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Author:

Harris, Casey Taggart

Title:

A LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE MACRO-LEVEL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RECENT IMMIGRATION AND WHITE, BLACK, AND HISPANIC VIOLENT CRIME, 1990-2000

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

immigration
violence
crime
arrests
race
ethnicity
time

File:

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Committee Members:

Darrell J Steffensmeier, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darrell J Steffensmeier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Committee Member
Derek Allen Kreager, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Karakoc, Ekrem

Title:

A THEORY OF REDISTRIBUTION IN NEW DEMOCRACIES: HOW HAS DEMOCRACY INCREASED INCOME DISPARITY IN SOUTHERN AND POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE?

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Democracy
Democratization
Inequality
Social Policy
Political Party System
Political Party
Postcommunism
Southern Europe

File:

Download Ekrem_Karakoc_Dissertation_Final_Jul18_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Ann Banaszak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Bernhard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Ann Banaszak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Sebastian Anner, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
Burt Monroe Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Pacheco, Julianna

Title:

Dynamic Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness in the American States

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

state public opinion
dynamic policy responsiveness
state policy making

File:

Download Dissertation_Complete.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Plutzer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Plutzer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Barth Berkman, Committee Member
Pamela Farley Short, Committee Member
Frank Baumgartner, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Hatipoglu, M. Emre

Title:

Congressional Activism in Foreign Policy: The Case of Economic Sanctions

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

foreign policy
Congress
sanctions
strategic probit

File:

Download Hatipoglu2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Glenn Hunter Palmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
David Scott Bennett Jr., Committee Member
Neil Philip Korostoff, Committee Member

Author:

Dietrich, Simone

Title:

Foreign Aid Delivery, Donor Selectivity, And Poverty: A Political Economy of Aid Effectiveness

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

foreign aid
donor decision-making
poverty
institutions

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation_04162011_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas William Lemke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas William Lemke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
Joseph Wright, Committee Member
Michael Bernhard, Committee Member
Mark Sebastian Anner, Committee Member

Author:

Bevan, Shaun

Title:

The Life Cycle of Voluntary Associations in the United States, 1972-2001

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Interest Groups
Representation
Organizational Ecology
Time Series
Associations

File:

Download ShaunBevan_Dissertation_110714.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lowery, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lowery, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Frank Baumgartner, Committee Member
Suzanna Linn, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
John David Mccarthy, Committee Member

Author:

Bak, Daehee

Title:

Leader Tenure, Domestic Constraints, and International Conflict

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Leader
Tenure
Domestic Constraints
International Conflict
Predation
Time Horizon
Game Theory

File:

Download Dissertation_DaeheeBak.pdf

Committee Members:

Glenn Hunter Palmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Scott Bennett Jr., Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
Joseph Wright, Committee Member
Alessandro Bonanno, Special Member

Author:

Bagozzi, Benjamin Edward

Title:

Strategies of Environmental Treaty Participation by Authoritarian Regimes

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Environment
Authoritarian Politics
International Relations

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Subhanan Mukherjee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Subhanan Mukherjee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip A Schrodt, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
Karen Ann Fisher Vanden, Special Member

Author:

Rice, Douglas Ralph

Title:

Agenda Dynamics in the U.S. Federal Courts

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

courts
agenda
politics
congress
president
Supreme Court
federal courts
district courts
courts of appeals

File:

Download Rice_Doug_Dissertation_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Jon Zorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Burt Monroe Iii, Committee Member
Marie Hojnacki, Committee Member
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Special Member

Author:

Light, Michael T

Title:

Punishing the 'Others': Citizenship and State Social Control in the United States and Germany

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Citizenship
Punishment
Immigration

File:

Download Light_Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffery Todd Ulmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Glenn A Firebaugh, Committee Member
John Iceland, Committee Member
John Kramer, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Martin, Robert Russell

Title:

Faith in the Balance? An Evaluation of the Outcomes of Religious Free Exercise Claims in the State Appellate Courts, 1997-2011

Graduate Program:

Sociology

Keywords:

Religion
free exercise
state appellate courts
legal test
religious minorities

File:

Download RRMartin_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Kent Finke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mccarthy, Committee Member
Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Tzelgov, Eitan

Title:

Words as weapons: opposition rhetoric and partisan strategy

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

parties
rhetoric
legislative
opposition

File:

Download ETthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Burt Monroe Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
Sona Nadenichek Golder, Committee Member
James Dillard, Special Member

Author:

Moody, Jonathan William

Title:

Campaigning for the Agenda: Agenda-setting in the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Campaigns

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

agenda-setting
presidential campaign
elections
campaigns

File:

Download Moody_Dissertation_-_Campaigning_for_the_Agenda_Agenda_Setting_in_the_2004_and_2008_Presidential_Campaigns.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Jon Zorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Plutzer, Committee Member
Luke John Keele, Committee Member
John W Gastil, Committee Member
Frank Baumgartner, Special Member

Author:

Lloyd, Jeremy Edgar

Title:

Veto Players and Militarized Interstate Conflict

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

veto players
conflict initiation
conflict duration
conflict outcome
regime type
legislative constraint

File:

Download Lloyd_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Glenn Hunter Palmer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Glenn Hunter Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Scott Bennett Jr., Committee Member
Scott Sigmund Gartner, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Mallinson, Dan Jacob

Title:

Identifying and Explaining Instability in the General Model of Policy Diffusion

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

policy diffusion
federalism
state politics
social conformity

File:

Download Mallinson_Dissertation_-_Final_Copy.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lowery, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter K Hatemi, Committee Member
Michael Barth Berkman, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
John W Gastil, Committee Member

Author:

Cho, Youngjoo

Title:

Semiparametric Analysis of Failure Time Data in the Presence of Dependent Censoring

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Bivariate Data
Failure Times
Perturbation Method
Resampling
U-statistics
Causal Inference
Observational Study

File:

Download Youngjoo_Cho-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Debashis Ghosh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debashis Ghosh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Soltoff, Benjamin Charles

Title:

Agenda-setting in State Courts of Last Resort

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

judicial politics
state politics
judicial elections
agenda-setting

File:

Download soltoff_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Jon Zorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Barth Berkman, Committee Member
Marie Hojnacki, Committee Member
John Kramer, Committee Member

Author:

Richards, Robert Charles

Title:

Intersubjectively Relevant Information: An Account of Citizen-centered Information and Communication in Democratic Deliberation about Ballot Initiatives

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

democratic deliberation
political communication
legal communication
political cognition
sense-making

File:

Download RobertCharlesRichardsDissertationApril2016rev.pdf

Committee Members:

John W Gastil, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John W Gastil, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Dillard, Committee Member
James Hogan, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member

Author:

Idris, Muhammed Yassin

Title:

Comparative Political Economics and Institutions in the Middle East and North Africa

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

Political Economy
Middle East and North Africa
Political Instability
Financial Markets
Political Institutions
Natural Language Procsesing

File:

Download idris-muhammed-dissertation-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Jon Zorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jones, Zachary Maddox

Title:

Interpretable Statistical Learning

Graduate Program:

Political Science

Keywords:

machine learning
interpretability

File:

Download jones_diss.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce A Desmarais Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce A Desmarais Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bumba Mukherjee, Committee Member
Christopher Jon Zorn, Committee Member
Bharath Kumar Sriperumbudur, Outside Member