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Political Parties For Protection And Profit: Explaining Opposition Party Competition Under Electoral Authoritarianism, Michael David Toje
Political Parties For Protection And Profit: Explaining Opposition Party Competition Under Electoral Authoritarianism, Michael David Toje
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Despite the presence of open elections and contestable political offices, opposition parties in electoral authoritarian regimes face barriers – formal and informal – that prevent them from attaining de facto power. Yet, these parties still decide to spend the time, money, and effort to run candidates in unfair elections. This dissertation seeks to uncover the reasons that opposition parties decide to compete in such an uncompetitive environment, and what sustains opposition parties though cycles of defeat. It proposes that opposition parties compete not for the purposes of unseating the ruling party, but rather for controlling their own local affairs away …
The Effect Of Environmental, Facility, And Resident Characteristics On Antipsychotic Usage Rates In Louisiana Certified Nursing Facilities, Emma Looney
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Đổi Mới Diy: Tactical Ruralism And Tangible Modeling In The Mekong Delta, Phillip Fernberg
Đổi Mới Diy: Tactical Ruralism And Tangible Modeling In The Mekong Delta, Phillip Fernberg
LSU Master's Theses
In recent years, the integrity of the Mekong Delta has been put at risk by a combination of environmental and institutional factors. Understanding that the degradation of the Delta would have far-reaching socioeconomic implications for both Vietnam and the Indochinese Peninsula, The World Bank has responded to the situation by implementing initiatives for climate-smart planning tools and improved water management practices throughout the lower Mekong basin. Seeing the potential for tangible modeling as a participatory planning tool, the Bank has hired a team of consultants from Louisiana State University to introduce a methodology called Tangible Landscape to its climate resilience …
#Metoo But Not You: What The Me Too Movement Owes American Prostitutes, Staci Shelby
#Metoo But Not You: What The Me Too Movement Owes American Prostitutes, Staci Shelby
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Risk Factors Associated With Juvenile Delinquency, Karly A. Kyzar
Risk Factors Associated With Juvenile Delinquency, Karly A. Kyzar
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Aristotle's Quarrel With Socrates: Friendship In Political Thought, John Boersma
Aristotle's Quarrel With Socrates: Friendship In Political Thought, John Boersma
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Friendship played an outsized role in ancient political thought in comparison to medieval and modern political philosophies. Most modern scholarship has paid relatively little attention to the role of friendship in ancient political philosophy. Recently, however, scholars are increasingly beginning to investigate classical conceptions of friendship. My dissertation joins this growing interest by examining the importance of friendship in the political thought of Socrates and Aristotle. Specifically, I analyze the divergent approaches that Socrates and Aristotle take to politics and trace these distinct approaches to their differing conceptions of friendship. Through an examination of two Platonic dialogues—the Lysis and the …
A State Of Impermanence: Buddhism, Liberalism, And The Problem Of Politics, Cory Michael Sukala
A State Of Impermanence: Buddhism, Liberalism, And The Problem Of Politics, Cory Michael Sukala
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation explores the relationship of Buddhist political thought and liberal political thought at the level of first principles. I will examine the tension created by the Buddhist view of political life as instrumental and secondary to man's being as a function of the transition of the Buddhist world into the sphere of Western political life, which views the role of politics as primary to man's nature. In Part I, this will be accomplished through a consideration of the origins of political life and the foundation of the political state in each tradition as viewed through the themes of human …
Social Class And Elementary Education: The Elementary Education Act Of 1870, Cameron Lowry
Social Class And Elementary Education: The Elementary Education Act Of 1870, Cameron Lowry
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Foreign Aid And Political Stability In Post-Colonial Africa: A Case Study Analysis, Justine Biettron
Foreign Aid And Political Stability In Post-Colonial Africa: A Case Study Analysis, Justine Biettron
LSU Master's Theses
Is foreign aid helpful or harmful in African countries? Even though scholars have tried to answer this question for decades, it is still unclear if foreign aid has efficiently helped the African continent to overcome the challenges that arose with the end of Colonization. A priority for the African countries was to reorganize the institutions in order to reestablish autonomous and stable system of governance. An important amount of help for this reconstruction has come from external actors, that have been referred to in the literature as foreign aid. In this paper, I seek to test the relationship between the …
Local Vs. National: How Twitter Reflects News Coverage Of Colin Kaepernick Protests, Jared Paul Joseph
Local Vs. National: How Twitter Reflects News Coverage Of Colin Kaepernick Protests, Jared Paul Joseph
LSU Master's Theses
Local and national media dedicate different levels of coverage to issues depending on its relevancy to their audiences. This study uses news outlets’ social media activity to show that coverage discrepancies occurred with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem protest. Because his protest reached national headlines, Kaepernick suffered the same fate of many protesting athletes in the past. This study will show how national media carried his story to national headlines and framed his protest negatively. The findings show that local media were the least active among the three media levels, local, regional and national, in covering the Kaepernick …
Participation And Representation: Does Risk Acceptance Influence The Decision Making Of Political Actors?, Joshua Daniel Hostetter
Participation And Representation: Does Risk Acceptance Influence The Decision Making Of Political Actors?, Joshua Daniel Hostetter
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
ABSTRACT
Are political actors influenced by their acceptance of risk? By political actors I mean individuals in society or government that have an influence on political outcomes. By risk acceptance I mean the degree to which an individual is comfortable with uncertainty and willing to challenge the status quo. The purpose of the present dissertation is to further enhance scholarly understanding of the causal psychological mechanisms that influence political behavior by considering individual risk acceptance.
Kam’s (2012) theoretical framework suggests that risk-accepting individuals are more likely to participate in politics because they seek out exciting and novel activities. She does …
Political Giving As Civic Participation: Identifying Donors And Motivating Giving, Robyn Lynn Stiles
Political Giving As Civic Participation: Identifying Donors And Motivating Giving, Robyn Lynn Stiles
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The study of political donations has previously been limited to surveys of identified donors and analysis of reported giving data, and oftentimes limited to higher-dollar donors. A comprehensive review of the current political giving literature yields two distinct questions: first, what role do resources play in determining who gives, and second, what ultimately prompts people to donate to a political organization? I utilize secondary survey data in my first chapter to examine the role of resources and gender in political giving. This chapter provides insight to whether gender merely represents the availability of resources necessary for participation, or whether it …
China’S Involvement In Latin America And Possible Ramifications For The United States, Tatiana Gozalez-Quiroga
China’S Involvement In Latin America And Possible Ramifications For The United States, Tatiana Gozalez-Quiroga
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Ending Mass Incarceration: Support Among State Legislators For The Abolishment Of Monetary Bail In Favor Of A Risk Assessment Tool, Haley Grieshaber
Ending Mass Incarceration: Support Among State Legislators For The Abolishment Of Monetary Bail In Favor Of A Risk Assessment Tool, Haley Grieshaber
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Rebel Governance In Civil War: Variations In Rebel Governance - A Case Study Analysis., Harriet Ann Sellers
Rebel Governance In Civil War: Variations In Rebel Governance - A Case Study Analysis., Harriet Ann Sellers
LSU Master's Theses
Insurgent groups vary in how they interact with civilians. Some insurgent groups perform government functions to further their political objectives during civil war, whilst other rebel groups use solely violent means. Why do some insurgent groups perform governance functions to further their political objectives, whilst others interact very little with the local population? I seek to explain the variation in rebel governance, which I argue is motivated by the objective of the insurgency. More specifically, I argue that secessionist insurgencies are more likely to implement governance structures than non-secessionist insurgent groups. Using an in-depth case study analysis, I found varying …
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
No abstract provided.
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
No abstract provided.
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
No abstract provided.
Unintended Consequences For Tanf: An Incubator For Domestic Violence?, Eileen Deleo
Unintended Consequences For Tanf: An Incubator For Domestic Violence?, Eileen Deleo
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Unintended Consequences For Tanf: An Incubator For Domestic Violence?, Eileen Deleo
Unintended Consequences For Tanf: An Incubator For Domestic Violence?, Eileen Deleo
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
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 …
Missed Connection: A Case Study Of Social Media, The Youth Vote And The 2015 Louisiana Gubernatorial Race, Valencia Richardson
Missed Connection: A Case Study Of Social Media, The Youth Vote And The 2015 Louisiana Gubernatorial Race, Valencia Richardson
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.