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Honors Theses from 2024

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The People's House?: Countermajoritarianism in the House of Representatives, Andrew Hoffman

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AI-ing the Future: An Analysis of Past Treaty Features in Regulating Innovative Technologies, Sophia Tammera

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An Experimental Test on the Effects of Digital Framing Disputes on Social Movement Organization’s Mobilization and Organizational Image, Alison Trahan

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Developing Politics While Detained: How Juvenile Incarceration Impacts Political Participation and Behavior, Jonathan Wilkins

Honors Theses from 2023

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The Future of Digital Resistance: An Analysis of App Popularity During Service-Based Internet Shutdowns, Helena Buckman

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“And We’ll Fight Them For 800 More”: Violence and Nationalism in Northern Ireland, Hadley Day

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Roads Less Traveled: Abortion, Interstate Commerce, and the Post-Dobbs Politics of Travel, Caleb Fulford

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Under the Blue Berets: Race and Ethnicity as Factors for Peacekeeping Success, Sam Ketchem

Honors Theses from 2022

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“Protect Black Women”: Narratives of Black Women’s Experiences with Police, Gabrielle Bozeman

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Understanding Italian Corruption: Law 190/2012 and Network Corruption, Isabel Conti

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In Search of a Just Peace: Insurgency and Peace Processes in Northeast India, Dermot Curtin

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Braving the Breakers: A Study of U.S. Political Polarization & the United States’ International Reputation as a Reliable Global Partner, Paige Groome

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The Journey of Unlearning: A Close Reading of Civil War Pedagogy in Alabama and Virginia, Michaela Hill

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Islamist Reactions to Coup D’états, Maggie Manson

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State Political Entrepreneurs in the Age of Modi: Opposition Politics in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal from 2019-2021, Maxwell Markel

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Reset The Boundary: State Activism in Juvenile Transfer Reform, Yuchen Tang

Honors Theses from 2021

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“All Is Quiet in Arlington”: The Desegregation of Arlington County Public Schools and How We Remember It, Ella Benbow

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Defining Sexism: The Impact of Elite Cues on Conceptualizations and Labeling of Gender-Based Prejudice, Leslie Davis

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The Denial Machine and its Effects on Climate Policy, Peter Faragasso

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Work in the Twenty-First Century: A Marxist-Feminist Reconceptualization on a Communicative Model, Ziyi Fu

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Constructing Communities: The Effect of Housing Policy on County Populations and Election Outcomes, Ashley Hernandez Estrada

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Autocratic Influence in Democratic Transitions: How the Timing of Constitutional Reform Impacts Democratic Consolidation, Benjamin Hotchner

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Playing by the Rules: The Use of Special Rules in the Contemporary United States House of Representatives, Zachary Kirk

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Dial E for Expansion: The Future of Trans-Atlantic Cooperation with the United States and NATO, Charles Williamson

Honors Theses from 2020

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Up Close and Personal: Ritual, Social Criticism, and the Russell Tribunal, Henry Blackburn

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Who's in Charge Here? How Motivations Shape Instances of CEO Activism, Clare DaBaldo

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What Europe Learns About Itself: Political Differences and their Effects on Citizenship Education about the European Union in England, Scotland and Nordrhein-Westfalen, William Moore

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White Liberalism: Jordan Peele Reads Harper Lee, Nicholas Oviedo-Torres

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Measuring Anti-Vaxx Sentiment on Social Media, Campbell Scheuerman

Honors Theses from 2019

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Who Does The Dying?: 'Martial Races' and War Time Unit Deployment in the Indian Army, Ammon Frederick Harteis

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The Art of Repression: Digital Dissent and Power Consolidation in El-Sisi’s Egypt, Wesley Garner

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Sometimes Enemies, Sometimes Friends, Christopher David Gundermann

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Political Motivations in Government Debt Issuance: Evidence from Mexico, Daniel Herrera

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The Rust on Gideon’s Trumpet: A Theoretical Diagnostic of Public Defense in America, Luke Hogg

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When Science Isn’t Enough: The Importance of a New Social Contract for Conservation Communication, Deborah Kornblut

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Comparing the Behavior of Indigenous Tribes, States, and Foreign Sovereigns as Submitters of Amicus Curiae within the Supreme Court, Grace Murray

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Small Town Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Opportunities and Challenges for Mayor’s Courts in Ohio, Alexander Nocks

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Supreme Court Opinion Authorship Attribution on a Case-by-Case Basis, Blake Phillips

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"Full of Internal Contradictions": A Neutral Case for the Invalidation of the Death Penalty, Carson A. Whitehurst

Honors Theses from 2018

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Standing At A Crossroad: An Examination of Societal Expectations on the Attitudes of African American Men & Women towards Academic Achievement at a PWI and a HBCU, Dara Bright

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Accessing the Right to Choose: Factors Predicting the Enactment of State-Level Abortion Clinic Access Laws, Hannah Gourdie

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Breaking the Stereotype: Age and Public Opinion Towards Refugees in Germany, Michelle Hermes

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J.S. Mill the Democrat: Connecting Mill, Athens, and Election Reform, Devon Wolfe

Honors Theses from 2017

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Hooligans or Saboteurs? Democratic Backtracking in Eastern Europe, Courtney A. Blackington

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Responding to International Health Emergencies: Comparing the World Health Organization Response to Ebola and Zika, Halia M. Czosnek

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The Christian Right and Israel: A Love Story?, Joseph Malanson

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A Woman’s Place in the State House: Exploring Backlash Effects of Women’s Increased Descriptive Representation, Emily S. Wasek

Honors Theses from 2016

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Imposing Change: Analyzing Lustration Policies in Post-War Iraq and Germany, Michael Thomas Hamilton

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Margaret Thatcher, Dilma Rousseff, & Angela Merkel: The Impact of Female World Leaders through Collaborative Negotiation, Alexandra Grace Phillips

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Disgust: An Emotional Component of Conservative Attitudes toward Transgender Individuals, John Stuart

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Equitable Distribution of Microfinance: How language, ethnicity, and religion affect access to microcredit loans, Hallie Elizabeth Westlund

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A Few Good Men: A Quantitative Analysis of High-Level People's Liberation Army (PLA) Promotion Patterns under Xi Jinping, Jimmy Zhongmin Zhang

Honors Theses from 2015

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Examining the Role of Cultural Paradigm Shift on Originalist Interpretation: Implications on the Second Amendment, Arvin Alaigh

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Patterns of Controversy: The Factors that Influence the Passage of Voter Identification Laws, Stephen D'Alessio

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From Activism to Annoyance: Framing, Threat, and Public Tolerance toward Protest, Samuel E.R. Dunham

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Chinese National Identities and Understanding the Decision for War with India in 1962, Yuhao Du

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Not All Politicians Are the Same: The Effect of Gender and Political Party on Candidate Evaluation, Minu V. Nagashunmugam

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Reasonable Expectations: State Appellate Courts and the Third-Party Doctrine, Tanner M. Russo

Honors Theses from 2014

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Commitment without Control: The Burdensharing Dilemma in the US-Japan Alliance, Jake A. Douglas

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Political Chameleons: An Exploration of Personality and Political Conformity, Taylor N. Feenstra

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Emirati Foreign Aid: Overview and Foreign Policy Implications, Maryam I. Kanna

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Fixing failing schools: How states and localities implement federal reforms, Keenan Kelley

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Partisan-Colored Glasses? How Polarization has Affected the Formation and Impact of Party Competence Evaluations, Rachel Lienesch

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Parents and Preschool Decisions: How Networks, Research, and Priorities Affect Program Choice, Molly Michie

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When Social Pressure Fails: Evidence from Two Direct Mail Experiments, Margaret Schwenzfeier

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The Impact of Solar Lights on the Individual Welfare and Fishing Productivity of Liberian Fishermen, William Smith

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Reconciled Liberalism as a Mechanism for Foreign Aid Evaluation, Taylor S. Stephens

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To Polish or Demolish? : The Resurgence and Reimagining of American Rail, Ryan R. Warsing

Honors Theses from 2013

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United States Foreign Policy and Multilateral Institutional Effectiveness, Kathryn E. Beaver

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Disadvantage and Self-interest: Social Class and Policy Preferences, Andrew M. Engelhardt

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The Wrong Right Stuff: Why NASA Consistently Fails at Congress, Andrew Follett

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John Locke and the Creation of Liberal Subjects, Mason H. Rayner

Honors Theses from 2012

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Why Trust Really Matters: How Americans' Declining Trust in Government May Be Altering the Ideological Landscape, Devin Callison Braun

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Debt Ceiling Politics, Christopher E. D'Alessio

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Legal Systems and Competing Notions of Justice: Explaining Variance in Religious and Nonreligious Philosophical Exemptions across Western Democracies, Chelsea Olivia German

Honors Theses from 2011

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Newt Gingrich and GOPAC: Training the Farm Team that helped win the Republican Revolution of 1994, William Corkery

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The Tea Party in American Politics, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner

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Facilitating Conflict: The Effect of Non-state Material Aid to Insurgencies, Chelsea Leigh Estancona

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Gender and Health Care Reform: The Power of Party and Perspective, Alexa McClanahan

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The Political Economy of the Vanishing Marginals: Tiebout Sorting and the American Political System, Brandon M. Pizzola

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Mr. Socrates Goes To Washington: The Care of the Self and the Cultivation of Citizenship in Late-Modernity, Michael Christopher Sardo

Honors Theses from 2010

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Who Receives Aid from Faith-Based NGOs? An Analysis of Country Level Aid Commitments, Maura Bardos

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Examining Compliance Rates of European Union Member States, Omar Farid

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U.S.-China Bilateral Relations from 1989 to 2010 as a Consequence of Economic Changes, Jie Hou

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The Crux of the Matter: the Intersection of Deliberative Traditions in the Wren Cross Controversy, K. Bailey Thomson

Honors Theses from 2009

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Creating Citizens: Civics Education, Civic Socialization and Engagement Patterns, Allison Penelope Anoll

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Online Social Networks and Their Relationship to Social Capital and Political Attitudes, Daniel M. Byler

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David vs. Goliath: Offense-Defense Theory and Asymmetric Wars, Alexander Ely

Honors Theses from 2008

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Deconstructing the Gender Card: An Examination of Femininity Performance in US Elections, Lauren Garrett

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Can Foreign Aid Give an Incentive for Good Governance? The Case of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Jordan, Robert R. Landicho

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The Nexus of Business and Politics: The Case of Same-Sex Partner Benefits, Ryne Scott

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Religion and the Political Sphere: The Limitations of Public Reason, Joshua Allen Turner