• Candidate emergence and the first party era, 1789-1816 

    Gooch, Aric Dale (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    My dissertation evaluates the development of candidate in the early republic, 1788-1816. The creation of nomination procedures to structure candidate emergence informs our understanding on the development of political ...
  • The political representation cycle and citizen satisfaction with the Democratic process 

    Norberg, Joshua (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    This project investigates how citizens in advanced industrial democracies evaluate their democratic institutions. Previous literature has focused on the role of either individual characteristics - personal economic conditions, ...