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The Department's undergraduate program broadly represents the fields of contemporary Political Science. Virtually all subfields are represented. While some specialized courses have immediate utility in practical settings, and we offer opportunities to link academic study with internships, the undergraduate mission of the Department is to impart the knowledge and intellectual skills that enrich lives and permit active citizenship. We take seriously the role of providing a civic leadership education. Graduate study in small seminars and faculty mentorship is designed to produce new generations of scholars and teachers who create and disseminate knowledge. The diversity of this faculty in substantive focus, theoretical orientation, and methodological skills provides a graduate experience that maximizes the opportunity for our PhDs to make distinctive contributions in their fields.
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Waging campaigns on television: optimizing target audience exposure in the modern campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)There have been claims that have come out of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections which describe the rise of a professionalized political campaign television strategy team that is able to make decisions not only based ... -
A new measure of economic voting : priority heuristic theory and combining sociotropic and egocentric evaluations
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Waging campaigns on television optimizing target audience exposure in the modern campaign
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State ethics commissions : determinants and effects of commission adoption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Many state legislatures have adopted state ethics commissions over time. Beginning in the late 1960?s and early 1970?s, ethics laws, campaign finance reforms, and state ethics commissions diffused across states. With the ... -
Origins and Changes of East Asian Party Systems and Voter Alignments : Social Conditions, Issue Effects, and Party Coalitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)My dissertation explains the formulation of party systems and voting behaviors in East Asia. The previous literature maintained that East Asian party politics was caused by the homogeneous culture and the philosophy. ... -
A Study of Economic Voting Behavior in a Multilevel Institutional Context
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This dissertation extends previous scholarship on economic voting behavior and responsibility attribution to consider the contextual effects of multilevel institutions, specifically examining those within the European ... -
Determinants of international cooperation: reciprocity, opportunity, and Cooperative norms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This dissertation examines few of the determinants and effects of international cooperation. There are three broad themes that run throughout this dissertation, which are the ideas of reciprocity, opportunity, and cooperative ... -
The Effect of Tillage and Crop Rotation on Soybean and Soil Health
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The Political Representation Cycle and Citizen Satisfaction with the Democratic Process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This project investigates how citizens in advanced industrial democracies evaluate their democratic institutions. Previous literature has focused on the role of either individual characteristics - personal economic conditions, ... -
Shaping the Game : Federalism and Voting Behavior in Advanced Industrial Democracies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)For countries that possess a federal structure, this institution is a crucial component of the constitutional arrangement of the nation. This institution arguably plays a role in nearly all aspects of a country's political ... -
Judicial Impact on Bureaucratic Decision-Making : The Case of Public Procurement and Contracting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This study examines whether and how much the bureaucracy responds to the judiciary. Specifically, I utilize cross-sectional, time-series data to analyze the extent to which variation in bureaucratic decision-making regarding ... -
The Nature and Effects of Political Party Culture on Political Careers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Previous scholarship on the political cultures of the political parties provides anecdotal evidence regarding the distinct differences between the two major U.S. political parties. This conventional wisdom is based on one ... -
Does Difference Make a Difference? Women Foreign Policy Leaders and State Conflict Behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Often we hear that women are more peaceful than men; however, no one has done a study to see whether or not this observation holds for female chief executives, defense ministers, and foreign policy ministers. Thus, I ask ... -
Church and State: A Content Analysis of Religion in the News During the 2008 Presidential Election
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Selection before Election: The Direct Primary and Responsible Party Nomination
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The political economy of functional federalism :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)While many studies have focused on the ability of state governments on state economic performance, this study investigates how exogenous factor in American federalism, in particular the functional responsibility of federal ... -
Improving studies of war outcomes and termination : introducing the battles of modern warfare data set
([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)This project asks the question of how the battle-level analysis of war improves our understanding of interstate conflict outcomes and war termination. The HERO dataset, commonly used in the literatures, is often criticized ... -
Less risky investment? : The impact of federalism on the inflow of foreign direct investment
(University of Missouri--Columbia[University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)The purpose of this paper is to theoretically outline and empirically investigate a theory linking federalism with the inflow of foreign direct investment into a country. Throughout the literature, the importance of the ... -
Economic sanctions, resource wealth, and increased state utility
(University of Missouri--Columbia[University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)Economic sanctions have become an important tool in the hands of world leaders. As globalization has made the world a smaller place and increased the economic ties between nations; economic sanctions have become a preferred ... -
Systematic stages of group realignment case study : black group realignment, 1912-1964
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)