Successful Doctoral Dissertations

2024, Michael L. Palmieri: The Politics Of Employee Ownership: Organizational And Individual Dynamics
2024, Gregory M. Stone: Variations In Rural Voting Behavior
2023, Adhik Badal: Ethnic Uprising In Nepal's Tarai: The Making Of Madhesi Identify In The Post-civil War Transition
2023, Laine Seliga: (Re)constructing Subjectives: A Feminist Poststructuralist Analysis Of The Peacebuilding Commission Gender Strategy
2023, Anna T. Hutcheson: The Impact Of Transnational Activism On The Prosecution Of Wartime Rape
2023, Mehdi H. Haghighi: Persian Heritage And Tajik's Ethnic And National Identities: The Effect Of Common Cultural Identities On Tajik-iranian Diplomatic And Cultural Relationships
2023, Muhammad Hassan Bin Afzal: The Legislative Politics And Public Attitude On Immigrants And Immigration Policies Amid Health Crises
2023, Ikhsan Darmawan: A Comparative Study Of E-voting Adoption: Global Trends, Indonesia And The Philippines
2022, Maxwell Adjei: Assessing The Role Of National Peace Infrastructures In Conflict Prevention: A Study Of Guana's National Peace Council (NPC)
2022, Odeh K. Halaseh: Who Do You Blame? An Examination Of Partisan Motivated Reasoning And Blame
2021, Lana S. Mobydeen: Melting Pot Mix Or Mosaic Piece? Multiculturalism And Immigration Control: A Comparative Study Of Refugee Policies In The United States And Canada
2021, Eli C. Kaul: The Evolution Of The Security Services Of Ukraine: Institutional Change In The Post-soviet Security Apparatus
2021, Sun Lee: The Politics Of Job Creation In Economic Crisis: A Comparative Analysis Of Active Labor Market Policy In The OECD Countries
2020, Preya Bhattacharya: Can Microfinance Impact National Economic Development? A Gendered Perspective
2020, Joshua R. Testa: Accountability In Higher Education: How Colleges And Universities Respond To Performance-based Funding Formulas And Why It Matters
2019, Sweta Sen: When Rebels Talk Human Rights: Non-state Armed Groups And Humanitarian Agreements
2019, Anuj Gurung, Anatomy of Resettlement: Mixed-Method Research on Bhutanese Refugees
2018, Yeo Jung Yoon, Sovereign States and Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space
2018, Amanda Clark, Framing the Fight against Human Trafficking Movement Coalitions and Tactical Diffusion
2018, Jason Adkins, Politics from the Pulpit: A Critical Test of Elite Cues in American Politics
2018, Kristen Traynor, Capturing Influence: Elite and Media Framing of Prisoner Treatment at Guantànamo Bay
2018, Dominic Wells, From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging: State Expansion and Restriction of Collective Bargaining Rights in the Public Sector
2017, Amanda Clark, Framing Strategies and Social Movement Coalitions: Assessing Tactical Diffusion in the Fight Against Human Trafficking from 2008-2014
2017, Askat Dukenbaev, Understanding Elections in “Hybrid Regimes”: Why Do Citizens Vote in Elections They Do Not Trust? A Case Study of Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1991-2016, with Generalizations to the Post-Soviet Central Asian States
2016, Monica Moll, How Far Have We Come? The State of Police Ethics Training in Police Academies in the U.S
2016, Lisa Hager, The Legal, Institutional, and Political Factors of Congressional Court-Curbing: The Purpose and Seriousness of Attempts to Constrain the United States Supreme Court
2016, Amber Thorne Hamilton, Cincinnati Collaborative Agreement Process: Deliberative Democracy as a Method of Improving Police-Community Relations
2016, Alireza Raisi, The Paradox of Participation: Institutions, Social Status, and the Provincial Divide in Iran's Electoral Politics
2014, Vasili Rukhadze, The Causes of Post-Mobilization Leadership Change and Continuity: Comparative Analysis of Post-Color Revolution Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia
2014, Oindrila Roy, Exploring the Influence of Faith on Foreign Policy Attitudes in the United States
2014, Jessie Rumsey, Aid and International Norms: The Effects of Human Rights and Counterterrorism Regimes on U.S. Foreign Assistance Pre- and Post-9/11
2014, Aysegul Keskin Zeren, Iraq’s de-Ba’athification: Analyzing the degrees to which the implemented policy reflected the particular rationales
2013, Franklin Lebo, Between Bureaucracy and Democracy: Regulating Administrative Discretion in Japan
2013, James McQuiston, Social Capital in the Production Gap: Social Networking Services and Their Transformative Role in Civic Engagement
2013, Ann Coleman, Similar Situations, Different Decisions: Explaining Energy Deregulation Policy in the States
2013, Todd Nelson, Bringing Stalin Back In: Creating a Useable Past in Putin’s Russia
2012, Bridgett King, The Effect of State Policy on the Individual Vote Decisions of African Americans in Presidential and Midterm Elections, 1996 to 2008
2012, Dongjin Chen, Legacies and Incentives: Explaining Local Health Care Expenditure Variation in post-Mao China
2012, Fredrick Butcher, Measuring the Effect of Exposure to Violence: An Analysis of the Behavioral Health/Juvenile Justice Initiative
2012, David Randall, The Politics of Medicaid Contracting and Privatization
2012, Glen Duerr, Talking with Nationalists and Patriots: An Examination of Ethnic and Civic Approaches to Nationalism and their Outcomes in Quebec and Flanders
2011, Christine Mutuku, Youth Perspectives on their Empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Kenya
2011, Kursad Aslan, International Labor Migration from Rural Central Asia: The Potential for Development in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
2011, Elena Pokalova, Shifting Faces of Terror after 9/11: Framing the Terrorist Threat
2011, Andrew Povtak, Deciding Not to Decide: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Politics of Secondary Access on the U.S. Supreme Court
2011, Russell Mills, Collaborating with Industry to Ensure Regulatory Oversight: The Use of Voluntary Safety Programs by the Federal Aviation Administration
2011, Susan Kunkle, Bind Over and Blended Sentencing in Ohio
2010, David A. Licate, Innovations and Organizational Change in Ohio Police Departments
2010, Christopher M. Bellas, “I Feel Your Pain”: How Juror Empathy Affects Death Penalty Verdicts
2010, Murat Kocak, The Application of Q Methodology to Generate A Functional Typology of Terrorist Organizations in Turkey
2010, Mary G. Wilson, The Unintended Consequences of Megan's Law for Citizens, Law Enforcement and Offenders: An Empirical Analysis
2010, Gabriella Paar-Jakli, Knowledge Sharing and Networking in Transatlantic Relations: A Network Analytical Approach to Scientific and Technological Cooperation
2010, Behzat Yucedal, Victimization in Cyberspace: An Application of Routine Activity and Lifestyle Exposure Theories
2009, Serhat Demir, Diffusion of Police Technology across Time and Space and the Impact of Technology Use on Police Effectiveness and its Contribution to Decision-Making
2009, Musa Tuzuner, The State-Level Determinants of The United States’ International Intelligence Cooperation
2009, Zakir Gul, A Partial Test of the Intelligence-led Policing Model
2009, Lisa Dotterweich, Who Knows What?: A Study of the Role of Epistemic Communities in the No Child Left Behind Act
2009, Tamer Koksal, The Effect of Police Organization on Computer Crime
2009, Giles Falinski, The Deterrent Effect of Traffic Enforcement on Ohio Crashes
2008, Ramona Saikaly, Decision Making in U.S. Foreign Policy: Applying Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Model to the 2003 Iraq Crisis
2008, Mustafa Ozguler, Comparing and Assessing the Preparedness of Police Organizations in Counter Terrorism (Netherlands and United Kingdom)
2008, Serkan Altuntop, The Correlates of Recruitment Decision- Making of Police Departments
2007, Osman Dolu, Fear of Online Crime and Public Policy: Privacy vs. Security
2007, Erkan Sezgin, A Comparative Perspective of International Cooperation Against Terrorism
2007, Cureyt Gurer, Divergence of Discontent: Socio Political Analysis of Turko-Skepticism in European Union Enlargement
2007, Almaz Tolymbek, Political Leadership Style in Kazakhstan
2007, Ali Duman, Effects of Contingent Factors On Community Policing Activities: A Critical Analysis of Adopting a Certain Policing Model
2007, Sener Uludag, Democracy, Crime Victimization, and Fear of Crime: The Effect of Democratic Quality on Citizens' Fear of Criminal Victimization
2007, Cemil Dogutas, Reactive vs. Proactive Strategies: The Effectiveness of School Resource Officers to Prevent Violence in Schools
2007, Serdar Gul, Police Performance Appraisal: A Comparative Study Between Turkey and the USA
2006, Alethia Cook, The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing: Bureaucratic Response to Terrorism And a Method for Evaluation
2006, Michele Gilbert, Race, Concentrated Poverty and Policy: Empowerment Zones in Distressed Urban Areas
2006, Ronald Matthews, Charitable Choice and Faith-Based Organizations: Welfare, Policy, and Religion in American Politics
2005, Tuncay Durna, Madd, Drunk Driving Policies, And Deterrence: The Impact of State Laws On Individual Attitudes And Behavior
2005, Robin Fillmore, Transforming The ‘Enemy’: A Discursive Analysis Of U.S. Images Of The Soviet Union
2005, Ramona S. McNeal, The Internet and Political Participation
2005, Kathleen M. Hale, PolyDiffusion And State Policy Implementation: The Impact of Intersectoral Information Networks on Drug Court Policy
2005, Mary Schmeida, Telehealth Innovation in the American States
2004, Timothy D. Newman, Links Between Ethics and Public Policy: A Q Methothodological Study of Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
2003, Irene Barnett, Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy: A Comparative Case Study of Policy Outcomes in Germany and the United States
2001, Thomas Sutton, DeRolph v. Ohio: An institutional analysis of school funding policy
2001, John Grummel, Minorities and Direct Democracy: The Impact of the Economy on Support for Ballot Initiatives Affecting Racial and Sexual Minorities
2001, Guang Zhang, Foreign Aid, National Interest, and Economic Development, The Case of China, 1949-2000
2000, Richard Robyn, Forms of French Attachment to the European Union: A Study of French Conceptions of Identity in the Context Of A Changing Europe
2000, Byung-ok Kil, Explaining Security Policy Dynamics in South Korea: How Political Institutions Respond to Internal and External Charges
2000, Maureen Oakley, Explaining the Adoption and Comprehensiveness of Morality Policy Innovations in the American States: The Case of Fetal Homicide Policy
1999, Mathew C. Wells, Democratic Transitions and The Weber/ Freud Connection: The Cases of The First French Republic (1789-1799), Weimar Germany (1919-1934), and Islamic Iran (1979-Present)
1999, Brian G. Wright, Transitional Actors and Foreign Policy: A Comparative Analysis Of Environmental Transnational Coalitions
1998, Kim Veris, Bureaucratic Politics and the Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Laboratory Technology
1998, Scott Johnson, Explaining the United States Supreme Court's Unanimous Decisions
1997, Thomas C. Davis, The Subjectivity of National Identity: A Q Methodological Study of Individual Attachment to the Basque Nation
1997, John M. Bublic, The Media Hegemony Thesis Examined Through Q Methodology
1997, James C. Rhoads, Jr., The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Toward an Alternative Methodology
1997, Anjuman Ali-Bogaert, Imagining Alternatives To Development: A Case Study of The Narmada Bachao Andolan In India
1995, Chang Nam Kim, Political Candidates’ Cultural Values In Voters’ Evaluations: Religiosity, Self-Reliance, And Voluntarism in the United States
1995, Melanie Blumberg, Incumbent Loss in the U.S. House of Representatives: An Empirical Analysis of the Class of 1974
1992, Richard Mukisa, Principles versus Practice in the United Nations Remuneration System: Past Experiences and Future Options
1992, Sanqiang Jian, Foreign Policy Restructuring as Adaptive Behavior: China's "Independent Foreign Policy of Peace" 1982-1989
1992, Michael George, American Liberalism: The Welfare State and the War on Poverty
1991, Tung-Wen Sun, Public Administration in Taiwan: The State-of-the-Art
1991, Soon Eun Kim, Factors Affecting Implementation Effectiveness: A Study of Community Development Block Grant Implementation
1990, Steven Yetiv, The Politics of Comparable Worth
1989, Joyce Baugh, Justice Antonin Scalia and the Freshman Effect
1989, Barbara Poole, The U.S. Strategic Position in the Persian Gulf 1978-1990: The Impact of the Iranian Revolution, the Afghanistan Intervention and the Iran-Iraq War
1982, Subash M. Shah, Work Orientation of Middle-Level Managers From The Public Sector
1988, Nancy Brendlinger, The Mutual and Balances Force Reduction Negotiations: The Soviet Perspective on Verification, 1973-1987
1988, Yann-huei Song, The People's Republic of China and the New Ocean Regime: A Study in the Law of the Sea and Marine Policy
1988, Mohammand Waheeduzzaman, Towards a Systematic Approach to Public Administration Training in Bangladesh
1988, Karen Dean, An Examination of Unanimous Decision Making on the Burger Court
1987, John Beeker, Factors Influencing State Conformance to Federal Environmental Policy Goals: A Comparison of State Implementation of Vehicle Emissions Inspection
1987, Keith Yundt, Latin American States and Political Refugees: Is There a Regional Refugee’s Regime?
1987, Minas Hiruy, Exploring the Perspectives of Ethics: The Case of Public Administrators in the United States
1985, Earnest Dover, Judicial Decision Making Theory: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Attribute Theory and Fact Pattern Analysis
1984, Seo-Hang Lee, South Korean Marine Policy and the Law of the Sea
1984, Alireza Alavi, The Revolutionary Process in Iran: January 1978-April 1979
1983, Chong-un Yi, The Concept of Political Obligation and its Conceptual Relativity in Plato, Hobbes and Rawls
1982, Steven Blodgett, The Evolving Relationship Between the United Nations and International Non-Governmental Organizations: An Assessment of the Need for Institutional Reform
1982, Mohammad Khalili, U.S. Technical Assistance in Iranian Public Administration: An Evaluation of Performance
1982, Warner Mendenhall, The Concept of United States Crisis Management in the Bi-Polar World
1981, Mohabe Nyirabu, Discovery of Development of Opinion In Tanzania
1981, William Kolarik, A Model for the Study of International Trade Politics: The United States Business Community and Soviet-American Relations, 1975-1976
1981, Donald Reaves, An Assessment of the Implementation Process as it Relates to the 1974 Housing and Community Development Act: An Examination of the Akron, Ohio, Case
1981, Arturo Pacho, Policy Agenda of the Ethnic Chinese in the Philippines
1981, Teodros Kiros, The Political Implications of U.S. Nuclear Export Policy Development
1981, Joan Johnson-Freese, Toward the Construction of Theory of Political Action: Antonio Gramsci: Political Philosophy, Hegemony and Leadership
1980, Govind Naidu, A Contribution of Mahatma Gandhi to Democratic theory : Satyagraha
1980, John Ostroski, Effective Communities: A Presentation of Alternate Perspectives
1980, James Moor, An Analysis of Electoral Change From a Multi-level Perspective
1979, Marvin Potes, The Functional Analogy as a Concealed Metaphor: A Critical Examination of the Use of the Biological Analogy in Biopolitics
1979, Kirk W. Halliday, The Cumulative Operants Record: An Application of the Combined Approaches if Robert F. Bales and B.F. Skinner to the Study of the Decision-Making Process in Small Groups
1978, Robert Guhde, Ohio Budgeting for the 1976-77 Biennium: Evaluating Two Explanatory Models
1978, Fred Moseley, The United States--Canadian Great Lakes Pollution Agreement : A Study in International Water Pollution Control
1977, Richard Martin, Nietzsche and Arendt: On Public Action in Mass Society
1977, Bruce McKeown, Personal Construct Theory and Political Cognition
1977, Ronald Sylvia, Private Meanings of Public Objects: Hypnotically Induced Mood States and the Displacement Hypothesis
1977, Mataro T. Sabai, Comparative Effectiveness of Nominal, Delphi and Interaction Techniques: An Empirical Investigation
1976, Larry R. Baas, The Constitution and The Public Mind
1976, Charles Cottle, Some Correctives on Readings of Hume's Theory of Justice
1976, William Stephens, Critical Attitudes Toward the American Polity: A Comparison of Canadian and U. S. University Students
1975, Terry Busson, Urbanization, Party Competition and Public Policy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Three Midwestern states
1975, Paul Dettman, Urbanization and Politics in Madras State: An Exploratory Study
1975, Michael Turner, The International Politics of Narcotics: Turkey and the United States
1975, Dani B. Thomas, On The Physiological Substructure of Ideology: A Q-Technique Study of Personality and Politics
1974, Richard Krajcik, Labor-management Relations in State and Local Government: Nature, Extent, and Impact of Judicial Involvement
1974, James Carlson, Black Political Participation in the South: An Examination of Contextual Effects
1974, Kishanlal Khanna, Behavioral Approach of Bureaucratic Development: An Empirical Analysis of Attitudes and Perceptions of Higher Civil Servants of India
1974, Raymond Bye, Employee Participation in the Federal Service: A Predictive Model
1974, Bruce Halliday, An Analysis of the Theoretical Foundations of PPB: Environmental Assumptions
1973, William Burns, The Innovation Process in the Public Health Subsystem: Five Ohio cases
1973, John Gillespie, An Empirical Assessment of the Relationship of Political Ideology to International Behavior
1973, John Latcham, Role Orientation of Councilmen in Forty Ohio cities: A Systematic Analysis of Legislative Behavior
1973, John H. Daily, Dimensions of Political Attitudes: A Q-Technique Study of Public Reactions to the Calley Verdict
1973, James A. McCain, Empirical Variations of African Socialism-A Perceptual Analysis
1972, Michael Gunter, Ministates and the United Nations System
1972, Isaac Fadahunsi, Voting Behavior in School Referenda: An Investigation of Attitudes and Other Determinant by Q. Technique and Survey Research
1971, Sylvan Cohen, Bureaucratic Development in a Period of Change: the Case of the Nigerian Federal Bureaucracy

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