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DescriptionThis paper focuses on the political participation seen in Asian Americans and the socioeconomic factors that influence this racial group's participation in American politics. It highlights the importance of personal and social experiences that shape the overall political behavior of Asian Americans.
ContributorsZehn, Jasmine (Author) / Wright, Kenicia (Thesis director) / Ramirez, Mark (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / School of Public Affairs (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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On January 6th, 2021, protestors stormed the United States capitol in an attempt to prevent President-Elect Joe Biden from taking office, inspired by widespread and unfounded rumors that he was elected fraudulently. Two years and two days later, on January 8th, 2023 similar events unfolded in the Brazilian capital for similar reasons, with protestors calling for the military to intervene in the election. Although Brazil and the United States have very different political histories, these two events and the presidents that inspired them are an example of a moment in history where the countries stood in remarkably comparable positions. Based on the already established links between social media and the disinformation that fueled and planned these attacks, my thesis seeks to investigate what has changed in the aftermath of these events and developments that had occurred by February of 2025 when the investigation was concluded. I will review the consequences incurred by the leaders who encouraged these attacks and the changes, or lack thereof, made by democratic institutions, governments, and private social media companies. I will also study the effect these events had on U.S. citizens through original research conducted on students at Arizona State University, including the way that they view social media and its impact on their trust in political institutions. The primary research conducted at Arizona State sought to address a gap in literature on the political trust of university students. Based on my findings, I will consider the implications that these anti-democratic events have for future elections and the safeguards that should be put in place to promote healthy democratic debate on social media and ensure that misinformation and conspiratorial thought is mitigated. By examining the similarities and differences between these events, we can learn how the political systems and cultures of different countries impact the movements that unfold within them.
ContributorsNutter, Sarah (Author) / Parmentier, Mary Jane (Thesis director) / Goodman, Glenn (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership (Contributor)
Created2025-05
DescriptionThe exploration of global immigration policies and whether they can be applied to the United States.
ContributorsMerritt, Rachel (Author) / Kenney, Patrick (Thesis director) / Bjorklund, Eric (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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This research paper focuses on understanding how separatist and fundamentalist terrorism around the world overlap, and what strategies can potentially be used to counter them. Specifically, the paper will identify how Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), the separatist organization, and the fundamentalist Iranian proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, developed over time. It reviews the intricacies of these terror organizations and the ways in which they operate. The paper develops the three organizations, how they started and took hold in their respective regions around the world, the ideologies that drive them, and where they stand today. The goal of the research is to evaluate the successes and failures of past counter-terrorism strategies both with these organizations and others, in order to be able to identify solutions and counter-terrorism initiatives to implement around the world today.
ContributorsBrashear, Jessica (Author) / Just, Thomas (Thesis director) / Ripley, Charles (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Dean, W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor)
Created2025-05
DescriptionThis thesis is a three episode podcast with scripts about common immigration myths that are found in the news, politics, and social media. The project utilizes research to investigate the legitimacy of current claims relating to immigration with the aim of informing the audience.
ContributorsGutierrez Lopez, Kaylee (Author) / Levin, Irina (Thesis director) / Magaña, Lisa (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Music, Dance and Theatre (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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Parental divorce is more than just two parties separating; for millions of families across the United States, children have long-lasting psychological, emotional, and behavioral challenges after a parental separation. This study aims to examine two types of divorce resolution, family mediation and court adjudication (litigation), in terms of their ability to minimize the negative impacts of the divorce process on children. Our study uses a mixed-method approach, meaning that qualitative interviews and quantitative survey results are used together to create findings. The survey method used students at a large southwestern university (N = 159) to investigate general perceptions of divorce, mediation, and litigation, explicitly emphasizing perceptions of harm to children. The qualitative interviews used legal experts, a family law judge, a juvenile public defender, a child psychologist, and a professional mediator to provide insights into the legal dimension of divorce.
Results demonstrate that mediation is perceived to be more effective than court adjudication in reducing conflict between parents during the divorce process. Additionally, a strong correlation was found between a person's belief in mediation's ability to minimize conflict and mediation benefits for children (p < 0.001). The reason for this, as demonstrated by the legal experts, was mediation's ability to increase collaboration between parents, lower emotional distress, and prioritize children's well-being. Litigation, on the other hand, was found to escalate conflict, which can place children at an increased risk of emotional distress, attachment issues, and legal system involvement. The study also found that individuals who experienced divorce firsthand were not statistically more likely to support mediation (p = 0.098), which suggests that exposure to high-conflict divorces may reinforce adversarial perspectives on separations and the best way to go about them.
In a nutshell, the study finds the importance of promoting divorce mediation as the primary dispute resolution, not an alternative to litigation. By integrating legal and psychological perspectives, our research provides a comprehensive review of how different divorce resolution methods shape child outcomes and reinforces the need for child-oriented divorce policies.
ContributorsFeffer, Ariel (Author) / Kelley, Peter (Co-author) / Hoekstra, Valerie (Thesis director) / Simhony, Avital (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership (Contributor) / Department of Psychology (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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With the official departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union on January 31, 2020, it quickly became evident that the “Northern Ireland problem” would be a pressing issue to resolve, as the withdrawal provoked a host of sovereignty questions that ran the risk of inflaming historical, sectarian tensions in the region, particularly among Unionist communities. Though the 1998 Good Friday Agreement put to bed a bloody thirty years of civil strife between Republican and Unionist communities, such a sweeping geopolitical move like Brexit raised the potential of renewing these historical tensions, especially among paramilitary communities, with the introduction of new challenges to the sovereignty of the Northern Irish people. How aware are young people of paramilitary presence in the aftermath of the withdrawal? Aiming to fill a significant gap in the literature, analyzing young people’s awareness of paramilitaries, specifically in the post-Brexit period, is instrumental in understanding the extent to which, if any, Brexit has affected a sense of partisanship or voter engagement with more extreme political parties since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
With this in mind, this paper will examine Northern Irish voting data sets from the UK Office of National Statistics between 1998-2024 to determine inter-constituency engagement among young people in Belfast. Measuring the rate of change over the course of twenty-seven years will help gauge young people’s reaction to paramilitary-associated parties, potentially helping explain general youth voter engagement trends in Belfast. This qualitative element will assess Northern Irish young people’s awareness level of paramilitaries in their communities in the post-Brexit period to examine potential voting patterns apparent in evaluating the peace process nearly twenty-seven years on. Furthermore, there are significant research gaps this paper hopes to address; while there is some data on youth awareness of paramilitary groups in the pre-Brexit/post-GFA era, the direct correlation between this awareness in the post-Brexit realm within the context of political engagement, including voting behavior, remains relatively under-developed, something this paper hopes to shed light on in its quantitative portion.
ContributorsMcLaughlin, Mia (Author) / Brown, Keith (Thesis director) / Sivak, Henry (Committee member) / Zeinalzadeh, Shirvin (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Public Affairs (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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Labor unions in the United States have been on the decline for the past four decades due to structural impediments to unionization and collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations Act is woefully inept at protecting workers' rights because of drastic shifts in the economy since the 1980s. NLRA bargaining procedures favor enterprise bargaining over industry-wide collective bargaining. Outside of the United States, sectoral bargaining is the norm. Union(s) negotiate with multiple employers to establish minimum standards that all actors in an industry have to abide by.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is currently the main proponent of sectoral bargaining in the United States. They have establish several tripartite arrangements on the state level for various service sector occupations. The most notable of which is California's Fast-Food Council; established to provide fast-food workers a seat at the table.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of European-style sectoral bargaining replacing enterprise bargaining in the United States. And to detail SEIU's various state level experiments over the past few decades. We found that state level labor reform remains the most viable path for sectoral bargaining to take root in America because of congressional gridlock over labor reform at the federal level.
ContributorsSherwood, Ian (Author) / Fong, Benjamin (Thesis director) / Bjorklund, Eric (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Social Transformation (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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For my project, I engaged with the process of the Yi Jing 易經 (I Ching), by casting coins to identify hexagrams of the I Ching. I used the hexagrams to inspire creative writing of multiple short stories and organized them using the "nested story" structure, in which there are multiple short stories embedded within a larger narrative. Each short story includes four distinct components: a title, the hexagram, the Chinese language component, and the story/writing itself. Generation of these individual pieces was not always a linear process; some components of the story emerged before others, however, each story contains each of these parts. This creative work is designed to inform the reader of how the individual hexagrams may be interpreted and their connection to the story (stories) told through my writing.
ContributorsStone, Sofia (Author) / Giner, Oscar (Thesis director) / Bonini, Colin (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / School of International Letters and Cultures (Contributor)
Created2025-05
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Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Why Women Can't Have It All” argues that structural barriers hinder women from balancing career and family life. This study challenges the idea that women can freely define and achieve “having it all,” highlighting the societal expectations and limitations still placed on working mothers. Through interviews with ten mother-daughter pairs, the research explores how mothers navigated work-life balance and societal criticism, and how their choices shaped their daughters’ views on womanhood, work, and family. The study emphasizes that “having it all” is a personal and evolving concept, shaped by individual experiences and cultural shifts. By capturing these intergenerational perspectives, this thesis aims to empower women to define success on their own terms, resisting narrow societal norms and embracing a broader, more inclusive vision of fulfillment.
ContributorsEubank, Cara (Author) / Woodall, Gina (Thesis director) / Lennon, Tara (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor) / School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Contributor)
Created2025-05