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Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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The Conservative Critique of Rationalism: Oakeshott and Gadamer, M. Harris Lucas

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The Sandinista Military Build-Up in Nicaragua: Creating Instability in Central America, Paul T. Savage

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The Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical and Political Assessment, Richard K. Stallsmith

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The Maintenance of Neutrality Between the East-West Bloc: The Case of Finland, Laura E. Stein

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Policy Implications of the Differential Impact of Systematic Factors which Influence the Criminal Behavior of Black and White Women: A Case Study of the State of Pennsylvania, Iris L. Wade

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The Political Theory of James Madison, Peter D. Westerman

Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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Petroleum Legislation in Ohio: Its Geologic and Legal Significance to the Petroleum Industry, Julie M. Ferguson

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Marx, Lenin, and the Soviet Union: An Analysis of the Communist Party, Kate Gibson

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Who Owns the Moon? An American View, John A. Heiman

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Linguistic Politics in India: Every Two Miles the Water doth Change and Every Four the Dialect, Gretchen P. How

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Unforeseen Intruders: How Unrelated Issues Rallied Traditional Sentiments Against the Equal Rights Amendment, Todd D. Kilpatrick

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Contending Theories of the United States' Relations with Latin America, Thomas L. Mason

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American-Soviet Rivalry in the Middle East: Prospects for an International Peace Conference, Kimberly A. Neeb

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Testing the Pervasiveness of an Ideology: Is there an Antifeminist Movement in the United States?, Scott R. Piepho

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The Failure of Implementation of Federal Educational Policy - 1945-1985: Implications for Achievement in the Black Community, Pamela Pinder

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U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America: Intervention Based on National Security as Opposed to "Dollar Diplomacy", Bradley P. Toman

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The Strategic Doctrine of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, Patrick A. Warny

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The Relationship between Governments and Visual Art: A Case Study of the Concentration Camp Art in Nazi Germany, Julie Denise Weiser

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

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Yugoslav State-Building and the National Question, Mary R. Cermelj

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Alternative Feminist Theories for Political Change: Betty Friedan and Angela Davis, Laura L. Davis

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Incentives for Volunteer Political Activism in Presidential Campaigns, Tamula C. Drumm

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The Affects of Critical Realignment on the American Political System, William R. Hinchman III

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The Foreign Policies of Charles de Gaulle, 1958 to 1969, in a Bipolar and Interdependent World, Lawrence Read Junkin

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A Comparative Study of the Strategic Theories of M.A.D. and Flexible Response, James C. Lloyd

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A Critique of President Reagan's Foreign Policy Towards the Soviet Union, William T. McKeown

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Yugoslav Marxist Humanism, Scott Kenneth Mulford

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Third Party Response to the Proliferation of the Primary during the 1970s, William J. Nelander

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Feminist Methodological Alternatives: Toward a Transformation of Political Science, Cynthia J. Newcomer

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The Effects of Apartheid: An Examination of the Novels of Nadine Gordimer, Susan Prophater

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An Examination of Polish Civil Religion in Relationship to Church and State, Suzanne Sworniowski

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The International Court of Justice: Its Ineffectiveness in Resolving International Legal Conflicts, John C. L. Szekeres

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The Colonization of Black America: An Ideological Analysis of Colonialism at Home and Abroad, David R. Thompson

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The Electoral College: Federalism in Operation, Douglas S. Wiley

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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Reinterpreting the Relationship between the Public and Private Spheres: An Alternative Perspective on the Separation of Church and State, Steve M. Allen

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Soviet Perceptions of U.S. Foreign Policy: A Comparison of the Professional and Public Press, Andrew Baird

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Appropriate Technology and the Economic Development of the Third World, Maria Germaine Carter

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An Analysis of the Applicability of the Theories of John Rawls and Robert Nozick to American Jurisprudence, John J. Del Propost

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The Political and Economic Impact of Multinational Corporations on South Africa, Phindiwe Gcaba

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Domestic Influences on U.S. Middle East Policy: A Study of AIPAC, Michael D. Hostetter

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Two Sides of the Same Coin: Two Western Views of Soviet Foreign Policy, Garth T. Katner

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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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Political Functions of Sport in America--Attitudinal, Behavioral, and Ideological, J. Brooke Bashore
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