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:

• The Ballot is Not Secure: Partisan Attempts to Manipulate Voting Rights Since Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
• Voting Laws in the United States: Integrity versus Disenfranchisement
• Climate Refugees and Place-Based Identity: Understanding Displacement and Resettlement as Communities Vanish
• Ice, Ice, Baby: Examining Polarization’s Impact on Senate Leadership and Legislative Productivity
• Mapping Trends: Private Education in Nigeria and Liberia
• Developing Countries and Multilateral Trading Organizations: Lessons from China in the WTO era
• Outsiders in Presidential Elections: Major Party Primary vs Third Party Strategies
• Small Islands and Brain Drain: A Case Study of Martinique
• The Price of Justice: The Effect of State Government Funding on Indigent Defense
• Apple and the FBI, The Power of Jus Tertii, and the All Writs Act of 1789
• Regional Exertion of Power: Iran and the Nuclear Deal
   
• Understanding Nation States and the Global Climate Regime: Applying Theories of International Relations to the International Climate Negotiations
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