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In its Honors Programthe Government Department awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2010-2011
- William Bernard Corkery III, "Newt Gingrich and GOPAC: Training the Farm Team that helped win the Republican Revolution of 1994" (Honors)
John Gilmour + Ronald Rapoport, Bob Archibald - Justine de Benedictis-Kessner, "The Tea Party in Amerian Politics" (Honors)
Ronald Rapoport + Christine Nemacheck, Cheryl Dickter - Chelsea Leigh Estancona, "Facilitating Conflict: The effect of Non-state Material Aid to Insurgencies" (Honors)
Amy Oakes + Dennis Smith, Reginia Root - Jie Hou, "U.S.-China Bilateral Relations from 1989 to 2010: As a Consequence of Economic Changes" (Honors)
Sophia Hart + David Dessler, Hiroshi Kitamura - Alexa Jordan McClanahan, "Gender and Health Care Reform: The Power of Party and Perspective" (Honors)
Larry Evans + John McGlennon, Nancy Gray - Brandon Pizzola, "The Political Economy of the Vanishing Marginals: Tiebout Sorting and the American Political System" (Honors)
Larry Evans +John McGlennon, Rob Hicks - Michael Sardo, "Mr. Socrates Goes to Washington: The Care of the Self and the Cultivation of Citizenship in Late-Modernity" (Honors)
John Baltes + John Lombardini, Christopher Freiman
2009-10
- Maura Elaine Bardos, "Who Receives Aid from Faith-Based NGOs? An Analysis of Country Level Aid Commitments" (Honors)
Ronald Rapoport + Tanujit Dey, Paula Pickering - Omar Basil Farid, "Examining Compliance Rates of European Union Member States" (Honors)
Clay Clemens + Tobias Hofmann, Carl Strikwerda - Kathryn Bailey Thomson, "The Crux of the Matter: the Intersection of Deliberative Traditions in the Wren Cross Controversy" (Honors)
Joel Schwartz + PJ Brendese, Charles McGovern
2008-09
- Allison Anoll, "Creating Citizens: Civics Education, Civic Socialization and Engagement Patterns" (Honors)
Paul Manna + Joel Schwartz, Jeremy Stoddard - Daniel Mahlon Byler, "Online Social Networks and Their Relationship to Social Capital and Political Attitudes" (Honors)
Ron Rapoport+ Joel Schwartz, Bob Archibald - Alexander Ely, "David vs. Goliath: Offense-Defense Theory and Asymmetric Wars" (Honors)
Amy Oakes + Dennis Smith, Chris Westberg - Deborah Klonsko, "Recognizing Secession: The Influence of Politics on Statehood" (Honors)
Paula Pickering + Amy Oakes, James Frusetta
2007-08
- Patrick William Doherty
Clay Clemens (Fall 2008) - Lauren Danielle Garrett, "Deconstructing the Gender Card: An Examination of Femininity Performance in US Elections" (Honors)
Stacey Pelika + Chris Howard, Jenny Putzi - Robert Reyes Landicho, "Can Foreign Aid Give an Incentive for Good Governance? The Case of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Jordan" (Honors)
Michael Tierney + Rani Mullen, Mark Smith - Ryan McSherry Powers, "A New Measure of Environmental Lending: Measuring and Explaining Environmental Mainstreaming at the World Bank" (Honors)
Mike Tierney and Maria Ivanova + Timmons Roberts, Rob Hicks - Ryan Mason Scott, "The Nexus of Business & Politics: The Case of Same-Sex Partner Benefits" (Honors)
Ronald Sims (Mason School of Business) + John McGlennon, Stacey Pelika - Joshua Allen Turner, "Religion and the Political Sphere: The Limitations of Public Reason" (Honors)
Joel Schwartz + John Baltes, Alan Meese
2006-07
- Grant Alexander Gonzalez, "Competing Conceptions of State: The Government and the Egyptian Islamist Movements - 1975-1997" (High Honors)
Rani Mullen + Peter Bechtold, Tamara Sonn - Darby Glennon Hull, "Shifting Federalism: Latino Immigrants & Medicaid" (Honors)
Chris Howard + John McGlennon, Salvatore Saporito - Benjamin John Malloy, "The Birth of Comedy: A Comparison of the Role of the Dionysian Perspective, the Comic Attic, and Masking as a Forum of Critiquing Democratic Institutions" (Honors)
Simon Stow + P.J. Brendese, Tim Costelloe - Ryan Seth Marion, "Gangs vs. the Globe: Legal Conceptualization and its Effects on Fighting Transnational Organized Crime" (Honors)
Katherine Rahman + Mike Tierney, George Harris - Meghan Kathleen McCarthy, "One Goal, Multiple Efforts: Donor Coordination in Ghana and Nigeria's Primary Education Sectors" (High Honors)
Rani Mullen + Ngoni Munemo, Berhanu Abegaz - Mary Sheppard Moll, "Strategies of Inoculation: Issue Ownership and Entrepreneurial Behavior in Congress" (Honors)
Larry Evans + Paul Manna, Christopher Ball - Amanda Victoria Norris, "Explaining the Electoral Stability of the Front National and the Electoral Instability of the Austrian Freedom Party" (Honors)
Clay Clemens + Rani Mullen, Michael LeRuth - Brandon Michael Stewart, "'On the Other Side of Silence': The Study of Tragedy in International Relations" (Highest Honors)
Simon Stow + P.J. Brendese, Kristi Burns - Jennifer Elaine Sykes, "Who Wins? And Why?: A Quantitative Test of Hypotheses about Organized Interests" (High Honors)
Larry Evans + Chris Howard, Carl Moody
2005-06
- Marion Harris, "Media and Framing Effects on the EU Constitutional Treaty Referendum in France" (Honors)
Clay Clemens + Chris Howard, Michael Leruth - Dan Maliniak, "Chinese Exchange Rate Determination: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Renminbi" (Highest Honors)
T.J. Cheng + Michael Tierney, David Dessler, Arnab Basu - Rebecca Milfeld, "The Perpetuation of Segregation in America's Subsidized Housing" (Honors)
Chris Howard + Paul Manna, Mel Ely - Laura Mirengoff, "The Rehnquist Court's 'Federalism Revolution'" (Honors)
Christine Nemacheck + Paul Manna, Hiroshi Kitamura - Adam Smith, "Red Over Europe: Democratic Consolidation and Hard Left Communist Successor Parties" (Honors)
Paula Pickering + Clay Clemens, Tuska Benes - Brendan Williams
Emile Lester + Joel Schwartz, David Jaeger
2004-05
- Patience Bosley-Burke
John McGlennon + Paul Manna, Dennis Taylor - Sarah Brown
Larry Evans + Ron Rapoport, Jenny Kehl, Clyde Haulman - Christina Carroll
Emile Lester + Chris Nemacheck, Melvin Ely - Amy FitzHenry
Chris Howard + Paul Manna, Jennifer Bickham-Mendez - Thomas Gates
Emile Lester, Chris Nemacheck, Paul Mapp - Kimberely Grubb
Jenny Kehl + Clay Clemens, Ismail Abdalla - Mary Hallerman
John McGlennon + Ron Rapoport, Tom Linneman - Justin Kliger
Clay Clemens + Ron Rapoport, Harvey Langholtz - Julie Podlesni-
Christopher Howard + John Gilmour, Greg Capelli - Cara Passaro
Clay Clemens + Paula Pickering, LuAnn Homza - Daniel Queen
Mike Tierney + Katherine Rahman, Rob Hicks - Matthew Young
Clay Clemens + Paula Pickering, Harvey Langholtz