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Beyond House Bill 2: The Real Reasons that Pat McCrory Lost his Governorship in 2016 (thesis)
This thesis examines North Carolina politics in three parts. First, I delve into the relevant historical context needed to fully understand modern day North Carolina campaigns and elections. Second, I provide a detailed ... -
A Challenge to Democratic Peace Theory: U.S. Intervention in Chile, 1973 (thesis)
This project examines covert action against Chilean President Salvador Allende during the 1970s and the interruption of democratic practices in the nation following United States interference. Through the efforts of the ... -
Chinese Behavior Toward Taiwan: Nationalism as Driver of Foreign and Domestic Policy (thesis)
When the Chinese Nationalists [KMT] retreated to Taiwan in 1949 to establish a government in exile, an obvious hostility emerged between the nationalists and the communists [CCP] who had evicted them from the mainland. ... -
Contemplation in Political Philosophy (thesis)
From yoga and physical fitness to meditation and prayer, from elementary classrooms to neuroscience, contemplation is everywhere. Is there space for contemplation in political philosophy? Philosophy connotes logic.1 Socrates ... -
Croatia, Serbia & the EU: The Legacy of Ethnic Nationalism in the Accession Process (thesis)
This paper addressed the legacy of ethnic violence in Croatia and Serbia, as representative of the former Yugoslav region, in relation to their potential membership to the EU . Serbia and Croatia, of the Western Balkan ... -
Drivers and Success Measures of Populism: Case Studies on 1930-1955 in Argentina and 1979-2016 in Great Britain (thesis)
In sum, both of the examined cases of populism sought to gain influence and power, however for different purposes. Perón sought to gain representation for the underrepresented working class in Argentina, and UKIP sought ... -
Freedom and the Necessity of Political Courage (thesis)
Drawing a distinction between ancient and modern freedom, I advocate for a reconstituted and updated ancient conception of freedom, highlighting the important role of political courage within that conception, in order to ... -
Frenemies: Churchill and The Soviet Union
A study of Churchill will uncover a careful balance between realism and liberalism in his views on international relations, and his internal conflict between the two. While he understood the struggle for power, every hope ... -
Institutional Influences on the Supreme Court's Interstate Commerce Clause Jurisprudence (thesis)
To address these questions regarding the impact of institutional factors on the Supreme Court in NFIB v. Sebelius, this thesis will first examine two competing academic theories on how judges decide cases: the attitudinal ... -
Living with the Mess: The Tyranny of Philosophy and Democratic Chaos (thesis)
The human experience and democratic politics are characterized by an inevitable and inherent mess that is impossible to completely or finally resolve. Yet we think such a thing is possible and attempt to achieve this through ... -
Local Law Enforcement within a Collapsing Mental Health System: A Qualitative Analysis on Crisis Intervention Team Programs in Virginia (thesis)
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model is a globally recognized and implemented jail diversion program that improves local law enforcement response to individuals with mental illness or substance use disorder (MISUD). ... -
The Maternal Wall in Corporate America: Why the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 Is Failing Mothers Today (thesis)
The Swedish government experienced success with their family leave policies because they were designed to promote gender equality and were implemented in a way that would actually encourage the policy's success. When H.R. ... -
The Missing Gender Frame: The Unspoken Tension Around Sexual Violence Crimes in The International Criminal Justice System
In the subsequent pages, I will explore the phenomenon of sexual and gendered violence during war. When I began this venture, I set out to answer the question, "What is it about sexual violence crimes that makes them ... -
Multi-Kulti or Mutti-Kulti: How the German Domestic Identity Discourse Shapes German Policy Towards Turkey (thesis)
The case study of Germany's resistance to Turkey's EU membership and its connection to the integration debate underscores the value of constructivism in explaining foreign policy decisions. The rhetoric of the ruling ... -
The Persistent Problem of Gender Inequality in the Twenty-First Century: Why Sweden's Care and Leave Policies Are Not the Panacea (thesis)
This study focuses on the effects of leave and care policies in Germany, Spain, the UK, and Sweden. Leave and care policies are distinguished as two of the most important social policies affecting women's and men's work-care ... -
Playing the Dam Game: How a Proposed Hydroelectric Dam Could Trigger Central Asia's First Water War (thesis)
In 2012, President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan threatened to use military action against Kyrgyzstan if the Kyrgyz government went ahead with plans to build a large hydroelectric dam called Kambarata-1 and entrap a large ... -
The Power Relations of Healthcare Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies (thesis)
Formal healthcare institutions interact with the relationship between ethnic divisions, spatial dynamics, and health in distinctive ways in divided societies, particularly when power is unequally distributed within these ... -
Speak Up and Dribble: John Stuart Mill's Freedoms and How they Apply to the Modern Political Athlete (thesis)
J. S. Mill's conception of liberty, as proposed in On Liberty, helps us better understand how society can benefit from viewing and embracing athletes as political actors, and how they can serve as examples for the significance ... -
Summer Soldier, Sunshine Patriot: Liberalism and the Crisis of Military Service in the United States (thesis)
This paper is not about politics or military strategy. It is not about international relations or just war theory. This is a paper about America on the sidelines. This is a paper about a nation at the mall, even as a tiny ... -
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 ...