Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
Politics of GMOs: a Case Study Examination of Underlying Social, Cultural, and Political Variables Influencing Consumer Attitude Toward GMOs, Natalie S. Worcester
Department: Political Science
Laws, Love & Lesbians: International Human Rights and Women's Sexual Orientation, Stefanie H. Zaranec
Department: Political Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
The Five Permanent Members of the Security Council and Their Actions Inside the Security Council in Relationship to Cote D'Ivoire and Rwanda, Andrew J. Becker
Department: Political Science
A Consideration of Human Trafficking Policy in Canada, the Democratic Republic of North Korea and Honduras, Daniel P. Blommel
Department: Political Science
The Construction of a European Identity Through Discourse Othering "Less European" Actors: Debates on Turkish Accession to the European Union, Alex E. Brower
Department: Political Science
Earning Their Wings: The Military-Industrial Complex and Defense Procurement, Justin Chapman
Department: History; Political Science
Setting the Stage For Terrorism: Non-State Actors Taking Advantage of State Failure, Heather M. Couch
Department: Political Science
Pandemic Policymaking: Examining Cross-National Variation in AIDS Governance, Drew H. Glassroth
Department: Political Science
Facilitating Cooperation in Economic Sanctions: An Analysis of Decision-Making Models in State Cooperation, Christopher L. Goodness
Department: Political Science
Gardens and Revolutions: Guy Debord, Wendell Berry and the Cultivations of the Creative Subject, Andrew Gross
Department: Political Science
There Is No Theory, Only a Strategy: Speculation to Death, Jeff Kaatz
Department: Philosophy; Political Science
Reconciling Work and Family Life: An Analysis of Corporatist Family Policies in France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Peter Lucas
Department: Political Science
Ecosystem Versus Traditional: Yielding Successful Natural Resource Management in Terms of Sustainability and Public Needs, Ted Polley
Department: Political Science
Political Agendas in Attracting Professional Sports Franchises, Adam Samson
Department: Political Science
Transnational Advocacy and Asylum, Erica L. Seng
Department: Political Science
Refugees, Externalization of Violence and Interstate War in Indochina: a Humanitarian Dilemma, Clarence George Simmons IV
Department: Political Science
Just War Theory: a Normative Approach to Understanding State Action in Warfare, Kyle O. Yoder
Department: Political Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Understanding Internet Politics: a Quantitative Analysis, Scott A. Covill Jr
Department: Political Science
Measuring the Effect of Colonialism Upon the Political Development of African Nations, Robert H. Dible
Department: Political Science
Media As a Revolutionary Actor: a Case Study of Nicaragua During the Sandinista Government, Sarah C. Horne
Department: Political Science
Secret Weapon or Neglected Demographic: Youth Mobilization in the 2006 Senatorial Elections, Bradley T. Ingraham
Department: Political Science
Comparative Explanation For the Lack of Universal Health Care in the United States Using the Residual Welfare Models of Great Britain and Canada, Ernest Neilson
Department: Political Science
Power of Persuasive Speech: the Interplay Between Ethnicity, the Speaker, His or Her Message, and the Audience, Michael Panfil
Department: Psychology; Political Science
Assisted Suicide: An Interest Not a Right, Eric G. Roscoe
Department: Political Science
President's Agenda: "The Politics Behind Presidential Spending and the Federal Budget", Justin M. Schafer
Department: Political Science
Civic Capacity and Regional Sustainability: the Evolution of Metropolitan Sustainability Policy, Steven Christian Schott
Department: Political Science
Is the Current Election System in the United States Truly Democratic? a Normative Study of Felon Disenfranchisement in United States Election System, Andre M. Smith
Department: Political Science
Inside the Grand Illustion: How Presidents Make Decisions Based on What They Already Believe, John Warren Steinman
Department: Political Science
Reactions of the United States to External Threats As a Result of Bureaucratic Politics, William J. Stevens
Department: Political Science
Presidential Success in Congress: a Study of Fast Track Authority, Nathaniel Whitfield
Department: Political Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
Road to Military Intervention: An in Depth Look at the U.S. Decision Making Process After the Cold War, Tyler T. Collen
Department: Political Science
Put Your Money Where Your Patients Are: A Study of International Funding for AIDS Treatment, Margaux J. Day
Department: Political Science
Eroded Path to Conflict: A Study of Unsustainable Environmental Practices and Acute Violent Conflict in the Sudan and Sri Lanka, Taylor Jon Delhagen
Department: Political Science
Construction of Communal Identities, Andrew Etter
Department: Political Science; Spanish
Re-Conceptualizing Political Participation: Hannah Arendt, Jurgen Habermas, and Their Theories of Democratic Engagement, Emily Cross Hilty
Department: Political Science
Judicial Review of the Executive Prerogative: Do Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures or Does Objectivity Reign Supreme?, James Thomas Lazar
Department: Political Science
Selling Wars to the Morally Conscious: A Comparative Content Analysis of Leaders' Use of Just Rhetoric As An Extension of Policy, Ryan Matura
Department: Political Science
Public Opinion's Negative Effect on U.S. Foreign Drug Policy, Nicholas Morris
Department: Political Science
Will They or Will They Not? the Lone Crescent and Star's Quest For European Union Membership, Michael George Prohaska
Department: Political Science
Foreign Influence in the Third Wave of Democratization: a Comparative Study of United States Hard and Soft Power Influence, Elizabeth Steiner
Department: Political Science
Inter Arma Leges Silent: the Supreme Court and Their Decisions During War, Anne M. Teckman
Department: Political Science
Uzbekistan on the Threshold of Revolution? Radical Islam and the Threat to the Post-Soviet State, Andrew White Whitner
Department: Political Science; History
Local Citizen's Knowledge and Attitudes of Environmental Concerns Within the Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area: Transitions Towards the Goals and Ideals of Ecosystems Management, Tim W. Wyatt
Department: Political Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
Presidential Success in Congress: the Myth of Second Term Failure, Christopher M. Billow
Department: Political Science
From the Euro to the Afro Lessons From European Monetary Union For Africa, Patrick M. Bourke
Department: Economics; Political Science
Can You Believe What's on TV These Days? An Examination of the Effects of Citizen Groups on the Enforcement of Federal Communications Commission Broadcast Indecency Policy, Andrew C. Darneille
Department: Political Science
Rise of the Extreme Right in Western Europe Since 1945: Theories and Cases, Michael Rubin Kwong
Department: Political Science
Making the Grade or Grading the Makers: A Look at Nclb in America, Christopher James Laubenthal
Department: Political Science
Government Warning--The Ingredients of this Regime may be Carcinogenic: A Comparative Case Study of Corruption in Four Developing States, Audra Lewicki
Department: Political Science
Power to Negotiate: How Power Symmetry Affected American Bilateral Arms Control Treaties, Eli Lewine
Department: Political Science
With No Uncertain Terms: An Examination of the Effects of Legislative Term Limits on State Fiscal Management, Matthew A. Long
Department: Political Science
Casting a Wide Net: An Investigation Into How Political Campaigns Are Utilizing the Internet For Political Gain, Joshua Nowack
Department: Political Science
Art of Changing Minds: a Comparative Study of the Political Significance of the Works of F.T. Marinetti and Vaclav Havel, Michael C. Nunnari Jr.
Department: Political Science
Photo Finish or a Finished Photo? a Picture of Hard-Fought and Low-Key U.S. Senate Competition, 1998-2004, Douglas Mark Palmer
Department: Political Science
Disease and Conflict: Analyzing the Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Sameera S. Pochiraju
Department: Political Science
Does Public Involvement in Economic Development Benefit the State? a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Four Case Studies, Andrea Porter
Department: Political Science
Strategies For Success: Union Learning and the Latino Migrant Worker Community in the United States, Shoshana Ellenbogen Raskas
Department: Political Science; Spanish
Voice For the Future? the Lasting Effects of the 1968 Student Movement on Contemporary German Foreign Policy, Jessica L. Riviere
Department: German Studies; Political Science
Broken Landscapes, Divided Classes: a Portrait of Agrarian Reform and Its Effects on Rural Class Structure, Sarah Elizabeth Romorini
Department: International Relations; Political Science
Strange Bedfellows: the Influencing Effect of U.S. Economic Incentives Upon Level of Cooperation in the 'War on Terror', Lindsay Bronwen Tingley
Department: Political Science
Whores and Madonnas- When Religion Meets Reality: Examining the Effect of Religious Narratives on Non-Governmental Organizations Aiding in the Sex Industry in Thailand, Laura VanVoorhees
Department: Religious Studies; Political Science
New Tensions in American Politics: Bioethics and Philosophies of the Moral Individual, Kristen Kirby Veblen
Department: Political Science
Onward Christian Soldiers: a Look Into Religious Terrorism, Jonathan F. Webster
Department: Political Science
Balancing Threats in the Taiwan Straits: Neorealist Theory and U.S.-Taiwan-China Relations in the 1990s, Ian Willey
Department: Political Science
Hope Is Not a Strategy: The Impact of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition on the Peace Process of Northern Ireland, Elizabeth Ivana Yuko
Department: Political Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2004
Conditions and Characteristics of Successful Intervention Into Intrastate Conflicts: A Matter of Who and How, Malek E. Abboud
Department: Political Science
Racially Divisive? The Racial Campaign Strategies of the Republican Party For Presidential Campaigns 1988, 1992, and 1996, Justin M. Alaburda
Department: Political Science
Who's Hungary For Turkey? An Analysis of European Union Expansion, Samuel F. Almy
Department: Political Science
Unlocking the Door: Using United States Foreign Economic Policy For Bilateral Trade Relations As a New Multi-Case Study Approach to the Question of Trade and Conflict, Aaron S. Applebaum
Department: Political Science
Three Easy Steps- How to Handle a Sex Scandal: A Study of Crisis Rhetoric as a Method for Navigating a Political Sex Scandal, Stephanie A. Berning
Department: Political Science
Qualitative Analysis Into the Investigation of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to Developing Countries in Particular Asia, Africa, and Latin America and to Determind If Regime Type Plays An Important Role in Direct Investment Flows, Kojo Boateng
Department: Political Science
News, Schools, and Polls, Rachel W. Cole
Department: Political Science
Replicating the South African Model? Truth Commissions As Tools For Reconciliation: The Cases of Nigeria,Ghana, and Sierra Leone, Christabel E. Dadzie
Department: Political Science
Caught Between: An Analysis of Guatemala's Battle with Internal Insurgent Groups and how it Affects Civilians, in Particular Women, Rian Graves
Department: Political Science
Testing Rational Deterrence Theory: An Analysis of Defense Spending and Conflict, Cyrus D. Karimian
Department: Political Science
Silent Partner: The Duality of Terrorist Negotiations, Kelly C. Kenyhercz
Department: Political Science
Positive Peacebuilding: Tools of Non-Governmental Organizations in Southeastern Africa, Erin King
Department: Political Science
Art of Justice: An Examination of the Architecture of the United States Supreme Court Building As a Mode of Political Expression, Erin M. Kriynovich
Department: Political Science; Art and Art History
Realism, Liberalism, and United Nations Reform: Which School of Thought, Realism, or Liberalism, Better Explains the Successes and Failures of United Nations Reform?, Emmanuel N.L. Lamptey
Department: Political Science
How to Be a Liberal in the Face of Liberalism, Sarah F. Lawton
Department: Political Science
Hand That Gives You Life, Strangles You By the Throat: What Is the Hidden Agenda of the World Bank?, Adoley Mensa-Bonsu
Department: Political Science
Learning From the Past: An Examination of Decision-Making and Covert Actions, Clinton J. Miller
Department: Political Science
Rally 'Round the Flag: The Impact of 9/11 on the Patriotism of Interest Group Advertising, Joshua M. Pantesco
Department: Political Science
Language Mobilizing the Masses: Political Rhetoric in Cold War West German Electoral Speeches; Its Breakdown Along Linguistic Lines and Ability to Inspire Voters, Cecily Raynor
Department: Political Science; German Studies
Putting the States Back to Work: An Examination of State Economic Policies and Their Effect on Employment, Douglas S. Reiser
Department: Political Science
Red on Pink: The Effect of the Cuban Socialist Revolution on the Lives of Women, Mary Kate F. Russell
Department: Political Science
A Two-Level Games Approach to the Study of American Foreign Policy Towards Cuba, Katherine E. Ryan
Department: Political Science
Pathways to the Formal Agenda: An Analysis of John W. Kingdon's Multiple Streams Theory of Agenda Setting, Mary Schantz
Department: Political Science
Deadly American Waiting Game: An Analysis of the Clinton Administration's Decision Not to Intervene in Rwanda in 1994, Erin E. Skinner
Department: Political Science
Urban Regimes, Gerald Turner
Department: Political Science
What is more Important: Context or Strategies? A Study of Whether it is the Strategies themselves or if it is the Context Under which they are Employed that will Determine the Success or Failure of the Organizing Campaign, James D. Williams Jr.
Department: Political Science
Regional Economic Integration in ECOWAS and SADC, Chriss Yohuno
Department: Political Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
Cognition in Foreign Policy Crisis Decision-Making: Computer Analysis of Public Statements By John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and George H. W. Bush, Thomas W. Ahlfors
Department: Political Science; Computer Science
A Case of Security Interests: Explaining Indian and U.S. Intervention in the 1971 War, James Alter
Department: Political Science
Neorealism Vs. Neoliberalism: An Analysis of Two Case Studies Regarding Vladimir Putin Foreign Policy, Amy M. Baker
Department: Political Science
Progressive Report on the Impact of the Transnational Women's Movement on National Legislation Addressing Violence Against Women, Lisa M. Basalla
Department: Political Science
Hawks, Doves, and Agents: An Application of Two-Level Games to the Negotiation Process of Relocating Marine Air Corps Station Futenma in Okinawa, Japan, Hannalori S. Bates
Department: Political Science
The 'Dirty War' in Argentina: Explaining Variation in the Use of Repression, Amir S. Beg
Department: Political Science
Presidential Character Type and Management Style Preference: a Study of Their Direct Influences on a Presidential Decision to Wage War on a Foreign Aggressor, F. Graham Binder
Department: Political Science
Towards a Wider Understanding of Advertising: a Neo-Marxist Theoretical Critique of the Concept of Advertising, Devin Deaton
Department: Political Science