Honors Theses from 2024
The People's House?: Countermajoritarianism in the House of Representatives, Andrew Hoffman
AI-ing the Future: An Analysis of Past Treaty Features in Regulating Innovative Technologies, Sophia Tammera
An Experimental Test on the Effects of Digital Framing Disputes on Social Movement Organization’s Mobilization and Organizational Image, Alison Trahan
Developing Politics While Detained: How Juvenile Incarceration Impacts Political Participation and Behavior, Jonathan Wilkins
Honors Theses from 2023
The Future of Digital Resistance: An Analysis of App Popularity During Service-Based Internet Shutdowns, Helena Buckman
“And We’ll Fight Them For 800 More”: Violence and Nationalism in Northern Ireland, Hadley Day
Roads Less Traveled: Abortion, Interstate Commerce, and the Post-Dobbs Politics of Travel, Caleb Fulford
Under the Blue Berets: Race and Ethnicity as Factors for Peacekeeping Success, Sam Ketchem
Honors Theses from 2022
“Protect Black Women”: Narratives of Black Women’s Experiences with Police, Gabrielle Bozeman
Understanding Italian Corruption: Law 190/2012 and Network Corruption, Isabel Conti
In Search of a Just Peace: Insurgency and Peace Processes in Northeast India, Dermot Curtin
The Journey of Unlearning: A Close Reading of Civil War Pedagogy in Alabama and Virginia, Michaela Hill
Islamist Reactions to Coup D’états, Maggie Manson
State Political Entrepreneurs in the Age of Modi: Opposition Politics in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal from 2019-2021, Maxwell Markel
Reset The Boundary: State Activism in Juvenile Transfer Reform, Yuchen Tang
Honors Theses from 2021
“All Is Quiet in Arlington”: The Desegregation of Arlington County Public Schools and How We Remember It, Ella Benbow
Defining Sexism: The Impact of Elite Cues on Conceptualizations and Labeling of Gender-Based Prejudice, Leslie Davis
The Denial Machine and its Effects on Climate Policy, Peter Faragasso
Work in the Twenty-First Century: A Marxist-Feminist Reconceptualization on a Communicative Model, Ziyi Fu
Constructing Communities: The Effect of Housing Policy on County Populations and Election Outcomes, Ashley Hernandez Estrada
Autocratic Influence in Democratic Transitions: How the Timing of Constitutional Reform Impacts Democratic Consolidation, Benjamin Hotchner
Playing by the Rules: The Use of Special Rules in the Contemporary United States House of Representatives, Zachary Kirk
Dial E for Expansion: The Future of Trans-Atlantic Cooperation with the United States and NATO, Charles Williamson
Honors Theses from 2020
Up Close and Personal: Ritual, Social Criticism, and the Russell Tribunal, Henry Blackburn
Who's in Charge Here? How Motivations Shape Instances of CEO Activism, Clare DaBaldo
White Liberalism: Jordan Peele Reads Harper Lee, Nicholas Oviedo-Torres
Measuring Anti-Vaxx Sentiment on Social Media, Campbell Scheuerman
Honors Theses from 2019
Who Does The Dying?: 'Martial Races' and War Time Unit Deployment in the Indian Army, Ammon Frederick Harteis
The Art of Repression: Digital Dissent and Power Consolidation in El-Sisi’s Egypt, Wesley Garner
Sometimes Enemies, Sometimes Friends, Christopher David Gundermann
Political Motivations in Government Debt Issuance: Evidence from Mexico, Daniel Herrera
The Rust on Gideon’s Trumpet: A Theoretical Diagnostic of Public Defense in America, Luke Hogg
When Science Isn’t Enough: The Importance of a New Social Contract for Conservation Communication, Deborah Kornblut
Small Town Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Opportunities and Challenges for Mayor’s Courts in Ohio, Alexander Nocks
Supreme Court Opinion Authorship Attribution on a Case-by-Case Basis, Blake Phillips
"Full of Internal Contradictions": A Neutral Case for the Invalidation of the Death Penalty, Carson A. Whitehurst
Honors Theses from 2018
Accessing the Right to Choose: Factors Predicting the Enactment of State-Level Abortion Clinic Access Laws, Hannah Gourdie
Breaking the Stereotype: Age and Public Opinion Towards Refugees in Germany, Michelle Hermes
J.S. Mill the Democrat: Connecting Mill, Athens, and Election Reform, Devon Wolfe
Honors Theses from 2017
Hooligans or Saboteurs? Democratic Backtracking in Eastern Europe, Courtney A. Blackington
Responding to International Health Emergencies: Comparing the World Health Organization Response to Ebola and Zika, Halia M. Czosnek
The Christian Right and Israel: A Love Story?, Joseph Malanson
A Woman’s Place in the State House: Exploring Backlash Effects of Women’s Increased Descriptive Representation, Emily S. Wasek
Honors Theses from 2016
Imposing Change: Analyzing Lustration Policies in Post-War Iraq and Germany, Michael Thomas Hamilton
Margaret Thatcher, Dilma Rousseff, & Angela Merkel: The Impact of Female World Leaders through Collaborative Negotiation, Alexandra Grace Phillips
Disgust: An Emotional Component of Conservative Attitudes toward Transgender Individuals, John Stuart
Equitable Distribution of Microfinance: How language, ethnicity, and religion affect access to microcredit loans, Hallie Elizabeth Westlund
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
Examining the Role of Cultural Paradigm Shift on Originalist Interpretation: Implications on the Second Amendment, Arvin Alaigh
Patterns of Controversy: The Factors that Influence the Passage of Voter Identification Laws, Stephen D'Alessio
From Activism to Annoyance: Framing, Threat, and Public Tolerance toward Protest, Samuel E.R. Dunham
Chinese National Identities and Understanding the Decision for War with India in 1962, Yuhao Du
Not All Politicians Are the Same: The Effect of Gender and Political Party on Candidate Evaluation, Minu V. Nagashunmugam
Reasonable Expectations: State Appellate Courts and the Third-Party Doctrine, Tanner M. Russo
Honors Theses from 2014
Commitment without Control: The Burdensharing Dilemma in the US-Japan Alliance, Jake A. Douglas
Political Chameleons: An Exploration of Personality and Political Conformity, Taylor N. Feenstra
Emirati Foreign Aid: Overview and Foreign Policy Implications, Maryam I. Kanna
Fixing failing schools: How states and localities implement federal reforms, Keenan Kelley
Partisan-Colored Glasses? How Polarization has Affected the Formation and Impact of Party Competence Evaluations, Rachel Lienesch
Parents and Preschool Decisions: How Networks, Research, and Priorities Affect Program Choice, Molly Michie
When Social Pressure Fails: Evidence from Two Direct Mail Experiments, Margaret Schwenzfeier
The Impact of Solar Lights on the Individual Welfare and Fishing Productivity of Liberian Fishermen, William Smith
Reconciled Liberalism as a Mechanism for Foreign Aid Evaluation, Taylor S. Stephens
To Polish or Demolish? : The Resurgence and Reimagining of American Rail, Ryan R. Warsing
Honors Theses from 2013
United States Foreign Policy and Multilateral Institutional Effectiveness, Kathryn E. Beaver
Disadvantage and Self-interest: Social Class and Policy Preferences, Andrew M. Engelhardt
The Wrong Right Stuff: Why NASA Consistently Fails at Congress, Andrew Follett
John Locke and the Creation of Liberal Subjects, Mason H. Rayner
Honors Theses from 2012
Why Trust Really Matters: How Americans' Declining Trust in Government May Be Altering the Ideological Landscape, Devin Callison Braun
Debt Ceiling Politics, Christopher E. D'Alessio
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
Newt Gingrich and GOPAC: Training the Farm Team that helped win the Republican Revolution of 1994, William Corkery
The Tea Party in American Politics, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Facilitating Conflict: The Effect of Non-state Material Aid to Insurgencies, Chelsea Leigh Estancona
Gender and Health Care Reform: The Power of Party and Perspective, Alexa McClanahan
The Political Economy of the Vanishing Marginals: Tiebout Sorting and the American Political System, Brandon M. Pizzola
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
Who Receives Aid from Faith-Based NGOs? An Analysis of Country Level Aid Commitments, Maura Bardos
Examining Compliance Rates of European Union Member States, Omar Farid
U.S.-China Bilateral Relations from 1989 to 2010 as a Consequence of Economic Changes, Jie Hou
The Crux of the Matter: the Intersection of Deliberative Traditions in the Wren Cross Controversy, K. Bailey Thomson
Honors Theses from 2009
Creating Citizens: Civics Education, Civic Socialization and Engagement Patterns, Allison Penelope Anoll
Online Social Networks and Their Relationship to Social Capital and Political Attitudes, Daniel M. Byler
David vs. Goliath: Offense-Defense Theory and Asymmetric Wars, Alexander Ely
Honors Theses from 2008
Deconstructing the Gender Card: An Examination of Femininity Performance in US Elections, Lauren Garrett
Can Foreign Aid Give an Incentive for Good Governance? The Case of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Jordan, Robert R. Landicho
The Nexus of Business and Politics: The Case of Same-Sex Partner Benefits, Ryne Scott
Religion and the Political Sphere: The Limitations of Public Reason, Joshua Allen Turner
