Honors Theses
Parent: Department of Political Science
eScholarship stats: History by Item for May through August, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-08 | 2026-07 | 2026-06 | 2026-05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9sb8385h | From Individual to Collective Memory: South Korea’s Gwangju Uprising | 668 | 92 | 81 | 223 | 272 |
| 68m7r2r2 | How harmful is the political bias in ChatGPT? | 422 | 29 | 48 | 104 | 241 |
| 5mf96441 | The Tea Party & Justice Democrats: A Tale of Two Factions | 406 | 124 | 107 | 96 | 79 |
| 0gg8h8mr | ‘ROBBERY OF THE MASSES’: NOVEL THEORIES OF PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION IN THE WORKS OF WENTIEJUN AND QIN HUI | 391 | 59 | 30 | 66 | 236 |
| 72g5t028 | Revanchism and Novorossiya: Russian Politics and Putin’s Changing Strategy | 343 | 83 | 45 | 66 | 149 |
| 9j42x52z | Multinodality and Middle Power Adaptation in a Post-Unipolar WorldAn Emerging Model for a Fragmenting World Order | 340 | 74 | 56 | 100 | 110 |
| 279944wj | THE REVOLUTION SHALL NOT BE CENSORED:Understanding the role of narrative resonance in grassroots movement resistance against state social media censorship | 314 | 55 | 70 | 81 | 108 |
| 15f67201 | Representation in an Age of Partisanship: The Impact of Competition and Term Lengths on Congressional Polarization | 299 | 59 | 37 | 63 | 140 |
| 0r385274 | Regimentation of the Musical Front: How the Soviet Government Used the Censorship of Music to Expand its Power | 261 | 107 | 41 | 45 | 68 |
| 7ck8b58n | Inclusion and Exclusion in Immigration Rhetoric: Party and Ethnicity in the United States House of Representatives | 260 | 50 | 48 | 41 | 121 |
| 0mc913f3 | “The Campus Law Enforcement Web” How Campus Policing Capacity Expands to Suppress Student Free Speech | 250 | 71 | 29 | 40 | 110 |
| 5p50w7tk | Factors Contributing to the Rightward Shift in Israeli Politics: An Analysis of Rocket Fire, Intergroup Tensions, and Polarization | 239 | 81 | 40 | 42 | 76 |
| 2r34x9rw | The Empire Strikes Back: Russian Troop Deployments in Eastern Europe Following the Cold War | 238 | 140 | 41 | 17 | 40 |
| 2sd01963 | The Transformative Ambitions of the Abraham Accords: Trust-Building Mechanisms as a Pathway to Regional Cooperation | 223 | 62 | 41 | 79 | 41 |
| 96c4t2s0 | The Influence of Political Ideology on Carbon Emissions | 221 | 62 | 26 | 32 | 101 |
| 0g361590 | “Development and Dissent: Why Student Protests Are More Disruptive in Developing Countries” | 220 | 43 | 47 | 51 | 79 |
| 52r4x4wx | The Spiral of Silence and UCLA Student Opinions on Transgender Student-Athletes | 209 | 57 | 44 | 37 | 71 |
| 48c8w21p | How Black Lives Matter Protests Help or Hinder Black Candidacy | 207 | 20 | 34 | 72 | 81 |
| 7mk0r4v5 | Does economic statecraft achieve foreign policy objectives? The case of stability and soft power in the Middle East. | 205 | 40 | 28 | 53 | 84 |
| 48b5z5dr | Transforming the Immigrant Identity:Looking at Linked-Fate in Racialized Immigration <em>Immigrant Communities in Los Angeles After 2016</em> | 204 | 112 | 16 | 26 | 50 |
| 3j24p89p | Democratic Decline in Comparative Perspective: Executive Overreach, Polarization, and The United States | 202 | 70 | 34 | 40 | 58 |
| 7wb6k6n3 | How Appearance Affects Female vsMale Candidates:A Potential Mechanism for Women’sUnderrepresentation in the Candidate Pool | 196 | 39 | 17 | 57 | 83 |
| 77r6c71f | Twitter Misinformation and Political Donations in the 2020 US Election:The Blue Canary in the Coal Mine | 195 | 57 | 38 | 42 | 58 |
| 8584g571 | Leveraging Rivalry: Non-State Actors in U.S.-China Great Power Competition | 191 | 54 | 31 | 51 | 55 |
| 6gf188bq | Do Changes to Early Voting Affect Turnout? | 182 | 44 | 25 | 47 | 66 |
| 4702q6g8 | Permission vs. Persuasion: To what extent did Donald Trump change minds, and to what extent did he legitimize action? | 179 | 47 | 21 | 31 | 80 |
| 0g50m9t0 | From Online Feeds to Hostile Beliefs: The Effect of Social Media on Ideological Intolerance | 175 | 51 | 30 | 30 | 64 |
| 2v6711jd | From Policy Conflict to Constitutional Change:EPA Jurisprudence and the Evolution of Separation of Powers in a Polarized Era | 168 | 57 | 22 | 17 | 72 |
| 0v85d288 | “Tu Luchá es Mi Luchá” (Your Fight is My Fight): Transgender Visibility and Latinx Solidarity” | 166 | 36 | 27 | 31 | 72 |
| 0t7424jb | Critical Formalism: Article 21(3) at the International Criminal Court | 160 | 30 | 13 | 36 | 81 |
| 81h6f8f1 | Strategic Narratives Around Refugee Acceptance and Military Engagement: A Comparative Analysis of Responses to the Wars in Syria and Ukraine | 159 | 65 | 16 | 28 | 50 |
| 2jq1d7qz | Identity Politics: The Effect of Affective Polarization on Americans’ Attitudes Toward Outparty-Stereotypical Groups | 156 | 31 | 10 | 44 | 71 |
| 4qq8h5jc | The Policing of the "Reserve Army": Economic Inequality and Police Killings | 154 | 48 | 10 | 32 | 64 |
| 98h592xd | Political Elites on International Law Concerns:The US Congress Response to ICC CuesConcerning the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas Conflicts | 154 | 36 | 15 | 27 | 76 |
| 8477r641 | Rethinking Confucianism and constitutionalism: the political thought of John C.H. Wu (1899 - 1986) | 151 | 50 | 32 | 40 | 29 |
| 69f2f2rx | Defining and Explaining the Changes in the Sino-Russian Relationship Over the 75 Years Following the Formation of the PRC | 149 | 36 | 24 | 25 | 64 |
| 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> | 146 | 30 | 17 | 35 | 64 |
| 8rn9k200 | Reassessing Leading Research on China-Africa Engagement in Light of a Weakening Economy | 146 | 16 | 9 | 46 | 75 |
| 3246b8bv | Majoritarian Interests and Non-Majoritarian Institutions: A Case Study of the Supreme Court and Public Opinion on Abortion | 144 | 39 | 24 | 39 | 42 |
| 2xt6c34c | Beyond Individual Rights and Private Property: Understanding Lockean Liberty in American Constitutional Jurisprudence, 1937-2023 | 136 | 33 | 12 | 33 | 58 |
| 0d00n6gm | A Decisional Theory of U.S. Covert and Overt Intervention During the Cold War | 135 | 29 | 22 | 25 | 59 |
| 4k66v42n | Critical Race Theory and Policy Dispositions: A Study of White College Students, Empathy, and Their Support for Progressive Policies | 134 | 30 | 9 | 22 | 73 |
| 9q89v89k | Abundance Liberalism: A Critique of Procedural “Neutrality” | 133 | 10 | 7 | 31 | 85 |
| 45h6708d | Privatization, Technology, and the Transformation of Global Security: An Analysis of International Legal and Normative and Challenges | 132 | 40 | 16 | 36 | 40 |
| 9sh9r7k1 | Thomas Skidmore’s Critique of John Locke’s Second Treatise: A Novel Theory of Express Consent and Early American Discourse on Intergenerational Equality | 131 | 30 | 5 | 31 | 65 |
| 3s7051jw | Institutions and Investment:How Foreign Direct Investment Responds to Political Risk Across Regimes | 127 | 17 | 15 | 47 | 48 |
| 5ks0d7hb | The Perils of Alliances <em>How International Coalitions Increase Conflict Propensity</em> | 127 | 21 | 7 | 19 | 80 |
| 71f9n20g | Why Extremist Organizations Moderate:How Organizational Capacity Shapes Ideological Positioning | 123 | 29 | 15 | 32 | 47 |
| 11w023xw | Exploring the Intersections of Group Consciousness, Denial of Racism, and Traditional Machismo: Implications in Contemporary Politics | 116 | 21 | 20 | 24 | 51 |
| 6qv019j6 | Repression in the New Era | 110 | 25 | 15 | 26 | 44 |
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