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This community features research by faculty members and students in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. Areas of expertise among political science faculty include American politics and public law, global politics, political psychology, public policy, political theory and American foreign policy. Philosophy faculty specialize in bioethics, ethical theory and applied ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language and science, and the philosophy of religion. The Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service is closely affiliated with PPPA, and the school actively supports the Joseph Kruzel Foreign and Defense Luncheon Series, the Frank Fraser Potter Memorial Lecture Series, and the Research and Methods Symposium.
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The Strategic Implications of China's Naval Modernization
(2013)THE STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA'S NAVAL MODERNIZATION Abstract by Ryan Kelley McMahon, Ph.D. Washington State University May 2013 Chair: Martha Cottam The People's Republic of China (PRC) has produced staggering ... -
The Political Foundations of Legal Theory: Political Realignment and the Legal Marketplace of Ideas
(2013)Models of legal change identifying electoral politics, specifically realignments of the political system that replace one political-electoral regime with another, as a key to understanding the evolution of legal thought ... -
Cooperatives and Human Security: A comparative study of two Guatemalan coffee organizations
(2013)A comparative study of two coffee organizations was conducted in Guatemala. Two organizations of similar size, location and demographics were compared, one organization was a cooperative with workers as owners, and the ... -
RURAL COUNTY FINANCE: USER FEE IMPLEMENTATION AND RELIANCE 1977-2002
(2013)This study examined rural counties and their equivalents in the United States. In particular, this study focused on rural county budgeting, with an emphasis on the implementation of user fees. This research area has not ... -
A Geographic Exploration of the Social and Economic Sustainability of Farmers' Markets and the Rural Communities that Make Them Work
(2012)The food we eat is entwined within our social and economic fabrics, forming food systems incorporating everything from environmental conditions, to the communities that grow it, to its path from farm to table. Thus the ... -
Gendering Policy Through Expertise: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Gender Expert Policy Success
(2012)During the past two decades several organizations at the During the past two decades several organizations at the transnational, national, and local levels, have committed to promoting women's rights and gender equality ... -
Stay-At-Home Dads: Symptom of Recession or Sustainable Trend?
(2011)Giddens' Structuration Theory of "mutual dependence of structure and agency" (1979, p. 69) was used to explore the sustainability of the Stay-At-Home Dad (SAHD) trend in the U.S. Life history interviews of SAHDs were used ... -
EUROPEANIZATION OF GENDER EQUALITY POLICY IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE: DOES IT MATTER FOR WOMEN'S SUBSTANTIVE REPRESENTATION?
(2011)In this dissertation I examine the role that the European Union (EU) has played in transforming women's substantive representation through gender equality policies such as equal employment and reconciliation policies. I ... -
HEARTS AND MINDS BUT FOR WHOM? HOW INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS AFFECT THE EXPERIENCE AND LIKELIHOOD OF EMOTION IN POLITICS
(2011)Though questions of how, when, and for whom affect matters are vital to understanding the effects of affect-laden political advertisements on the electorate, this area of research remains in its infancy (Lodge and Taber ... -
Civil-Military Relations in "Islamic Democracies": Military Intervention & Withdrawal in Algeria, Pakistan, & Turkey
(2011)CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN "ISLAMIC DEMOCRACIES": MILITARY INTERVENTION & WITHDRAWAL IN ALGERIA, PAKISTAN, & TURKEY Abstract by Paul Ernest Lenze, Jr., Ph.D. Washington State University May 2011 Chair: Thomas Preston This ... -
How the Breathers Beat the Burners: The Policy Market and the Role of Technical, Political, and Legal Capital in Pursuing Policy Outcomes
(2011)When making policy in a separated system, stakeholders choose among a broad array of policymaking venues for pursuing their policy goals. What explains the decisions of stakeholders to choose among different institutional ... -
IDENTITY, IMAGE AND ETHNIC CONFLICT IN BURMA: A CASE STUDY OF MON PEOPLE
(2010)Burma's ethnic conflict is one of the longest conflicts in the world. The conflict has been ongoing since 1948. The conflict has resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and thousands more have become refugees or internally ...