UBC Political Science would like to congratulate our undergraduate honours students who presented their thesis projects in April. We are proud of your research and accomplishments.
Miles Schaffrick, “The Politics of Medicine Affordability in the United States: Strategies, Constraints, and Policy Outcomes”
Cassiopeia Van den Bussche – Women’s Healthcare in Europe
Bingjun Tang – The Effect of Party Strength on Education Spending in Authoritarian Regimes
Hannah Stojicevic – How do exclusionary notions of state-sanctioned national identity and inclusive institutional realities construct the experience of citizenship of national minorities in Turkey?
Isabella Preite – Measuring the effect of the Black Lives Matter Protests on Racial Bias in Policing
Alexa Traboulay – How Does the Interaction Between Partisanship and Participation in Social Media Echo Chambers Shape Attitude Extremity?: A Case Study of Contemporary Immigration Attitudes in the United States
Hailey Clarke – Does Economic Inequality Influence Populist Rhetoric?: A Comparative and Discursive Analysis of Daniel Ortega and Rafael Correa
Charlotte Alden – Media coverage of the Vancouver Olympics: Testing the Growth Machine Theory’s take on local newspapers in a modern context
Premvir Samra – How does a country’s electoral system affect its environmental policymaking and performance?
Karina Valcke-Beckett – Public Opinion and Provincial Resistance to Climate Policy in Canada’s Intergovernmental Arena
Michelle Wei – Civil disobedience and the civic: When are blockades constructed by Indigenous nations successful?
Charlotte Hook – Preventing the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’: Ratifications for Global Commons Treaties
Apologies to the following students who we were unable to get photos of giving their presentations.
- Vaishnavi Panchanadam – From Rhetoric to Practice: The Role of Domestic Women’s Civil Society Organizations in UNSCR 1325 Governance in Post-Conflict settings
- Yousif Elbeltagy – Water Weaponization within Civil Conflict
- Danilo Angulo Molina – The Deterrence Effect: An Analysis of Preliminary Examinations by the International Criminal Court on the Severity of Civilian Atrocities
- Charles Bate – Education and Civil Conflict Reoccurrence: Revisiting Pathways to Lasting Peace in Post-Conflict Societies
