Political Institutional Student Research

2010
"Creating Peace: An Examination of Peace and Conflict in Diverse Societies," by Derrick Turner
“Coming to the Table: How the Masses Lead RSMOs and the State to Negotiation," by David Zumba

2007
"Pork Barrel Politics and Japanese Coalition Formation," by Noah Brennan (Codebook) (Dataset in SPSS)
"Conflict Linkages:Democratic Institutions and Their Effect on Ethnic Political Violence," by Seth Lippincott (Codebook) (Dataset in SPSS)
"Beyond Oil:Competitive Authoritarianism and Diversification of the Economy in the Middle East and North Africa," by Martha Thomsen (Codebook) (Dataset in Excel)

2006
"Inaction as Action: South Africa's Political Culture of Protest and Declining Voter Turnout," by Eunice Ajambo
"Vetoing Peace: Israeli Coalition Dynamics and the Peace Process, 1992-2005," by Becca Farley

2005
"Institutions and Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Policymaking in the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997," by Amanda McRae
"Constructing Democratic Institutions in Divided Societies: The Case of Iraq," by Ryan P. Kelley

NOTE: All papers linked to this section are senior-year integrative exercises ("comps"). These papers and all data and appendices are the copyright of the student authors.

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