Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Political Science Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2016
William Keith French, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Media, The Public, & The Westboro Baptist Church
Taylor William Gee, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2016, Identity, Immigration, and Islam: Radicalization in the Twin Cities
Claire Anne Kelloway, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Cows, Colleges, and Conservation: How Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges managed erosion and promoted biodiversity on their rented agricultural lands
Ian George Mercer, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Extracting Plato from Platonism: Beyond Good and Evil as a Response to Republic
Emma Adrienne Rossby, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Sub-State Nationalism and Social Welfare Policy in Belgium: Unravelling Flemish and Walloon Narratives of Institutional Reform
Reilly Anne Simon, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2016, The Perfect Storm: The Role of Military Decision-Making in the Success or Failure of Arab Spring Democratization Movements
Emily Jo Spoden, Political Science (POSC) 2016, The Making of an Undocu-Friendly State: Partisanship and Issue Framing in the Passage of Post-Secondary Education Benefits for Undocumented Students in Minnesota and Wisconsin
SeungJoon Yoo, Political Science (POSC) 2016, Skills-Mismatch in Republic of Korea: Consequences of Unbalanced Skills Among College Graduates on Growing Youth Unemployment
Submissions from 2015
Dilara Akgunduz, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2015, Indecision 101: Exploring the Effects of Cultural Fractionalization in the New Middle East on Foreign Policy Behavior
Carly Anne Davidson, Political Science (POSC) 2015, Beyond Benghazi: Understanding the American Response to Attacks Against US Diplomatic Facilities
Connor Shane Jackson, Political Science (POSC) 2015, Rectifying Individualistic Models of Justice: Uniting Distinct Paradigms of Individual Perception and Institutional Perspective
Marina Kubisch Montgomery, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2015, African States and an Emerging World Order
Claire Hannah Willeck, Political Science (POSC) 2015, State Funding for Public Schools: An Examination of Public School Funding Formulas on Racial Academic Achievement Gaps
Submissions from 2014
Patrick Kevin Burke, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Why Don't We Elect One of Our Own? Somali and Hmong Civic Engagement in Electoral Politics in the Twin Cities
Emilia Lucia Calma, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Health Care Provision in Sierra Leone: Answering the trend toward centralization
Andrew Glen Campbell, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Give Me Freedom, or Give Me Death: The Role of Violent vs. Non-Violent Tactics in Separatist Movements
Kelsey Christina Cox, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Do Leaders Really Matter: Understanding Leaders' Impact on World Stability Using an Agent Based Model
Annie Borg Doubleday, Political Science (POSC) 2014, The Impact of News Source on Public Perception of the Affordable Care Act: An Examination of the Format, Framing, and Delivery of Primary News Sources
Courtney Ruth Dufford, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Polycentric Flood Governance: A Case Study of the Greater Northfield Action Arena
Will A. Gray, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Emilean Self-Sufficiency, Or, Rousseau's Education of Cosmopolitan Love
Jacob Daniel Hamalian, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Relief to Reconstruction: Mapping Disaster Response Funding
Jacob Scott Hoerger, Political Science (POSC) 2014, The Structure of Bacon's Scientific Revolution
Erik Zachary Madsen-Bond, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, The Capabilities of Parrots: A Theoretical Grounding for the Necessity of Changing the Human Development Index
Marika Kaitlin O'Connor Grant, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Steady Ground to Stand on: Properly Grounding the Right to Abortion in the United States Constitution's Equal Protection Clause
Leah Rosenstiel, Political Science (POSC) 2014, The Socialization of Party Identification
Gabriel Rudin, Political Science (POSC) 2014, The Conceptual Frontier: Problematizing Security Issues in the U.S. Arctic (And Its Implications for International Circumpolar Relations in the 21st Century)
Jonah Lee Simonds, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, Seeing North Korea Cleary: 5 Steps to a Better U.S. Foreign Policy
Evan Samuel Summers, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, The Roots of Development: Positive Peace
Yuki Tominaga, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2014, The Power of Public Opinion and Renewables Policy in Japan
Winona Weindling, Political Science (POSC) 2014, School Choice as a Method of Reducing the Achievement Gap: Comparing the Effectiveness of Desegregation Programs and Charter Schools
Kyohei Yazawa, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Nietzsche's God: Questions Concerning Values in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Janghun Yun, Political Science (POSC) 2014, ¿QueÌ es el Kirchnerismo?: Interpreting Political Economy of Kirchnerismo (2003- 2013) Based on Elements of Contemporary Populism
Submissions from 2013
Hye Mi Ahn, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Hegemonic Bullying: Pursuit of Bilateral Immunity Agreements
Erik Quirk Anderson, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Understanding Negative Agenda Power and Political Parties in the Legislative Process
Jacob Allan Cohn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, A Future Delayed? Ambitions and Obstacles in Modern Brazilian Foreign Policy
Molly Elizabeth Curtiss, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Cosmopolitanism and Hybrid Identities: The Case of the Pieds Noirs
Molly Elizabeth Curtiss, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Making Islam the Solution: The Influence of Islam on HIV Prevention and Treatment Programs
Yuvika Diwan, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Decentralize Now, Recentralize Later: Institutional Change, Local Actors and Rural Development
Peter Duggins, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Dictatorships for Dummies: Understanding Political Dynamics and Decision-Making in Authoritarian Regimes using an Agent-based Computational Model
Paul Steven Hoffer, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, The China Problem: A Power Transition Analysis of the Rise of China
Devin Walsh Holewinski, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Trojan Horse in Manhattan: The High Line, Post Industrial Mega Projects, and the Neoliberalization of Urban Development
Satchel M. Kaplan-Allen, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Dollars for Democracy Evaluating the Effectiveness of Democratic-Governance Aid as a US Foreign Policy Strategy
Rachael Elizabeth Klehm, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Value-Action Gap in Hybrid Vehicle Purchases: Implications for Restructuring Institutions to Promote Sustainable Consumption
Charu R. Kulkarni, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Muhammad Iqbal's National Vision for the Indian Subcontinent: An Analysis of the Conceptual Boundaries between Indian and Muslim Nations
Fue Lee, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Playing Politics at Sea: Comparative Case Studies of China's Offshore Territorial Disputes
Carin Michelle Postal, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Development as Gender Equality: Fitting Women into the Discourse of Incentives and Processes of Tanzanian Development
Sana Rafiq, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Beyond Homo Economicus - Analyzing the Role of Communication in Cooperation
Andrew Jeffrey Schneider-Adams, Political Science (POSC) 2013, The Benefits of Sports Teams for Cities: Positive Externalities of Stadiums
Danielle Dougnac Smogard, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, The Evolution of International Criminal Justice: A Hybrid Solution is Born
Brian Daniel Spisiak, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Architect of Architects: Cartesian Ethics and Platonic Virtue
Brian Daniel Spisiak, Political Science (POSC) 2013, Spiritual Illumination: Milton and Blindness in Paradise Lost
Doil Wang, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Lessons of History: U.S. China Policy after the Vietnam War
Berett Alexa Wilber, Political Science (POSC) 2014, Lesser Known Marine Mammal's Lesser Known Love Songs
Julian Senuta Wyss, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2013, Muslim Mobilization in Mali: An Examination of Religious Social Movements and Underdevelopment
Submissions from 2012
Ariana Shirin Abadian Heifetz, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, Iranian Women in Times of Great Contention: A Comparison of Women's Mobilization in the Iranian Revolution and the 2009 Election Protests
Samir Soni Bhala, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Just Enough for the City? The Politics of Economic Development in Richard M. Daley's Chicago
Robin Burrell, Political Science (POSC) 2012, School Desegregation's Future: Contradictions in Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court's Culpability in the Retrenchment of Segregated Schools
Clay J. Dewey-Valentine, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Protecting Human Rights and Resisting Dictatorship in Chile: A Study of Moral Pressure from the Catholic Church
Justin Alexander Freeze, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Sublimation through Subjugation: The Dangerous Freedom of Nietzsche's Political Philosophy
Dylan Wolf Gessner, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, Fun at the Ballot Box: A Mediational Approach to Predicting Vote Choice
Damir Kurtagic, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, The Compatibility of Islamic Theology and the Democratic Process of Reasoned Discourse
Dana Brieger Mackey, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Multicultural Tokenism: The Strategic Marketing of Urban Diversity in the Cultural Tourism Industry
Theodore Isaac Rostow, Political Science (POSC) 2012, A Task without Anger: On-the-Ground Learning and Counterinsurgency
Kathryn Elizabeth Mall Schmidt, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2012, The Complexity of Basic Needs and Its Application in Latin America
Peter Dulsky Watkins, Political Science (POSC) 2012, Under the Chinese Sun: Convergent Trajectories of Growth in Southeast Asia
Submissions from 2011
Jinai Adil Bharucha, Political Science (POSC) 2011, Policy Reform in the United States: What Works? A Case Study of Health Care
Beth Rachel Budnick, Political Science (POSC) 2011, A Door to Opportunity? Comparing Program Design and Outcomes of Three Residential Mobility Policies in the U.S.
Matthew S. Fink, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Chinese Policy-Making Through the Lens of Health Care Delivery: Who's in Charge Here?
Zaira Gonzalez, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Rewarding Voters Through Welfare Transfers in Mexico and Brazil
David Abadian Heifetz, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Harnessing a Necessary Evil: A Polanyian Examination of the Crises of 1873 and 2008
Trevor Lundeen Hill, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Mobilization in the Wake of Environmental Disaster
Nicholas Xavier Hud, Political Science (POSC) 2011, The Incorporation of Sandy Springs, An American City
Khant Khant Kyaw 2011, Framing Perspectives: Calibrating the Parallax of Development through Participatory Photography
Kelly Rachel Lovett, Political Science (POSC) 2011, Institutional Design and Economic Growth: The Relationship between Bureaucracy and Economic Performance in a Global Economy
Joseph John Marren, Political Science (POSC) 2011, What Personality Is Best Suited to the Modern Presidency?
Courtney Warden Morris, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Agro-Food Dispute Participation: A Bleak Outlook for Agricultural Trade Liberalization?
Kilian Pac Murphy, Political Science (POSC) 2011, Rethinking Why Democracies Lose Small Wars: Barbarism, "Hearts and Minds" and US Policy Failures in Afghanistan
Eric Nathaniel Reich, Political Science (POSC) 2011, In Search of the Moral Engagement behind Nietzsche‘s Critique of Morality: Truthfulness (Wahrhaftigkeit) and Honesty (Redlichkeit)
Katharine Ilsa Richardson, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Multiculturalism in Public Institutions: The Case Study of Deaf Immigrants and the Utilization of Health Care Services in the Twin Cities
Jesse Rothman, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Bending the Arc: Reflections on Justice, Power, and Possibility
Kelly Soderstrom, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, From Rebel to Statesman: Political Perceptions and Policy Decisions in Ho Chi Minh's Writings and Speeches
William Timothy Treal Taylor, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, Rally 'round the relic: archaeological repatriation policy and the diversionary theory of war
Colleen Jenny Tjosvold, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2011, An Institutional Analysis of Factories and Freedom in Dongguan, China
Submissions from 2010
Ruth M. Aufderheide, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, When is it Compelling Enough to Act? Mobilization within the Gun Violence Prevention Movement
Paul David Ellebrecht, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, Causation and Prevention of Major War
Kevin Patrick McGrath, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, Developments in Counterinsurgency: Modeling the Surge
Alexander Nicholas Popper, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, When Hawks Cry: Party, Politics, and Paradox in Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy
Beth Marie Seraydarian, Political Science (POSC) 2010, Implementation: How Local Expectations, once Dashed in Oakland, are Realized Using the Community Reinvestment Act and Public-Private Partnerships to Address Affordable Housing
Jane Eleanor Sturges, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa: An Examination of Political Opportunity Structures
Elizabeth Jane Weimer, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, Institutions and Place: A Study of Corn Ethanol Production in Southern Minnesota
Trent Ward Wells, Political Science (POSC) 2010, Because We Said So! An Analysis of Public Opinion's Effects on Foreign Policy
Allan Zhang, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2010, The Sustainability and Resilience of Indigenous Communities
Submissions from 2009
Benjamin Barclay, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Mixing oil and blood: oil vulnerability an propensity for militarized conflict after the Cold War
Andrew BoddySpargo, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, An embedded market approach to Chile's neoliberal transition
Colin Bottles, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Political bosses or publics: who rules in democracy?
Matthew Cole, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Political evil and the limits of liberal theory
Michelle K. Deeter, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Non-state actors and their effect on policy in China
Erin Feehan-Nelson, Political Science (POSC) 2009, The effects of divisive primaries on national elections
Masha Finn, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, The intelligence failure of the Yom Kippur War: how structural faults of intelligence communities intensify psychological perils of analysis
Timothy Foran, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Reforming an ineffective community: how organization theory can rebuild the U.S. intelligence apparatus
