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A Political Theory Of The Chinese Stock Market, Liang Kong
A Political Theory Of The Chinese Stock Market, Liang Kong
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The Chinese stock market crash of 2015 attracted much attention from both the media and academia. Yet it was not a unique incident. The Chinese stock market fluctuates more frequently and drastically than most mature stock markets. The purpose of this work is to explain these unusual stock market fluctuations through a political lens. Traditional financial models and behavioral finance cannot sufficiently explain the unusual fluctuations of the Chinese stock market. Traditional financial models find that economic forces cannot explain all fluctuations in China’s stock market. Behavioral finance attributes the fluctuations to investor’s irrational behavior without explaining why investors behave …
The Genealogy Of The Right To Counsel— From Magna Carta To The American Constitution, Elias Medina
The Genealogy Of The Right To Counsel— From Magna Carta To The American Constitution, Elias Medina
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
America’S Equal Protection: Plessy’S Revival In Higher Education, Zachary Faircloth
America’S Equal Protection: Plessy’S Revival In Higher Education, Zachary Faircloth
Honors Theses
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Fractured Europe, Patrick Isacks
Populism In America: Disenfranchised Voters And The 2016 Election, Charles Evan Mcmichael
Populism In America: Disenfranchised Voters And The 2016 Election, Charles Evan Mcmichael
Honors Theses
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Knowing Where The Votes Are: Using The 2015 Louisiana Gubernatorial Race To Locate Key Democratic Precincts, Jacques A. Petit
Knowing Where The Votes Are: Using The 2015 Louisiana Gubernatorial Race To Locate Key Democratic Precincts, Jacques A. Petit
Honors Theses
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Unintended Consequences For Tanf: An Incubator For Domestic Violence?, Eileen Deleo
Unintended Consequences For Tanf: An Incubator For Domestic Violence?, Eileen Deleo
Honors Theses
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Unintended Consequences For Tanf: An Incubator For Domestic Violence?, Eileen Deleo
Unintended Consequences For Tanf: An Incubator For Domestic Violence?, Eileen Deleo
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American Crusade: The Political Thought Of Dwight Eisenhower, John Kitch
American Crusade: The Political Thought Of Dwight Eisenhower, John Kitch
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Dwight Eisenhower has long been thought of as a president who did not think about politics in a coherent way. This project finds, however, that Eisenhower was a coherent and systematic thinker about politics. The first chapter explores the sources of Eisenhower’s political thought. In this chapter I establish that he had both the resources and inclination to reflect seriously on politics from early adulthood forward. Next, in Chapter 2, I outline his view of freedom in conjunction with how he thought about the state and society. Here, I find that he held that the state must be powerful enough …
Partisanship, Ideology, And The Sorting Of The American Mass Public, Nicholas T. Davis
Partisanship, Ideology, And The Sorting Of The American Mass Public, Nicholas T. Davis
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation is a story about the divisions that characterize the mass public. Specifically, it explores how Americans think about politics, and, in particular, how citizens connect their attitudes, beliefs, and, vitally, ideological identity to their partisan affiliation—a phenomenon known as sorting. Practically, this project proceeds in two parts. In Part 1, I investigate the nature of partisan sorting in the mass public. Chapter 2 reviews the extant scholarly literature regarding partisanship and ideology, or the raw materials of sorting. Drawing on this research, I operationalize two types of sorting in Chapter 3 and compare how different measurement protocols affect …
Dorothy Day's Distributism And Her Vision For Catholic Politics, William Patric Schulz
Dorothy Day's Distributism And Her Vision For Catholic Politics, William Patric Schulz
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation is a study of Dorothy Day’s political ideas, her creation of the Catholic Worker movement, and her relationship with Distributism, the official socio-economic teaching of the Catholic Church. In order to fully understand Day’s views, it is necessary to review her intellectual development, and the foundational ideas and documents of Distributism. As is noted in the introduction, precious little scholarship has been done on Distributism, and few outside of Catholic academic circles are even aware of its existence. Beyond that, Day, herself, is not especially well-known, as existing scholarship tends to focus on either her early, Socialist activities …
National Electoral Winners And Losers: Satisfaction With Democracy Predicated On Institutional Context, Casey Newman Knott
National Electoral Winners And Losers: Satisfaction With Democracy Predicated On Institutional Context, Casey Newman Knott
LSU Master's Theses
How does being an electoral winner or loser shape a citizen’s satisfaction with democracy? More importantly, how does the voter’s institutional context moderate this relationship? In this paper, I demonstrate that the institutional context of a democracy interacts with a citizen’s national- level electoral loser status to moderate the relationship between the individual’s status as a loser and her satisfaction with democracy in her country. I also explore the way winning and losing at different levels of representation interact to formulate satisfaction with democracy. Using cross-sectional survey data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems nested in 75 different country-election …
The Cross-National Determinants Of Legislative Party Switching, Cassie Millet Knott
The Cross-National Determinants Of Legislative Party Switching, Cassie Millet Knott
LSU Master's Theses
Why do legislators switch parties? What accounts for variation in party switching across different countries? How do electoral rules impact legislative party switching behavior and how is this behavior impacted by changes to these rules? The first chapter of this study builds on the existing body of research on the determinants of legislative party switching. More specifically, I build on the extant theories which have identified vote-, office-, and policy-seeking as motivations of legislator behavior. I examine the strategic decision making of legislators in various institutional contexts and argue that such contexts create or modify incentives and constraints that condition …
Unlikely Allies: A Case Study On Cross Class Protest In Guatemala, Daniel B. Bollich
Unlikely Allies: A Case Study On Cross Class Protest In Guatemala, Daniel B. Bollich
LSU Master's Theses
Cross-class mobilization in developing countries can be a powerful force for precipitating political change, but the literature on cross-class protest movements in developing countries has focused almost exclusively on democratization movements and has not dealt adequately with cross-class protest in other contexts. Additionally, the literature on protest movements typically focuses on the lower classes, while the upper classes are either ignored or assumed to be one-dimensional, uniform, self-interested actors who only protest when it is in their own best economic and political interest. These deficiencies in the literature have been illuminated by the massive protests that occurred in Guatemala in …