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Honors Projects from 2024

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Beyond Religion: Reframing Liberal Democracy’s Treatment of Exemptions Within the Public-Private Separation, Julianna Brown

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Modeling the Development & Expression of Political Opinion: A Zallerian Approach, Avery C. Ellis

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Racial Bias within Capital Punishment: Instructional Comprehension, Marcus Gadsden

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Deciphering Policymaking—The Enigma of the 2003 Iraq War, Chengkai Gu

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Being and Salvation: Environmental Implications of Martin Heidegger's Thought, Eleanor S. Huntington

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Policy Making, Decision Making, and Advocacy: The U.S. Asylum System Since 9/11, Clara Jergins

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Eroding the Bedrock: The Future of Public Administration Without Chevron Deference, Rose Keller

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The Politics of Seeing: John Ruskin As Political Thinker, Hayden D. Redelman

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Nietzsche & the Destiny of Man: Human Greatness & Great Politics, Alexander Tully

Honors Projects from 2023

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Power Play: The President's Role in Shaping Renewable Energy Regulation and Policy, Luke Bartol

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Do Voters Reward Incumbents for Service Provision? Electoral Accountability in South African Elections, Rory Mayne Devlin

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Surfing the Kali Yuga: Tracking the Alt-Right on Twitter, Jaida Hodge-Adams

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Liberty and Its Legacy An Analysis of Freedom and Liberty in American Political Rhetoric, Ryan S. Kovarovics

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The Independent State Legislature Theory and Partisan Gerrymandering: How Moore v. Harper May Reshape Congressional Elections, Luke Porter

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Growing Pains: Toward a Coalition-Based Theory of State Land Use Policy, Patrick Rochford

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Is Faith the Ultimate Divider?: The Intersections Between Religion and Political Behavior in the United States, Ryan Supple

Honors Projects from 2022

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Modern Love and Marriage: The Problems and Insights of Rousseau, Beauvoir, and Plato, Isabella Angel

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Rebellion as an Approach to Life in the Work of Albert Camus, Emily Ruth Staten

Honors Projects from 2021

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Regional Identity, Devolution and Ethnic Outbidding: The Rise and Radicalization of Ethnoregionalist Parties in Spain, Alex Baselga Garriga

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Can Small Donations Have Big Consequences? Candidate Ideology, Small Donations, and Election Results in the 2016 and 2018 Congressional Cycles, Michael Borecki

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Stuck in Limbo: Temporary Protected Status, Climate Migrants and the Expanding Definition of Refugees in the United States, Noelia Calcaño

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The Mérida Initiative and the Violence of Transnational Criminal Organizations in Mexico, Brianna Madison Canning

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A Comparative Perspective on Colonial Influence in the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in South Korea and Algeria, Viv Daniel

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The United States’ and United Kingdom’s Responses to 2016 Russian Election Interference: Through the Lens of Bureaucratic Politics, Katherine Davidson

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Making Human Beings and Citizens: The Educational Philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft, Mollie Claire Eisner

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From “a Journey for Peace” to the “Butchers of Beijing”: How Presidents have Used Rhetoric about China to Win the Two-Level Game, Juliet Halvorson-Taylor

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Indigenous Rights in International Law: A Focus on Extraction in the Arctic, Aine Healey Lawlor

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Motives Underlying China’s Foreign Aid Allocation, Cecilia Markmann

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Education Amid Stabilization: The Varied Effects of Military Intervention on Public Schooling in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, Arjun S. Mehta

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Campaigning for the Court: The Effect of Presidential Campaign Rhetoric on the Supreme Court, Mackey O'Keefe

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When is Change Possible? Presidential Power as Shaped by Political Context, Constitutional Tools, and Legislative Skills, Ryan Telingator

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All That Influences the Condition of Women: The Moral Foundations of Female Education in Tocqueville and Rousseau, Nicole Danielle Tjin A Djie

Honors Projects from 2020

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Strange Progress: Politics of Sexual Violence in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings from 1991 to 2018, Rebecca Berman

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Rehab, Restitution, or Reform? Drug Policy, Race, and Swing Voters in Ohio Politics, 1983-2015, Grace Louise Cawdrey

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Torture under the Regime of Bashar al-Assad: Two Decades of Failed Human Rights Campaigns and Foreign Interference in Syria, Olivia Giles

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Digital Authoritarianism in China and Russia: A Comparative Study, Laura H.C. Howells

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An Analysis of Hezbollah’s Media Platforms, Focusing on Themes, Narratives and Strategy, Nichole Irving

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Governing the Internet: The Extraterritorial Effects of the General Data Protection Regulation, Sasa Jovanovic

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The Soviet and American Wars in Afghanistan: Applying Clausewitzian Concepts to Modern Military Failure, Artur Kalandarov

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Enemy Combatants and Unitary Executives: Presidential Power in Theory and Practice During the War on Terror, Rohini Kurup

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Democracy Promotion in U.S. Counterinsurgency: Tracing Post-War Security Sector Reconstruction in El Salvador and Iraq, Emma Redington Lawry

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Chambers of Reflection: Rousseau, Tocqueville, and Self-Government in the Digital Age, John Sweeney

Honors Projects from 2019

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Midterm Decline in Comparative Perspective, Duncan Gans

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Beyond Urban Bias: Peasant Movements and the State in Africa, Connor Rockett

Honors Projects from 2018

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What Policies Cannot Express: An Examination of Sri Lanka’s Continuing Inability to Bridge the Sinhala-Tamil Ethnolinguistic Divide through National Policies and Programs, Lillian Eckstein

Honors Projects from 2017

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The Message, Medium and Messenger: A Study of Political Persuasion Through a Case Study of Planned Parenthood, Jodi Leah Kraushar

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Africa and the International Criminal Court: Behind the Backlash and Toward Future Solutions, Marisa O'Toole

Honors Projects from 2016

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Fact vs. Faction: Polarization in the Information Age, Noah Finberg

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The Rising Tide of Indigenous Mobilization: Identity and the Politics of Refusal in Mexico and Ecuador, Kelsey J. Freeman

Honors Projects from 2015

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Albert Camus: An Ethical Politics in the Absurd World, Stephanie Lane

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Hunter-Gatherers: The Survival of the Foraging Practice In Modern States, Tristan C. Van Kote

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Peace Be Dammed? Water Power and Water Politics in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin, Camille E. Wasinger

Honors Projects from 2013

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From Left to Right? White Evangelical Politicization, GOP Incorporation, and the Effect of Party Affiliation on Group Opinion Change, Devon B. Shapiro