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Creator:: Fitzharris, Jacob H.
Abstract:: Political Polarization in the United States is at a level higher today than at any point in the past few decades. Possible causes of this rise in polarization have been provided from various sources, including explanations such as mass media and income inequality. Through historical analysis and a wide literature...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Journal of Political Science, vol. 42, no. 3, 1998, p. 1020., doi:10.2307/2991742. 29 Ordeshook, Peter

Creator:: Nelson, Claire I.
Abstract:: Interruptions and asking questions play a vital role in social communication and can exhibit status and power differences in regular conversation. Studies in gender communication describe the way men and women utilize their own linguistic register through the development of social subcultures. The different ways men and women report and...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Baccalaureate of Science in Political Science (Honors Associate) Presented May 20, 2022 Commencement June 2022

Creator:: Mina, Catherine Ligaya
Abstract:: On January 21, 2017, the United States bore witness to the largest single-day demonstration in history—the Women’s March. This mixed methods study uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative data in an attempt to predict participation in this infamous protest. I divulge the ways in which the 2017 Women’s March...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts in Political Science (Honors Associate

Creator:: Linebarger, Joseph R.
Abstract:: This thesis examines whether and how interest groups concerned with capital punishment change how they frame the issue when advocating before the Supreme Court via amicus curiae briefs over time. I measured the frequency of frames used throughout amicus briefs submitted in cases pertaining to how the death penalty could...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Baccalaureate of Arts in Political Science (Honors Associate) Presented March 6

Creator:: Loftin, Olivia
Abstract:: Not many people in Russia have been able to successfully create an opposition movement under the presidency of Vladimir Putin. Opposition is already hard in any country, but things are especially difficult in Russia. Putin has made protest regulations, stifled the independent media, and excessively utilized selective rule by law....
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts in Political Science

Creator:: Butler, Cyrus M.
Abstract:: This study examines healthcare policy preferences of Oregon State University students through the lens of Political Culture Theory, as pioneered by Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky in the 1980’s. The primary goal of this study is to examine the impact of cultural traits as described by Political Culture Theory on...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: requirements for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Arts in Political Science and History (Honors

Creator:: Brundage, Simon A.
Abstract:: My study of universal healthcare was motivated by the juxtaposition of social welfare and self-interest in the United States. Unlike most other industrialized countries—whom have adopted either a multi-payer or single-payer system of universal healthcare—the United States is situated uniquely, from both a philosophical and political standpoint. Among others, it...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Science in Radiation

Creator:: Stewart, Chloe N.
Abstract:: The Scab Sheet is a student activist publication at OSU. Originally published in 1969-1970, a group of students revived it in 2017 after a near 50-year gap. The fact that students deliberately resurrected this important and storied student publication suggests that students still believe this particular name and outlet have...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: to be relevant and helpful for the scope of this project. According to an article in the Journal

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