Browsing Political Science Theses and Dissertations by Issue Date
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The War Lobby: Iraq and the Pursuit of U.S. Primacy
(University of Oregon, 2011-09)In my dissertation I argue that the invasion of Iraq was a part of a larger project by Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to reestablish the unconstrained use of U.S. military power after ... -
The Iraq War and the Post Vietnam Narrative: Culture and Change in the U.S. Army, 2005-2007
(University of Oregon, 2012)The Iraq War was an era of crisis and change within the U.S. Army. The failure of the army to adapt to the war revealed the obsolescence of post Vietnam army culture. Innovation experiences in the war were directionless ... -
From Deliberation to Dialogue: The Role of the I-Thou in Democratic Experience
(University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation argues for a dialogic grounding for deliberative democracy. Building on Habermasian theories of communication and discourse, deliberative democrats think better (more just, fair, and rational) democratic ... -
Countering the China Threat: China's Goodwill Campaign in Foreign Policy, 2002 - 2012
(University of Oregon, 2012)Many scholars observed that the "China threat" narrative greatly influenced the contours of Chinese foreign policy beginning in the mid-1990s. While scholars initially devoted significant attention to this change, there ... -
Storming the Security Council: The Revolution in UNSC Authority Over the Projection of Military Force
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)Why have states requested international authorization for their projections of military force more after 1989? One perspective suggests powerful states should not make such requests. Rather, they should look to their own ... -
Behavioral and Neurobehavioral Features of "Sociality"
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)Standard models of decision making fail to explain the nature of the various important observed patterns of human behavior, e.g. "economic irrationality," demand for "sociality," risk tolerance and the preference of ... -
From Medieval to Modern Union: The Development of the British State between the Union of the Crowns of 1603 and the Acts of Parliament in 1707
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Empirical studies in the sub-field of European state-building within political science have centered on material or institutional explanations for the development of the modern state. These cross-case analyses ignore key ... -
Patterns of Fraud: Tools for Election Forensics
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Election fraud is a serious problem in a number of modern democracies. While election observers can combat this problem to some extent, election forensics aims to provide a low-cost supplement. Forensic tools uncover ... -
Avoiding the Arab Spring? The Politics of Legitimacy in King Mohammed VI's Morocco
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)During the 2011 Arab Spring protests, the Presidents of Egypt and Tunisia lost their seats as a result of popular protests. While protests occurred in Morocco during the same time, King Mohammed VI maintained his throne. ... -
Explaining the Relationship Between the World Trade Organization and Women's Rights, 1981-2010
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)There is general agreement that the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO) has increased the volume and the ease of flow of international trade and, by way of comparison, sparked ... -
Legislative-Executive Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy: Continuum of Consensus and Dissension in Strategic Political Decision Process from 1970 to 2010
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)During the last four decades, precisely from the early 1970s, U.S. foreign policy has played a dominant role in the U.S. political landscape. The current political discourse is predominantly marked by divided government, ... -
Bridging Social Capital, the Power and Development of Transformative Processes: A Story of Two City Clubs
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)This research examines the dynamics and workings of bridging social capital through a comparison of the Cleveland and Portland City Clubs. Bridging social capital differs from most common conceptions of social capital ... -
The Self-Help Cooperative Movement in Los Angeles, 1931-1940
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)This case study examines the Self-Help Cooperative Movement (SHCM). Largely ignored by social scientists for the past eighty years, the movement took place during the Great Depression and, while national in scope, it was ... -
Truth Within the Rubble: Understanding the Expansion of the U.S. Targeted Killing Program
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Between 2001 and 2008 the U.S. launched approximately 50 lethal strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles, (UAVs) in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. In contrast, the Obama administration has launched over 417 strikes since ... -
'Bad Gypsies' and 'Good Roma': Constructing Ethnic and Political Identities through Education in Russia and Hungary
(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)This dissertation seeks to unpack how the two dominant images--'bad Gypsies' and 'good Roma'--developed and are mobilized in formal and informal educational institutions in Hungary and Russia and how those are perceived ... -
Four-Color Political Visions: Origin, Affect, and Assemblage in American Superhero Comic Books
(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)This project develops extant theories of political affect and relational identification and affinity formation by tracing how the visual images of an understudied archive--American superhero comic books--work to build ... -
Crafting International Legal Orders: Horizontal Legal Integration and the Borrowing of Foreign Law in British Courts
(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)My dissertation project seeks to understand when and how do national judges play an active and significant role in how international legal orders do or do not affect their polities. Specifically, I look at when and how ... -
Imagining the Fed: Central Bank Structure and United States Monetary Governance (1913-1968)
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This dissertation analyzes the institutional development and policy performance of the Federal Reserve System from 1913-1968. Whereas existing scholarship assumes Federal Reserve institutions have remained static since ... -
Between Guns and Butter: Cold War Presidents, Agenda-Setting, and Visions of National Strength
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This project investigates how the emergent ideological, institutional, and political commitments of the national defense and security state shape the domestic programmatic agendas of modern presidents. Applying a historical ... -
Pragmatist Policy-making: Rethinking Deliberation and Experimentation in Contemporary Environmental Governance
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)In this dissertation, I generate a theoretical grounding for the practice of collaborative environmental governance that emerges out of practice. The overall architecture of this dissertation traces the structure of Deweyan ...