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Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps (open access)

Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps

This paper explores the relationship between the locations of conflict zones and refugee camps in African nations.
Date: 2014
Creator: Bolte, Brandon L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discord is Beauty; Silence is Beast: Dissent in Authoritarian Regimes (open access)

Discord is Beauty; Silence is Beast: Dissent in Authoritarian Regimes

Paper explores the link between types of authoritarian regimes and violent and nonviolent dissent.
Date: 2013
Creator: Copeland, D.K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates in the United States: A Study of California Public Schools (open access)

Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates in the United States: A Study of California Public Schools

Paper examines teen pregnancy rates across states in the United States and proposes a study that correlates the types of sex education utilized in individual counties or independent school districts and teen pregnancy rates across a sufficiently diverse state, such as California.
Date: 2015
Creator: Horton, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior (open access)

All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior

Paper examines the effects of affiliation, focusing on Al Qaeda, on the behavior of rebel groups.
Date: 2014
Creator: Robbins, Arianna
System: The UNT Digital Library
Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions (open access)

Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions

Paper analyzes the correlation between the size of a peacekeeping force and the likelihood of peacekeeping failures.
Date: 2013
Creator: Fink, Frances Reka
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calling in the Big Guns: Desire for Military Intervention in Politics (open access)

Calling in the Big Guns: Desire for Military Intervention in Politics

Paper explores the relationship between perceptions of legitimacy and the desire for military intervention in politics.
Date: 2013
Creator: Hayden, Sarah L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
We’re Not Gonna Take It: The Impact of Societal Support on Conflict Onset (open access)

We’re Not Gonna Take It: The Impact of Societal Support on Conflict Onset

Paper analyzes the effect of societal support on the likelihood of civil conflict.
Date: 2013
Creator: Dietrich, Nicholas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Decentralization and Conflict: The Missing Link in State Capacity Literature (open access)

Decentralization and Conflict: The Missing Link in State Capacity Literature

Paper explores the relationship between decentralization and the onset of civil wars.
Date: 2013
Creator: Fan, Derick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stronger than Yesterday: The Effect of Ethnic Conflict on Ethnic Identity (open access)

Stronger than Yesterday: The Effect of Ethnic Conflict on Ethnic Identity

Paper explores the relationship between ethnic conflict and ethnic identity using quantitative methods.
Date: 2014
Creator: Shymonyak, Andriy V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roles of the White House Chief of Staff (open access)

Roles of the White House Chief of Staff

Paper analyzes the roles that the White House Chief of Staff plays and how effective they are in said roles.
Date: 2013
Creator: McAlister, Lisa
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation (open access)

Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation

Paper explores the relationship between national capabilities and the likelihood of conflict, and in particular the impact of gender on this relationship.
Date: 2014
Creator: Ferris, Rachel Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latino Attitudes Toward Abortion and Marriage Equality: Examining the Influence of Religiosity, Acculturation, and Non-Response (open access)

Latino Attitudes Toward Abortion and Marriage Equality: Examining the Influence of Religiosity, Acculturation, and Non-Response

This article seeks to extend literature on Latinos' policy preferences by examining the influence of multiple dimensions of acculturation and religiosity on two contemporary moral policy issues: abortion and same-sex marriage.
Date: 2014
Creator: Branton, Regina; Franco, Ana B.; Wenzel, Jim & Wrinkle, Robert D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Primed Parsons; Reference Groups and Clergy Political Attitudes (open access)

Primed Parsons; Reference Groups and Clergy Political Attitudes

This article investigates the effect of parishioners and institutional superiors on clergy political attitudes.
Date: 2015
Creator: Calfano, Brian Robert & Oldmixon, Elizabeth Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political Mandate and Clarity of Responsibility: Economic Policies under Rightist Governments in Latin America (open access)

Political Mandate and Clarity of Responsibility: Economic Policies under Rightist Governments in Latin America

This article uses panel data for eighteen Latin American countries from 1995 to 2015 to study whether clarity of responsibility can influence presidential decision-making concerning unpopular policies, especially microeconomic policies.
Date: June 13, 2018
Creator: Biglaiser, Glen & McGauvran, Ronald J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discourse and Dissonance: Religious Agendas in the 104th Congress (open access)

Discourse and Dissonance: Religious Agendas in the 104th Congress

This article investigates the religious dimension of Republican legislators' participation in one-minute speeches during the 104th Congress (1995-1996).
Date: August 20, 2015
Creator: Blackstone, Bethany & Oldmixon, Elizabeth Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Internet and College Students' Motivation to Vote (open access)

The Internet and College Students' Motivation to Vote

This article investigates the impact of the political information available on-line on college students’ motivation to vote. The results illustrate that not only politicians, but educators should be cognizant of this civic engagement process. Schools and teachers of all levels are one the front lines of the battle to create a more informed, more involved citizenry; higher education has a strong influence on motivation to vote.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: White, Amy E. & King, Kimi L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Joint Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (open access)

Preface to the Joint Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program

Introduction to the special section featuring the joint proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program in the 2013 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2013
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Greig, J. Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is there a monadic authoritarian peace: Authoritarian regimes, democratic transition types and the first use of violent force (open access)

Is there a monadic authoritarian peace: Authoritarian regimes, democratic transition types and the first use of violent force

This article examines conflict proneness of authoritarian states and tests whether the monadic democratic peace argument can be extended to explain the conflict behavior of authoritarian states.
Date: November 30, 2008
Creator: Ishiyama, John T.; Conway, Ryan & Haggans, Katherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Political Science (open access)

Preface to the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Political Science

Introduction to the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Political Science as featured in the 2011 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2011
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Greig, J. Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (open access)

Preface to the Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates

Introduction to the proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates, featured in the 2010 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2010
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Greig, J. Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science 2012 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (open access)

Preface to the Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science 2012 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates

Introduction to the Department of Political Science 2012 National Science Foundation Research Experience as featured in the 2012 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2012
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Greig, J. Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bottoms Up: How Subnational Elections Predict Parties' Decisions to Run in Presidential Elections in Europe and Latin America (open access)

Bottoms Up: How Subnational Elections Predict Parties' Decisions to Run in Presidential Elections in Europe and Latin America

This article argues that a party's presence in elections across subnational units and its subsequent performance in these elections are determining factors for whether it enters the presidential race.
Date: August 25, 2015
Creator: Spoon, Jae-Jae & Jones West, Karleen
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Nor Cruel and Unusual Punishments Inflicted”: A Look at the Eighth Amendment and the Evolving Standards of Decency (open access)

“Nor Cruel and Unusual Punishments Inflicted”: A Look at the Eighth Amendment and the Evolving Standards of Decency

Paper discusses constitutional interpretation and focuses on the evolving interpretation of the Eighth Amendment through Supreme Court cases.
Date: 2009
Creator: Redding, Kory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soft Power and International Public Opinion: U.S Presidents and the Treatment of Prisoners of War (open access)

Soft Power and International Public Opinion: U.S Presidents and the Treatment of Prisoners of War

Paper discusses the international effects of the policies of a nation in the form of soft power.
Date: 2009
Creator: Wagner, Coleman
System: The UNT Digital Library