The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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The Evolution of American Nuclear Strategy, Reagan and Sufficient Assured Destruction, Kenneth James Tunnell

Theses/Dissertations from 1983

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An Analysis of the World Order Models Project: World Visions and World View, Krystin L. Buckey

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Marx and Weber on the Interface between Political Power and Technology in Advanced Capitalist Societies, Jairaj Santosham Daniel

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Science, Technology, and Polity: The Theories of Daniel Bell and Jurgen Habermas, Tod B. Edel

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Feminism: The Foundation of Peaceful Living, Cindy L. Greuenwald

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Justice William O. Douglas and his Propelling Influence on the Free Speech Doctrine, Karin C. Hauschild

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The Pipeline Controversy 1981-82: A Case Study in the Feasibility of Economic Sanctions, Claudia K. Hoffman

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Feminist Response to the Functionalist Ideology in American Women's Education, Julia Hill Klein

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Presidential Press Conferences Who Was The Most Effective? (Nixon, Ford, Carter), Robert S. Teets

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Individual Decision-Making Model on Local Public Policy Issues: A Case Study of Women on Public Water Fluoridation in Wooster, Ohio, Anastasia A. Tzavaras

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The Political Consultant: An Examination of Technique and Influence, Thomas A. Van Cleef

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1982

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The Involvement of American Transnational Corporations in South Africa; The Progressive Force Argument Reexamined, Lorna Babcock
Department: Political Science

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The Swedish Role in the Development of Neutrality, Paul D. Baughman
Department: Political Science

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The Effects of the Multinational Corporation on Development: A Case Study of Chile, Frederic de Braconier
Department: Political Science

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The Amount of Parental Influence and the Effect of College on the Development and Retention of Political Attitudes in Adolescence: A Case Study at the College of Wooster, Michael Bragg
Department: Political Science

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The Black Panther Party: Content Analysis of Media Representation and Implications of Racial and Political Oppression, Cheryl Buffington
Department: Political Science

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Satistfaction Levels of Police Officers in Three Small City Police Departments, Mark R. Davey
Department: Political Science

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The Formation of the Shangai Peoples Commune During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: A Survey of Communications and Events, Paul B. Glock
Department: Political Science

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An Evaluation of the Emergency Preparedness Plans at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Mark C. Hoffman
Department: Political Science

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When Institutions Clash: The Nixon Administration and the Press, 1968-1970, Eugenia P. Hull
Department: Political Science

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U.S. Strategic Military Doctrine: Emerging Deterrent Strategies, David Whipple Johnson
Department: Political Science

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The Politics of Medicaid Abortion: The Implications of Restrictive Legislation, Judith R. Maxwell
Department: Political Science

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America Misunderstood: Critical Essays on Theodore Dreiser and John dos Passos, Daniel L. McKenty
Department: Political Science; English

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There is Hope: The Case of the B-1 Bomber, Eric J. Morrison
Department: Political Science

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'The Tactics They Use': Police Activities and the Black Community, Lynette M. Parker
Department: Political Science

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Nordlinger's Theory of Conflict Regulation: A Case Study of Northern Ireland, Peter W. Randol
Department: Political Science

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Yes or No Public Sector Strikes, David Riley
Department: Political Science

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Allende: La Via Chilena - A Challenge to Mainstream Theories of Underdevelopment, Peter H. Schultz
Department: Political Science

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Judicial Voting Behavior: A Case Study Analysis of Justice Potter Stewart in the Warren and Burger Courts, Judith R. Stone
Department: Political Science

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Lebanon: The Failure of a Model, Eufthimios O. Tsiliopoulos
Department: History; Political Science

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Oil Exports and their Effect on the Political Development and the Economic Development and Growth of the Middle Eastern Oil-Exporting Countries, Vicki O. Tsiliopoulos

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1981

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Synthesis of Organizational and Societal Theory: Movement toward Closure and its effects upon Labor Unions and their Leadership, Cherly Buffington
Department: Political Science

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Rethinking United States Security Proposals for an Appropriate American Security System in the 1980's, John Dobbs
Department: Political Science

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The Carter Administration: Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America, Michele M. Florack
Department: Political Science

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The United States Welfare System: An Assesment of the Better Jobs and Income Program and Suggestions for Reform, Wesley G. Geer
Department: Political Science

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Geopolitics in a Multipolar Age: The Foreign Policy Approach of the Nixon Administration, Jeffrey N. German
Department: Political Science

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A Comparison of Centrist and Radical Theories on U.S. Interventions into Latin America, Thomas A. Helper
Department: Political Science

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American Labor as a Social Movement, John W. Kewn
Department: Political Science

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Realism vs. Revisionism: United States Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf Region Since World War II, David M. Lewellen
Department: Political Science

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Federal Economic Policies and Their Effects on Inflation and Unemployment as Illustrated with the Philips Curve, Thomas W. Litzler
Department: Political Science

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Terrorism Past, Present, and Future: Is the U.S. Next?, Peter L. Morgan
Department: Political Science

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An Analysis of two Theoretical Perspectives on Women's Liberation: Radical Feminism and Reformist Feminism, Judith I. Ratesic
Department: Political Science

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Political Development in Selected Sub-Sahar an African States from Traditionalism to Modernism, Donald Rice
Department: Political Science

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Ethnicity and Regionalism as Ambiguous Symbols, David Smailes
Department: Political Science

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Merit Selection of Federal Judges, James A. Stoll
Department: Political Science

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The Effects of Maximum Security Institutionalization on Criminally Violent Ohio Youths, Karl R. Susz
Department: Political Science

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Media Campaigning of Presidential Candidates, David B. Swift
Department: Political Science

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American Perceptions of Soviet Perceptions of America, James M. Thomson
Department: Political Science

Theses/Dissertations from 1980

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The Supreme Court and the Press: How the Court-Press Relationship Aids the Democratic Process in America, William F. Anfang

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East Germany: Reconciliation to Division, John Preston Baker

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Irish American Influence in Northern Ireland, Cathy A. Crawford
Department: Political Science

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The Influence of Developing Demographic, Ideological, Economic and Political Changes in the United States Upon Support for Organized Labor in the House of Representatives: 1977-79, George S. Crisci

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Politicization of Specialized International Organizations: The International Labor Organization as a Case Study, Leslie Ann Davis
Department: Political Science

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The Presidential Nomination Process: A Descriptive Analysis of the Present System and Evaluation of Several Reform Proposals Using Theoretical Models of Party Functions, Beth Farnsworth

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The Growth of Nationalism in Soviet Central Asia: Implications for the Soviet Union, David D. Gilliss
Department: Political Science

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Castro's Influence on the United States Policy Towards Latin America Since 1971, David T. Gurney
Department: Political Science

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National Nuclear Power Plant Licensing Policy, Gaye L. Hanke

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Les Relations Franco-Algériennes de 1945 a 1962, David F. Harrington
Department: French and Francophone Studies; Political Science

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Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's: A Comparison Through the Legislation and Reactions of the Times, Barbara N. Hobson
Department: Political Science

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Political Socialization and Political Systems, William E. Hoese
Department: Political Science

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The "Successors" of the People's Republic of China: How and Why Their Positions Change, Gregory C. Hook

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The United States and the Nonaligned Third World: 1945-1965 - A Study of the Dangers of Ambivalence and Ambiguity, Mark C. Matthias

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The Politics of School Desegregation in Warren, Ohio, David J. Maurice

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An Analysis of the Political Process and Economic Thinking That Created the Windfall Profit Tax, Henry Stanton McDonald Jr.

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Police, Politics And The Law: A Case Study Of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wendy D. Myers

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Roots of Conflict: A Study of the Relationship Between the United States and Cuba 1868-1960, Kimberly E. Parsons
Department: Political Science

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The Political Assimilation of Black Americans, Eric V. Price

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Intervention: A Liberal Realist Versus a Marxist Perspective, Robert W. Reid

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Mirror, Mirror, in the House: The Effects of Televising the Gavel-to-Gavel Proceedings of the United States House of Representatives, Carol E. Rowan

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The Effectiveness of Non-Violence in a Violent World, Julie A. Scott
Department: Political Science

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The "War on Poverty" and its Implication for Future Public Policy: Stark County as a Case History, Michaele LaVerne Tarver
Department: Political Science

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1979

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Prospects for Proliferation, Verne G. Burden
Department: Political Science

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Metternich and Kissinger: The Theory and Practice of Balance of Power Diplomacy, James C. Dann
Department: Political Science

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The Right To Know v. The Right To Privacy, Thomas A. Edson II
Department: Political Science

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Yom Kippur, A Skip to the Brink: The Superpowers in the October, 1973 Middle East War, James Everett
Department: Political Science

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Political Learning: Socialization Versus Structural Theories, Patricia C. Hean
Department: Political Science

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Justice For All: An Argument for the Appointment of Women to the Supreme Court of the United States, Jan Hungerford

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The Effects of Civics Courses on the Political Socialization of Wooster High School Students, Don Kilburn
Department: Political Science

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An Analysis of the Problems of Political Development in Iran, Arthur J. Kropp
Department: Political Science

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The Red Guards: Communicative Instruments of Mao, Ellen Renaldo
Department: Political Science

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The Kennedy-Corman Bill: National Health Insurance from a Cross-National Perspective, Gregory B. Stolcis
Department: Political Science

Theses/Dissertations from 1978

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Public Policy and Solar Energy: The Corporate Connection, Scott G. Denman

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College Student Attitudes of Presidential Authority: Did Watergate Have an Effect?, Andrew A. Esch

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Arm Sales to the Third World, Jonathan Harvey

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The Equal Rights Amendment: Politics of a Constitutional Amendment, Sue A. Hewett

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Revolutionary Success: The Cuban Revolution of 1959 as a Case Study, John L. Keyse

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Women State Legislators from Michigan and Ohio, Marian D. Morgan

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The Federal Reaction to the New York City Fiscal Crisis, March to December, 1975, Kenneth Myers

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A Critical Analysis of the Strategic Arms Debate Inside the United States, Charles Pepper

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The American Editorial Cartoon: Political Significance in Relation to Newspapers, Public Opinion and Presidential Popularity, Jeff Pierce

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An Investigation into the Fall of the "Gang of Four", Robert F. Twinem

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Demography vs. Ideology as Predictors of Defense Voting Behavior in the House of Representatives, Fred Scott Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 1977

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The Prosecuting Attorney in the State of Ohio: An Investigation of the Prosecutor and the Office, James R. Douglass

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Urban Planning: An Evaluation of Structures and Concepts, Robert Logan Dyer Jr.

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Crime Victim Compensation: A Comparison of Two States, William Albert Gantzer
Department: Political Science

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Air Pollution Control: An Intergovernmental Analysis of Policy Implementation; 1963-1976, Howard Carter Gilliams
Department: Political Science

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The American Bail System: An Instrument of Justice?, Mark Allan Hoffman

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The Colonization of the Navajo and National Myth, Roderick Thomas Kennedy

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Approaching Zimbabwe: Discord Within the African Majority in Rhodesia, Linette Lander

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Congressional Socialization: The Case of the 94th Congress, David A. Lelko