Political Science Dissertations by Graduation Date
2023
| May 2023 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| BIERY, Piper | Miller | Sovereign Citizens: What One Extremist Group Can Teach Us about Democratic States & Sovereignty (May 2023) |
| HOFFMAN, Jonathan | Mandaville | Islam and Statecraft: Religious Soft Power in the Contemporary Middle East (May 2023) |
| SWIECKI, Joseph | Dueck | A Study on Presidential Approval and the Use of Force (May 2023) |
2022
| August 2022 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| BLEDSOE, Andrew Scott | Mayer | Belief or Belonging? Untangling Evangelical Religiosity and its Impact on Behavioral Polarization (August 2022) |
| FAY, Matthew | Hunzeker | Commanding Military Adaptation: Explaining Operational-Tactical Change in Combined Arms Warfare (August 2022) |
| KAYSER, Courtney | Butt | The Enemy of My Enemy: Rebel Group Strategies at the Onset of Civil Conflicts (August 2022) |
| May 2022 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| BERNBAUM, Adam | McGrath | Nationalism, Legitimacy, and Violence: American Response to Mob Violence (May 2022) |
| PETRUCELLI II, Joseph Anthony | Rhodes | Operationalizing Sea Power: The Evolution of Navy Doctrine, 1946–2016 (May 2022) |
| ROBERTS, Lee Habib | Hunzeker | Bang for the Buck: Understanding Disparities in Conventional Strategic Signaling Capacity Acquisition among Arms-Importing States (May 2022) |
2021
| December 2021 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| NOZIMOVA, Shahnoza | McGlinchey | Imagined Women: Engendering Nation and Islam in Tajikistan (December 2021) |
| STUVLAND, Aaron | Lopez-Santana | Talking Like a Populist? Exploring Populism in Six Western Democracies (December 2021) |
| August 2021 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| ARMSTRONG, Andrew | Thrall | Certainly Biased: Truth and Confidence in the Digital Age (August 2021) |
| BUEHLMANN, Michelle | Conlan | Party Time? A Temporal and Partisan Examination of Changes in American Lawmaking (August 2021) |
| HOFEMAN, Austin | Daigle | The Campaigns Characteristics Make: Television Advertising and Changes in Presidential Campaign Perceptions (August 2021) |
| May 2021 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| HEATH, Timothy R. | Wan | Political Requirements for Economic Upgrade in Single-Party Authoritarian Regimes: A Comparative Analysis (May 2021) |
2020
| August 2020 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| COLBURN II, Jay C. | Mandaville | Spatial Dynamics of Contentious Politics: Mass Mobilization in the Arab Uprising (August 2020) |
| LIM, Ji Hye | Wan | On the Heels of Developmental State: Diverging Paths of Joining Bilateral Investment Treaties between Japan and South Korea (August 2020) |
| May 2020 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| BORSHCHEVSKAYA, Anna | Katz | Putin’s Syria Intervention: How Russia Avoided a Quagmire (May 2020) |
| HARPER, Jerad | Dueck | A Tug of War for Effectiveness: US Efforts to Build the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (1955-1973) (May 2020) |
| WRIGHTEN, Jatia | McGrath | Who Runs the World? An Examination of Black Women and Leadership in State Legislatures (May 2020) |
2019
| December 2019 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| ATHERLEY, Scott | McGrath | Control Avoision: Proactive Discretion in the US Federal Bureaucracy (December 2019) |
| August 2019 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| WOOD, Leet | Dueck | Securing the Sky: Negotiating Space Security Institutions for the 21st Century (August 2019) |
| May 2019 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| AKIYAMA, Hiromi | Wan | Who Rebuilds? Comparative Civil Society Involvement in Post-Disaster Recovery of China and Japan (May 2019) |
| DODGE, Michaela | Dueck | US Missile Defense Cooperation with the Czech Republic: Alliance Politics in Action (May 2019) |
| LOLLAR, Rebecca | Dueck | Dominican, Mexican, and Nicaraguan Compliance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act: The Role of Instrumental Incentives (May 2019) |
| MESINA, Dennis O. | Edner | Learning in Complex Systems (May 2019) |
2018
| December 2018 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| KIM, Albert | Wan | North Korea: Kim Family’s Use of Legitimacy for Regime Maintenance (December 2018) |
| May 2018 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| CASCIATO, Michelle | Listokin | Bringing the State Back In: Statutory Mandates and Incremental Change in Local Government Budgeting (May 2018) |
2017
| August 2017 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| SWEET, Diana L. | McGlinchey | The Art of Winning Hearts and Minds: Explaining Success and Failure of Confucius Institutes in the US (August 2017) |
| WHYTE, Christopher E. | Thrall | Out of the Shadows: Subversion and Counterculture in the Digital Age (August 2017) |
| December 2017 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| FITZGERALD, Gerald T. | Mandaville | The European State and Minority Religious Groups: Exploring Patterns of Engagement and Access (December 2017) |
| IBRAHIM, Ayah | Mandaville | American Muslim Organizations' Platform and Strategies: Understanding Changes in Interest Group Identity (December 2017) |
| May 2017 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| KRYLOVA, Yulia | Shelley | “Grease” Payments in the Relations Between Regulatory Agencies and Individual Entrepreneurs: The Case of Russia |
2016
| December 2016 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| DOYLE, Brett | Posner | Beyond Ad Hoc: The Role of Inter-Organizational Collaboration in U.S. Stabilization Efforts |
| POTTS, Richard | Burt | Salt, Light, and Cocaine: Religious Civil Society and Narco-Violence in Mexico's Border Region |
| RYU, Shin Kue | Posner | Where is the Safe Water? Capturing the Missing Explanation in Inter-Country Variation in Access |
| May 2016 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| ERSOY, Meltem | Mandaville | Political Crisis and Party Transformation: The Case of AKP in Turkey |
| ROYCE, Mark R. | Lopez-Santana | The Political Theology of European Integration |
2015
| December 2015 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| MAYE, Diane L. | Katz | Switching Sides: Political Power, Alignments, and Alliances in Post-Saddam Iraq |
| August 2015 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| ALEXANDER, Brian | Victor | Partisan Ends: The Utilization of Conference Committees in a Polarized Congress |
| SHAHAN, Asif M. | Posner | From Autonomy to Relevance: The Evolution of the Government Accountability Office |
2014
| December 2014 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation Title |
| HAYNES, Susan | Katz | Behind the Buildup Explaining Chinese Motivations for Nuclear Modernization (December 2014) |
| LITWIN, Oren | Miller | Who May Fight Just Wars? Right Authority for States and Non-States |
2013
| December 2013 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation |
| OSAE-KWAPONG, John | Wilsford | What the State Does, Why Does It and The Consequences: A Comparative Analysis of State Policy Choices in the Cocoa, Timber and Gold Mining Sectors in Ghana (December 2013) |
| May 2013 | ||
| Students | Chair | Dissertation |
| HUDSON, Gabriel | Miller | Christodemocracy: The Alternation Democratic Theory of America’s Christian Right (May 2013) |
| THORNBURG, Matthew | McDonald | The Causes and Consequences of Registering with a Political Party (May 2013) |
2012
| May 2012 | ||
| KURZE, Arnaud | Burt | Justice Beyond Borders? The Politics to Democratize Human Rights in the Postconflict Balkans (May 2012) |