Browsing Department of Political Science (MU) by Thesis Department "Political science (MU)"
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Conditional justice : determining implementation and effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Research on transitional justice (TJ) has debated the usefulness of these structures for democratization, promotion of human rights, and the prevention ... -
Confucian values and economic performance: exploring their effects on citizens satisfaction with democracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)The political climate in East Asia is of emerging importance in the world. Democracy in this region has had mixed levels of success in the past decades leading to a significant debate on how democracy and cultural values ... -
Corruption and economic growth in transition economies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The general understanding of corruption is that the corruption harms economic growth because it increases transaction costs and information uncertainty (Rose-Ackerman, 1997). However, there are studies showing that corruption ... -
Corruption loves company : the interactive effect of corruption and resources on economic growth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)The resource curse has become one of the more studied comparative political economic phenomena over the last twenty years. Here, the role of corruption as a conditioning effect on the resource curse is explored. I argue ... -
Cosmopolitanism as a measure of political tolerance : an inquiry into the acceptability of homosexuality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)The term "cosmopolitanism," or feelings of global citizenry, is often used in contemporary culture but neglected in the social sciences. This study attempts to resurrect cosmopolitanism and evaluate its relationship with ... -
The counterterrorism escalation game : how leadership targeting affects the behavior of terrorist groups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] How does the tactic of leadership decapitation - the removal of an organization's leader or leadership by state efforts to arrest or kill - affect the ... -
Crisis of democracy : protest and affective polarization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)My dissertation, Crisis of Democracy: Protest and Affective Polarization, systematically examines the political and social consequences of protests in democratic societies, asking: in what conditions, protests negatively ... -
Crisis, government performance and support for democracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Studies of regime performance effects on support for democracy have neglected the possible impact of economic and political crisis. Using survey data from the second and third waves of the Afrobarometer survey, this study ... -
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 ... -
Dangerous weapons : arms transfer, interstate conflict, and dependence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This study is an attempt to contribute to the international security literature by illuminating why countries bolster their own security by acquiring weapons from other countries, how these acquisitions affect their ... -
Decentralization in parliamentary systems : new perspectives on its causes and consequences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation investigates one of the most conspicuous developments of recent decades in Western and Eastern European parliamentary systems: the ... -
The Democratic Party Midterm Conference, 1974 : an assessment of utility and impact
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)""Of all the major in stitutions of American society, the parties seem to be the most resistant to reform and modernization. ...Perhaps all this is true because nobody has much cared about what happened to the parties." ... -
Democratization and exchange rates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Vast literature in political economy largely overlooks the linkage between democratization and exchange rate policies. The dissertation fills this ... -
Determinants and consequences of private environmental regimes /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] While the role of firms has been acknowledged in existent research in political economy, it has played a rather peripheral role in the study of ... -
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, ... -
Determinants of international cooperation : reciprocity, opportunity, and cooperative norms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation examines few of the determinants and effects of international cooperation. There are three broad themes that run throughout this ... -
Determinants of legislative staff turnover
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)"Senator Pearson's remarks leading up to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 make an important point: Congress cannot rely on outside actors, particularly the same branch that it is mandated to oversee, to conduct ... -
Deterring true believers : perffect [sic] deterrence theory, capability and the problem of Al Qaeda
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)During the Cold War, a large body of literature was compiled by scholars studying international conflict - that of deterrence. Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, however, a new body of literature has begun to grow - ... -
The dilemma of liberal democracies : an aggregate analysis of counterterrorist efforts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)What compels states to cooperate in the face of a global terrorist threat? What are the consequences of state action? International terrorist attacks have risen sharply in the 21st century, and liberal democracies often ... -
Diversionary diplomacy: domestic political effects on US-directed foreign policy in Russia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This paper applies the concepts found within diversionary theory to a lower level of international conflict outside the United States. Specifically, it tests whether changes in Russian domestic political contention cause ...