• 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 ...
• How Democracies Prevail: Democratic Resilience as a Two-Stage Process 

  Boese, Vanessa A.; Edgell, Amanda B.; Hellmeier, Sebastian; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Lindber, Staffan I. (2021)

  This article introduces a novel conceptualization of democratic resilience - a two-stage process where democracies avoid democratic declines altogether or avert democratic breakdown given that such autocratization is ...
• 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 ...
• An Annual Cost of Living Index for the American States, 1960-1995 

  Berry, William D.; Fording, Richard C.; Hanson, Russell L. (2000)

  An enormous amount of research on state politics and policy relies on monetary variables. Such variables are affected by differences in the purchasing power of a dollar over time and across states, but a lack of information ...
• Reassessing the “Race to the Bottom” in State Welfare Policy 

  Berry, William D.; Fording, Richard C.; Hanson, Russell L. (2003)

  On the assumption that poor people migrate to obtain better welfare benefits, the magnet hypothesis predicts that a state’s poverty rate increases when its welfare benefit rises faster than benefits in surrounding states. ...
• Politics and State Punitiveness in Black and White 

  Yates, Jeff; Fording, Richard C. (2005)

  Recent findings from the literature on imprisonment policy suggest that in addition to traditional social and economic variables, imprisonment rates are also strongly related to changes in the state political environment. ...
• Devolution, Discretion, and the Effect of Local Political Values on TANF Sanctioning 

  Fording, Richard C.; Soss, Joe; Schram, Sanford F. (2007)

  One of welfare reform’s most significant consequences is the devolution of policy-making authority from the federal government and states to local governments and frontline workers. What is perhaps less often appreciated ...
• Race and the Local Politics of Punishment in the New World of Welfare 

  Fording, Richard C.; Soss, Joe; Schram, Sanford F. (2011)

  To illuminate how race affects the usage of punitive tools in policy implementation settings, we analyze sanctions imposed for noncompliant client behavior under welfare reform. Drawing on a model of racial classification ...
• Do Welfare Sanctions Help or Hurt the Poor? Estimating the Causal Effect of Sanctioning on Client Earnings 

  Fording, Richard C.; Schram, Sanford F.; Soss, Joe (2013)

  This article examines the effect of financial sanctions for noncompliance on the earnings of TANF clients. Current research on TANF sanctioning is descriptive, and few studies estimate the effect of sanctions on client ...
• The Affordable Care Act and the Diffusion of Policy Feedback: The Case of Medicaid Work Requirements 

  Fording, Richard C.; Patton, Dana (2020)

  Over the last five years, many states have sought to limit access to Medicaid by adopting restrictive policies. How can we reconcile this development with studies that imply that Medicaid should be insulated from policy ...
• 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 ...

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