Honors Theses
Parent: Department of Political Science
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for February through May, 2025
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68m7r2r2 | How harmful is the political bias in ChatGPT? | 172 | 118 | 54 | 68.6% |
| 9sb8385h | From Individual to Collective Memory: South Korea’s Gwangju Uprising | 142 | 84 | 58 | 59.2% |
| 11w023xw | Exploring the Intersections of Group Consciousness, Denial of Racism, and Traditional Machismo: Implications in Contemporary Politics | 140 | 86 | 54 | 61.4% |
| 52r4x4wx | The Spiral of Silence and UCLA Student Opinions on Transgender Student-Athletes | 117 | 34 | 83 | 29.1% |
| 5p50w7tk | Factors Contributing to the Rightward Shift in Israeli Politics: An Analysis of Rocket Fire, Intergroup Tensions, and Polarization | 114 | 33 | 81 | 28.9% |
| 72g5t028 | Revanchism and Novorossiya: Russian Politics and Putin’s Changing Strategy | 107 | 42 | 65 | 39.3% |
| 7ck8b58n | Inclusion and Exclusion in Immigration Rhetoric: Party and Ethnicity in the United States House of Representatives | 102 | 31 | 71 | 30.4% |
| 69f2f2rx | Defining and Explaining the Changes in the Sino-Russian Relationship Over the 75 Years Following the Formation of the PRC | 100 | 61 | 39 | 61.0% |
| 45h6708d | Privatization, Technology, and the Transformation of Global Security: An Analysis of International Legal and Normative and Challenges | 98 | 44 | 54 | 44.9% |
| 81h6f8f1 | Strategic Narratives Around Refugee Acceptance and Military Engagement: A Comparative Analysis of Responses to the Wars in Syria and Ukraine | 92 | 46 | 46 | 50.0% |
| 77r6c71f | Twitter Misinformation and Political Donations in the 2020 US Election:The Blue Canary in the Coal Mine | 91 | 36 | 55 | 39.6% |
| 9sh9r7k1 | Thomas Skidmore’s Critique of John Locke’s Second Treatise: A Novel Theory of Express Consent and Early American Discourse on Intergenerational Equality | 91 | 6 | 85 | 6.6% |
| 2xt6c34c | Beyond Individual Rights and Private Property: Understanding Lockean Liberty in American Constitutional Jurisprudence, 1937-2023 | 88 | 25 | 63 | 28.4% |
| 0gg8h8mr | ‘ROBBERY OF THE MASSES’: NOVEL THEORIES OF PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION IN THE WORKS OF WENTIEJUN AND QIN HUI | 78 | 15 | 63 | 19.2% |
| 2r34x9rw | The Empire Strikes Back: Russian Troop Deployments in Eastern Europe Following the Cold War | 76 | 24 | 52 | 31.6% |
| 96c4t2s0 | The Influence of Political Ideology on Carbon Emissions | 76 | 30 | 46 | 39.5% |
| 4qq8h5jc | The Policing of the "Reserve Army": Economic Inequality and Police Killings | 69 | 19 | 50 | 27.5% |
| 6gf188bq | Do Changes to Early Voting Affect Turnout? | 68 | 24 | 44 | 35.3% |
| 3246b8bv | Majoritarian Interests and Non-Majoritarian Institutions: A Case Study of the Supreme Court and Public Opinion on Abortion | 67 | 19 | 48 | 28.4% |
| 8477r641 | Rethinking Confucianism and constitutionalism: the political thought of John C.H. Wu (1899 - 1986) | 66 | 20 | 46 | 30.3% |
| 4702q6g8 | Permission vs. Persuasion: To what extent did Donald Trump change minds, and to what extent did he legitimize action? | 65 | 13 | 52 | 20.0% |
| 3439s7x3 | A New Age of Empire: China’s Growing Influence on the Continent of Africa and its Implications for Global Powers <em>A HISTORICAL AND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF CHINA’S ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL RELATIONSHIP WITH SOUTH AFRICA.</em> | 64 | 23 | 41 | 35.9% |
| 2jq1d7qz | Identity Politics: The Effect of Affective Polarization on Americans’ Attitudes Toward Outparty-Stereotypical Groups | 62 | 38 | 24 | 61.3% |
| 48b5z5dr | Transforming the Immigrant Identity:Looking at Linked-Fate in Racialized Immigration <em>Immigrant Communities in Los Angeles After 2016</em> | 60 | 33 | 27 | 55.0% |
| 2sd01963 | The Transformative Ambitions of the Abraham Accords: Trust-Building Mechanisms as a Pathway to Regional Cooperation | 59 | 37 | 22 | 62.7% |
| 0v85d288 | “Tu Luchá es Mi Luchá” (Your Fight is My Fight): Transgender Visibility and Latinx Solidarity” | 57 | 7 | 50 | 12.3% |
| 8rn9k200 | Reassessing Leading Research on China-Africa Engagement in Light of a Weakening Economy | 56 | 24 | 32 | 42.9% |
| 4k66v42n | Critical Race Theory and Policy Dispositions: A Study of White College Students, Empathy, and Their Support for Progressive Policies | 55 | 9 | 46 | 16.4% |
| 7mk0r4v5 | Does economic statecraft achieve foreign policy objectives? The case of stability and soft power in the Middle East. | 54 | 28 | 26 | 51.9% |
| 6qv019j6 | Repression in the New Era | 52 | 21 | 31 | 40.4% |
| 5mf96441 | The Tea Party & Justice Democrats: A Tale of Two Factions | 50 | 3 | 47 | 6.0% |
| 0r385274 | Regimentation of the Musical Front: How the Soviet Government Used the Censorship of Music to Expand its Power | 48 | 27 | 21 | 56.3% |
| 3j52h7hh | From Prerequisites to Prosperity: Determinants of Successful Security Force Assistance Within Recipient States Fighting Non-State Actors | 48 | 14 | 34 | 29.2% |
| 0g50m9t0 | From Online Feeds to Hostile Beliefs: The Effect of Social Media on Ideological Intolerance | 46 | 21 | 25 | 45.7% |
| 0d00n6gm | A Decisional Theory of U.S. Covert and Overt Intervention During the Cold War | 45 | 16 | 29 | 35.6% |
| 5ks0d7hb | The Perils of Alliances <em>How International Coalitions Increase Conflict Propensity</em> | 43 | 20 | 23 | 46.5% |
| 48c8w21p | How Black Lives Matter Protests Help or Hinder Black Candidacy | 42 | 22 | 20 | 52.4% |
| 15f67201 | Representation in an Age of Partisanship: The Impact of Competition and Term Lengths on Congressional Polarization | 41 | 16 | 25 | 39.0% |
| 368296q1 | The Decline of American Civil Religion: Liturgy in Thanksgiving Proclamations | 41 | 6 | 35 | 14.6% |
| 17p18834 | The Determinants of Policy Representation: Evaluating the Role of Policy Type in the United States | 39 | 15 | 24 | 38.5% |
| 1n34r8k5 | EXPLORING VARIATION ININFORMATIONAL FREEDOM AMONG AUTOCRACIES | 37 | 9 | 28 | 24.3% |
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