• Challenging the President: Presidential-Senate Confrontations on Foreign Policy 

  Yun, Huicheol (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  This dissertation is composed of three articles that analyze which determinants influence three aspects of the confrontational relationship between the president and the Senate in the foreign policy/treaty legislation area. ...
• Politics in Covington County, Alabama from 1890 to 1900 

  Love, Gladys (1941)
• Representing Black Excellence: an Examination of the Association Between Judicial Oversight and Black Representation on Public Education in Alabama 

  Blackmore, Cameryn C (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This study explored the influence judicial oversight and Black representation on school boards had on the racial opportunity gap in Alabama during the years 2006 and 2015. The goal was to conduct an empirical study of ...
• The Veil of Prosecutorial Discretion: a Study of Alabama Prosecutors and Felony Plea Bargains 

  Griffin Hill, Tinsley (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This thesis studied the existence of sentencing disparities in Class A, B, and C felony pleabargains across the State of Alabama. The different avenues of prosecutorial discretion were examined, including charge and sentence ...
• Making the case for space: employing political communication to set domestic and international policy 

  Robison Hasani, Kathryn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The landscape of space policy, much like the realm with which it concerns itself, is vast and largely unexplored. As political scientists, we have left this policy area mainly to those scholars, agencies, and companies ...
• The preservation of repression: counterinsurgency strategic conflict policy formation and substitution 

  Douresseaux, Jasmine Leigh (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Insurgency is an organized movement, or group, which aims to overthrow the state or government through violence and subversion. Counterinsurgency is the attempt by a legitimate or state power to defeat and contain an ...
• International security and the space domain: applying traditional theories of international relations to the astropolitical environment 

  Rotter, Allen Eric (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)

  Traditional theories of International Relations have long been used to describe the politics of space. The space security debate itself reflects the inter-paradigm debate of the 1970s and 1980s in which neorealist and ...
• A dyadic examination of the territorial peace 

  Rickert, Joseph Adrian (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  The territorial peace theory poses the most prominent challenge to the democratic peace theory. Although territorial peace theory has generated robust results in quantitative studies, the domestic processes involved in ...
• The daily creation of the nation-self and the problem of the border 

  Hughston, Terry Lynn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  This dissertation is an attempt to give a more accurate answer to the perennial question of “What is a nation?” by offering a novel theory of the nation-as-self. The theoretical foundation of this theory is largely built ...
• The social construction of inmates: why some states force inmates to pay for healthcare, and what that means for inmate mortality 

  Nicholson, Michael Conner (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  Prisoners are one of the most vulnerable populations in a society. Part of this vulnerability stems from the complete lack of their participation in the formation of the public policies that control their lives. As a result, ...
• Litigants and law: the determinants of litigation outcomes 

  Krell, Matthew Reid (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

  I investigate the determinants of settlement and plaintiff payouts in federal civil trial litigation. Using a process theory framework, I analyze the impacts of multiple litigation phases on the outcomes of cases and on ...
• Learning the trade: states, leaders, and the construction of international relations 

  Millard, Matthew Christopher (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  I argue that conflict can best be understood as a learned practice that constrains states interacting peacefully or conflictually with other states in the international system. Vasquez (1993/2009) proposes that conflict ...
• Assessing the level and changes in bipartisanship in Federal higher education: a historical analysis of higher education appropriations, 1980-2017 

  Adair, John Lucas (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  Despite the continuous shifts in and long-term trend toward more partisanship in our national government, there is a need for consistent and accurate research to better prepare and inform policy leaders of trends in federal ...
• Twelve sisters: the U.S. Federal courts, regional independence, and the rule of law(s) 

  Shauku, Adamu Kofi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  The U.S. federal judiciary is the organ of national government responsible for the authoritative resolution of disputes arising under federal law. For reasons related to its historical institutional development, the system ...
• Automated content analysis and the development and utilization of legal doctrine in the Federal courts 

  Porter, Chase (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  The citation and interpretation of precedent and the development and utilization of legal doctrine are distinct concepts. Whereas previous literature has focused on the use of precedent, this study makes a theoretical ...
• The direct primary election system in Alabama 

  Burgin, Maggie (University of Alabama Libraries, 1931)

  Chapter one of this thesis deals with the early primary regulations in Alabama, and is therefore mostly historical. Early methods of making nominations are discussed, and the desire on the part of the voters for a primary ...
• Moral perfectionism, infinite responsibility, and the ethical in critical race theory 

  Fletcher, Andrew C. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  This dissertation is an investigation into the value of moral perfectionist thought broadly construed as a means of further developing antiracist strategy and theory, especially with regard to facilitating self-originary, ...
• Social construction and policy design in state financial aid policy 

  Hester, Jacob Andrew (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  This dissertation uses Schneider and Ingram’s Social Construction and Policy Design Theory (SCT) to help understand movements in funding for higher education at the state-level over the past 25 years. SCT argues that social ...
• The politics of social intimacy: regulating gendered and racial violence 

  Smith, Lindsey (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

  This project explores the constructions of gender, intimacy, and race and the ways these issues are informed by history and the law. The idea of consent, while originally described in texts as a legal concept between ...
• Criminal disenfranchisement policies across democracies: the impact of democracy, punishment and race 

  Chowdhury, Ishita Tasmia (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

  Democracies generally agree that suffrage important; however, many democracies continue to disenfranchise prisoners. Currently, 80 electoral democracies impose some restrictions on the voting rights of prisoners. Some ...

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