Honors Recipients 2005-2006

Honors Recipients 2005 - 2006

Emily Ames - George W. Bush:  Governing without Congress and Expanding the Power of the Presidency.

Kathryn Bruns - Pursuing an Ideological Agenda in Congress:  How the Christian Coalition Seeks Political Leverage.

Kellen Dwyer - Fatal Talk:  When Speech Crosses the Line into Prosecutable Threats.

Michelle Falcetano - Operaganda:  A Study of Wagnerian Influence on Nazi Propaganda.

Sarah Galey - The Consequences of Negotiated Peace Settlements: Evaluating the Effect of War Termination on Residual Violence in Post-Civil Conflict States.

Nicholas A. Giarrusso - Democracy Driving Development:  An Empriical Examination of the Relationship Between Levels of Freedom and Development Indicators in Third Wave Democracies.

Lauren Kate (McNamara) Gibson - Church-State Relations in Nazi Germany:  A Case Study of the Political Theories of Aquinas and Luther.

Michael Kiser - Mountains over Mosques?  The Effects of Culture on Civil Conflicts

Phillip A. Michael - Home Sweet Home - An Examination of European Welfare State Policies and Their Effects on the Integration of Immigrant Origin Populations.

Ashley C. Nemec - Capital Punishment:  A Comparative Study of the Differences in Attitudes Between Europe and the United States on the Death Penalty.

Luke Norris - The Politics of Denied Opportunity: Two Case Studies of Waning Judicial Oversight of Public School Desegregation.

Lauren A. Racine - Internet Insurgency:  Bridging the Digital Divide.

Megan Sweeney - Small Loans with a Big Impact:  Micro-credit and the Empowerment of Women.