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Feeding the beast : macroeconomic drivers of leadership responses to foreign policy action and the gendered consequences for human trafficking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
How do the gendered macroeconomic and macropolitical structures of the international system exacerbate the rise in human trafficking? In this dissertation project, I use a mixed method approach to examine the relationship between domestic leadership...
The efficacy of third-party interventions: international organization-led interventions into ongoing and post-conflict situations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
and test this theory, this dissertation uses a mixed-methods approach, first presenting a quantitative analysis that operationalizes the key concepts and explores through simple and multiple regression the relationship between a mission's level...
Testing the limit : term limits and their unintended consequences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
of government. This study is the first comparative study assessing differences across term-limited states using both individual and aggregate data. I present original datasets, as well as 101 interviews with state legislators to assess the long-term effects...
OPEC as a non-state actor : formation and dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1982)
This dissertation analyzes the factors which have promoted the formation of OPEC and the dynamics of its confrontation with the multinational oil companies (MNOCs). It analyzes the rise of OPEC from the perspective of the ...
Personalist dictators and the choice of military intervention in civil conflicts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
dictators' personality traits, I employ leadership trait analysis - using 386,510 words of text and 1,580 documents from twenty dictators in the period between 1990 and 2009. I find that personality traits do indeed matter for leaders' choices to intervene...
Elite defection and legitimacy in democratic revolutions : a comparative case study of Serbia, Ukraine, and Iran
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Recent scholarship on democratic revolutions has focused on revolutions occurring in post-communist countries and argued that defection among elites ...
Principals and proxies: how foreign interventions promote intercommunal violence through sponsorship of nonstate militias
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
In this dissertation I explore the link between government sponsorship of nonstate militias in proxy conflicts and increases in intercommunal violence. I develop a theory explaining how nonstate militias experience resource ...
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 ...
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 ...
Crisis of democracy : protest and affective polarization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
positive and negative-- and ultimately triggers affective polarization at the mass level. "Affect" refers to a psychological attachment to a group and is measured not only by the positive assessments toward the in-group (one's own party) but also...
The impact of European Union membership conditionality of human rights in Turkey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
of the center-periphery conflict and the strong state tradition. Despite the supposed impact of conditions imposed by the European Union in altering human rights record of the country, Turkey continues to suffer from human rights violations. I hypothesize...
Unelected oversight : the politics of government investigations and problem monitoring
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
How do elected officials and top decisionmakers receive information about the problems encountered in government agencies? Policymaking and agenda setting research primarily examines how elected officials directly gather ...
The Democratic Party Midterm Conference, 1974 : an assessment of utility and impact
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
""Of all the major in stitutions of American society, the parties seem to be the most resistant to reform and modernization. ...Perhaps all this is true because nobody has much cared about what happened to the parties." ...
Colonial inclusivity : historical education and state capacity in post-colonial states
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The contribution of this dissertation is to show that colonial state building efforts were more successful in the long term when the state invested in education for the colonized population. This argument builds upon recent ...
Studying Janus behavior : how support, deterrence, grievances and organizational structure shape violent and peaceful behaviors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
) evaluates how macro and meso-level forces shape political evolution over time. Second, I augment these findings with a brief comparison of the experience of political tactic-choices in Hezbollah, HAMAS,IRA and ETA, refining the theory of the original model...
Elite purges in dictatorships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
-national variation), and why dictators purge only specific elites (within-regime individual-level variation). Conventional wisdom highlights dictators' fears of coups to explain purges. My central claim is that a dictator's fear of being unseated by a foreign state...
Political action committee behavior in the era of soft money and bipartisan campaign reform
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
, it is appropriate to reinvestigate distribution patterns and allocation levels of PAC contributions. Accordingly, this essay examines PAC contributions to House incumbents for the election cycles of 1998 through 2006. In terms of patterns of distribution, findings...
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 education policy studies...
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 ...
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 - ...