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Political Science Dissertations

As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Albert Camus' political thought: from passion to compassion, Angel López-Santiago

China's Search For "Peaceful Internationalism" Vis-À-Vis A Liberal World Order: Interests, National Identity And Foreign Policy, Bo Ma

Dollar Democracy: The Politics of Dollarization in Latin America, Cori Madrid

Occupy Mall Street? How the Court Conditioned Public Space Where People Go, Anthony Maniscalco

International norm echoing in rebel groups: The cases of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Jennifer A. Mueller

The Politics of Transportation Megaprojects, Patrizia Christa Nobbe

The "Social Factory" In Postwar Italian Radical Thought From Operaismo To Autonomia, David P. Palazzo

Moral Inscriptions: Politics and the Rhetoric of Responsibility, Steven Pludwin

Engaging Bad Governments: Resource Groups and Patterns of Engagement in Bangladesh, Nayma Qayum

Becoming Transnational Citizens: The Liberian Diaspora's Civic Engagement in the United States and in Homeland Peacebuilding, Janet Elizabeth Reilly

Civilization of the Living Dead: Canonical Monstrosity, the Romero Zombie, and the Political Subject, Nicholas Walter Robbins

Media and Message in Modern Political Thought: From the Age of Print to the Age of Digital Reproduction, Asaf Shamis

Expanding Political Space In Contemporary China: A Comparative Study Of The Advocacy Strategies Of Three Grass-Root Women's Groups, Weiting Wu

Reconstructing the Nation: African American Political Thought and America's Struggle for Racial Justice, Alex Zamalin

Dissertations from 2013 2013

Who Governs the Internet? The Emerging Policies, Institutions, and Governance of Cyberspace, Robert J. Domanski

'Bootstraps' or 'Helping Hand:' An Exploration of the Relationship Between Economic Stratification Among Black Americans and Their Racial Attitudes Toward Merit-Based Opportunities and Affirmative Action, Sherman Ernest Lee Jr

Dissertations from 2011 2011

The United States of the World: Human Rights, Political Entrepreneurship, and U.S. Foreign Policy via Affective and Rational Politics, Marriah Star

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Doing Good by Doing Well? The Political Economy of the Medical Biotechnology Industry in the United States, Volker Lehmann

Dissertations from 2009 2009

The Outsourcing of National Defense, Christopher Weimar

Dissertations from 2005 2005

"I Harbor No Hate": A Study of Political Tolerance and Intolerance in Holocaust Survivors, Nancy Isserman

Dissertations from 2004 2004

International Regime, Domestic Politics and Telecommunications Technology: Jamaica in the Information Age, Judith A. Duncker

Dissertations from 2002 2002

No Relief: The Politics of Welfare Retrenchment, 1873-1898 and 1973-2002, Stephen Pimpare

Dissertations from 1996 1996

The Politics of Economic Integration in Latin America: A Case Study of the Andean Group, 1969–1995, Julio J. Chan-Sanchez

Gatekeepers to the Franchise: Election Administration and Voter Participation in New York, Ronald Joseph Hayduk

Dissertations from 1992 1992

The Politics of Memorialization: Creating a Holocaust Memorial Museum in New York City, Rochelle G. Saidel

Dissertations from 1985 1985

The Political Economy of Populist-Nationalism in Argentina, 1943-55: Peronism as a Transitional Stage in the Development of a Dependent Industrial Economy, Thomas M.H. Kappner

Dissertations from 1983 1983

The State and Underdevelopment in Spanish America: The Political Roots of Dependency in Peru and Argentina from the Conquest to 1895, Douglas Stuart Friedman