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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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Severing the electoral connection : public preferences for governing through experts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Non-elected persons, such as political appointees and civil servants, are critical to the functioning of American government. Commonly referred to as the "fourth branch", the bureaucracy poses a democratic accountability ... -
Free trade agreements in Japan and East Asian regionalism : Sino-Japanese rivalry and beyond
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)At the beginning of the 21st century, a number of multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), known as regional FTAs, have emerged throughout the world. However, East Asian nations have instead pursued bilateral FTAs. Realist ... -
Conditional justice : determining implementation and effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Research on transitional justice (TJ) has debated the usefulness of these structures for democratization, promotion of human rights, and the prevention of future confl ict. Some scholars argue transitional justice threatens ... -
Rhetoric as repression : the roles and effects of government framing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)During modern protest movements, the regimes targeted by dissidents have issued largely similar kinds of statements about the events. Participants tend to be depicted as national traitors, criminals, or otherwise illegitimate. ... -
Notes on scandal : lobbying reforms and public opinion in Canada
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Political scandal is a topic that receives wide media coverage and speculation. While political scandals have tendency to set off a firestorm of press coverage, scandals also may have great implications for democracy. A ... -
Irresistible force : the impact of state task forces on legislative outputs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)While task forces have been utilized numerous times by state lawmakers, the literature on task forces has not rigorously tested their impact on legislative outputs. This dissertation will first review the number and types ... -
The regulation that comes from combination : the effects of combining multiple policy areas within a single environmental protection agency in the states
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)In twenty American states, regulatory environmental programs are combined with either public health or natural resource conservation programs. Natural resource conservation and public health agencies have historically ... -
Bullying the resource-rich : the effect of natural resource wealth on coercive diplomacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Natural resource wealth has been shown to have a significant impact the on the domestic politics of states. However, the current literature has failed to provide a complete picture of the influence it has on the interactions ... -
What's driving Chinese foreign direct investment in Latin America?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)China and Chinese investment firms have only recently become major players in Latin America, while ten to fifteen years ago Latin American countries did not pay much attention to China as a source of foreign direct investment ... -
The nexus between soft power and US foreign aid
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)What is the role of soft power in US bilateral foreign aid allocation? Drawing on insights from Joseph Nye's soft power concept, I examine the relationship between US bilateral development and military aid allocations and ... -
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
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Studies on the effects of political advertising often assume that potential voters have an equal chance of campaign exposure regardless of their political affiliation or demographics. This assumption is grounded in the ... -
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 ...