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)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 me to conceive this project is the seemingly irrational behavior of ... -
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)This dissertation examines why people abstained from the European Parliament (EP) elections in the period of 1979-1999. Making use of second order theory, I argue that attitudes toward the EP and support for European ...