Political Science Thesis Topics

List of 191 Political Science Thesis Topics

1. An Analysis of Political and Advocacy Campaigning through Social Media
2. A Case for Bureaucratic Control of Policy Implementation
3. A Just Immigration Policy
4. A Long Way Back to the Top: A Realist Approach to Russian Foreign Policy
5. A Machiavellian Peace
6. A Money Driven Dichotomous Union: The Relationship between Political Polarization and Economic Health
7. A New Meaning to ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’: How the United States is Replacing Adam & Eve with Adam & Steve
8. A Tale of Two Countries: War and Peace in the Middle East

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9. Abraham Lincoln’s Lyceum Address: An Argument for the Utilization of the People’s Passions to Perpetuate the American Democracy
10. Addressing War Rape as a Crime Against Humanity: Feminist Perspectives and the Role of International Relations
11. After Appomattox: The Supreme Court and its Effect on Segregation
12. All Film Is Political: A Discussion of Political Nature and Its Relation to American Commercial Films
13. An Advocacy Study for the Use of Surveillance by the Police
14. Analysis of No Child Left Behind with a Proposal for the Ideal Education Legislation
15. Analyzing the Adequacy of the Geneva Convention Concerning the Refugee Crisis
16. Approval Rating and Reelection Rates: The American Political Contradiction
17. Are China’s Educational Inequalities Increasing? The Effects of Government Policy on China’s Education System
18. Balance of Power
19. Bush Doctrine and the Origins of the Iraq War
20. Buzzkill: Sustainable Development and its Application to Colony Collapse Disorder
21. Calling for Reform: How United States Correctional Policies Fail to Reduce Crime Effectively, Protect Potential Victims, and Set Offenders on Productive Paths
22. Caught in the Crossfire: The Role of U.S. Counter-Terrorism in Mitigating the Harm to Women and Children in the Middle East
23. China and the United States: Power Transition Theory and the Role of the Superpower in the 21st Century
24. Civil Society
25. Civil Wars
26. Competency to Stand Trial: Does the Process Protect Individuals with an Intellectual Disability?
27. Concealed-Carry On College Campuses: The Legal Right of Students and Faculty to Bear Arms
28. Confidential Sources, the Media, and Democratic Government
29. Congress, Professional Sports, and Steroids: Injecting the Government Into Private Organizations
30. Congressional Earmarks and Distributive Policy
31. Contemporary Federalism and the Laboratories of Democracy: How The States Have Become the Policy Innovators
32. Corrections in the United States: A Mental Health Case
33. Crime Shows Influence Upon Public Opinion: Misinterpretation of Law Conceptualization vs. Law in Practice
34. Cultural Preservation or Isolationism?: Negative effects of France’s Immigration Policies
35. Deinstitutionalization and Homelessness: A Policy Review
36. Dependency and Development
37. Dependency and World-Systems
38. Destruction of the Great Writ: The Attenuating Role Habeas Corpus Plays in the War on Terror
39. Devolution of Power in the United Kingdom
40. Drone Warfare: Is the U.S. Drone Program in the Middle East Legal?
41. Education Policies in the United States and Australia: Are They Helping Indigenous Peoples?
42. Effects of Citizens’ Polarization of the United States on Congressional Gridlock
43. Eliminating Gender Inequalities in Education as a Development Initiative
44. Elk Grove v. Newdow: The Constitutionality of an Unbroken Exercise of History
45. Ethnic Conflict
46. Federal and State Congressional Redistricting: The Motive Driving Partisan and Bipartisan Redistricting Committees
47. Female Education and Gender Inequality in Afghanistan throughout the Decades
48. Female Politicians in the Media: An Analysis of Gender Bias within the 2008 Presidential Election
49. Feminist International Relations
50. Free Press/ Fair Trial: How Fair Is It Actually?
51. Freedom of Information: A Case Study of Political Motivations and Policy Designs in Argentina
52. Gender and Politics
53. Germany’s Role in the Euro Crisis
54. Good Christian Intentions and the Loss of American Democracy
55. Greasing the Wheels: An Analysis of United States Energy Policy and the U.S. Policymaking System
56. Guatemala: Transitioning After Conflict
57. Habeas Corpus’ Effect at Guantanamo Bay
58. How an Educated Society Effects the Descriptive Representation of Women – And Why That Matters
59. Hugo Chavez: Empowering the People or Damaging Democracy?
60. Identification Please: A Look at Voter ID laws and Voting Opportunities
61. Immigrant Assimilation: A Comparison of the United States and France
62. International Law
63. International Organizations and Regimes
64. Is Anybody Listening?: Responsiveness of Representatives in the House
65. Just War and the Importance of Wars of Choice and Wars of Necessity
66. Leadership
67. Leadership and Decision Making
68. Legal Guides of Policy Preferences? Evaluating How Supreme Court Justices Decide Cases
69. Limits of Plurality Voting: How Alternative Voting Systems can more Accurately Depict Voter Preference
70. Limits, Decision-Making, and Sustainability: An Analysis of U.S. Energy Proposals through Environmental Perspectives
71. Liquid-Fluoride Thorium Reactors and Public Policy
72. Lockean Christianity: The Lockean Interpretation and Application of Christian Virtues in a Secular Society
73. Machiavelli’s II Principe and the Modernity of lo Stato
74. Making the Case for Public Arts Funding
75. Marriage Equality: Litigation versus Legislation as Durable Strategy
76. Mass Incarceration: The Prisoner’s Dilemma
77. Mass Shootings: A Misguided Cause
78. Media and Politics
79. Models of Democracy
80. Modern Democratic Thought
81. Modern Liberalism, Conservatism, and Libertarianism
82. Money and Politics: An Age-Old Tradition
83. Moving Towards Anti-Discriminatory Immigration Policy: A Comparative Study of the United States, Australia, and France
84. Narrowing of the Democratic Peace Theory: A Study of the Monadic and Dyadic Theories
85. National Crises and Presidential Influence
86. Nationalism
87. Nationalism
88. Neoconservatism and Its Influence on the War in Iraq
89. Nietzsche’s Cultural Medicine Contra the Social Contract
90. Oedipus Rex: A Play on the Perpetual Tragedy of the Political Man
91. On Hobbes’s Treatment of Punishment In The Leviathan
92. One Nation Divided: Ideological Polarization: Political Elite, United States Electorate and the Supreme Court
93. Our Son of a Bitch: Jimmy Carter, Nicaragua, and American Foreign Policy
94. Out-of-Area Operations and the North Atlantic Society of States: The Quest to Define Security and the Inescapable Demise of Broad-Alliance Operations
95. Pakistan: Lost in the Democratic Transition?
96. Paradox in Paradise: Tourism and Dependency in Barbados
97. Plato as a Parallel to the Presidency: How Attributes of the Executive Mirror the Philosopher-King in The Republic
98. Political and Military Coups
99. Political Attitudes or Deferment to Precedent? Obscenity and the Supreme Court
100. Political Development and Modernization
101. Political Influences within the Federal Reserve System
102. Political Polarization in Interwar Germany: What Main Reason Created Radical Political Polarization?
103. Pork Barrel Politics in a Westminster Style Government Explained Through a Comparison Between Canada and Great Britain
104. Positivism and Its Critique
105. Pouring Fuel on the Fire: The United States’ Counter-terrorism Efforts in Yemen
106. Presidential Elections, the News Media, and Democracy
107. Presidentialism Versus Parliamentarism
108. Privacy in Preeminence
109. Privacy Rights in Personal Information: A Defense of Privacy
110. PTSD: The Legacy of a Multiple Deployment Policy
111. Public Health in the United States of America: Should the Country Utilize Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and Implement Health in All Policies (HiAP), the Holistic Policy Approach to Human Health?
112. Public Policy and Administration
113. Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
114. Reexamining the Age of Consent: Sexual Freedom, Privacy, and the Attempt to Save the Children from Themselves
115. Reforming Intercountry Adoption
116. Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000: A Law Review of the Prisoner Provision
117. Reproductive Rights and Development: Effectively Using Male and Cultural Perspectives
118. Residential Segregation in the United States: Racial Zoning, City Planning, and Suburban Exclusion
119. Retail Politics in the Primaries: Iowa, New Hampshire and Early Effects on the Presidential Nomination
120. Rising Health Care Costs and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
121. Risking Life and Limb: Why Syrian Refugees Continue to Flee to Europe
122. Sanctions: Imprisoning the Nuclear Genie
123. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: A Call for Renewed Strength
124. Service-Learning in Higher Education: Putnam’s Encouragement and Fish’s Food for Thought
125. Sex Slavery in Southeast Asia: A Crisis Hindered by Inadequate Efforts
126. Shakespeare’s Political Theory of Henry the IV: ‘Presume Not That I Am the Thing I Was’
127. Smart Sanctions: Signals and Punishments
128. So goes the people, So goes the Party, The Rise and Return of Libertarianism in America
129. Socialism in the Developing World
130. Socialism in the Developing World
131. Sovereignty or Bust: The American Indian Movement And The Continuing Fight for Self-Determination In American Indian Affairs
132. State Intervention in Genocide: Self Interests Dictate Action
133. Strengthening the Electorate by Improving the Role of Student Government in United States Colleges
134. Strict Scrutiny and the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court
135. Stripped Bare: An Examination of Pornography, Feminism and the Constitution
136. Survival of the Fittest: Israel and the Realist Perspective
137. Sustainable Community Development: A Solution to Human, Indigenous and Environmental Rights Abuses in Ecuador
138. Terrorism
139. Testing the Tiebout-Tullock Hypothesis: The Influence of Government Amenities on the Migration Propensity of Young Adults in the United States
140. The American Regime: A Reexamination of Locke and International Relations
141. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002: A Failure to Control Unregulated Money in Political Elections and a Substantial Burden on the First Amendment
142. The Democratic Peace
143. The Dragon’s Ascent: China’s Economic Rise and its Potential Threats to the United States National Security Interests
144. The Dynamics of a Stateless Nation: A Comparative Analysis of Tibetan Nationalism
145. The Effectiveness of Dedicated Drug Treatment Courts: The Likelihood of Expansion for these Revolutionary Policies
146. The Effectiveness of Socialist Realism in Creating the Ideal Soviet State
147. The End of Endorsement
148. The Environmental Issues of Today: Going Green or Green Washing?
149. The Evolution of the Law and Order Ideology And its Enforcement among Democrats and Republicans
150. The Federal Corporate Income tax and Its Influence on Corporate America
151. The Growing Group of Independent Moderate Voters and Its Implications
152. The Impact of Colonial Legacy on the Status of African Women: A Comparative Analysis of British and French Colonial Institutions
153. The Importance of Media Coverage to Extremists: How Democracies Are More Vulnerable to an Attack
154. The International Response to Failed States
155. The Land Ethic and Wolves: The Ethics of Wolf Hunting
156. The Media and its Effect on Political Socialization
157. The Necessity of Religious Institutions in a Democracy: Tocqueville’s Arguments on Religion
158. The Necessity of United Nations Security Council Reform
159. The Obligation of Western Powers to Prevent an Authoritarian Russia from Violating International Law and Threatening Domestic Progress
160. The Patriarchal Dilemma: An In-Depth Look into Constraints on Female Representation in the United States
161. The Perfect Storm: Understanding the Current Crisis of Low Public Opinion in the United States
162. The Plight of the Honey Bees
163. The Presidential Popularity Contest: An Assessment of the Dynamic Influences on Presidential Approval Ratings
164. The Right to Miranda Rights: The Constitutional Right and Its Mistaken Identity as a Procedural Ruling
165. The Role of the Justices and Popular Opinion in the United States Supreme Court
166. The Second Amendment Rights Revolution
167. The State of Children’s Rights in Senegal: An Analysis of the Practice of Forced Child Begging
168. The Steel Giant’s Emerald Heart: The Rise of Green Cities and the Federal Government’s Failure to Lead on Climate Change
169. The Tragedy of Socratism: Striving for the Music-Practicing Socrates
170. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Role in Society: How Representative are they?
171. The United States Government’s Reaction to Fidel Castro
172. The United States’ Slide toward Alexis de Tocqueville’s Vision of Democratic Despotism
173. The Wall of Separation: An American Reformation of Religion
174. The Welfare State as a Means for Gender Equality
175. There are Prominent Businessmen but not Titan of Industry: Criticism of the Argument that we are in a Second Gilded Age
176. Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism
177. U.S. Social Movements: Where Social and Political Arenas Overlap
178. United States Citizens Misconceptions of Islamic Traditions
179. United States Foreign Assistance Towards Least Developed Countries: The Shift to Liberal Policy
180. United States Sanctions: Foreign Policy Tool or Domestic Appeasement Tactic?
181. United States’ Failure in Effective Humanitarian Intervention: Implications for Syria
182. Values of the West: Implications of Stakeholder Collaboration in Public Land Management
183. Video Games Affecting Violent Behavior: A Literature Review and Policy Design
184. Voter ID: The Imperfect Solution to a Nonexistent Problem
185. Welcome to Hell: The Effects of Counter-Terrorism Policy in Chechnya and Afghanistan
186. Welfare Reform: Promoting Marriage to Reduce Poverty
187. What Heats Up Cools Off: A Study of U.S.-Russia Relations Past, Present and Future
188. When Fragile States Break: International Governmental Organizations’ Role in the Recognition of De Facto States
189. Within Powers of the President or Without Precedent? The Expansion of Executive Authority, Post-September 11th, 2001
190. Woodrow Wilson’ Idealism in Mexico: A Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian Dichotomy
191. Working Across the Spectrum: Why Universalism Rationalizes Cultural Relativists Approaches to Ending Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting