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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 REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines why people abstained from the European Parliament (EP) elections in the period of 1979-1999. Making use of second order ...
The effect of civil society on governance and institutional performance in third- and fourth-Wave democracies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation project draws on extant civil society theories in explaining how strong and dense civil societies help enhance the sustainability of ...
American exceptionalism, missionary politics, and the religious impulse in contemporary foreign policy attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation offers an examination of the effects of religion and its attendant moral politics on attitudes towards foreign policy issues. America's ...
Political survival and diversionary use of force
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This research attempts to improve our knowledge on the study of the use of force for diversionary purposes by addressing three issues that have been left unaddressed. First, I seek to develop a more complete perspective ...
From trade to international conflict : seeking empirical and theoretical convergence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The relationship between trade and conflict has been an important topic for both academia and policy-makers. However, the literature has been characterized ...
Who drives defense policy : elites or public interest?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
With a massive budget deficit and an ever-increasing national debt, while Congress and the President almost shut down the federal government over funding for Planned Parenthood in 2011, defense spending seems to be nearly ...
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 ...
The Bush effect : campaign news linking presidential candidates to the incumbent president
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
While much of the current political science and political communication scholarship contends that public approval of the incumbent administration and its policies plays a substantial role in elections at all levels of ...
Political action committee behavior in the era of soft money and bipartisan campaign reform
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, McCain-Feingold) banned the use of soft money in campaigns. The precursor to BCRA was The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) which along with subsequent amendments ...
Institutions and issues : explaining radical right party existence and support in Europe, 1980-2005
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research aims to fill a major theoretical gap in the current radical right literature by examining on how institutions impact the existence of, ...
The logic of decisions in militarized disputes : the effect of regime, power, arms contorol [sic], and airpower on decision-making in militarized disputes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This study examines the causal relationship among pre and intradispute information and decision-makers' decisions determining evolution of militarize disputes. The identified causal factors are interconnected with one ...
Economic voting in new democracies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This study investigates economic voting in 70 new democracies that have experienced regime transition since 1974. By incorporating the analysis of elections in virtually all new democracies, this study shows how electorates ...
Traditional institutions, authortarian [sic] legacies, and democratic support in southern Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This dissertation investigates citizens' support for democracy in southern Africa and the factors that explain variations in that support. Borrowing insights from the historical institutionalism literature, I argue that ...
Can money buy health? : foreign aid, changes in aid, and the impact of human health in sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] African countries are known to be the largest aid recipients in the world. Many countries worldwide have provided assistance to Africa through the ...
Women state legislators and represenation [sic] : a case study of Missouri, 1923-2009
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Over the last century women legislators have made tremendous gains in state legislatures; yet their numbers remain far below the proportion of women ...
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, ...
The impact of European Union membership conditionality of human rights in Turkey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Human rights abuses have been one of the fundamental obstacles impeding Turkey's membership in the European Union. The country has had a dismal human ...