The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and determine the impact of religious conflict in the Middle East on democratic elections in Israel. To do this, the 2013 and 2015 Israeli elections were considered. Specifically, the party platforms and campaigns leading up to the 2013 and 2015 elections...
Social media have increasingly become primary communication tools for colleges and universities to broadcast school events, recruit prospective students, and connect with alumni and donors. Through social media these schools have the opportunity to control messaging to all constituencies. Beyond...
Much of the current heated debate about how to reform the American education system occurs in a historical and policy vacuum. This thesis places the controversy in its wider context by explaining the former status quo, the origins of the accountability movement, and how "teacher accountability"...
Political marketing is now an established modus operandi in politics, especially in America, the cradle of the study and development of marketing in general. However, it has not yet reached the levels of sophistication seen in the corporate world, but rather copied superficial techniques. It is...
There are unique forces at play that drive and sustain women in leadership roles in the East: In the case of Aung San Suu Kyi these have been the qualities of fearlessness, forgiveness, an ability to live in the paradox between her sense of traditional duty and social unconventionalities and her...
Women comprise half the world's population yet they remain dramatically under-represented in political institutions around the world at every level and type of office. In recent years, women leaders like Michelle Bachelet, Julia Gillard, Park Geun-hye and Angela Merkel shattered their countries'...
While Republicans have consistently nominated the "next in line" candidate, someone who is known by its voters and has paid their dues, to be the party's presidential nominee over the past 60 plus years, there is reason to believe that changing dynamics within the party will bring an end this...
My thesis is focused on the origins of political partisanship in Michigan state politics. Reasons for partisanship are often attributed to large events that are very polarizing but do not fully explain the reasons for political polarization. Analysis of voting patterns are often disjointed,...
More political polls are being conducted today than ever before. Not quite a century old, political polling has developed slowly, tending to lag behind the best practices of the survey research world at large. It took decades, but political pollsters have caught up to those practices, at least...
My research topic concerns gender diversity on political teams that leverage big data and analytics on campaigns. Data show women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. As technology continues to advance, big data play an increasing role on political...