All Abstracts

Black American partisanship has been predictable in federal, state, and local elections for the past five decades. Previous academics explored the significance of party identification during elections when the candidates are Black and the voters are majority Black, finding that Democratic Party iden...

Islamophobia in France stems partially from the relationship the country has had with Muslims and Arab-states in the past, including France’s colonial history, shaping current treatment of and sentiment towards Muslims. Helbing and Traunmüller (2016) seek to understand how a nation’s religious ...

  The redistricting of congressional lines can negatively affect Black voter participation in the U.S. House elections. Danny Hayes and Seth C. McKee authors of "The Participatory Effects of Redistricting" find that the drawing of congressional district lines can significantly reduce political ...

Populism is not a defined ideology, but instead a strategy for political outsiders to challenge the status quo. Previous literature asserts that populist candidates depend on rhetoric over action (Bonikowski 2016). This research addresses the gap between how a populist candidate’s performance and ...

Civic Education in K-12 educational curriculum has an important relationship with civic engagement and voter participation in the broader community. Campbell and Nieme (2016) theorize civic exams are most effective in forming political knowledge among youth in states where these exams serve as requi...

In comparison to other countries, the United States has had the most mass shootings. Mass shootings in public settings have received a lot of media coverage, making it look like the new normal. Many studies focus on gun control (Newman and Hartman 2017). Violent video games and aggressive behavior i...

Empirical studies have shown that in the United States, the biased response of police officers is to consistently stop, search, and arrest Blacks and Hispanics at higher rates than whites and other non-minority citizens (Hurwitz and Peffley 2005). Similarly, ethnic profiling in France and Australia ...

Bertrum (2011) highlights the political origins of welfare reform but little research explores how political partisanship may affect current implementation of welfare policies. Drawing on a quantitative case study of four states from 1960 to 2018, I analyze caseload data and compare it with the poli...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the multifaceted factors that affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in African and Asian countries. The Asian region has experienced several decades of economic growth. During these periods of economic growth, Southeast Asia also experienced an increase in...

The globalization of trade is a phenomenon that should, on the surface, impact communities in predictable ways. My research will investigate the pattern of “winners” and “losers” from globalization in China with two aims. First, I will test which model of trade policy-making fits best in Chi...

 In this study, I seek to understand the differences between Kenya’s form of African Socialism and Tanzania’s African Socialism. This research serves as a case study, examining the political, economic and social success and failures of capitalism and socialism in Africa post-colonization. I...

Previous researchers found that gerrymandering has caused significant partisan bias among political actors, which is disproportionate to the voting patterns of American citizens among the masses (McCarty, 2009). However, current research fails to address how gerrymandering directly impacts polarizat...