Completed Theses & Projects - Department of Political Science - Simon Fraser University

Doctoral dissertations, Master's theses and Master's projects completed in political science are publicly available in PDF format through SFU Summit.

Recent Theses and Projects

2024-25

Student	Title	Supervisor
Hettipathirenne Gunawardena, MA (Project)	Media coverage of right-wing violence: a comparative study	Aaron Hoffman
Kevin Zhour, MA (Project)	After Exceptionalism: Mapping the Debate on the Arctic as a New Strategic Theatre	Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
Leticia Yeboah, MA (Project)	Promoting women's participation in Ghana's renewable energy industry: a case study of Lady Volta Green Tech Academy	Anil Hira
Subaita Fairooz, MA (Thesis)	Social construction of refugees: Syrian and Ukrainian refugee crises in the Canadian and US contexts	Genevieve Fuji Fohnson & Laurel Weldon

2023-24

Student	Title	Supervisor
Ronaldo Au-Yeung, MA (Project)	Neoclassical realism and the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis revisited	Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
Tyler Shymkiw, PhD	Social media and local representation: an in-depth case study of municipal governmentin British Columbia	David Laycock
Maeve Maguire, MA (Project)	Parenthood and politics: the factors that shape the experience of women legislators in BC	Genevieve Fuji Johnson
Supreet Malhi, MA (Project)	Electric vehicle battery reuse in Canada: how electric vehicle battery reuse could be made into viable policy in Canada	Anil Hira
Aliyah Datoo, MA (Project)	Discutons en ligne ! Les organismes de la communauté franco-colombienne et la délibération démocratique dans l'environnement numérique	Jérémie Cornut
Ilamdeep Kaur Wazir, MA (Project)	Personalization of Indian politics in 2019 Indian general elections	Steven Weldon
Caroline Elliott, PhD	Indigenous self-governance and democratic compatibility in Canada: assessing Indigenous constitutions against established democratic criteria	David Laycock

2022-23

Student	Title	Supervisor
Connor Ramsbottom, MA (Project)	Policy Coordination in a Federal State: Lessons from the Canadian Covid-19 Vaccine Implementation Experience	Laurent Dobuzinskis
Samuel Thiak, MA (Project)	Challenges and opportunities for creating an electricity grid in South Sudan	Anil Hira
Jacob Caine, MA (Project)	Does terrorism work? An expanded look at the impact of terrorism on political attitudes of Jewish Israelis from 1988 to 2015	Mark Pickup
Marcus Macauley, PhD	The activation of extreme political expressions	Steven Weldon
C Icart, MA (Project)	Exceptionally queer, uniquely benevolent, and other 2SLGBTQ+ Canadian myths: Analyzing homonationalist discourses in Canadian politics	Genevieve Fuji Johnson
Katrina Berry, MA (Project)	The right to effective representation: Towards Indigenous representation in the British Columbia Legislature	Rémi Léger
Kevin Leung, MA (Project)	"Wait, I'm being terrorized?" Public perceptions of terrorism and intentionality	Aaron Hoffman
Bronwen Pollock, MA (Project)	Neighbourhood perspectives on municipal environmental management	Laurent Dobuzinskis
Mark Machacek, PhD	The political economies of UN-business 'partnerships'	James Busumtwi-Sam
Qinghua Yi, PhD	The concept of representation in China's official ideology: Morphology and practice	David Laycock

2021-22

Student	Title	Supervisor
Carter McPherson, MA (Project)	Symbolic conservatives but policy moderates? Why conservative Calgary elects moderate mayors	Eline de Rooij
James Blumhagen, MA (Project)	Are Canadian political party leaders trendsetters? An experimental survey on the impact of normative change for partisan Canadians	Mark Pickup
Darya Berezhnova, MA (Thesis)	"The point is to not be diplomatic": A practice theoretical exploration of Track 2 diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific	Jérémie Cornut
Maksim Muratov, MA (Project)	In or Out? Power and Coalition-making in European Parliaments for Radical Right Parties	Steven Weldon
Victoria Mahon, MA (Project)	Political Ideology and Motivations for Participation in Online Activism	Laurel Weldon
Alexander Beyer, PhD	Contexts to Exploit Conflicts - Political Opportunity Structures for Radical Right Parties in Western Europe	Steven Weldon
Denis Dogah, PhD	From the Organization of African Unity (OAU) to African Union (AU): Regionalism, International Organization and Institutional Change in Africa	James Busumtwi-Sam

2020-21

Student	Title	Supervisor
Violeta Dima, MA (Project)	Dynamic Advocacy: Legal Mobilization and the Pursuit of Sociolegal Change in Canada	Clare McGovern
Ester Di Maio da Cunha, MA (Project)	Establishing an Effective Investment Ecosystem in Vancouver's Cleantech Cluster	Anil Hira
Corinne Henderson, MA (Project)	Tones, Topics, and Frames: The Role of Gender and Race in the Media Coverage of Political Candidates	Eline de Rooij
Arkam Nusky, MA (Project)	The Latent Factors of Money Laundering Risk: A Cross-National Study	Anil Hira
Sorina Moldovan, MA (Project)	Deliberation and Negotiations: An Examination of South Africa's Political Talk at the End of the Apartheid Era	Genevieve Fuji Johnson

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