggregate and Disaggregate ESG Ratings on Abnormal Stock Returns (thesis)
This paper examines the effects of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings and their component parts on excess stock returns for 719 firms in the S&P 1500. Although no relationship was found between aggregate ...
Rural Obesity in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and a Need for Change
. . . Glasgow et al. (2004) notes that “researchers have generally failed to investigate systemically whether the diet and obesity in rural areas differ from that in urban areas or to examine the impacts of rural/urban ...
Unintended Consequences: The 1980 Soviet Grain Embargo and Land Values in US Agriculture (thesis)
In this paper, I analyze the domestic ramifications of the 1980 Soviet grain embargo. Using data from the United States Census of Agriculture for the years 1978 and 1982, I attempt to empirically quantify the effect of the ...
A Historical, Contextual, and Theoretical Analysis of Masterworks in the Clarinet Repertoire, 1791-1994 (thesis)
This paper presents a multifaceted analysis of seven clarinet solo works performed on my May 1, 2021 senior recital. For each piece, I provide historical background on the composer, place the piece in context of the ...
An Introduction to Stochastic Self-Assembly: Theory, Simulation and Experimental Applications (thesis)
We introduce three stochastic cooperative models for particle deposition and evaporation relevant to ionic self-assembly of nanoparticles with applications in surface fabrication and nanomedicine. We present a method for ...