Browsing Political Science electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2007 Summer"
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Games leaders play: renegade regimes and international crises
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation is a game-theoretic analysis of international crises between the US and renegade regimes after the Cold War. The main puzzle that leads ... -
Passive representation and the client-bureaucrat relationship: communication and demand inducement in the patient-provider relationship
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)The ways that passive representation could produce substantive benefits for the clients of a bureaucracy irrespective of active representation are an understudied aspect of the theory of representative bureaucracy. Further, ... -
Why do people abstain from the European Parliament elections?: an empirical test of second order theory, 1979-1999
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation examines why people abstained from the European Parliament (EP) elections in the period of 1979-1999. Making use of second order ...