This project examines how climate change is addressed in National Action Plans (NAPs) under the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda across the Global South. Using dat[...]

The federal courts in the United States are intentionally insulated. Despite numerous congressional attempts at recording and broadcasting court procedures, cameras had h[...]

At the heart of this dissertation, I evaluate how the answers to a series of questions have changed over time, asking: What is the relationship of the South to the Republ[...]

Military alliances are an essential cornerstone of the international system. However, scholarship often overlooks how states strategically manage the alliance design proc[...]

In recent years, there has been a concerted effort by Native advocates to increase the number of Native elected officials and appointees, with the expectation that these [...]

How do presidents use their unilateral powers when there are little to no formal checks on these actions? And what role does public opinion play into that relationship? T[...]

This thesis investigates how congressional apportionment influences partisan control and minority representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. Using redistricting[...]

What conditions state violence against marginalized social groups? Past accounts of oppressionhave focused on structural inequalities, discretion of state agents, and lac[...]

The clandestine nature of WMD procurement activities have left scholars with few sources of quantitative data to inform research designs. Using published government expor[...]

While much attention has been paid to newspaper endorsements and their effects on vote choice, little attention has been paid to the endorsement process and the factors t[...]

This dissertation examines the court-based advocacy activities of charitable nonprofit organizations during the decade of the 1990s. The study seeks to add to our underst[...]

With the development of a large and early Super Tuesday, it seems to reason that candidates have changed where they go about campaigning. It is theorized that larger and [...]

This thesis examines the factors that impel political parties and interest groups to use independent expenditures in U.S. House elections. Using data from House election[...]

Following the calls of several notable policymakers and academics, this dissertationassesses the state of the concept of development and finds that the concept has evolve[...]

After an overview of the present literature and a summary of the current state of diversity in the federal judiciary, I generate hypotheses and expectations that will be [...]

The United States maintains an unprecedented "special relationship" with the state of Israel and remains the most significant external arbiter of the Israeli-Palestinian [...]

A growing literature on the separation of powers focuses on the Supreme Courts anticipation of implementation problems in a subset of cases called lateral, those that req[...]

The APM Convention opened a new era in prohibiting widely used conventional weapons for the first time. Most previous studies have paid little attention to the political [...]

At times, the Intelligence Community struggles with a reputation for inaccuracy. In two critical moments in American history, the Intelligence Community as a whole faile[...]

The research presented in this dissertation analyzes interest group influence in the U.S. Courts of Appeals from 2003 through 2010. Specifically, it evaluates group influ[...]

This research presents a theory of political polarization which argues that changes in American society, political culture, institutions, media, and technology combine to[...]

Current research on legislatures sees several competing schools of thought: distributive, informational, and partisan theories of legislative organization dominate the li[...]

Congressional caucuses are informal groups in Congress that are used by members to gather information and to make informed policy decisions. National constituency caucus[...]

Among other strategies, the New Public Management seeks to introduce private-sector practices into government management. These include focusing on contractual relationsh[...]

Research about congressional elections has almost exclusively focused on congressional general elections. The purpose of this thesis is to begin to address the gap in the[...]