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Studying Janus behavior : how support, deterrence, grievances and organizational structure shape violent and peaceful behaviors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Examples abound of movements once entirely fixated on violence who choose to enter the political arena, exchanging politics by force for politics of a gentler sort. These groups exhibit "Janus-faced" personalities, ...
Power-sharing and democratic development : nested analysis of political institutions in third-wave democracies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The third wave of democratization drastically changed the world map of politics and raises a puzzle for institutionalists in comparative politics: how do political institutions play a role during the process of democratization? ...
A search for the behavioral roots of consociationalism : the case of Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Contemporary approaches have increasingly focused on the structural elements of consociational theory thereby revealing a neglect of crucial behavioral ...
Channeling the waves : the use of radio narrowcasting on niche voting groups in the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Radio has long been used as a piece of a political candidate's media arsenal at every level of politics. However, our understanding of this widely ...
The National Endowment for Democracy: a quantitative analysis on the effectiveness of grants promoting democracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This paper seeks to analyze how effective the National Endowment for Democracy's (NED) grants are at promoting democracy. The expressed purpose of the ...
Understanding citizen satisfaction with democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The collapse of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe during the late twentieth century produced several new democracies, providing citizens ...
Deterring true believers : perffect [sic] deterrence theory, capability and the problem of Al Qaeda
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
During the Cold War, a large body of literature was compiled by scholars studying international conflict - that of deterrence. Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, however, a new body of literature has begun to grow - ...
The Bush effect : campaign news linking presidential candidates to the incumbent president
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
While much of the current political science and political communication scholarship contends that public approval of the incumbent administration and its policies plays a substantial role in elections at all levels of ...
Cosmopolitanism as a measure of political tolerance : an inquiry into the acceptability of homosexuality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The term "cosmopolitanism," or feelings of global citizenry, is often used in contemporary culture but neglected in the social sciences. This study attempts to resurrect cosmopolitanism and evaluate its relationship with ...
Redundancy in a community corrections network : testing the role of service-provider redundancy in Missouri's community correction implementation network
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Implementation networks are composed of policy service providers that are continually changing in the winds of differing implementation adjustments. Service provider redundancy has been observed by scholars as a possible ...
Understanding of state capacity in civil war onset, 1984-1999
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Scholars have used multiple approaches to investigate civil war. Among various civil war studies, those examining civil war onset are important because onset is the first stage of the war. In the early stage of civil war ...
Church and state : a content analysis of religion in the news during the 2008 presidential election
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The presentation of groups, group leaders, and individuals by the news media has a significant effect on public opinion. However, few studies have ...
Improving studies of war outcomes and termination : introducing the battles of modern warfare data set
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This project asks the question of how the battle-level analysis of war improves our understanding of interstate conflict outcomes and war termination. ...
Hawks and doves reconsidered: the case of US foreign policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
What are the domestic determinants of international conflict? A number of political scientists have proposed that leaders in democracies initiate interstate disputes or use force abroad to divert the electorate's attention ...
Indigenous political representation in Bolivia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The 1990s witnessed the widespread formation of political parties organized around indigenous identity throughout the Latin American region. This project examines that phenomenon within the case of Bolivia. Bolivia was ...
Assessing the independence of state parties : issue ownership and morality politics in US state party platforms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study uses party platforms to assess the degree of independence between state and national political parties in the United States in light of issue ownership theory and morality politics. Utilizing a coding scheme ...
The political and economic consequences of the summit diplomatic activity of the U.S. president
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
American presidents have attended more than 2,000 summit meetings since the end of the Second World War. Yet, what we know about these meetings is limited to historical case studies. In this dissertation, I move beyond ...
Impeachment in Paraguay 2012: the case of Fernando Lugo
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The literature of impeachment process in South America shows that since 1978 to 2005, 25% of all presidents were removed and 65% of those who were ...
War, what is it good for? Absolutely something : a large N study of conflict efficacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This paper examines the process of goal achievement in conflict. Previous research on violent conflict focuses on winning and losing but fails to examine ...
Economic sanctions, resource wealth, and increased state utility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Economic sanctions have become an important tool in the hands of world leaders. As globalization has made the world a smaller place and increased the economic ties between nations; economic sanctions have become a preferred ...