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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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1980

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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

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Public Policy Implementation: Transportation of the States, Wendy M. Lord

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The Law of the Sea and the Distribution of Fisheries: The Management and Development of Fisheries in the Developing World, John B. McLean

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Students, Parents and Politics: The Effect of the Parental Preference Question on Student Party Identification, Barbara Andreae Mosenthal
Department: Political Science

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Discriminatory Zoning is Alive and Well and Proliferating in the Suburbs, Adele Rapport
Department: Political Science

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Implications Past and Present, Ethel Elaine Ratleff
Department: Political Science

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An Analysis of the Norwegian Search for Security 1940-1949, Richard Scott Secrest
Department: Political Science

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Representation in Ohio City Councils, Sean Smith

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Zionism: The Crisis Facing Judaism, Israel and The Middle East, Thomas G. Stevens
Department: Political Science

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The Peace Corps at 17, Robert A. Withington

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1976

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The Property Tax and Public Education in Ohio, Robert G. Adamson II
Department: Political Science

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John Foster Dulles: An Exploration in Psychohistory, Keith Alger
Department: Political Science

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Gun Control: A Study of Representation in the American Democracy, Tim Balmat
Department: Political Science

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Three Theories of Foreign Policy Decision-Making U.S. Policy in Response to the 1974 Cyprus Crisis, Elizabeth Ann Billings
Department: Political Science

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A People Without a Voice: The Chicano Experience in the American Political System, Cynthia Lynn Fausold
Department: Political Science

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Ombudsman Plans: Alternatives to Existing Grievance Systems in the United States, Emphasis on the Ohio Experience 1972-1975, Stephen Kent Fletcher
Department: Political Science

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The Cultural Revolution in China: A Stress-Strain Analysis of the Provincial Bureaucracy, Michael O. Freeman
Department: Political Science

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Mr. Liberal Goes to Washington: An Historical and Analytic Examination of the Democratic Study Group, Mark R. High
Department: Political Science

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The Rights of Inmates in Prison Procedures, Carol J. Holmes
Department: Political Science

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When is Revolution Justified? The Cases of Cuba and Mexico, James Peter Kieft
Department: Political Science

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Public Policy and Political Arousal: Physician Militancy in 1975, Donald E. Lynn
Department: Political Science

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Scotsmen and/or Britons? - The Constitutional Implications of Scottish Nationalism, Jill Rebecca Newson
Department: Political Science

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Electoral Politics: Black Mayors, Warren E. Phillips
Department: Political Science

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The Cleveland Mayoral Elections of Carl Stokes and Arnold Pinkney: An Analysis of Socioeconomic Characteristics and Their Relationship to Political Participation, James W. Ratleff
Department: Political Science

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The Emergence of the Two Party System in Wayne County Politics, Steven Santangelo
Department: Political Science

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The Politics of Automobile Emission Standards: The 1970 Clean Air Act Amendments, Stephen Kinnear Shaw
Department: Political Science

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Welfare Dependency and Income Maintenance: The Evolution of AFDC, Glenn Roy Toothman III
Department: Political Science

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1975

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The Role of Women in Contemporary Soviet Society, Karen Bride
Department: Political Science

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Political Integration in Europe: The European Community as a Vehincle to European Unification, Diane Holt
Department: Political Science

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The Snyder Model of Crisis Bargaining: Two Case Studies, Christopher F. Johnson
Department: Political Science

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Black Electoral Politics: An in-depth look at the Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher Administrations, Larry Antonio Jones
Department: Political Science

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The Anti-Lin Piao and Anti-Confucian Campaigns: A Descriptive and Analytical Inquiry, Wendy Holly Lowe
Department: Political Science

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Satyagraha, the Gandhian Technique for Social and Political Change, Zahra Moazami
Department: Political Science

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The Problem of European Security: From Cold War to Detente, Richard R. Murphey III
Department: Political Science

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The Period of American Complicity in the Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem: A Case Study of Symbolic Manipulation During the Indochina War, Erik Olsen
Department: Political Science

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The Relation Between National Land Use Legislation and the Political Theory of Property, Charles E. Peck Jr
Department: Political Science

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Analysis of the 1974 Illinois United States Senatorial Election in the Perspective of the 1948-1972 Senatorial Results and as Influenced by Incumbency, Urbanization, and Wealth, Stuart B. Piper
Department: Political Science

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War Powers Resolution: Analysis and Evaluation, Radd Lee Riebe
Department: Political Science

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The Politics of Bureaucratic Encroachment: McNamara and the Military, Barry Roop
Department: Political Science

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American Jewish Liberalism, Gail-Nancy Sostek
Department: Political Science

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Public Law 480 Evolution of the Use of Food In Foreign Policy, Raymond Ph Weil Jr
Department: Political Science

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The Relationship Between Tribal Autonomy and the Social and Economic Development of Indian Tribes: a Diagnosis and a Prescription, David L. Withey
Department: Political Science

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1974

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A Case Study: Social Backgrounds and Attitudes of Lower Court Judges, Ann Ashby
Department: Political Science

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Public Opinion and the Criminal Law, Dorinda E. Bisher
Department: Political Science

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Private Interest and Public Policy: A Case Study of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, James Colwell
Department: Political Science

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Group Theory: An Analysis of the Transformation of SNCC (1960-1968), Wesley A. Dumas
Department: Political Science

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Multinational of Supernational? The U.S. Copper Companies in Chile, Thomas Emmel
Department: Political Science

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The Nineteenth Amendment: A Look Into the Forces Behind it, Zoe Diane Gustafson
Department: Political Science

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Non-Acceptance of United Nations Covenants and Conventions on the Part of the United States: A Case Study of the Genocide Convention Supplemented by Other Covenants and Conventions, David S. Klopp
Department: Political Science

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U.S. Policy During the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War, Kenneth A. Krantz
Department: Political Science

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The Legislative Process in Ohio: No-Fault Auto Insurance, Richard Lowe
Department: Political Science

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Constituency Influence: The Case of the Cleveland City Council, Scott Martin
Department: Political Science

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Reapportionment and Roll Call Analysis New York State Legislature Upstate vs. New York City, Michael McKeon
Department: Political Science

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B. F. Skinner and the Controlled Society, William Rahn
Department: Political Science

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A Policy Decision: Diversion of the Highway Trust Fund, Charles E. Sakryd
Department: Political Science

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Legislative History of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, Elaine Vaurio
Department: Political Science

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Totalitarianism: A Psycho-Social Inquiry, Thomas Wilkinson
Department: Political Science

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1973

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Outer Space and Social Value: A Case Study, Paul R. Abbey
Department: Political Science

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The Effect of Religion on Black Political Development, William C. Allison
Department: Political Science

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Soviet Usage of China-phobe to Gain Influence in Southern Asia, Jon Anderson
Department: Political Science