Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Political Science"
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Factors Associated with Successful United Nations Peacekeeping Missions
(2025-05-09)
Peacekeeping is an essential component of the United Nations’ contributions to fulfill its core mission of maintaining international peace and security. UN peacekeeping missions (PKMs) are Security Council (SC) approved ...
First Innovator States: An Ecological Analysis of Innovation and Diffusion of Policies to Address College Student Financial Insecurity in the American States.
(2020-04-08)
The issue of college student financial insecurity has risen to the political agenda of post-secondary institutions and states since the Recession of 2007 – 2009. This need is driven by stark increases in the cost of college ...
Fiscal Policy and the Growth of Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-saharan Africa (Selected Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa)
(2005-12-15)
This study evaluates the impacts of fiscal policy on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) region, focusing on the selected countries of Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. The study further ...
The Georgia Voter Identification Requirement: Is it a Form of Voter Disenfranchisement?
(2012-05-04)
As an American citizen, my observation reveals that access to the franchise has been prohibited or limited for African Americans and the poor since 1863. Congress and the Supreme Court have been consistent in their legislation ...
Gerrymandering: The Impact of Redistricting on State Legislative Election Voter Participation
(2025-03-10)
State legislative elections are increasingly shaped by two factors influencing the prospects of winning a majority: the redistricting cycle and partisan tide elections (Makse 2014). Winning control of the redistricting ...
The Ghana National Health Insurance Policy: Evaluation of Equity of Coverage and Financial Sustainability
(2014-08-07)
One of the overarching objectives of initiating and implementing public policy is to enhance and advance the welfare of citizens. It is in this disposition that the Ghana government in 2003 initiated a universal health ...
Government Structure, Economic Inequality, and Social Safety Net Provision in US Counties
(2016-08-04)
This study examines the relationship between economic inequality and social safety net spending at the county level between 1996 and 2010. Three key questions are explored. What effect does the interaction between economic ...
The Growth of Private Voluntary Organizations 1968-2004
(2006-12-15)
The increase in the number of private voluntary organizations (PVOs) registered with the United States Agency for International Development was analyzed for the period 1968-2004. The factors that were used to explain the ...
Harmony in Horticulture: Rethinking State Preemption on Pesticide Regulation
(2025-01-13)
This three-paper dissertation investigates the adoption of state pesticide preemption policies in all 50 U.S. states from 1989 to 2016. Utilizing internal determinants, external factors (policy diffusion), and conventional ...
Home is Where the Politics Are: An Exploration of Place-based Politics
(2023-04-13)
Political research has often considered identity and the role it plays in shaping a person's political ideology and party affiliation. When referencing identity, there are multiple identities that one can consider including ...
The Impact of Political and Cultural Factors on the Success of Microfinance Institutions
(2019-04-09)
This research focuses on the survival context of microfinance institutions from a political and cultural perspective. Compared to other methods of poverty alleviation, microfinance, as a new financial channel, seems more ...
The Impact of Public-Nonprofit Collaboration on the Capacity of Public Institutions in Nigeria.
(2023-04-03)
My dissertation explores the potential of public and nonprofit sector collaboration to improve public institutional capacity through institutional isomorphism. One of the major problems that has been identified in developing ...
Impacts of National Issues Forums on Participant Efficacy and Behavior
(2011-12-05)
Deliberative democracy theorists argue citizen participation is a critical aspect of democratic government. In this exploratory study, deliberative community forums created by the National Issues Forums were conducted in ...
In the Shadow of the Presidency: Presidential Management and the Influence of Cabinet Secretaries
(2016-05-06)
Scholars today recognize weaknesses in the president’s ability to pass significant legislation. I ask how presidents can increase their overall influence. They must look internally at their management style and the ...
Indigent Defense in Five Southern States: Factors that Influence State Administrative Oversight
(2010-07-16)
The right to legal representation for those accused of crime is now a constitutional right across the American legal system. State oversight of indigent defense programs in the American states has not been the subject of ...
Industrialization, Deindustrialization and Re-Industrialization in a Southern U.S. State: Alabama from 1970-2010
(2014-08-20)
Over the last fifty years, the U.S. has transitioned through three periods of manufacturing, (a) “The Industrial Period” from 1945-1979, (b) “Deindustrialization of America from 1980-2000, and (c) “Re-industrialization of ...
Influencing the Spread of Prison Menstrual Laws: A Three Essay Analysis of Prison Menstrual Legislation
(2023-11-15)
With the growth of women in prison reaching immense rates, states and their response to the unique needs of women prisoners are critical. Understanding what factors influence states to pass prison menstrual laws can inform ...
The Information Environment of State Agency Heads: Variations in Contact, Information Seeking, and Inclusiveness
(2018-04-24)
State agency administrators perform similar tasks across vastly different environments throughout the American states on a daily basis. These agency heads perform their duties at a unique nexus of politics, policy, and ...
The Institutionalization of Military Base Closing
(2006-05-15)
The reason the theory of institutionalization is so important is that it provides the basis for optimum efficiency and effectiveness, two pillars of public administration, within government organizations. Administrative ...
Interdependence Theory, China and American Security Interests
(2006-05-15)
This research examines how the economic relationship between the United States and China impacts the potential for dyadic conflict. We employed Interdependence Theory to explain this relationship. Our purpose is to examine ...