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The Senior Program

Senior majors in government complete a senior thesis and a research paper, working closely with a faculty member in the department. In the Senior Program, students draw on their accumulated skills and knowledge to produce focused, high-level scholarship on a specific topic or problem.

Recent senior projects in government include:

Honors Theses
  • Breaking the Safety Net: Understanding Negative Policy Feedback to Welfare in the U.S.
  • How Do Senate Leaders Utilize Social Media to Accomplish Their Goals?
  • Imperial Legacies: Policing in the Philippines
  • Moral Responsibility, Political Obligation, and Legitimacy: A Defense of Michael Walzer’s Just War Theory
  • The Effect of Political Polarization on National Party Conventions
  • The Political Power of Indigeneity: A Hawaiian Case Study
World Politics Honors Theses:
  • Atlanticism Vs. Autonomy: Testing Theories Of Integration To Analyze France And Germany’s Preferences For EU Defense Policy Cooperation
  • Between Regions And Realities: Lessons From The Gulf Cooperation Council’s Stalled Trade Negotiations
  • Lending For Leverage: Understanding China's Lending Behavior In Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Pork, Positions, And Pressure: Legislative Bargaining Among Outsider Populists
  • Reevaluating Foreign Aid In Nigeria And Botswana: Challenges With The World Bank’s Classification And Graduation Process
  • Same-Sex Marriage And The Right In Latin America
  • Shifting The “Refugee Burden:” UNHCR As A Surrogate State In Lebanon

Contact

Department Name

Government Department

Contact Name

Rob Martin, Chair

Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

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