2016

Asaadi, Robert R
"Colonies, Clients, and Rogues: Power and the Production of Order in International Politics"
Advisor(s): Raymond Duvall and Kathleen Collins

Binay, Sema
"Coloring the Lines through Culture? Race and Racialization in International Relations"
Advisor(s): Raymond Duvall

Callaghan, Timothy H
"Appealing Politics? Using the Bully Pulpit to Change Opinions and Influence Policy"
Advisor(s): Andrew Karch

English, Ashley
"Implementing Intersectionality: Creating Women’s Interests in the Rulemaking Process"
Advisor(s): Kathryn Pearson and Dara Strolovitch

Luttig, Matthew D
"The Rise of Partisan Rigidity: The Nature and Origins of Partisan Extremism in American Politics."
Advisor(s): Howard Lavine

Murib, Zein
"Brokering Identity: Exploring the Construction of the LGBT Political Identity and Interests in U.S. Politics, 1968-2001"
Advisor(s): Dara Strolovitch

Sorenson, Maron W
"The Impact of Institutional Rules on the U.S. Supreme Court"
Advisor(s): Timothy Johnson

Temin, David
"Remapping the World: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Ends of Settler Sovereignty"
Advisor(s): Joan Tronto

2015

Beitman, Aaron L
"Distributional Consequences and Executive Regime Types: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives."
Advisor(s): John Freeman

Binnet, Pelin Azer
"My Wife, My Choice: Reproductive Policymaking and Social Control in Turkey."
Advisor(s): Daniel Kelliher and Joe Soss

Chen, Philip G
"Taking Campaigns Personally: The Big Five Aspects and Political Behavior."
Advisor(s): Paul Goren

Coe, Brooke N
"Regional Identities and Dynamic Normative Orders in the Global South: A Comparative Study."
Advisor(s): Kathryn Sikkink

Donkova, Ralitsa H
"Regimes of International Giving: The Politics of Public and Private Foreign Assistance in the United States, Britain, and Sweden."
Advisor(s): Jane Gingrich

Edwards, Ross A
"Crisis of the Republic: Memory, History, and the Hermeneutics of Citizenship."
Advisor(s): Mary Dietz and Antonio Vazquez Arroyo

Goltz, Caleb T
"Becoming Responsible: Conceptual Change in the Emergence of Tort Law."
Advisor(s): Joan Tronto

Lucas, Kevin E
"Programmatic Political Competition in Latin America: Recognizing the Role Played by Political Parties in Determining the Nature of Party-Voter Linkages."
Advisor(s): David Samuels

Lucius, Andrew M
"Why Cities Fail: Local Political Institutions and the Fates of Metropolitan Economies."
Advisor(s): John Freeman

Reda, Molla
"The Wartime Basis of Postwar Political Development: Civil War Termination, Resource Mobilization, and State-Building."
Advisor(s): Ronald Krebs

Wade, Magic M
"Labor's Last Stand? The Great Recession and Public Sector Collective Bargaining Reform in the American States."
Advisor(s): Andrew Karch

Winham, Ilya P.
"After Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and the Realization and Defeat of the Western Tradition."
Advisor(s): Mary Dietz

2014

Anderson, Joshua R
"The Commonwealth of Social Science: The American Social Science Association and a Pragmatist Politics of Expertise"
Advisor(s): James Farr

Bryan, Amanda Clare
"Vox Populi Vox Curiae: Public Opinion and the U.S. Supreme Court"
Advisor(s): Timothy Russell Johnson

Dahl, Adam J
"Empire of the People: The Ideology of Democratic Empire in the Antebellum United States"
Advisor(s): Joan C Tronto and Joe Soss

Forrest, Michael David
"Dilemmas of Political Representation: Antipoverty Advocacy in the Post-Civil Rights Era"
Advisor(s): Dara Strolovitch and Joe Soss

Gregory, Charles
"Senatorial Deliberation and Supreme Court Nominations"
Advisor(s): Timothy Russell Johnson

McCracken, Darrah
"Trading Places to Care? Humanitarians and Migrants in World Politics"
Advisor(s): Joan C Tronto

Pahnke, Anthony R
"Social Movement Self-Governance: The Contentious Nature of the Alternative Service Provision by Brazil's Landless Workers Movement"
Advisor(s): David Julian Samuels

Thomson, Henry Roderick
"Food and Power: Authoritarian Regime Durability and Agricultural Policy"
Advisor(s): John Roy Freeman

Williams-Wyche, Shaun N
"Power of the President: Party Competition in Presidential Regimes"
Advisor(s): David Julian Samuels

Yaylaci, Ismail
"Performative Socialization in World Politics: Islamism, Secularism and Democracy in Turkey and Egypt"
Advisor(s): Raymond D Duvall

2013

Bunte, Jonas Bartholomaus
"Debt and Coalitions: Domestic Politics and Sovereign Borrowing"
Advisor(s): John Roy Freeman

Cravens, Matthew Dirks
"The Role of Habit in Voting: Making and Breaking Habitual Voters"
Advisor(s): John L Sullivan and Joanne Marie Miller

Dancy, Geoffrey T
"The Impact of Human Rights Law in Time"
Advisor(s): Kathryn A Sikkink

Hindman, Matthew Dean
"Interest Group Citizenship: LGBT Politics from the Closet to K Street"
Advisor(s): Lisa J Disch and Dara Strolovitch

Hoffman, Mark N
"Rethinking the Politics of Immigration: Colonial Modes of Immigration Management and the Ambivalent Resilience of the Empire State"
Advisor(s): Raymond D Duvall

Julius, Michael A
"Stacking the Political Deck: Presidential Midterm Campaigning and the Separation of Powers"
Advisor(s): Kathryn Lynn Pearson

Mantilla Casas, Giovanni Fabrizio
"Under (Social) Pressure: The Historical Regulation of Internal Armed Conflicts through International Law"
Advisor(s): Kathryn A Sikkink

Meyerhoff, Eli L
"Political Theory for an Alter-University Movement: Decolonial, Abolitionist Study within, against, and beyond the Education Regime"
Advisor(s): Joan C Tronto

Sharrow, Elizabeth A
"Forty Years on the basis of sex: Title IX"
Advisor(s): Dara Strolovitch

Sheagley, Geoffrey D
"Political Disagreement and Decision-Making in American Politics"
Advisor(s): Joanne Marie Miller

Vinson, Laura Catherine
"The Inevitable Clash? Inter-religious Violence and Local Power-sharing in Nigeria"
Advisor(s): Kathleen A Collins and David Julian Samuels

Wang, Zhen
"Career Ambition and Local Compliance: The Political Logic of Tourism Development Policy Implementation in China"
Advisor(s): David Julian Samuels

2012

Dwyer, Caitlin Elizabeth
"The Impact of State and Party Rules on U.S. Presidential Nomination Contests"
Advisor(s): Paul Nurullah Goren

Gagnon, Jennifer Marie
"Agonistic Politics, Contest, and the Oresteia"
Advisor(s): Mary G Dietz

Kennedy, Denis Verne Flaugher
"Codified Compassion: Politics and Principles in Humanitarian Governance"
Advisor(s): Michael Nathan Barnett

Lobasz, Jennifer K
"Victims, Villains, and the Virtuous: Constructing the Problems of Human Trafficking"
Advisor(s): Raymond D Duvall

Lynch, Moira Katherine
"Seeking Justice During War: Accountability in Conflicted Democracies"
Advisor(s): Kathryn A Sikkink

Michel Luviano, Veronica
"Access to Justice, Victims' Rights, and Private Prosecution in Latin America: The Cases of Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico"
Advisor(s): Kathryn A Sikkink and Lisa Hilbink

2011

Galdieri, Christopher J
"Leading with Values: How Presidents and Candidates Refine and Define American Values"
Advisor(s): John L Sullivan

Kirdis, Esen
"Between Movement and Party: Islamic Political Party Formation in Jordan, Morocco and Turkey"
Advisor(s): David Julian Samuels and Kathleen A Collins

Laws, Serena
"What is Owed: Debt, Bankruptcy, and American Citizenship"
Advisor(s): Scott F Abernathy

Leon, Pak Yue
"International Institutions and Social Emergence"
Advisor(s): Raymond D Duvall

Udani, Adriano A
"Members by Design: How U.S. Immigration Policies Shape Mass Public Beliefs About American Membership"
Advisor(s): Dara Strolovitch and Joe Soss

Vecera, Vincent B
"The Supreme Court and the Politics of Language: An Empirical Investigation"
Advisor(s): Timothy Russell Johnson

Wilcox, Lauren Beth
"The Body of International Relations"
Advisor(s): Raymond D Duvall

Zhang, Zhenqing
"From Words to Deeds: Explaining China's (Non)compliance with Global Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Regime since the Country's WTO Entry"
Advisor(s): Kathryn A Sikkink and Daniel R Kelliher

2010

Calkivik, Emine Asli
"Dismantling Security"
Advisor(s): Raymond D Duvall

Dancey, Logan M
"Restoring Congressional Integrity: How Members of Congress Respond to Congressional Disapproval"
Advisor(s): Paul Nurullah Goren

Gimbel, Edward William
"An Interpreting Animal: Hermeneutics and Politics in the Human Sciences"
Advisor(s): Mary G Dietz

Gott, Katherine M
"Prostitutes of Wisdom: The Sophists, Rhetoric, and Deliberative Democracy"
Advisor(s): Mary G Dietz

Kamola, Isaac
"Producing the Global Imaginary: Academic Knowledge, Globalization and the Making of the World"
Advisor(s): Raymond D Duvall

Linde, Robyn M
"The Globalization of Childhood: The Role of Law and Norms in the Global Abolition of the Death Penalty for Child Offenders"
Advisor(s): Kathryn A Sikkink

Nordquist, Michael Andrew
"Environmental Participation: Immanence, Cosmopolitics, and the Agency of Environmental Assemblages"
Advisor(s): Lisa J Disch

Owen, Erica L
"Democratic Politics in an Age of Globalization: The Impact of Political Skills and Institutions on Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment"
Advisor(s): John Roy Freeman

Rapport, Aaron M
"Planning in the Shadow of the Future: U.S. Military Interventions and Time Horizons"
Advisor(s): Ronald R Krebs