HONORS THESIS LIBRARY
Papers are organized in this reference guide within subject area by surname. Subject areas are broad and should not be considered
absolute. On the shelf, papers are organized by surname.
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Natalie Adona, Crisis! Nativism, Felon Disenfranchisement, and the Threat of Immigrants in the United States:
1840-1859 (2008) Advisors Eric Schickler and Terri Bimes
Sarah Andropoulos, Immigration in California After September 11: Race, American Identity, and the “War on
Terror” (2004) Advisor Taeku Lee
Matthew Barlow, The Impact of Local Teacher Union Power on Charter School Strength: A Cross-State
Analysis (2013) Advisors Terri Bimes and Chris Ansell
Samantha Barrett, Is it Fair for The Public to be so Hard on Congress? A Study of the Impact of Legislative
Productivity on Congressional Approval (2003) Advisor Terri Bimes
Brian Beddingfield, Sex Offender Management: California’s Approach. An Investigation of California’s
Policies in Managing Sex Offenders (2011) Advisors William Muir and Terri Bimes
Shelley N. Beroza, Balancing the Thin Red Line: The Life of a Presidential Press Secretary (2000) Advisor
Terri Bimes
Derek Bonett, The Exploitative Potential of Pocketbook Voting: the President as Distributive Actor (2013)
Advisors Terri Bimes and Sean Gailmard
Claudia Carvajal, Narrowing the Gap: The Importance of Education in Business Ownership Rates Among
Latinos (2012) Advisors Terri Bimes and Rodney Hero
Lusine Chinkezian, The Difference Women of Color Make: Accounting for Divergence in the Legislative
Agendas and Behavior of Democratic Women in the House of Representatives (2014) Advisors Terri
Bimes and Christine Trost
Vi Do Health Care Reform in America: Current State-Level Trends (2008) Advisors Professor John Zysman
and Terri Bimes
Alina Enoiu, The Healthy Corner Store: Reducing Food Insecurity in Oakland, California (2014) Advisors
Terri Bimes and Margaret Weir
Kelly Fabian, The Subsidized Museum: Examining National Endowment for the Arts’ Funding of Exhibitions
at Contemporary and Modern Art Museums 1990-2010 (2011) Advisors Margaret Weir and Terri Bimes
Andrew Feher, The Partisan Politics of Food Safety? Assessing the Conventional Wisdom on the USDA
(2010) Advisors Terri Bimes and Robert Van Houweling
Ben Feinberg, The Illusion of Compliance: How the United States’ Trade-Labor Linkage Has Failed to Create
Substantive Change (2008) Advisors Vinod Aggarwal and Amy Gurowitz
Robert Finley, Politics of the Sacred: Definition, Dispute, and Management of American Sacred Spaces (2005)
Advisor Darren Zook
Kimberly Fong, Campaign Strategy in the Presidential Nomination Game: An Analysis of Strategic Resource
Allocation in the 2008 Republican Nomination Contest (2008) Advisors David Karol and Terri Bimes
Hilary Haycock, Women in the California State Legislature: Success and Gender Norms (2003) Advisor Bruce
Cain
Rory Henderson, Diaspora Next Door: The Effect of Mexican Immigration on Social Trust in the U.S. (2014)
Advisors Terri Bimes and Sean Gailmard
Cristina Aide Henriquez, Strategic Action for Court Control (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and Robert Van
Houweling
Alexander Hirsch, California's Gubernatorial Primaries: Do Parties Matter? (2011) Advisors Dan Schnur and
Terri Bimes
Yuwynn Eldwin Ho, The Evolution of Modern Republican and Democratic Conventions (2000) Advisor Terri
Bimes
Jessica Hsiang, For Whom Would Jesus Vote? A Study of Christian Periodicals During the 2000 and 2004
Presidential Campaign (2006) Advisors Pradeep Chhibber and Jack Citrin
Saul Peretz Jackman, What Went Wrong With the 2004 U.S. Presidential Polls? (2005) Advisor Laura Stoker
Rik Jeffery, Without Malice Aforethought: The Race-Based Criminality of Capital Juries (2012) Advisors Terri
Bimes and Jack Glaser
Sigourney Jellins, The Tea Party Movement: A New Force in Republican Politics (2011) Advisors Eric
Schickler and Terri Bimes
Michael Kang, The Second Civil War: The Effect of Polarization on Representation (2010) Advisors Terri
Bimes, David Karol and Eric Schickler
Matthew W. Kintz, Smoke and Mirrors? Examining the Relationship Between Medical Cannabis Dispensaries
and Crime (2012) Advisors Terri Bimes and Rob Maccoun
Nicholas Kitchel, Why They Voted: Youth Political Participation in the 21st Century (2014) Advisors Terri
Bimes and Rodney Hero
Tiffany Gar Way Ko, Pan-ethnic Identity of Chinese and Korean American Christians: Christian Gospel
Serving as Mental Framework (2006) Advisors Pradeep Chhibber and Taeku Lee
Deepa Kollipara, Not For Sale: Examining the Relationship between Super PAC Spending and Congressional
Electoral Outcomes (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and Eric Schickler
Chris Lin, Let's Talk About AIDS: A Critical Content Analysis of Presidential Discourse on AIDS from
Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush (2012) Advisors Terri Bimes and Laura Stoker
Nathaniel Lipanovich, Congressional Oversight: An Investigation of Investigations (2008) Advisors Gordon
Silverstein and Terri Bimes
Jocelyn Ma, Why so Blue? An Analysis of California’s Turnover into a Democratic State (2013) Advisors
Terri Bimes and Eric Schickler
Michele Margolis, Jewish American Voting: An Analysis of the 1972, 1980, and 2004 Presidential Elections
(2006) Advisors Pradeep Chhibber and Jack Citrin
Dayana Vili Medevsky, Does History Repeat Itself, or Does it Rhyme? Examining the Role of Public Opinion
in Precipitating the Onset of a New “New Deal” for the American People (2009) Advisors Terri Bimes and
Jack Citrin
Catherine Melsheimer, Policy Diffusion of Publicly Financed Election Systems: A Study of Clean Elections in
the United States (2008) Advisors Eric Schickler and Terri Bimes
Peter Miljanich, Adaptive Resource Management: in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (2007) Advisors
Amy Gurowitz and Todd LaPorte
Steven A. Mills, Who is Watching Whom? Examining the Relationship between Intelligence Reform, Party
Control, and Intelligence Oversight (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and Christopher Ansell
Anthony Nieto, Leave No School Structure Behind: An Organizational Theory Approach to Improving
California’s Public Schools (2008) Advisors Christopher Ansell and Terri Bimes
Aseem Pradeep Padukone, The Discharge Petition: An Effective Tool for Political Maneuvering or a
Meaningless Tradition? (2009) Advisors Terri Bimes and Sean Gailmard
Bryant Park, The Nature of Judicial Nominations in an Era of Partisanship: 1991-2003 (2006) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and Jack Citrin
Raquel Pelke, Do Republican Women Favor Gender or Partisanship? An Examination of Female Legislative
Roles in Relation to the “War on Women” (2013) Advisors Terri Bimes and Eric Schickler
Nicholas Perry, Elucidating the Rise of the Private Military Industry in the United States (2008) Advisors
Professor Giacomo Chiozza and Terri Bimes
Tiffany Poovaiah, Free Speech and Privacy in America During Unconventional Wars: The Alien and Sedition
Acts of 1798 and the USA PATRIOT Act (2006) Advisors Pradeep Chhibber and Sandy Muir
Andrew Postal, The Party of Lincoln: How Black Republicans Have Adjusted their Campaign Appeals from
1972-2010 (2012) Advisors Terri Bimes and Eric Schickler
Andrew R. Quinio, American-Made: Civic Education and the Perseverance of Liberal National Identity among
Immigrants in the United States (2008) Advisors Jack Citrin and Amy Gurowitz
Katerina Robinson, Shifting Power in Sacramento: The Effects of Term Limits on Legislative Staff (2010)
Advisors Terri Bimes and Robert Van Houweling
Kristen Rogers, Reclaiming Democracy: How a Social Movement can Re-engage American Youth Voters
(2005) Advisor Dan Schnur
Kristen A. Rowse, What’cha Talkin ‘Bout Willis: Clarence Thomas, Bill Clinton and the American Identity
Myth (1999) Advisor Michael Rogin
William Sam, Political Parties and Presidential Nominations (2004) Advisor David Karol
Clifford Sarkin, Presidential Legitimacy: A Case Study of the 1824, 1876, and 1888 Presidential Elections
(2001) Advisor Terri Bimes
Danielle Serbin, The Unbreakable Glass Ceiling? The Impact of Political Parties on Women’s
Underrepresentation in the United States Congress (2009) Advisors Terri Bimes and David Karol
Kyra Sikora, Staff Matters: Explaining the Success of Bay Area Education Foundations (2014)
Advisors Terri Bimes and Max Nieman
Eric Skidmore, The American Sense of Mission: From the Puritan Errand to Manifest Destiny (2005) Advisor
Norman Jacobson
Gary Soiseth, Federal Intervention: A Critical Look at California’s San Joaquin Valley (2006) Advisors
Pradeep Chhibber and Christopher Ansell
Anne Michelle Stieg, Section-922 of the Dodd-Frank Act: Blowing the Whistle on the Politics of Federal
Regulatory Policy (2012) Advisors Advisors: Terri Bimes and Sean Farhang
Veena Subramanian, Youth Behind Bars: Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) and Public Safety
in New Jersey, Missouri, and Virginia (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and Amy Lerman
Rebekah Tilander, A History of Contestation: The Evolution of Legal Marriage Over Time (2011) Advisors
David Collier and Terri Bimes
Matt Tokeshi, The “New” Ethnic Politics: How Well Do Theories of Ethnic Voting Apply to Newer Groups?
(2006) Advisors Pradeep Chhibber and Taeku Lee
Emmie Tran, Unions in the Fight for Universal Health Care: Leading Advocate or Ultimate Impediment?
(2010) Advisors Terri Bimes and Eric Schickler
Aditya Ullal, How Doctors Organize: Applying Theories of Collective Action to Modern Organized
Medicine (2011) Advisors Robert Van Houweling and Terri Bimes
Michael Waldrop, Undoing Crisis: The Congressional Repeal of Emergency Powers throughout the 20th
Century (2008) Advisors Gordon Silverstein and Terri Bimes
Jacob Waschak, U.S. Program Food Aid and Economic Development: An Empirical Evaluation and Case
Study Analysis (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and Steven Vogel
Sarah Elizabeth Weiner, What’s the Issue? Changing Frames of Ethanol Policy in Congress and the Media
(2012) Advisors Terri Bimes and Eric Schickler
Brian Michael Weissenberg, The Individualist Court: Naked Public School, Clothed Public Square
(2011) Advisors Martin Shapiro and Terri Bimes
Sophia Whiting, The Origins of Arizona’s SB 1070: The Role of Individual Actors and Coalitions on State
Legislative Action (2013) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Rodney Hero
Ellen Yu, Pitching Politics: The Role of Music in Labor Unions in the 20th Century (2010) Advisors Terri
Bimes and Jocelyne Guilbault
Lynn Yu, Supreme Impact: The Supreme Court and the Discourse on Diversity (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes
and Sean Farhang
Annie Zanobini, Female Gubernatorial Candidates: Strategies for Overcoming Gendered Perceptions of
Viability (2011) Advisors Eric Schickler and Terri Bimes
Xiao Zhang, Sustaining Growth Management Policy: A Comparison of Land Use Policy Development in
California and Oregon (2008) Advisors Margaret Weir and Terri Bimes
COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Jesse Acevedo, Stealing the Spotlight: The Rise of a Third Political Party in El Salvador (2007) Advisors
Pradeep Chhibber and Ruth Collier
Yasmine Leila Agelidis, The Shot Heard 'Round the World: A Detailed Study of the Causes of the 2010-2011
Tunisian Revolution, and the Reasons for Its Success (2012) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Hatem Bazian
Godwin Aka, Contentious Politics: Movements in the Niger Delta (2013) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and M.
Steven Fish
Tara Amin, The Status of Women: A Study on the Progress of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008) Advisors
Leonardo Arriola and Amy Gurowitz
Ahmad Mustafa Asir, The Development and Clientelist State of Japan: An Examination of the DPJ reforms
and its Impacts on Japan (2011) Advisors Steven Vogel and Terri Bimes
Adam Astan, Rethinking the Modern African State: Indigenous Conflict Resolution Mechanisms in Northern
Kenya and Southern Ethiopia (2010) Advisor Amy Gurowitz and Leonardo Arriola
Nader H. Atassi, The Political Economy of the Syrian Uprising: Explaining Regional Disparities in AntiRegime Activity (2012) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Kiren Chaudhry
Jacqueline Barocio, Immigrant Refugee Political Socialization: An Analysis of Political Participation Among
Vietnamese-Americans (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and Khatharya Um
Laurel Beck, The Rise of Far Right Parties in Western Europe (2005) Advisor Darren Zook
Melisa Listiyani Bintoro, The Natural Resource Curse in Indonesia: Re-Examining the Grievance Mechanism
(2012) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and M. Steven Fish
Zuzana Blazek, The European Union’s “Democratic Deficit”: An Institutional Perspective (2004) Advisor
Eckhard Schröter
Tesia Bobrycki, Forced Resettlements: An Analysis of Government Initiated Displacements of Peoples in
Sub-Saharan Africa between 1997 – 2013 (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Leonardo Arriola
Greg Bocquet, Democratic Dealignment: An Analysis of Electoral Trends in Contemporary Argentina (2002)
Advisor Ruth Collier
Nicholas Bondar-Netis, Welcome Back, Yanukovych: Why Ukranian Voters Decreased their Level of Support
for Democracy in the 2010 Elections (2011) Advisors M. Steven Fish and Amy Gurowitz
Charles Cannizzaro, Democracy, Inequality and Protest in South Africa (2006) Advisor M. Steven Fish
Tara Capsuto, Decentralization, Union Influence and Educational Outcomes: A Comparative Study of
Educational Reforms in Mexico and Argentina (2005) Advisor Ruth Collier
Damian Cavaleri, The Creation of a National Community: Turkey’s Use of Myth in its Developmental
Beginning (2003) Advisor A. J. Gregor
Daniel Chen, Authoritarianism and Democratization in East Asia: A Study of Civil Society (2013) Advisors
Terri Bimes, T.J. Pempel and M. Steven Fish
Michelle Chern, Swatting Flies or Beating Tigers? The Internet and China’s War on Corruption (2013)
Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Peter Lorentzen
Jillian Marie Cook, Democracy Dangling like a Lollipop: Explaining Singapore’s Atypical Political
Development (2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and T.J. Pempel
Cameron Cuchulainn, Inside and Out: Spanish Democracy and the Civil War, 1936-1939 (2006) Advisors
Amy Gurowitz and Darren Zook
Michael Dorsi, The Failure to Forgive South Africa’s Apartheid Debt (2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and
David Leonard
Alana Early, Linking Free Trade and Labor Rights: Using U.S. Free Trade Agreements to Improve
Working Conditions in Latin America (2012) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and David Vogel
Pavol Elsig, Differences in Educational Performance (2009) Advisors Terri Bimes and Laura Stoker
Gabriel David Elsner, Energy Security in Brazil and The United States: Lessons from Success and Failure
(2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Steven Weber
Christy England, Can Democracy be Promoted? An Analysis of the Determinants of Democracy in the Middle
East (2009) Advisors Terri Bimes and M. Steven Fish
Juliana M. Fehrenbacher, Surrogate Motherhood: Legal Contestation and Rival Conceptions of Feminism
(2012) Advisors Terri Bimes and David Collier
Eleanor Freund, Realpolitik in the Middle Kingdom: China and the Proliferation of Nuclear Technology
(2013) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Lowell Dittmer
Wendy Fu, Somewhere in the Lacandón Jungle: The Zapatistas’ Take on Revolution (2005) Advisor Darren
Zook
Neil Kamal Gehlawat, Party Ideology and a Weak Legislature: Understanding Electoral Volatility in the North
Indian State of Haryana (2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Pradeep Chhibber
Bethany Gerdemann, The Effects of Chinese Trade and Investment on Poverty in Africa (2007) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and Steven K. Vogel
Amanda Garrett, The Integration of Muslim Immigrants: Education Systems in France and the Netherlands
(2005) Advisor Jonah Levy
Zuzanna Gruca, He who Saves One Life: Examining Polish Aid to Jews During the Holocaust (2013)
Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Jason Wittenberg
Ryan K. Hang, Freedom of Authoritarianism: Patriotic Hackers and Chinese Nationalism (2014) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and Doug Tygar
Casey Harless, Bringing GMOs to the Table: The Role of Environmental and Consumer Interest Groups in
Influencing GMO Policy in the EU and the USA (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and David Vogel
Sloan Heffron, A Discourse on Dissidence: The Political and Economic Dynamics of South Africa's AIDS
Epidemic (2008) Advisors Robert Price and Terri Bimes
Judge Robert Hensley, A Hungry Stomach Has No Ears: An Analysis of Public Social Services & Faith-Based
NGOs in Uganda (2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Leonardo Arriola
Christina Hioureas, The Struggle for Freedom in Cyprus: Evaluating President Archbishop Makarios’
Leadership (2004) Advisor George Besiquer
Rosie Ying-Yueh Hsueh, An Organizational-Processual Approach: The Civil Societalization of the
Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (1999) Advisor M. Steven Fish
Benjamin Dean Huber, The Stakes of the Games: Evaluating State-Level Motivations for Hosting
International Mega-Events (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Alison Post
Joanna Hull, Refining Concepts in Comparative Research: A Concrete Review of What Scholars Actually Do
(2000) Advisor David Collier
Ariel Hsian-Au Hsiung, Interpreting the Sichuan Earthquake: Civil Society or Participant Culture? (2012)
Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Kevin O’Brien
Luke Ifland, The Importance of Elite Choice in Post-Communist Political Transition: The Cases of Ukraine
And Belarus (2007) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Jason Wittenberg
Smriti Jayaraman, Rural Network Expansion Strategy: Mobile Telecom Regulation and Restructuring in India
(2008) Advisors Steven Vogel and Amy Gurowitz
Do-Hee Jeong, Political Tensions: Reversing the Tide of the Korean Wave (Hallyu) in Japan? (2012) Advisors
Amy Gurowitz and T.J. Pempel
Daniel Katz, Bala: The Institutionalization of Extrajudicial Violence by the Police of Rio de Janeiro (2008)
Advisors Ruth Collier and Amy Gurowitz
Patricia Kim, Chinese Student Protests: Explaining the Student Movements of the 1980s and the Lack of
Protests since 1989 (2008) Advisors Kevin O’Brien and Terri Bimes
Julia Kuchman, Prison Reform in Latin America (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Helene Silverberg
Shweta Kumar, The Role of Community Based Organizations in South Africa’s Local Protests: A Case Study
of Makause and Thembelihle Informal Settlements (2013) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Leo Arriola
Jason David LaBouyer, Divergent Paths: Economic and Political Modernization in Scandinavia and Eastern
Europe in the Industrial Age (2005) Advisor Andrew Janos
Scheherazade Le, The Revolutionary Cloak of Hoa Hao Buddhism (2000) Advisor A. J. Gregor
Matthew La Rocque, Students in Revolt: Comparing Student Movement Organization in France, the United
States and Italy during the 1960s (2006) Advisors Pradeep Chhibber and Taeku Lee
Audrie Lee, Religion in a Precarious Political Landscape: The Development of Christianity in Hong Kong from
1985 to the Present (2004) Advisor Lowell Dittmer
Lauren Levy, Collective Leadership in the Arab Spring Revolts: Fueled by Social Media, Powered by the
People (2013) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and David Collier
William Lynes, Civil Aviation Reform in China: How Can Chinese Policymakers Find a Formula for Sustained
Success? (2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and John Zysman
Maram Mahajna, Ethics of Exclusion: A Universalist and Communitarian Critique of Israel’s Law of Return
(2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Leti Volpp
Kathleen Manis, Democratization in the Muslim World: The Influence of Secularism and the Detrimental
Effect of Fundamentalism (2008) Advisors M. Steven Fish and Amy Gurowitz
Kristin Marrow, When Will the Commission Have an Agenda? Understanding the Role of the European
Commission in EU Policy-Making (2004) Advisor Christopher Ansell
Elizabeth Marsolais, The Arab Spring and the Coercive Apparatus: Defection in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and
Libya (2013) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Peter Lorentzen
Melissa L. McAdam, The Role of Islam in the Russo-Chechen Conflict (2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and
Edward Walker
Pierce C. McClory, Chinese Information and Communications Technology: A Techno-Nationalist Dilemma
(2011) Advisors Peter Lorentzen and Amy Gurowitz
Anne Meng, Social Capital and Political Signaling: Citizen and State Empowerment in Contemporary China
(2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Kevin O’Brien
Katherine Eleanor Michel, The Democratic Paradox: A Cross-National Comparison of Elections (2009)
Advisors Terri Bimes and M. Steven Fish
Priscilla Minaise, In Pursuit of Justice: National Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Cambodia (2008)
Advisors David Cohen and Amy Gurowitz
David Mitnick, Infected Sovereignty: Cooperation Between China and the WHO in Combating and Preventing
SARS and Avian Influenza (2007) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Christopher Ansell
Ekaterina Moiseeva, Russian High-End Prostitution hrough Cultural and Social Perspectives (2011) Advisors
M. Steven Fish and Amy Gurowitz
Fatima Mojadeddi, The Follies of Ahistorical State Building: A Critical Study of the Afghan State in the 19th
and 20th Centuries (2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Wali Ahmadi
Marjon Momand, Religious Freedom in the Muslim World: Understanding Government Restrictions on
Religious Minorities in Muslim-Majority Countries (2013) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Helene Silverberg
Galen Murray, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: The World Bank’s New Development Strategy? (2009)
Advisors Terri Bimes and Peter Lorentzen
Angelo Noguera, Achieving Olympic Gold: Citius, Altius, Fortius in Political and Economic Development
(2009) Advisors Terri Bimes and Hong Yung Lee
Angelo Christian Pacheco Nono, Terrorism in the Southern Philippines: Leadership and the Organizational
Evolution of the Abu Sayyaf Group (2012) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Jugdep Chima
Matt Odette, A Geographical Expression: Institutionalized Ethnicity in Nigeria (2002) Advisor Robert Price
Albert Francisco Ofrecio, Devolving Corruption? Political Decentralization in Thailand and the Philippines
(2003) Advisor Darren Zook
Roibín D. Ó hEochaidh, Mind the Gap: Euroscepticism and the Narratives of Constitutional Ratification
(2005) Advisor Jonah Levy
Pechsiree Pechvijitra, Why do Thais Vote for Thaksin? A Study of Key Factors that Led to Thaksin
Shinawatra’s Victories in Thai Elections (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and Darren Zook
Sophorl Pete Pin, Post-Crisis Regionalism in East Asia: The Chiang Mai Initiative (2007) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and T. J. Pempel
Cloé Ragot, Absent from Europe: A Comparison of the Political Strategies of Far-Right Parties at the National
and European Union Levels (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Jonah Levy
Kundur Gaurav Reddy, Securitization and the Kashmir Conflict (2005) Advisor Amy Gurowitz
Scott Barrett Andrew Richards, The Calculus of Slow and Inequitable Growth: An Alternative Understanding
of Philippine Economic Performance Between 1950 and 2000 (2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and T.J.
Pempel
Neil G. Ruiz, The Power of Hegemony: Universal and Particular Political Ideologies in South Africa and the
United States (1999) Advisor Robert M. Price
Amanda Sadra, Coptic Christians, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Armed Forces, and the State Cycles of
Inclusion and Exclusion in Egyptian Politics (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and David Collier
Reza Safai, Iran’s Continuing Nuclear Pursuit: An Examination of Key Motivations (2013) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and Dariush Zahedi
Sam Sami, Forces of Change: Female Educational Advancement in Post-Revolution Iran (2007) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and Steven Fish
Elizabeth Sanchez, Mexico's Militarized Anti-Narcotics Strategy and Prospects for Democratic Consolidation
(2012) Advisors Terri Bimes and M. Steven Fish
Kathryn Schwarz, Exposed Roots: Empirical Analysis of the Causes of Anti-Americanism in the Middle-East
(2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Giacomo Chiozza
Ian Scott,Truth Commission, Prosecution, or Amnesty? Explaining Transitional Justice Policy Adoption in
Sub-Saharan Africa (2010) Amy Gurowitz and Leonardo Arriola
Robert Bradley Shaffer, Melting Ice and Tangled Nets: Litigation and Conservation Policy in the US,
Australia, and Canada (2012) Advisors Terri Bimes and Eric Biber
Patrick Skahan, Disputed Waters: Prospects for Regional Cooperation on the Nile River (2006) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and Isha Ray
William Sheslow, Culture Clash: Ethnic Fault Lines and Political Disunity (2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and
Taeku Lee
Judith Sijstermans, Explaining the Perseverance of ‘Independence in Europe’: Strategic Motivations for
Minority Nationalist Pro-Europeanism (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Christopher Ansell
Ryan Smith, The Surge: The Central Role of Population-Centric Counterinsurgency in Improving Iraq’s
Security (2010) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Ron Hassner
Katinka Soderstrom, Liberty, Equality and Solidarity: Preserving “The Peoples’ Home” (2007) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and Jonah Levy
David Stevens, The Incorporation of Political Extremists in Russia and South Africa (2000) Advisor M. Steven
Fish
Monica Thammarath, What’s in it for You? The Reception of Southeast Asian Refugees by the United States,
Canada, and Australia (2008) Advisors Khatarya Um and Amy Gurowitz
Ariel Toft, ‘I am also at a Loss’: Justice for Individuals and State Communities at the International Criminal
Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia (2008) Advisors David Cohen and Amy Gurowitz
Keith Tsang, Switching Gears in the Engine of Global Finance: The Competitive Policies of Asian Global
Financial Centers (2010) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Peter Lorentzen
Leah M. Verghese, A Meaning Frame[d[: Political Discourse on Healthcare and the Economic Crisis in
Germany and the U.S. (2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Shannon Stimson
Diem Ly Thi Vo, External Oppression, Internal Liberation? The struggle for ownership of nationalism in
Vietnam (2012) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Peter Zinoman
Kei Wakabayashi, Decoding Japanese Attitudes on Defense: An Examination and Analysis of Public Opinion
Polls (2011) Advisors Steven Vogel and Terri Bimes
Fa-Shen Vincent Wang, Charismatic Succession: A Comparative Study of the Kims in North Korea and the
Chiangs in Taiwan (2013) Advisors Terri Bimes and Lowell Dittmer
Alexandra Woods, Human Rights Abuses in Iran: Strategies for Reform of Women and Bahá’ís (2005)
Advisor Darren Zook
Leila Yavari, The Politics of Repression and the Arts of Subversion: Brechtian Theater in Contemporary Iran
(2001) Advisor Paul Thomas
Hannah Zarkar, Unveiling the Status of Women in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Iran and the
Arab League (2010) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and M. Steven Fish
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Amir Abadi, Iran’s Nuclear Program: Rational or Irrational? A Case for Regime Rationality (2009) Advisors
Amy Gurowitz and Ron Hassner
Elizabeth Alquist, Giving Up On The Bomb: An Analysis of Potential Causes of Deproliferation (2007)
Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Steven Weber
Amir Q. Amiri, The War on International Legal Norms: How the Bush Administration’s “War on Terror”
Undermines International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law (2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and
Rachel Shigekane
Leore Ben-Chorin, Terrorist Organizational Structure: To Decentralize or Not To Decentralize (2014)
Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Ron Hassner
Taylor Brink, State Cooperation with the ICC (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Helene Silverberg
Colin R. Caprara, Truth and Reconciliation in Chile and El Salvador: What Happens Next? (2012) Advisors
Amy Gurowitz and Helene Silverberg
Mariyam A. Cementwala, Giving the Veiled a Voice: A Test of the Efficacy of International Disability Law
(2002) Advisor Beth Simmons
Joshua Curtis, Feeding the Dragon’s Fire: Is China’s and the United States’ Increased Oil Resources
Competition in Top Oil-Exporting Nations Leading to Heightened Diplomatic Conflict Between the U.S.
and Top Oil Exporters? (2011) Advisors Peter Lorentzen and Terri Bimes
Lauren Dansey, Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization: A Failure of Regionalism? (2011) Advisors Vinod
Aggarwal and Amy Gurowitz
Papia Debroy, Commercial Liberalism in the Digital Age: A New Framework for Analysis (2003) Advisor
Steven Weber
Justin Jason Decker, The Life and Death of UN “Lessons Learned”: UN Peacekeeping and the Difficulties in
Translating Lessons into Productive and Mission-Enhancing Change (2011) Advisors Darren Zook and
Amy Gurowitz
Adam J. Flores, The Legalization of Self-Defense under the United Nations (2007) Advisors Amy Gurowitz
and Giacomo Chiozza
Christian Eric Ford, International Law and Sustainability: The Changing Face of Multilateral Intervention
(2002) Advisors Beth Simmons and Thomas G. Barnes
Matthew Haney, The Trials of a Supranational Court: Democracy, Legitimacy and the International Criminal
Court (2005) Advisor Ron Hassner
Bradley Herman, Governance Institutions of Software Development: Balancing Freedom and Interoperability
Through Open Source Standards (2001) Advisor Steven Weber
Nancy Jen, The International Criminal Court: What’s in it for States? A Study on African States and Why They
Ratify (2002) Advisor Beth Simmons
Jason Johnston, The Measure of a Word: Constructing a Pattern of US Diplomatic Response to Intrastate
Conflict in Post-Cold War Africa (2008) Advisors Leonardo Arriola and Amy Gurowitz
Nathan Patrick Jones, An Israeli/U.S. Sponsored Coup D’Etat in Syria: Motivations and a Generalized Battle
Plan (2003) Advisor A. J. Gregor
Daniel Kolta, China’s Real Challenge: A Positivist Human Rights Model (2007) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and
Ron Hassner
Jungmee Lee, Main Factors that Influenced Achieving Cooperation in the Six-Party Talks (2010) Amy
Gurowitz and T.J. Pempel
Alexandra Heather Magill, Giving Life to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Nongovernmental
Organizations and the Struggle to Persuade the United States to Join the Global Community (2001) Advisor
Kateri Carmola
Farah Mahesri, International Politics, Domestic Impacts: The Complicated Relationship Between the United
States and Pakistan, 1978-2005 (2005) Advisor Darren Zook
Amanda Elizabeth Matteis, Trends in Modern Terrorism and their Implications on U.S. Counter-terrorism
Policy (2005) Advisor Amy Gurowitz
Katrina McLaughlin, Indigenous Access in Global Environmental Governance (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz
and Christopher Ansell
Melissa Michelini, Is the Loss of Turkey’s Sovereignty and Identity on the Island of Cyprus Worth the Gain of
European Union Membership (2005) Advisor Christopher Ansell
Johannes Morrow, Indigenous Politics and International Relations Theory: Limits and Possibilities of Political
Vision (2004) Advisor Mark Bevir
Robert Nelson, Crossed Interests: The Role of the India Lobby in America’s Battle Against Al Qaeda (2011)
Advisors Vinod Aggarwal and Amy Gurowitz
Alexander M. Newhall, The Law of the Jungle: The US-Peru Trade Promotional Agreement and Peruvian
Civil Society (2012) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Vinod Aggarwal
Robert C. Nielsen, The Best Military Money can Buy? Private Military Companies in the Iraq War (2008)
Advisors Laura Stoker and Terri Bimes
Lorenz Noe, Why did Jordan Surrender the West Bank? A Case Study in Political Decision-Making and Policy
(2011) Advisors Ron Hassner and Amy Gurowitz
Megan O’Sullivan, The Push Towards Recognition: Rape as a Crime in International Law (2006) Advisors
Amy Gurowitz and Ron Hassner
Angel Padilla, The Resurgence of the Left in Latin America: the Impact of Leftist Regimes on U.S. Power in
Latin America (2007) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Peter Evans
Camille Papini-Chapla, A Story of Drugs and Blood: Understanding the Connection Between the United
States and the Taliban (2007) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Wali Ahmadi
Julie Picquet, The Ants and the Elephant: China’s Courtship of the Third World (2007) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and Steven Weber
Vienna Poiesz, Arctic Governance in the Face of Climate Change (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Daniel
Kammen
Colin Richard, France and Africa: A Discussion of Foreign Military Interventions in Post-Colonial Africa
(2007) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Giacomo Chiozza
Byron Ruby, Conflict or Cooperation? Arctic Geopolitics and Climate Change (2011) Advisors Ron Hassner
and Amy Gurowitz
Katherine Saad, EU Peacekeeping Intervention in Practice: Current and Future Policy in Africa (2008)
Advisors Beverly Crawford and Amy Gurowitz
Souvik Saha, Nuclear Crossroads: An Analysis of the U.S.-India Nuclear Pact and its Implications for
Nonproliferation (2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Vinod Aggarwal
Sparsha Saha, At a Fork in the Road: NATO, Afghanistan, and the Dilemma of the New Security Environment
(2008) Advisors Giacomo Chiozza and Amy Gurowitz
David Sahargun, The Lead up to the War against Iraq: How International Law Shaped U.S. Decision Making
(2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Ron Hassner
Paige Allyson Sechrest, Shifts to Violence: A Social Movement Theory Approach to the Muslim Brotherhood
(2012) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Ron Hassner
Alisa Shekhtman, Kadi v. Commission: A Case Study of the Development of a Rights-Based Jurisprudence for
the European Court of Justice (2011) Advisors Richard Buxbaum and Amy Gurowitz
Nicole Skibola, The World Bank and Transnational Society: An Analysis of How Environmental NonGovernmental Organizations Institute Change in Development (2002) Advisor Beth Simmons
Allison M. Sloan, A Role for Transgovernmental Networks in International Competition Policy Development
(2007) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Christopher Ansell
Matthew J. Spence, A Study of Institutional Effect: The Impact of the TRIPS Agreement on World Affairs
(2004) Advisor Steven Weber
Jennifer Stalzer, Gender-based Asylum Claims and the American Immigration System: An Examination of
Women Refugees’ Struggle for Recognition and Protection (2004) Advisor Amy Gurowitz
Dan Stepanicich, An Ever Closer Union: The European Security and Defense Policy and the Development of
Hard Power Capabilities in the European Union (2011) Advisors Beverly Crawford and Amy Gurowitz
Kenneth Tsang, Divided Interactions and Persevering Nationalism: Obstacles to Functional Spillover Effects
in Sino-Japanese Relations (2010) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and T.J. Pempel
Nicole Vanderlaan, Spain’s Immigration Policy: The Rhetoric and the Reality (2001) Advisor Amy Gurowitz
Elizabeth Vissers, Crude World: China’s Oil Diplomacy with Pariahs (2013) Advisors Terri Bimes, T.J.
Pempel and Vinod Aggarwal
Jessica Vu, The China-Iran Nuclear Connection and its Implications for U.S. Policy (2006) Advisors Amy
Gurowitz and Lowell Dittmer
Sebastien Welch, How to Use ‘Mercenaries’: A 21st Century Look at Private Military Companies and their
Potential Role in Peacekeeping Missions (2014) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Beverly Crawford
Adrienna Wong, The Market and the Mercenary: The Private Military Industry in Iraq, 2003-Present (2007)
Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Giacomo Chiozza
POLITICAL THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY
Joshua Braver, A Critical Patriotism: Radically Idealized and Mature Filial Love (2006) Advisors Pradeep
Chhibber and Wendy Brown
Sasha Campbell, Equality as Citizenship: The Next Chapter for Centrist Theory (2010) Advisors Terri Bimes
and M. Steven Fish
Maxwell Lynch Eberitzch, Rational Identities: Exploring the Possibilities of “the good” in the Work of John
Rawls (2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Martin Jay
Kathleen Edmonds, Marx and Feminism: A Working Intersection (2006) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Paul
Thomas
John David Greenwood, The Hubris of Rationality: Towards a Critique of America’s Popular Political Culture
(2008) Advisors Wendy Brown and Terri Bimes
Suvi Irvine, Freedom, Fear and the Fate of Individual Identity: A Comparison of Friedrich Nietzsche and Milan
Kundera on the Value of Human Creativity (2005) Advisor Norman Jacobson
Johnny Lovell, John Locke and the Political Relevance of Natural Law (2011) Advisors Kinch Hoekstra and
Amy Gurowitz
Holly Christine Mariella, The Citizen-Soldier Under Fire: The Decline of Rousseauian Civic Virtue and
the Rise of Nationalist Myth (2012) Advisors Terri Bimes and Wendy Brown
Omid Mohamadi An Inquiry into the War on Terror from the Theoretical Perspectives of Antonio Gramsci and
Michel Foucault (2008) Advisors Wendy Brown and Terri Bimes
Erik Peinert, Equality and Self-Interest: John Rawls, G.A. Cohen, and Personal Prerogatives (2011) Advisors
Sarah Song and Amy Gurowitz
Kieran Ruppert, Constitutional Dictators: The Tension between Unlimited Power in a Limited Office (2014)
Advisors Terri Bimes, Kinch Hoekstra, and Shannon Stimson
Eric Skidmore, The American Sense of Mission: From the Puritan Errand to Manifest Destiny (2005) Advisor
Norman Jacobson
James Tate, The Icarus Dilemma (2011) Advisors Kinch Hoekstra and Amy Gurowitz
Leaf Williams, Tell a Joke, Change the World? Laughter as a Political Phenomenon (2004) Advisor Darren
Zook
Albert Yeh, Foucault and Freedom (2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz and Paul Thomas
FORMAL THEORY AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS
Sara B. Poster, Essentially Contested Concepts: Origins, Insights, and Implications (2003) Advisor David
Collier
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Eric D. Anthony, How Do Voter Registration Deadlines Influence Voter Turnout? (2005) Advisor Laura
Stoker
Minkyung Kim, The American Gaze at the American Gays: Interest Groups, Media, and the Elite Opinions’
Impact on Public Opinion (2013) Advisors Terri Bimes and Chris Ansell
Shannon Mattingly, Political Ambition of Women in Congress: A rubric for the underrepresented (2005)
Advisor Laura Stoker
Joshua White, Occupational Hazard: Ballot Occupation as a Proxy for Party in Low-Information Elections
(2013) Advisers Terri Bimes and Gabriel Lenz
PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE
Sylvia Panosian, Constitutional Signing Statements: What Factors Contribute to Increased Issuance (2010)
Advisors Terri Bimes and Sean Gailmard
Ederlina Co, Redefining Liberty: State Legal Restrictions on Abortion (1999) Advisor Robert Kagan
Catherine Julia Groves, Regulating Harm to Self? An Analysis of Employers’ Use of Social Networking
Websites (2008) Advisors Robert Kagan and Terri Bimes
Cristina Aide Henriquez, Strategic Action for Court Control (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and Robert Van
Houweling
Joy Hmura, Throwing Away the Key: Analyzing Incarceration Rate Variation Among States (2013) Advisers
Terri Bimes and Chris Ansell
Mary Ann King, Getting Our Feet Wet: Water Trusts as Institutional Models (2003) Advisor Judy Gruber
Crystal Liu, PGD and Public Policy: A Discussion on Ethical and Sociological Implications and the Adequacy
of Advisory Committees and Professional Organizations to Address Them (2003) Advisor Robert Kagan
Marilyn Martinelli, Custody Disputes in the United States’ Courts: Battle Over the Property (2004) Advisor
Gordon Silverstein
Divya Musinipally, United We Stand: Wiretapping and the Necessity of a Unitary Constitution in Foreign
Affairs (2010) Advisors Terri Bimes and Gordon Silverstein
Tejas N. Narechania, Bridging the Gap between Rights and Utility: Renegotiating Intellectual Property for the
Digital Area: An Online Music Case Study (2005) Advisor Steven Weber
Dianne Noonan, Child Abuse: Legal Contestation and Conceptual Confusion (2013) Advisors Terri Bimes and
David Collier
Samantha Seng, Equality and Adequacy Legal Arguments into the 21st Century (2009) Advisors Gordon
Silverstein and Terri Bimes
Veena Subramanian, Youth Behind Bars: Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) and Public Safety
in New Jersey, Missouri, and Virginia (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes and Amy Lerman
Sharyn Waldrop, It Is So Ordered: The Role of Ideology and Precedent in Supreme Court Decision Making
(2008) Advisors Gordon Silverstein and Terri Bimes
Peggy Wong, The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Hybrid Tribunals’ Potential to be
Considered Legitimate Judicial Mechanisms by the Victim Population (2009) Advisors Amy Gurowitz, Eric
Stover, and David Cohen
Lynn Yu, Supreme Impact: The Supreme Court and the Discourse on Diversity (2014) Advisors Terri Bimes
and Sean Farhang
PUBLIC ORGANIZATION, ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY
Jennifer D. Greengold, In Search of the Electronic Agora: A Feasibility Study on the Prospects for Interest
Aggregation on the Internet (2001) Advisor Todd LaPorte
Kyra Sikora, Staff Matters: Explaining the Success of Bay Area Education Foundations (2014)
Advisors Terri Bimes and Max Nieman
Elizabeth Swaney, The Effects of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Internal Divisions and
Impact of its Changing Faces in Response to Political and Social Pressures (2006) Advisors Pradeep
Chhibber and Philippe Baumard
Mary J. Wong, University Health Services: An Observation of Organizational Dynamics in a Changing
Environment (2003) Advisor Todd LaPorte
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