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Political Science Theses and Dissertations
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Asberry, Craig
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation explores the origins and content of strategic communication in the House of Representatives. Social science literature has established that congressional communication is mediated by various factors: ...
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Ahmed, Saima
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
With ever-increasing global temperatures and climate change problems, states are faced with the challenge of formulating carbon reduction policies. The objective of this dissertation is to unfold the factors that lead ...
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Reanne, Jessica
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
In this dissertation, I apply the concepts of theatricality and cultural memory to the January 6 th insurrection. I suggest that read together, theatricality and cultural memory tell a compelling story about the motivations ...
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Dar, Dana
(University of Oregon, 2004-12)
Since the eruption of the Al-Aqtsa intifada, increasing numbers of soldiers have refused to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a form of political protest. Two groups organize these refusers, Yesh Gvul ("There is a ...
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Baker, Joshua
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
This dissertation investigates the paradoxical revival of strategic missile defense, a resurgence notable for high economic, diplomatic, and strategic costs and a lack of imminent threats. Despite historically incurring ...
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Tyan, Maxim
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
The current dissertation has a dual purpose of developing a theory of majority nationalistmobilization and explaining substantive variation in levels of nationalist mobilization in post-
Soviet region during the first two ...
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freeman, kahina marie
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
This dissertation explores the concept of public enmity and its deployment at the founding, in the nation’s most pivotal state-building arenas: the courts, the military, and the emerging institutions of internal security. ...
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ellis, dustin
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
What is a migration crisis? To answer this seemingly simple question, this study juxtaposes two migration crises that have profoundly shaped the character of American political institutions and the imaginations of liberal ...
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Martin, Larry Clifford
(University of Oregon, 1960-06)
The planning and negotiations resulting in the formation of the League of Nations and the United Nations involved problems of regionalism. The relationship of regional arrangements and understandings to global organization ...
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Rowe, Harold L.
(University of Oregon, 1940-06)
An understanding of the colonial policies of the nations today, and especially in relation to Germany’s position, could not be complete with out some attention being devoted to the historical aspects of German colonial ...
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Miner, Ralph E.
(1961-06)
Spring of 1956, Congress passed the Treasury-Post Office department's appropriation bill which included $2,984,340,000 for the operation of the Post Office Department for the 1957 fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1956. The ...
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Vincent, Jack Ernest
(University of Oregon, 1964-03)
This dissertation has two basic purposes: ( 1 ) to describe certain attitude patterns toward the United nations by the delegate members of Caucasian groups within the organization and (to closed parentheses to test a ...
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Field, Gary R.
(University of Oregon, 1959-06)
This thesis cannot approach the magnitude of the research project suggested in the preceeding several paragraphs. A more manageable problem, and seemingly a necessary step leading to a more critical examination of city ...
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Wolfe, Leon K., Jr
(University of Oregon, 1959-06)
This thesis is a detailed study of the Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958 and includes: 1. A short historical review of the events that led to the unification of the armed forces in 1947. 2. A study of each ...
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Foss, Phillip Oliver
(University of Oregon, 1953-06)
The last two sessions of Oregon's legislature bills have been introduced to provide for a constitutional convention. For some time there has existed a rather vague feeling of discontent with the Oregon constitution. Critics ...
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Nguyen, Thuy
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
My dissertation consists of three independent projects. The first one investigates possible relationships between certain macro-systemic political variables and Covid mortality rates. Using multilevel modeling, I analyze ...
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Rivera, John
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
How do systemic and ideational factors shape the composition and effectiveness of the American military? From the American Revolution to the present, the American military has regularly established informal and formal ...
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Farrington, Alex
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
In this dissertation project, I introduce the concept of autonomous problem-solving and apply it to housing struggles in the United States. Autonomous problem-solving is a mode of collective action in which everyday people ...
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Rahman, Mohammad Shafiqur
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)
Readymade garments (RMG) or clothing industry is the most important manufacturing export for poor and developing countries. Low capital requirement, high labor intensity and simple technology make the industry a natural ...
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O'Hare, Kevin
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
In response to crises of unsustainable debt, which left Greece, Ireland, and Portugal locked out of bond markets, each country received assistance from the “Troika” (European Commission, European Central Bank, and IMF). ...
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