This study examines how Political Entrepreneurs in the United States Congress responded to human rights abuses in six countries during the 1970s and 1980s: Cambodia, El Salvador, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Taiwan, and Uganda. It presents a four-point model for approaching t…
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This project centers on a rigorous qualitative analysis of investigative practice in four seminal congressional investigations of foreign intelligence — by the Pearl Harbor, Church, Pike, and Iran-Contra committees — that span the growth of intelligence operations and modern "na…
For decades, feminists in the United States have argued that U.S. domestic and foreign policy would be different if more women served in Congress. This dissertation address two central questions. One, does female representation make a difference? And, two, does female representa…
American diplomatic and military involvement in the Middle East provided Congress with the opportunity to play a number of roles in making U.S. foreign policy toward that region. The main objective of my dissertation is to identify these different roles, and to provide an explan…
This study analyzes how job approval of the presidency impacts presidents' legislative success in Congress. This dissertation examines the role of approval in presidential legislative success in both domestic and foreign policy areas. The first part of the research focuses on al…
This dissertation involves a content analysis of public discussion by government officials involved in the debate over the use of force against Iraq. Elite participants in government made public announcements to justify policy positions to constituents, educate interested partic…
Much of the literature in the field of Political Science is concerned with explaining voting behavior by legislators. The central research question in this study is what causes changes in voting behavior by members of the United States House of Representatives with regard to soc…
This dissertation will look into the character of the relationship between the media and Congress on matters of foreign policy, specifically by focusing on the ability or inability of Congress to frame the media's portrayal of Saudi Arabia. It will also look at Projection of Pow…
Congressional oversight of intelligence, long shrouded in secrecy and insularity, firmly entered the public domain following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the decision to intervene militarily in Iraq in March 2003. Intelligence controversies surrounding both o…
This thesis examined whether party identity (ID), or the ideological score assigned by Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), was a better predictor of roll-call voting on Iraq War legislation during the 110th Congress in 2007. Party ID and ADA scores were separately correlated …
Both the Watergate break-in of the early 1970s and the Iran-Contra affair of the late 1980s created enormous political controversy. In both instances, one of the main responses to the situation was the creation of select congressional committees to investigate the alleged wrongd…
The United States and Turkey have shared an important strategic partnership since Turkey was admitted to NATO in 1952. This relationship began to decline following Turkey's denial of Washington's request to position US military forces in southeastern Turkey for the 2003 invasion…
What strategies and tactics, absent the presence of a powerful domestic ethnic lobby, are most likely to lead to success in U.S. congressional foreign policy legislation for a middle power? The study first examines all lobbying spending by both great powers and middle powers ove…
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and the State Department. The State Department's missions are expanding with the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and, soon, Afghanistan. In a sense, the SFRC and th…