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An empirical assessment of the political and gendered consequences of economic sanctions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project investigates the unintended political and gender-specific effects of economic sanctions in target countries. Drawing insight from the existing literature...
The poverty of place : a comparative study of five rural counties in the Missouri Ozark
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1999)
to discover why, contrary to what is expected, the county at the center of this group has been notably more prosperous over time than her persistently poor neighbors. When Lyson's concept of economic distance is applied to the five county region a relationship...
Deterring true believers : perffect [sic] deterrence theory, capability and the problem of Al Qaeda
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
. Interestingly enough, these two literatures have only rarely been considered together. This paper seeks to do so. By utilizing perfect deterrence theory, a theory of general deterrence, I seek to explain why some terrorist networks are more deterrable than...
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 ...
Transborder ethnic alignments and the interplay between domestic and international violence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Transborder ethnic ties constitute an alignment between an ethnic minority group and its external ethnic kin in another country. Similar to interstate ...
The Office of Governor of the State of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1963)
by the Governor; the means of executing those functions; the Influence of the political environment, as well as social and economic milieu, on the manner in which he carries out his duties; and how the personal qualities of particular governors have helped shape...
The politics of land reform in South Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
reform because it is involved in the problem of creating the economic surplus required to undertake necessary developmental investments. For the sociologist or anthropologist, land reform is an important agent of planned social change. For political...
Studying Janus behavior : how support, deterrence, grievances and organizational structure shape violent and peaceful behaviors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
disavowal of violence untenable. In this environment, distant threats of political exclusion would be overshadowed by short-term fears of demise. The research proposed in this work seeks to explain how social, political and historical context influence...
Authoritarian successor parties and political protest in Asia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
How does an authoritarian successor party (ASP) interact with civil society in East and Southeast Asia? Does an ASP's control over the executive and legislature increase or decrease protest movements? Do ASPs effectively ...
Determinants of legislative staff turnover
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
seeks to understand staff employment and work environments at both the congressional and state level with an emphasis on staff turnover to understand modern legislative capacity for policy development and constituent service. ... By studying what...
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)
the conditions behave in a table of truth with seven countries of the region. Additionally, I will study 3 cases (Colombia, Peru, and Chile) in-depth to understand the process and causal mechanisms at work. The results support these hypotheses....
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 shows that personalist...