Recent PhD Theses

Saaka Sulemana Saaka

Gendering Cabinets in Africa: The Impact of Democratization and Post-conflict Politics (Supervisor: Dr. Susan Franceschet).

Comfort Kwarteng

"Explaining the success in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV: A comparative analysis of Ghana and Uganda".  Supervisor: Susan Franceschet

Dakoda Trithara

"The Struggle over Online Speech: Policy Entrepreneurs' Contestation of Content Moderation Norms". Supervisor: Antonio Franceschet

Ricardo Vernet

“When Does Peasant-Led Democratization Succeed or Fail? Regime Change in Haiti and Nicaragua”. Supervisor: Pablo Policzer

Ryan Dean

“(De)Securitizing the Arctic”. Supervisor: Rob Huebert

Benjamin Adu Gyamfi

“Public Policy, Agenda Setting and Policy Adoption: Ghana’s Local Governance, Education and Health Policies in Perspective”. Supervisor: Don Ray; Co-Supervisor: Maureen Hiebert

Sara Winger

“The Logic of Violence Meets the Illogic of Response? Understanding the Linkages Between Forms of Violence and Logics of Response”. Supervisor: Maureen Hiebert

Lauren Moslow

“Regime Formation in the New Circumpolar North”. Supervisor: Rob Huebert

Ricardo Vernet

"Peasants, Movements, and Survival of Democracy in Haiti and Nicaragua"

Supervisor, Dr. Pablo Policzer

Julie Croskill

“’Be Professional, Private and Pleasant’: The Conscious and Unconscious Gendering of Campaign Messages in Canadian and Australian Local Elections”.

Supervisors: Dr. Brenda O’Neill and Dr. Susan Franceschet

Elizabeth Pando Burciaga

"Continuity or change? Immigration policy in Chile." Supervisor: Susan Franceschet

2019-20 Best Political Science Doctoral Dissertation Prize

Evgeniia Sidorova

“Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Western science in the Arctic Council: Lip service?”

Andrew Basso

" 'All Four Seasons and I Will Die': A Typology of Displacement Atrocities." Supervisor: Dr. Maureen Hiebert

Mark Harding

“Clashing Constitutionalisms in the Bill-of-Rights Era: Strength, Reach and Rights Values”. Supervisor: Dr. Rainer Knopff; Co-Supervisor: Dr. Ted Morton

David Torre

“The Energy Frontier: Exploring the Future of Commercial Nuclear Power in Canada, Finland, and Germany”. Supervisor: Dr. James Keeley

Mariana Hipolito Ramos Mota

“From Delegation to Limits on Presidential Power: Brazil in Comparative Perspective”. Supervisor: Dr. Pablo Policzer

Tim Anderson,

“The Statesmanship of Sir John A. Macdonald and Louis Riel”. Supervisor: Dr. Tom Flanagan; Co-Supervisor: Dr. Anthony Sayers

Janine Giles

“The Gender Gap in Political Knowledge in Canada”.
Supervisor: Dr. Brenda O’Neill

Adam Cote

“Social Securitization Theory”. Supervisor: Dr. James Keeley

Katrine Beauregard

“Gender Gaps in Political Participation in a Cross-National Perspective: The Gendered Effects of Political Institutions”.
Supervisor: Dr. Brenda O’Neill

Dave Snow

“Failure to Reproduce: Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy in Canada”. Supervisor: Dr. Rainer Knopff

Paul Fairie

“Elite Strategy, Social Structure and Catholic-Protestant Cleavage in the Canadian Provinces”. Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Young

Michael Zekulin

“A Growing Disconnect: Can the Contemporary Terrorism Literature Explain Domestic Home-Grown Terrorism?”. Supervisor: Dr. Gavin Cameron

Daniel Fitzsimmons

“Tipping the Scales of Conflict:  Defence Policy Decision-Making in the Canadian Federal Cabinet”. Supervisor:  Dr. James Keeley

Alex McDougall

“The Politics of Protection and Extraction:  An Examination of the Origin and Development of State Power in Latin America”. Supervisor: Dr. Steve Randall

Heather Exner

“The Arctic in International Affairs:  Security in the Circumpolar Region”. Supervisor: Dr. Rob Huebert

Gamal Selim

“Egypt’s Democratic Transition and the Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism: The Interplay Between Structural and Agential Factors. Supervisor: Dr. Tareq Ismael

Andrew Banfield

“Legislative vs. Judicial Checks and Balances: Rights Policy in Canada and Australia”. Supervisor:  Dr. Rainer Knopff

Scott Fitzsimmons

“The Art of  Private Warfare:  A Normative Theory of the Military Performance of Modern Mercenary Forces”. Supervisor: Dr. Rob Huebert

David Coletto

“A Matter of Quality? Candidates in Canadian Constituency Elections”. Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Young

Marco Navarro-Genie

“Longing for the Fifth Race: Esoteric Racialist Revolutionaries in Hispanic America, 1910–35”. Supervisor:  Dr. Tom Flanagan

Jared Wesley

"Solving the Prairie Paradox: Codes and Party Politics in Alberta, SK. And MB”. Supervisor: Dr. Keith Archer

Mark Milke

“Limits on Deliberate Democracy in Canada:  A Study of Political Culture and How Attitudes Towards the United States Shape Canadian Public Policy Debates”. Supervisor: Dr. Tom Flanagan

Kai Xu

“NGOs and Environmental Politics in China”. Supervisor: Dr. Ron Keith

Dennis Baker

“Not Quite Supreme:  the Courts and Coordinate Constitutional Interpretation”. Supervisor: Dr. Rainer Knopff

Morgan Nyendu

“Enhancing the Participation of Traditional Authorities (Chiefs) in Ghana’s Democratic Decentralization Programme: A Case Study of the South Tongu District Assembly of the Volta Region”. Supervisor: Dr. Donald Ray

Tracey Raney

“The Rise of the ‘Civic’ Citizen: A Comparative Study of Political Identity in the EU and Canada”. Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Young

Kari Roberts

“Russia-U.S. Relations Under Yeltsin, 1992–1999”. Supervisor: Dr. Bohdan Harasymiw

Edward James Maher

“Regional Health Authorities and Federalism: Australia and Canada”. Supervisor: Dr. Roger Gibbons