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Can money buy health? : foreign aid, changes in aid, and the impact of human health in sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] African countries are known to be the largest aid recipients in the world. Many countries worldwide have provided assistance to Africa through the ...
The ideological gap : behavioral trends of the politically active, 1976-2004
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This thesis tracks the relationship between voter positions on ideological issues and voter partisanship in presidential elections from 1976 to 2004 using data from the ANES. Based on Stimson's (1975) work, the electorate ...
State actions and response following instances of politicide
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The development of the international human-rights regime in the second half of the 20th century has led to an increased awareness and rhetorical/normative condemnation of outbreaks of ethnopolitica violence. While concerns ...
Traditional institutions, authortarian [sic] legacies, and democratic support in southern Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This dissertation investigates citizens' support for democracy in southern Africa and the factors that explain variations in that support. Borrowing insights from the historical institutionalism literature, I argue that ...
Games leaders play : renegade regimes and international crises
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation is a game-theoretic analysis of international crises between the US and renegade regimes after the Cold War. The main puzzle that leads ...
Women state legislators and represenation [sic] : a case study of Missouri, 1923-2009
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Over the last century women legislators have made tremendous gains in state legislatures; yet their numbers remain far below the proportion of women ...
The impact of European Union membership conditionality of human rights in Turkey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Human rights abuses have been one of the fundamental obstacles impeding Turkey's membership in the European Union. The country has had a dismal human ...
American exceptionalism, missionary politics, and the religious impulse in contemporary foreign policy attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation offers an examination of the effects of religion and its attendant moral politics on attitudes towards foreign policy issues. America's ...
Why do people abstain from the European Parliament elections? : an empirical test of second order theory, 1979-1999
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines why people abstained from the European Parliament (EP) elections in the period of 1979-1999. Making use of second order ...
Passive representation and the client-bureaucrat relationship: communication and demand inducement in the patient-provider relationship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The ways that passive representation could produce substantive benefits for the clients of a bureaucracy irrespective of active representation are an understudied aspect of the theory of representative bureaucracy. Further, ...
Comparing theories of the policy process and state tuition policy : critical theory, institutional rational choice, and advocacy coalitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation triangulates four theories of the policy process to explain state-level tuition policy change. Very little policy research examines theories of the policy process in concert. Moreover, the field of higher ...
The effect of civil society on governance and institutional performance in third- and fourth-Wave democracies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation project draws on extant civil society theories in explaining how strong and dense civil societies help enhance the sustainability of ...
The logic of decisions in militarized disputes : the effect of regime, power, arms contorol [sic], and airpower on decision-making in militarized disputes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study examines the causal relationship among pre and intradispute information and decision-makers' decisions determining evolution of militarize disputes. The identified causal factors are interconnected with one ...
Suspicious signs : effects of newscaster scripts, symbols and actions on audience perception of news organization bias
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
In the wake of September 11, a wave of patriotism swept across the country. Flags and patriotic paraphernalia popped up almost everywhere - including on the lapels of television news anchor people. The display of symbols ...
Great games redux: energy security and the emergence of tripolarity in Eurasia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Securing energy resources has become a key aspect of foreign policy-making since the 1970s. States have used military and economic foreign policy tools to secure the supply of energy to their domestic markets. With the ...
Economic voting in new democracies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This study investigates economic voting in 70 new democracies that have experienced regime transition since 1974. By incorporating the analysis of elections in virtually all new democracies, this study shows how electorates ...
Understanding ethnoreligious conflict : the state, discrimination and international politics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Literature on religion's role in understanding conflict in international relations is not well developed. This is quite surprising considering the series of events since 1979 Iranian revolution such as the Islamic rebellion ...
Determinants of civil wars : a quantitative analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
In this dissertation, I investigate the conditions that facilitate the civil wars incidences and try to provide a deeper understanding of large scale domestic violence by formulating a new and more comprehensive model, ...
The culture wars & political polarization in perspective : why polarization and its perturbations are a persistant [i.e., persistent] puzzle in political science
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Political polarization in the American electorate has received a great deal of attention in recent years with most of the research focusing on social issues and their impact on electoral outcomes. However, scant attention ...
The dynamics of modern realignments : examining the role of campaign messages in the realignment process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation studies the dynamics of partisan realignments by tracing the realignments of Evangelical and military officers. The first goal of ...