This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
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
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...