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Honours Essays (Political Science)
Political Science Honors Essays are original research papers written by undergraduate students during the final two semesters of their undergraduate studies. Students are supported in this undertaking by faculty members who serve as honors supervisors. The papers in this collection have also benefited from feedback provided at the annual Department of Political Science Honors Conference.
Items in this Collection
- 11997-2005
- 12015-2020
- 1Affect Theory
- 1Alberta Politics
- 1Alberta politics
- 1American identity; post-structuralism; high school history textbooks; gender
- 6Political Science, Department of
- 6Political Science, Department of/Honours Essays (Political Science)
- 1Law, Faculty of
- 1Law, Faculty of/Other Publications (Law)
- 1Sociology, Department of
- 1Sociology, Department of/Reports (Sociology)
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Constructing Perceived Boundaries: How NIMBY Discourses Create Boundaries of Exclusion Regarding Safe Consumption Sites
Download2024-01-01
This paper examines urban politics through the lens of NIMBYism within the context of Safe Consumption Sites (SCS). It establishes NIMBYism as an ideology characterized by psychological boundary-making, before analyzing NIMBY discourses in Alberta. It conducts a discourse analysis of the...
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2016-04-04
Dual-member Mixed Proportional (more commonly referred to as Dual Member Proportional or DMP) was developed by Sean Graham in 2013 with funding from the Undergraduate Research Initiative. It was designed to improve upon previously considered alternative voting systems. Some of the key design...
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Exclusion as Political: Rebuilding the American Masculine Identity Through High School History Textbooks
Exclusion as Political: Rebuilding the American Masculine Identity Through High School History Textbooks
Download2020-04-26
This thesis examines how high school history textbooks’ depictions of the War on Terror reinforce the construction of an American masculine identity. Using a critical discourse analysis, it charts how textbooks mobilize the American identity around the tools of linking, differentiation, and...
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2016-04-08
This thesis critiques the Creative Class's attraction to urban "authenticity" through the lenses of phenomenology and affect theory, particularly drawing on Deleuze, to interrogate its role in the gentrification of urban spaces. It argues that the Creative Class’s gentrification of New York City...
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No One Can Serve Two Masters: The Religious Conundrum of Conservative Party Leaders in Canada
Download2020-01-01
Keysel Alberto Aranzamendez Besa
This 100-page Honors thesis paper is a comprehensive examination of why Conservative party leaders tend to have a difficult time winning a general federal election in Canada. The research question that this thesis will address is the following: What do the cases of Manning, Day, Harper, and...
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2021-05-01
Studies have found that belief in anthropogenic climate change, and approval of policies to combat it, are lower in Alberta compared to the rest of Canada. This paper expands on previous research by examining how the framing of climate change by Alberta politicians changed over time, and why. I...