Browse by Department (theses only)

September 2023

Urrego Guzmán, Natalia (2023) The impact of migration on status within the informal political conversation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

July 2023

Hudson, Emma (2023) A call for community governance: wind energy implementation in Alberta through strategic environmental policymaking. Masters thesis, Memorial Univeristy of Newfoundland.

August 2022

Janes, Heidi M.A. (2022) Maple Leaf Foods and the governance of food insecurity. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

July 2022

Huget, Laurel (2022) Identity, connection & responsibility: insights from feminist poststructuralism and the ethics of care on homelessness in Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2022

Ashas, Kazeem Olatunde (2022) The illusion of public opinion: a descriptive analysis of media framing of immigration in the Brexit campaign. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Nolan, Robert M. (2022) Local identities, discourses, and institutional change: an examination of voluntary municipal amalgamation in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

February 2022

Fitzgerald, Justin (2022) Formerly the HMCS Labrador: an analysis of the vessel transfer that removed the Royal Canadian Navy from the Canadian Arctic. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

January 2022

Baah, Christabel Nyarwaa (2022) Gendered attitudes and women's political interest: the cases of South Africa and Ghana. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hanson-Agumbah, Theresa (2022) Bad governance "A threat to human wellbeing: a case study of bad governance during the COVID pandemic in Nigeria". Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2021

Adofo, Naana Frimpomaa (2021) An assessment of gendered mediation in daily graphic newspapers: the case of the 2020 general elections in Ghana. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

O'Reilly, Meghan (2021) Ethnicity and the 2019 Canadian federal election: do racialized candidates increase voter turnout? Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

August 2021

Steinhauer, Brooke (2021) The impact of gender-neutral pronouns on perceptions of candidates. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

July 2021

Kopp, Amy Elizabeth (2021) Experiences of pregnancy in prison: understanding access to prenatal care in Canadian federal prisons. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Prado Silva, Eduardo (2021) Between dependency and cooperation: what China’s activities in Brazil’s energy sector tell us about the new international economic centre. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

February 2021

Boakye Gyan, Collins Kwaku Gyan (2021) Farmers and herders in Ghana: examining the impact of livelihood and autochthony on the land conflict between indigenes and migrants. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2021

Ansah, Lucy (2021) Ghana's foreign policy under Jerry John Rawlings: an analysis of Rawlings' decision to realign Ghana's relations from the Eastern to the Western Bloc in April 1983. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2020

Robin, Cindy (2020) Citizenship by investment programs in the Caribbean: an examination of the economic and political impacts. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Salman, Bora (2020) The governance of genomic research: the case studies of Iceland and Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

August 2020

Ambe-Uva, Terhemba (2020) Contested landscapes: third-party certification and the blue economy in West Africa. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Noxon, Clarissa Miles (2020) The radical right: both winners and losers in northern Europe. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

April 2020

DeVries, Megan (2020) Indemnification and the building of Canadian pipelines. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Merrell, Andrew Robert (2020) Evolving governance: a comparative case study explaining positive self-government outcomes for Nunatsiavut government and the Miawpukek First Nation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

March 2020

Tang, Yongfeng (2020) Why do large-scale land protests in China succeed or fail? Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2019

Chezenko, Griffyn G. (2019) Breaking through: measuring a third party's pathway to power in Nova Scotia, Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Costa, Jose Augusto Martini (2019) Chilean blue revolution: the rise of salmon aquaculture and the state. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

LeBlanc, Brandon Scott (2019) Universities, human rights codes, and the charter: declarations of students' rights as a mechanism for protecting fundamental freedoms at Canadian universities. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2019

Tenu, Cheerful (2019) Obstacles to gender parity in political representation: the case of the Ghanaian parliament. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

July 2019

Irving, Michelle (2019) How do party leaders present themselves on social media? The race for premiership in Western Canadian elections 2011 - 2017. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

January 2019

Chehoudi, Rafaa (2019) The variation in women's political representation in national parliaments across the MENA region from 2000 to 2017. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2019

Porter, Trinalynn (2019) Synthetic social movement theory: opportunities to strengthen the NL environmental movement. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2018

O'Brien, Laura (2018) Making care count: troubling neoliberal policy frameworks in the childcare and waste management policy areas of Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

July 2018

Teimoori, Fereidoon (2018) Disciplinary power, subjectivity and liberalism: a Foucauldian approach to the study of democracy and authoritarianism. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2017

Power, Stephen (2017) Digital photos, social media sharing, and the Office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

January 2017

Peyton, Maggie Catherine (2017) Diversity under Stress: exploring the effect of the independence referendum process on political attitudes towards immigration in sub-state nationalist regions. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

January 2016

Smee, Joshua (2016) Building connections: political participation, social capital and the built environment in St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2015

Wesley, Kathryn (2015) The effect of economic inequality on voter turnout in Canadian federal elections, 1979-2011. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

June 2015

MacDonald, Lucy (2015) Who are they and where are they going? Examining the emerging norms of the international "climate refugee" in New Zealand. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

April 2015

Fenrick, Elena (2015) Municipal newcomer assistance in Lloydminster: evaluating policy networks in immigration settlement services. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McLean, Karalena (2015) Gendered and heteronormative: an examination of media coverage of Kathleen Wynne's rise to power in Ontario. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

November 2014

Habet, Jessica (2014) Party outcasts: the underrepresentation of female parliamentarians in Belize. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2014

Morton, Katherine (2014) The radical activist and the natural victim: colonial tropes of Aboriginal identity, the media, and public inquiries in Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2014

Kilravey, Lucas (2014) Fundamental human rights and cosmopolitan justice. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ring, Robert S. (2014) Proportional-first-past-the-post: a Canadian model of proportional representation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ryan, Michelle (2014) Financial services versus development: "best practice" for development and gender empowerment in microfinance. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

April 2013

Brown, Andrew (2013) The elephant in the room: fatphobia & oppression in the time of obesity. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2013

King, Amy Catherine (2013) Truth commissions as a tool for the political and legal recognition of women's rights in the postconflict state. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Spanner, Leigh Anne (2013) The gendered discourse of war: Canada post 9/11. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Stanley, Sarah Elizabeth Margaret (2013) The United Nations and democratic defictis: an examination of the UN's effect on democracy and democratic deficits in transitioning and post-conflict states. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2012

Winward, Mark (2012) The truth shall (not) set you free: hegemony, identity, and history education in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2011

Byrne, Matthew (2011) Responsiveness in Canadian federal ministerial resignations from 1945-2011. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Piercey, Susan (2011) The victims of substantive representation: how women's interests influence the career paths of MPs in Canada (1997-2011). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2010

Pike, Sherrill Dawn (2010) Caudillo politics and delegative democracy in the leadership of Chávez, Putin and Berlusconi. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ross, Stephen (2010) Federalism and centralization in Nigeria. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2009

Baker, Krista Frances (2009) Changing context, changing opportunities: the effect of political opportunity structures on the political evolution of the Roman Catholic church in Poland and Slovenia, 1992-2005. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ercegovac, Stevimir (2009) The politics of Croatia's EU accession. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2008

Rose, Mike (2008) A history of employer liability and workers' compensation laws in Newfoundland from 1887 to 1993 and an overview of factors which influenced policy choices. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2007

Bennett, John (2007) Collaboration or consultation?: the development and implementation of social policy in rural Newfoundland and Labrador from the strategic social plan to the Rural Secretariat. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Pantin, Cecily Maria (2007) Why the west won't win Afghanistan: game theory implications for post-conflict reconstruction. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2006

Baker, James Thomas Ernest (2006) Requiem for a nation: identity and the nationalist question among young Newfoundlanders. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Bonia, Laurie (2006) Regional development associations in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Loder, Jeff. (2006) The resilient state: the case of the liberalization of services in the European Union. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2005

Lang, Raylene A. (2005) Making waves: women in Newfoundland politics. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2003

Gibbons, Joanne (2003) The state of Canadian Studies in Canada's schools. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jackson, David (2003) Regional economic development by crown corporation : the case of Cape Breton. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2002

Butler, E. Derek (2002) Legislative development in new democracies : going the next step. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Exner, Heather (2002) Low political participation among rural women in Chiloe, Chile : consequences for democratization. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Haynes, Dale C. (2002) Ecology and the ballot : Green Party voting in European and national elections in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain and Luxembourg, 1979-1999. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2001

Bussey, Barry W. (2001) A case study of public interest groups in the Newfoundland educational reform policy-making process. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Orchard, Phil (2001) Once more unto the breach : humanitarian interventions in failed states. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2000

Clarke, Stephen J. (2000) The dynamics of Catholic voting behaviour surrounding denominational education reform in Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1999

Bellamy, Sarah (1999) The Canada-Chile free trade agreement and the direction of Canadian foreign policy in the 1990s. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Scott, G. Douglas (1999) Leadership and ideology in conflict : an analysis of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador 1995-96. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1998

Crowder, Cassandra (1998) Freedom of the sea to fishery conservation : an evolving ocean management regime. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Elmadani, Hasan (1998) The violent secession and the velvet divorce - Croatian and Slovak secessions in perspective. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Marland, Alexander J. (1998) Constituency campaigning : a review of the literature and a case study of Ottawa Centre, 1997. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Medellin, Gabriela (1998) The rise of the extreme right in France and Germany and the problem of immigration. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1997

Bickford, Sandra (1997) Battles in the gender war : theories of international relations and gender and the realities of women in war. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Oates, Lori Lee (1997) Elizabeth Symes v. Regina (1993) : a case study of feminist judicial action in Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1996

Keough, Erin M. (1996) Telecommunications policy communities and policy options for rural areas. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1995

Gouthro, Gerard (1995) "Peacekeeping when there is no peace to keep" : A case study of UNPROFOR in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Letto, Douglas Mervyn (1995) Chocolate bars and rubber boots : the Smallwood industrialization plan. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1994

Fenwick, Peter (1994) Political influence on the funding of municipal capital works in Newfoundland 1973 to 1988. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1984

Arthur, Joseph Oliver (1984) Political attitudes and participation among high school teachers in Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1982

Graham, Thomas R. (1982) Provincial international activity: the case of Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1973

Bilous, Marlene Sonia (1973) Federal attempts at relieving regional economic disparity : Newfoundland's experience with D.R.E.E. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Carlson, Terry Maxwell (1973) Political culture and community development in the Harbour Breton area. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.