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The poverty of place : a comparative study of five rural counties in the Missouri Ozark
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1999)
. These characteristics of rural poverty are evidenced throughout the U.S.A. by the existence of clusters of persistent low income counties. Although the existence of regions of poor rural counties have been noted since 1974, little county-level research has been done...
The politics of land reform in South Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
stability by removing an important cause of rural unrest—inequality of land ownership—and that land reform led the South Korean farmers to vote consistently for the conservative incumbent government. In short, the land reform in South Korea fulfilled short...
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 ...
Crisis of democracy : protest and affective polarization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
qualitative case study of Brazil and multilevel cross-national analysis to bring a well-rounded analysis. In the first empirical chapter, I examine how a series of political protests accelerated public opinion's polarization in the Brazilian case between 2013...
Accessibility of public services : city government institutions and service spatial distribution
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Public services are central to the purpose of city government, and scholars have found that government institutions affect policy and budgetary ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Advocacy INGOs in multi-ethnic societies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Advocacy INGOs are optimistically seen as campaigners for democracy and human rights. They create a narrative around democratic ideals and support local ...
The Office of Governor of the State of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1963)
"The purpose of this study is to examine the Office of Governor in Missouri as it exists and functions at the present time, although attention will be given to its historical development. Emphasis will be placed on the ...
The non-sequential path between indigenous social movements and collective rights in Latin America : the role of organizations and institutional conditions to tell the story
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Why do some countries in Latin America have a strong inclusion of collective rights for indigenous people while others do not? What are the ...
Evaluating the performance of performance-based budgeting: how do states intend to use performance measures in the budget process, and do they do it?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Most states and many local governmetns use some form of performance-based budgeting (PBB). PBB is a method of public budgeting that provides policymakers with information about the performance of an agency or program when ...
An empirical assessment of the political and gendered consequences of economic sanctions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
and women's status, I suggest that economic sanctions deteriorate women's well-being by disrupting economic infrastructure, restricting the level of economic globalization, and escalating gendered violence in sanctioned countries. Using cross-national, time-series...
The efficacy of third-party interventions: international organization-led interventions into ongoing and post-conflict situations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
of formalization and to what extent it achieves its goals. This time-series cross-sectional analysis shows promise, but necessitates further research. To that end, the following chapters are case studies of interventions into Bosnia-Herzegovina in the early 1990s...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...