Sample Senior Theses I Have Supervised in Previous Years
"Decline of Dominant Party Politics: The Future of Hawaii's Democratic Party"

"India vs. China: Contrasting GMO Policies"

"The Age of Consent Disparity in Europe"

"Discourses in Political Authority: Similarities Between Nazi, Communist and Democratic Languages in Germany"

"State Funded Catholicism: The Discrepancies Found in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay"

"Era of Accountability: Why Uganda Created the International Criminal Division"

"Campaign Finance and Corruption in Liberal-Democratic Polities"

"Air Pollution Policy Aboard Spaceship Earth"

"Your Sympathy Dos Us No Good: An Analysis of the Factor Sympathetic Public Officials Play in Occupy Oakland and in Social Movement Theories"

"Revolutionary Theory: Human Agency and the Revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua"

"Female in Focus: The Hidden Politics of Women in Nazi Melodrama"

"Land and Promises: Israel, Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula"

"Tipping the Scales: Why Some Oregon Counties Have Become Increasingly Dominated by One Political Party in Presidential Elections"

"Deportation Upside-Down: Sovereignty and the Two-Faced Immigration Policy"

"Private Military Companies in the Post-Cold War Era: An Evolution of Politics and Warfare"

"Politics and the Prison Industrial Complex: Prison Labor and Recidivism in the United States"

"Policy Entrepreneurship as a Means to Understanding Political Change in Gulf Monarchies"

"Collective Action: Vietnam Veteran Dissent"

"Why We Intervene: An Analytical Approach to Explaining Humanitarian Intervention"

"Interest Groups, Religion, and Abortion: A Comparative Study of Canada and the United States"

"The Central American Regional Integration System as an Adaptive Process: Applying Models of Learning and Adaptation to Regional Integration"

"A Comparative Analysis of International Space Regimes"

"Science in the Northwest Forest Plan: Evolving Roles in Environmental Policymaking"

"Contesting Consent: The Politics of Executive Branch Appointments"

"A Comparative Analysis of the Welfare Systems of Argentina and Chile"

"The Political Changes in Warfare: Examining the Current Conflict in Iraq Through the Views of Clausewitz and Creveld"

"Aboriginal Social Rights Movements in Australia: Repertoires of Black Insurgency Down Under"

"The Struggle for Food Safety: A Rational Choice and Constructivist Analysis of European and American GMO Policy"

"The Effect of the Collective Action Problem in the Use of Internet Fundraising for Political Campaigns"

"The Western Conceptualization of Franco's Spain During the Cold War: A Constructivist's Approach to a Pariah State Case Study"

"Corporatist and Constructivist Explanations for the Time Difference in Smoking Regulations: A Comparative Study of the United States, France, and Germany"

"The European Union and Intellectual Property Rights: A Probe of the Integration Process"

"European Security and Defense Policy: Forever Intergovenmental or a Supranational Work in Progress?"

"Policy Choices to Address Population Decline: Austria, Belgium, and Denmark"

"Constitutional Revisions in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus."

"Queer States: The Politics of Gay Marriage and European Integration"

"Escaping the Box: Looking for Theories to Explain Civil Society Development in the Color Revolutions of the Commonwealth of Independent States"

"Nuclear Non-Use Between India and Palistan: The Validity of Deterrence and Normative Prohibitions in the Post-Cold War Era"

"Consociationalism: A Workable Solution to the Problems of Governing a Heterogeneous Iraq"

"Causes of Reform: Interest Group Theory in the Case of Adoption Birth Records Legislation in the United States"

"From African Unity to African Union"

"The Borking Effect: The Influence of the Failed Bork Nomination on Subsequent Supreme Court Confirmations"

"Things Are More the Same Now Than They've Ever Been: Accounting for the Lack of Reform in the United Nations Security Council"

"The European Union's Democratic Deficit and the Response in Costa Rica to Central American Regional Integration: A Comparative Analysis"

"India's Nuclear Bomb: The Future and Impact of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime"

"Changing Notions of Sovereignty: The European Union"

"The German Military in a New International Role, or What are the Chances That We Go Back to the Future?"

"U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Cuba and Vietnam: The Fracture of Post-Cold War Ideology"

"City Consolidation: A Century Tete-a-Tete Between the City of Coos Bay and the City of North Bend, Oregon"

"War: Evolution, Behavior, and Gender Roles"

"Biting the Hand That Feeds Art: A Comparison of Public Funding for the Arts in Three Liberal Democracies"

"The Comeback Kid: The Mystery Behind President Clinton's Approval Ratings"

"Ethnic Relations in the Post-Soviet Era: A Study of Russian Minorities in Ukraine and the Baltic States"

"Generational Theory in American Foreign Policy"

"The Green War and the Meaning of Success"

"The Internet and Political Communication"

"Judicial Interpretive Powers: Mediating the Conflict Between Public and Private Sex and the Law"

"The Myth of the 'Gay Agenda': Identity Politics in the American Gay Rights Movement"

"The Politics of Diasporas"

"Sex, Drugs, and Euthanasia: An Examination of Tolerance in the Netherlands"

"Shades of Gray: Political Corruption in Post-War Germany and Japan"

"The South's Split-Level Realignment: Presidential Republicanism and Down-Ticket Democracy, 1952-1994"

"Turkey: An Examination of Capitalism, Democracy and Human Rights"

"Two Countries Stand United, Yet Remain Divided: Issues Regarding Search & Seizure and Sex Offender Treatment"