This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Department of Political Science, in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Are the good times really over for good? American political nostalgia's relationship with rurality, authoritarianism, and victimhood., Chancellor R. Peterson
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Media portrayal of private prisons and inmates., Ladye Anna L. Adams
Foreign policy in media: an examination of the Captain America films., Kat Hernandez
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Incidental exposure, political activity and perceived trust., Brianna Berry
The rise of the nones: religion, leaners, and their connection with partisanship in America., Kevin C. Orr
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Social media and fear: social media as a catalyst for political fear in the United States., Shane R. White
Portrait of modern pluralism: A practitioner's perspective on interest group politics and theory., Mary Ellen Wiederwohl
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Hybridity and political disorder : a mixed method approach to understanding the hybrid regime., Bryce Jamison Kleinsteuber
Representation and restraint : cross-national analysis of fractionalization and state-building., David Lian
Digital political information consumption and ambivalent political attitudes., Dane Ryan Warner
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Framing climate change as national security: a survey-experiment on climate change perceptions., Adam Lyons
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Examining the link between press freedom and politics., Megan Wollerton
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The evolution and analysis of legal protection for medical conscientious objectors., John Peter Hill
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
An electronic theory of democracy : house members on their computers., Doug Murdoch
Contentious spaces : a comparative analysis of Latin American resistance campaigns, 1956-2006., Sean Lee Welch
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Girls with guns : the disarmament and demobilization of female ex-combatants in Africa., Emily Katherine Maiden
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
EU policy in Belarus : prospects for democratization., Jessie-Leigh O'Leary Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The budget gap : gender discrimination in the U.S. federal budget process, 1962-2011., Kevin Fahey
Ethnocentric frames across race : the media's role in activating ethnocentrism and public support for conflict abroad., Christopher William Ledford
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Three revolutions : a comparative study of democratization and youth movements in the post-Soviet sphere., Christy Lynn Rhodes
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Politically divided : a comparative analysis of German right-wing extremist voter support., Carolyn Marie Morgan
Do sovereign wealth funds mitigate authoritarian rule?: a statistical analysis of sovereign wealth funds and the resource curse., G. Jason Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Would you like to talk? : the impact of media and interpersonal communication on knowledge about candidates and likelihood of voting., Donna M. Elkins 1968-
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Congress, framing, media and bankruptcy reform, 1997-2005., Dollie Jane Greenwell 1984-
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Transnational advocacy networks in the international system : lessons from Ecuador., Isabella Marie Christensen 1977-
Ambiguity and triangles : United States policy and action during the referendum crisis of 2003-4., William David Frost 1982-
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The process of the enlargement of the Russian regions : economic balancing or landmark of "Kremlinization"?, Igor Yurievich Danchenko
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
The Louisville (Kentucky) Democratic Party : political times of "Miss Lennie" McLaughlin., Carolyn Luckett Denning 1943-
Theses/Dissertations from 1942
Tuberculosis in Louisville and Jefferson County., Anna J. Haines
A study of apportionment in Indiana., Stannard Kinneth Short 1911-1977
Theses/Dissertations from 1941
Pan American solidarity, 1932-1940., Morton M. Grodzins
Theses/Dissertations from 1932
An interpretation of the Franco-German relations from Versailles to Locarno., John Paul Keith
