Thesis(PH.D.) - Carleton University. Also on Microfilm at National Library, Ottawa, No. 16524. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-115).

M.A. (Philosophy) / In this essay, I draw attention to the negative political effects of contemporary political theory's flight from particularity, and suggest a way of reducing these problems. My argument is structured as follows. Firstly, I draw attention to the increasing tendency to neglect the intermediary role of political theory, and trace this to the influence of positivist philosophies of science, and more particularly to the ways in which this influence has found expression' in the abstract, systematic structure and disengaged orientation of the conception of theory which predominates in contemporary political theory. I argue further, that two negative political effects are encouraged by these structural features of theory: firstly, the abstraction and system of theory encourages an exaggeration of the systematic character of political situations, which in turn results in a diminution of options for change and critique; secondly, the disengaged stance and privileged cognitive status of theory tends to encourage a manipulative political practice. Thus, where political theory's goal is to inform and inspire transformative action, its form or structure tends to undermine this aim. In the second section of this essay, I qualify and specify the above thesis concerning the alienation of contemporary political theory, by assessing the value of Bruce Ackerman's theory of justice as a guide to political action. In the final section, I propose a deliberate retrieval of the narrative dimension of. political theory as a useful way of reducing the alienation of contemporary political theory, showing firstly, how narrative can be related to theory, and secondly, how it can moderate theory's abstract and systematic tendencies without losing critical force.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa))--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Hafez, Mohammed ; Boylouny, Anne Marie. "June 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 13, 2009. DTIC Identifiers: Hezbollah, Hizbullah, political integration, social movement theory, Lebanese Shia, Shiite Muslims, Imam Sayyid Musa Al-Sadr, PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), radicalization, Arab-Israeli War, Al Nakba, Six Day War, IDF (Israeli Defense Forces), Cairo Agreement, Islamic fundamentalism, social movement theory. Author(s) subject terms: Hezbollah, Hizbullah, Lebanon, Political Integration, Social Movement Theory. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-61). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Doyle, Richard. Second Reader: Jones, Lawrence. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on March 30, 2010. DTIC Descriptor(s): Warfare, Department Of Defense, Drugs, Theses, Budgets, Congress, Navy. DTIC Identifier(s): Naval Budgets, Congress, Department Of Defense, Byrd Amendment, Gramm Rudman Hollings Bill, Theses. Author(s) subject terms: FY 1990 Budget, Budget Process, Navy Budget, Budget. Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-58). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-160).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 514-535).

Thesis (M.A.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Dec. 14, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. [42]-48).

This paper examines the relationship between a voter's level of political knowledge and the choice to vote. The issue of voter turnout is one of the major topics in American politics and has been studied extensively. This study seeks to fill a gap in the current body of academic research that fails to account for the significance of political knowledge as a predictor of voter turnout. Since political knowledge is, in part, a product of many other variables (including both socio-demographic and psychological), it serves as a single predictor that can encompass elements of other predictors. Using 2004 NES data, this study shows that an increase in campaign political knowledge is significantly correlated with an increase in the likelihood that the respondent will vote. / Department of Political Science