This page contains honors theses produced by senior Politics majors. For a list of all honors theses since 2011, click here.

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Theses from 2024

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Emancipatory or Merely Appropriate? Revealing the Right to Education under the Thirteenth Amendment and Its Implications for Students with Disabilities, Rachel Joyce Liazos

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To Remember, To Forget: Political Actors’ Use of Collective Memory During Democratic Transitions in Spain and Chile, Caroline Thayer Milne

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Running the Risk: Why Citizens Choose to Engage in Political Protest in 21st Century Russia, Grace Murphy

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The Construction of Coloured Identities: Apartheid Nostalgia & The Politics of Memory, Helena May Raddock

Theses from 2023

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Wildfires in the US and Australia: NGO Polarization Amidst Political Polarization and Climate Disasters, Kallie E. Polgrean

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"I'll Wear a Bulletproof Vest to Work": State Centralization and Local Election Officials' Resilience to the Big Lie, Zoe Wynn

Theses from 2022

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Emotion in the Neutral Court: Attorney Appeals to Emotion in Jury Trial Argumentation, Elise Marie Lambert

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Evaluating the Role of Race in Foreign Policymaking: U.S. Public Diplomacy in Latin America during Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, Sophie Mackin

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Hitting Refresh: Regulating internet speech in the 21st century, Jack Charles Valentino

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The Political Theory of Digital Sex Work, Christina Wang

Theses from 2021

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"Without Lawful Authority": Reassessing Nullification and its Contributions to Political and Constitutional Development in Antebellum America, Benjamin Keener

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"La Migración Cambió Mi Visión (Migration Changed My Vision)": How and Why Oaxacan Return Migrants Run for Mayor of Their Hometowns, Daniel Lawrence Tepler

Theses from 2020

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"The Divergent Paths of Jihad: Comparing Violence Against Civilians Perpetrated by IS and JN in the Syrian Civil War", Abigail Katherine Frost

Theses from 2019

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Truth-Telling and Transitional Justice in Chile: Healing for Women Survivors of Trauma Through Testimonial Art Collectives, Olivia Snow Fried

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Welcoming New Mainers: Local Economic Development and its Effects on the Politics of Immigration, Trevor H. Fry

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Reimagining Citizenship in the Age of Climate Change, Anna Setzer

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“If There Be One Only, She Shall Inherit Half”: Explaining the Preservation of Islamic Inheritance Law in Tunisia’s 1956 Personal Status Code, Gwendolyn R. Whidden

Theses from 2018

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Divided We Fall: Eurosceptics in the European Parliament, Dylan Desjardins

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You Are Not Alone: HIV/AIDS Activism in Maine, Ian W. Erickson

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Targeting Terrorist Leaders, Stephen Charles Rowe

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Europe’s Outsourced Refugees: Contextualizing NGO work in the “Calais of the Balkans”, John M. Sapoch

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Power, Autonomy, and the Role of Law: Nudity and the Public-Private Distinction, Martin Francisco Saps

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Explaining Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Political Settlements in Kenya and Uganda, Shanina van Gent

Theses from 2017

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Revealing What Recidivism Hides: Punishment, Surveillance, and Bias in Evaluating Adult Drug Court in Maine, Claire Brown

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Mi Bolivia está Cambiando: the effect of decentralization on ethno-political mobilization in Bolivia, Tessa Holtzman

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The Freedom of Information Act Reimagined: Lawmaking, Transparency, and National Security In Twenty-First-Century America, Matthew F. Phillips

Theses from 2016

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The Influence of U.S. Foreign Policy on Asylum and Refugee Admissions to the United States, Nicole Louise Bermudez

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A Court Under Strain: The U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic Deficit, Brielle E. Dalvano

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Applying the Neo-Functionalist Paradigm to Assess the Integrative Consequences of the European Court of Justice's Human Rights Jurisprudence, Elizabeth Sarah Dolgicer

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Fragmented Citizenship in a Fragmented State: Ideas, Institutions, and the Failure of Reconstruction, Allen C. Sumrall

Theses from 2015

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A More Durable Peace: The Nexus Between Local Influence and Power-Sharing Governance, Benjamin Skorpen Claeson

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Constitutional Assembly Breakdown: A Study of Why Nepal’s Constitution Writing Procces Failed, Evan Cooper

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"Same Story Every Time / Being Black is Not a Crime": Gun Regulations and Recurrent Patterns of Government Control of Black Americans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Joshua Kurzer Manson

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The Third Dimension of Power within Education Based NGOs in Nicaragua, Emily Catherine Roseman

Theses from 2014

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Same Sex Relationships and the Right to Intimate Association: Developing an Alternative Constitutional Framework in Support of Gay Rights, Evan L. Binder

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Legal Hybridity: Rule of Law under Authoritarianism, Aung Phone Myint

Theses from 2013

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How to Maintain One-Party Control: A Case Study of the Political Strategies Used by New Hampshire Republicans, Mikayla Clara Foster

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Turkey's Gender Equality Puzzle: Navigating the difference between policy and practice, Nora M. Hanagan

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Getting Away With Murder: Why States Deny Past Atrocities, Cameron Ashleigh Sheldon

Theses from 2012

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Political Change through Narrative, Catherine Elliott

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Dams over Nukes: Explaining Indian Water Treaties, Romina Istratii

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Commemorating the Holocaust and Communism: The Politics of Hungarian Public Memory, Kelsey LaFreniere

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Multinational States, Multicultural Nations: The Challenge of Liberal Multiculturalism in Nested Nations, Justin Gregory Lipton

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Revising Sovereignty - A Case Study of Kosovo, East Timor, and South Ossetia, Gina Cristina Sima

Theses from 2011

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Taking Back Sicily: The Antimafia Movement and its Counter-Hegemonic Attack on Cosa Nostra, Jennifer Anne Diefendorf