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Institutional change in congress : the impact of elections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)
the Congress following each of the twenty-three elections. The major hypotheses are tested through the analysis of this data. The relationship between membership change and procedural/rule change is found to be generally weak, but variable among membership...
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 in Afghanistan against...
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 ...
Politics and ideology in the Kingdom of Callaway
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1963)
"This is a study of politics in the town of Fulton, the county of Callaway, in the state of Missouri. It is a study which, from one standpoint, is limited in its scope and focus. No attempt is made to describe and to ...
The impact of international institutions on foreign aid delivery tactics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
carefully manipulate the composition of their foreign aid based on the information they receive from international organizations like the UN General Assembly or the UN human rights bodies. Moreover, I find that within advanced industrial democracies, major...
Crisis of democracy : protest and affective polarization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
the quality of democracy? A large-scale protest is generally associated with periods of massive political change. These mobilizations may spur democratization or enfranchise minority groups. While protests are crucial for providing a voice to the vulnerable...
From trade to international conflict : seeking empirical and theoretical convergence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The relationship between trade and conflict has been an important topic for both academia and policy-makers. However, the literature has been characterized ...
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, ...
Economic voting in new democracies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
in economic conditions under various socio-economic, institutional, and political circumstances. This study addresses a series of questions related to the nexus between economics and elections in new democracies and makes several important findings...
Less risky investment? : The impact of federalism on the inflow of foreign direct investment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
effect on the inflow of foreign direct investment into a country. The causal mechanisms of this theory poses that federalism and decentralization increase the number of veto players in government policymaking thereby increasing policy stability...
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 ...
Elite purges in dictatorships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Elite Purges in Dictatorships examines the causes of elite purges under autocracy. An elite purge is when a dictator forcibly removes an official from their inner circle. I examine why some dictators purge elites and others ...
Institutions and issues : explaining radical right party existence and support in Europe, 1980-2005
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research aims to fill a major theoretical gap in the current radical right literature by examining on how institutions impact the existence of, ...
The foundations and normative parameters of a political philosophy of education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
are the explicated. These viewpoints are the "moral," the "prudential," that of "an ideal way of life," and the "political." The general normative restraints these place on educational activity, and, hence, on a political philosophy of education are also explicitly...
Dangerous weapons : arms transfer, interstate conflict, and dependence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This study is an attempt to contribute to the international security literature by illuminating why countries bolster their own security by acquiring weapons from other countries, how these acquisitions affect their ...
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 ...
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 ...
Personalist dictators and the choice of military intervention in civil conflicts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Are all personalist dictators equally prone to intervene in civil conflicts? The current bulk of work on authoritarianism and international relations ...
OPEC as a non-state actor : formation and dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1982)
in the hands of the MNOCs, it did not press to the point that the international economic system was threatened. Moreover, OPEC proved to be a responsible international actor in a number of specific respects. It attempted to provide financial aid to those Third...
Keeping up with the Joneses: Relative economic voting, electoral participation, and reference points
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This research explores the role relative economy plays in vote choice and turnout. The decision to vote and for whom to vote are heavily predicated on selecting competent policymakers based on their performance handling ...