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The Macalester Political Science Department sponsored the wildly successful Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Research Conference in Political Science on February 27th in the Weyerhauser Board Room. Exemplary research papers were submitted and competitively selected for presentation by Macalester students. Student papers are available here.
The schedule was as follows:
Rhetoric and Politics – 9:40-10:40am
And that Brings Us to Tonight’s Word: The Effects of “The Colbert Report” on College Students – Will Howell
Rhetoric of the Black Revolution – Brian Stephenson
Ideological Hegemony: The Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal – Priyanka Mahadevia
Politics in a Global Context – 10:50-11:50am
U.S. Counter Terrorism and Islamic Groups – Zach Devlin-Foltz
Korean Anti-Americanism as an Expression and a Consequence of Democratization – Jung Yul Kim
Human Rights in Foreign Policy: Case Studies of the Sino-American and Sino-Canadian Relationships – Josh Jorgenson
American Institutions – 1:10-2:10pm
Financing Politics – Laura Bova
The Electoral College – Kyle Archer
2002 F.B.I. Guidelines and the First Amendment – Thomas Ingalls
Questions of Democracy – 2:20-3:20pm
The End of Turkish Democracy – Dan McGovern
Jamaican General Election 2007: The Electoral Process and Strengthening of Democracy in Jamaica – Danielle Turnquest
Personalizing the Political: The Influence of Cultural Values on Neoliberal Reform Efforts in Ecuador – Nick Christensen
Social Movements in Global and Historical Perspectives – 3:30-4:30pm
How much did Anti-Semitism Matter? A Closer Look at the German Catholic Church’s Reaction to Nazi Euthanasia – Laura Conway
Reach Out and Touch Faith: The Influence of Religion on Latino Partisanship in the United States – Robyn Schindeldecker
Choosing Truth: A Study of Functional, Institutional, and Global CultureExplanations for Why Countries Establish TRC’s – Claire Posner
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