Theses

“The Legislative Mandate as Rubber-Stamp: CAFE Standards as Evidence of the Thin Significance of a Legislative Mandate as the ‘Origin’ of Regulatory Rule Making” (thesis accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.A. in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Supervisor: Christopher Ansell, May 16, 2014)

“The Influence of Political Ideology in the Congressional Committee Hearings Held Over the Creation of the National Science Foundation: Using Ideological Influences in Committee Hearing Witnesses Rosters to Classify Policy Issues in Scientific and Technical Congressional Debates” (thesis accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.A. in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Supervisor: John F. Padgett, August 4, 2011)

“The Politics of Human Spaceflight: A Comparison of Success and Failure in China and the United States” (thesis accepted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for Special Departmental Honors in Government, The University of Texas at Austin, Supervisor: Itty Abraham, May 2010)