Ian Wright and Dr. Keith Vorkink, Finance Investors, economists and financial analysts are constantly seeking to develop models that may help them learn what the stock market will do and how it functions. They do this so that they may take advantage of any market anomalies as soon as they appear and try to make […]
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From the Iron Curtain to the European Union: The Influence of Changing Political Structures on Romanian Family Life
Jessica Bingham and Professor Val Brinkerhoff, Photography Over the past sixty years, Romania has had a tumultuous and transitive history. This country, nestled quietly between the Carpathian Mountains and the Black Sea, once maintained its traditional social structure, inhibiting a shift toward rapid modernization. This, however, changed drastically in the late 1940s when the Communist party […]
CHILDREN AND THEIR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION IN UTAH AND ALBERTA
David E. Campbell, Drs. David Magleby and Stan A. Taylor, Political Science In the 1960s and 1950s, there was a flurry of research into children’s political socialization6what children know, and feel, about their political system and leaders and when they come to know, and feel, it. At the time, political scientists and developmental psychologists concluded […]
Woman’s Exponent: Chronicling the Relief Society’s Involvement in the Quest for Political Equality, 1900-1914
Paige Tuft and Dr. Rebecca de Schweinitz, History Department Main Text As most of my research tends to do, this project took quite a different turn then originally intended. I intended this research to continue on with the topic of my senior thesis concerning the political activism of women in Utah during the 1920s by […]
Evaluating the Relationship between Middle Eastern Governments and Political Opposition Groups
Estee Ward and Dr. Donna Lee Bowen, Middle East Studies Main Text There is a growing consensus among scholars that “social science research on the Middle East has, as of yet, scarcely dealt with political opposition as an independent subject of analysis.” Most scholars consider the role of opposition as one way to facilitate the […]
Investigating where Japanese Political Loyalties lay through the Candidate Selection Processes
Yoshiki Matsunaga and Dr. Jessica Preece, Department of Political Science Goal/Purpose of the Project The goal is to find out the candidate selection/nomination process for Japanese political parties, and then we will test whether differences in these processes impact Japanese Legislators’ voting behavior. Importance of Project In order to win an election a candidate has […]
Political Risk and the Currency Markets: A Look at How the Structure of Government Impacts Exchange Rates in Emerging and Developing Economies
Aaron Gifford and Dr. Joel Selway, Department of Political Science Overview For the last three years, the world has seen dramatic changes in the global economy. What began as a local failure of a couple banks and the deterioration of innovative financial products in the U.S. soon spread to other nations around the world. While […]
Beyond Populism: An Empirical Categorization of Elite Political Discourse
Stephen Cranney and Dr. Kirk Hawkins, Department Political Science The project Dr. Hawkins, Mayavel Amado, and I completed with the assistance of the ORCA funds provided was an extension of a previous project that we presented at the American Political Science Association’s annual meeting in 2010. Specifically, that paper presented theoretical possibilities for expanding the […]
A Theory of Motivated Recall: Determinants of Recall of Political Information
Robert Richards and Dr. Christopher Karpowitz, Department of Political Science Background Research, Hypotheses A great deal of political research has analyzed how people form their opinions about candidates and issues. Two models, drawing heavily from cognitive psychology have emerged: the memory-based model (Zaller and Feldman 1992; Huckfeldt et al 1999) and the on-line model (Taber, […]
Rethinking FDI: China’s Geopolitical Move into Europe
John Harris and Dr. Wade Jacoby, Department of Political Science The magnitude of Chinese outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows has skyrocketed in the past decade. In the wake of the Chinese “Going Out” policy, many high profile Chinese firms are buying up companies in all regions of the world. It is curious that Chinese […]
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