2008
| Student |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
| Arnold, Jason |
Public Ignorance and the Quality of Democracy |
Samuels, David Julian |
| Boyer, Eric |
Beyond Marx-ism and Dewey-ism: A 'Red Pragmatism: for the Twenty-First Century. |
Farr, James |
| Chapp, Christopher |
Holier than Thy Opponent? Religious Rhetoric and Political Preferences in Presidential Campaigns |
Druckman, Jamie |
| Deylami, Shirin |
Strangers Among Us: The Critique of Westoxification in Perso- Islamic Political Thought. |
Disch, Lisa J. |
| Gundogdu, Ayten |
Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Predicament |
Duvall, Raymond D. and Dietz, Mary G. |
| Illuzzi, Michael |
A Conceptual History of Equal Opportunity: Debating the Limits of Acceptable Inequality in U.S. History |
Farr, James |
| Inal, Tuba |
Development of Global Prohibition Regimes: Pillage and Rape in War |
Sikkink, Kathryn A. |
| Kamau-Rutenberg,Wanjiru |
Feuding in the Family: Ethnic Politics and the Struggle for Women's Rights Legislation |
Samuels, David Julian |
| Kang, Susan |
Contestation and Collectivities: Protecting Labor Organizing Rights in the Global Economy. |
Sikkink, Kathryn A. |
| Kifer, Martin |
Instructing Soldiers for Their States: Allocation and Evolution of Military Training Assistance for Foreign Nationals |
Sampson III, Martin Wright |
| Kim, Hunjoon |
Expansion of Transitional Justice Measures: A Comparative Analysis of Its Causes |
Sikkink, Kathryn A. |
| Skonieczny, Amy |
Trading Stories: Narrative, Event and Social Theory in International Economic Relations. |
Duvall, Raymond D. |
| van Doorn, Bas |
Defying or Deifying the Public: The Communication and Conditional Effects of Presidential (Un)responsiveness |
Druckman, Jamie |
| Walling, Carrie |
The United Nations Security Council and Humanitarian Intervention: Causal Stories about Human Rights and War. |
Sikkink, Kathryn A. |
2007
| Student |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
| Bos, Angela |
Stereotypes at the Gate? Gender Stereotypes and Candidate Nomination Rules |
Sullivan, John L. |
| Estroff, Rachel |
Workers on the Edge: "The Politics of Employer-Sponsored Health and Pension Benefits" |
Sullivan, John L. |
| Farganis, Richard Dion |
Is the Supreme Court Bulletproof? |
Scheuerman, William |
| Oxendine, Alina |
Inequality and Isolation: How Economic Stratification Harms Social Capital. |
Sullivan, John L. |
| Parsneau, Kevin |
Presidents and Subcabinet Nominations: A President-Centered Account of the Nomination and Confirmation of Executive Officers. |
Jacobs, Lawrence Rubin |
| Rybicki, Elizabeth |
The Development of Bicameral Resolution Procedures in the U.S. Congress. |
Smith, Steven S. |
| Schneider, Monica |
Gender Bending: Candidate Strategy and Voter Response in a Marketing Age. |
Druckman, Jamie |
| Wedeking, Justin |
Thesis/Project Title: Elite Framing and Supreme Court Decision Making. |
Johnson, Timothy |
| Weidenfeld, Matthew |
First-Things, First: Toward a Phenomenology of Political Theory. |
Dietz, Mary G |
2006
| Student |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
| Belvedere, Maria Florencia |
Beyond Xenophobia: Contested Identities and the Politics of Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
Nimtz, August & Duvall, Raymond |
| Breen, Sheryl |
Property, Agriculture and Stewardship: Demands of an Ecocentric Ethic |
Ball, Terence W. |
| Havercroft, Jonathan |
Beyond Sovereignty and Anarchy: Ontological Foundations of Political Order |
Duvall, Raymond & Lomonaco, Jeffrey |
| Lawrence, Eric |
Essays on Procedural Development in the United States Congress. |
Smith, Steve |
| Mihailescu, Mihaela |
Dampening the Powder Keg: The Role of Democratic Oppositions in Fostering Ethnic Peace in Post-Communist Romania and Slovakia. |
Shively, W. Phillips & Samuels, David |
| Neumiller, Joan |
Identity Politics or Politics of Maturation? New Extreme Right Parties in Italy |
Shively, W. Phillips |
| Ostermeier, Eric |
Crime Views Without the Ballyhoo: Public Opinion on Crime in a New Era of Influential Media Elites and Unresponsive Policymakers. |
Jacobs, Lawrence |
| Parkin, Michael |
When Image Matters: The Saliency of Candidate Image in the New Media Age. |
Druckman, Jamie |
2005
| Student |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
| Erozan, Bogac |
Producing Obedience: Law Professors and the Turkish State. |
Farr, James |
| Hildreth, Roudy |
Living Citizenship: John Dewey, Political Theory, and Civic Engagement |
Farr, James |
| Jackson, Melinda |
Identity Matters: Political Identity Construction and the Process of Identity Influence. |
Sullivan, John |
| Saccarelli, Emanuele |
The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition: Antonio Gramsci and Leon Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism |
Farr, James |
| Varadarajan, Latha |
Producing the Domestic Abroad: Diasporas in International Relations |
Duvall, Raymond D. |
| Willey, Kristin |
The Cultural Formulation of National Security Policy in the United States and Japan. |
Price, Richard M. |
| Wilson, Renee |
The Banality of Environmental Degradation. |
Disch, Lisa J. |
2004
| Student |
Dissertation Title |
Advisor |
| Clough, Emily |
Talking Locally and Voting Globally: Duverger's Law in the Absence of Polls. |
Flanigan, William & Druckman, Jamie |
| Hellwig, Tim |
Political Representation in the Global Economy |
Freeman, John R. |
| Kadlec, Alison |
Radical Reconstructions: The Critical Pragmatism of John Dewey |
Farr, James |
| Kinsella, Helen |
The Image Before the Weapon: A Genealogy of the 'Civilian ' in International Law and Politics |
Sikkink, Kathryn & Disch, Lisa |
| Ron, Amit |
Fragile Foundation: Economic Exchange as a Model for Justice in the History of Political Philosophy |
Farr, James |
| Towns, Ann |
Norms and Inequality in International Society: Global Politics of Women and the State. |
Sikkink, Kathryn |