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 2010
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
Michelle Gajewski, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Religious doctrine with a new court: what effect will a new justice have on religion in America?
Christopher Gardner, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Economic growth and success in Sub-Saharan Africa: is politico-economic realignment enough?
Hannah Hosotani, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Health politics: learning from state models to create national health care reform
Michael Kern, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Dangerous liaisons: dual transitions and institutional transfer in eastern Germany
Jason Malashevich, Political Science (POSC) 2009, The great value of human intelligence
Michael Martin, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, An inconvenient solution? An economic and political analysis of global warming policy
William Morrison, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Strategic economic incentives in counterinsurgency efficacy
Nicholas Netland, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, American media in Iraq and the influences of Vietnam
Myles Radtke, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Breaking reciprocity: prospect theory and the EC-121 crisis and Black September
Reza Rahnema, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Violent religious movements: exploring the factors and the elements leading to violence
Evan Rowe, Political Science (POSC) 2009, Out of the "jungle": the rise of the American county as regional power-player
Alex Sciuto, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Pathway to change: a model of the evolution of the Federal Reserve system
Natalie Sheneman, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Faith, community, and independence: a comparative study of religion and organizational structure in the Tibetan and Uyghur nationalist movements
Mio Shimma, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, Merging civilizations: the emergence of Islamic democracy in Indonesia and Turkey
Danielle Sumita, Political Science/International Relations (POSI) 2009, When commercial interests reclaim racketeering
Mena Xiong, Political Science (POSC) 2009, The cloak of assimilation: the Chinese in Thailand
