• Flexible law: the impact of legislative resources on policy adoption 

    Dorssom, Elizabeth I. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    Legislators require knowledge to pass legislation. However, it is not always easy for legislators to become fully informed about bills on the docket. The complexity of modern government, the size of the legislative agenda, ...
  • A study of economic voting behavior in a multilevel institutional context 

    Pierce, Heather Nicole (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation extends previous scholarship on economic voting behavior and responsibility attribution to consider the contextual effects of multilevel ...
  • Three essays on political polarization in the United States 

    Ahn, Hyojong (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    Is the United States polarized? In order to address this question, this dissertation explores three dimensions of political polarization. Three related, but independent, essays on political polarization provide information ...