Undergraduate Sample Research Topics

These sample topics will be helpful to students at Western Michigan University’s Department of Political Science when choosing a topic for their research.

– Cost-Benefit Analysis of Independent Counsel
– Study on Equitable Water Provision In Latin America
– Affirmative action: National Origin Minorities
– Health-related Sector Aid: Germany, Japan, and the United States
– A Review of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
– An Evaluation of International Law and Genocide: From Nuremberg to Balkans
Celebrities have a significant influence on political campaigns
– Children Soldiers in Africa
– The development of a constitutional right to privacy
Michigan: Education Outcomes are Not Focused and Contextualized
– Rape Shield Laws’ effectiveness
– The Anti-Globalization Movement and Globalization
– Legislative Redistricting in Illinois for 2002
The Mexican population is being exposed to the effects of globalization, as seen through the lens of media.
Mexico has undergone a transformation in its political party system.
– Nature Within the City – The Greenway Movement in Urban Form Transformation
– Fourth Amendment and Pretextual Auto Stops
– Education in the Public Sector and the Establishment of Religion
– Racial Profiling after 9/11 United States Content Regulations in Broadcasting
– Religion in Public Schools: A Continuing Debate
– Rights and their progression from state to federal policy: The case of the Disability Rights Movement
– Examining Sexual Harassment in Different Legal Settings
– Squatter settlements in South Africa after Apartheid
Stereotypes between American Arab-Americans and Americans from the United States
– China’s regulations and principles regarding telecommunications
– Reapportionment and the “Political Question Doctrine”
– Austrian Freedom Party 2000
The Debt crisis in heavily indebted poor countries
– The North American Free Trade Agreement’s Effects
– The Equal Rights Amendment. How Controversy Affirmed Its Demise
– The Evolution (and the Devolution) Affirmative Action Initiatives
Privacy and the 14th Amendment
– The Influence the Antislavery Movement and Republican Ideology on Federalism on Amendment 14
– The Religious Establishment Clause (the Lemon Test)
– The Patriot Act: Security/Rights Issues from Historical Perspective
– The Political Economics of the Micro-Island Nations of the Caribbean. How Tourism Impacts Culture, Environment and Society in the Caribbean
– Reproductive Rights and the Supreme Court
– The Supreme Court & Sexual Preference
Title IX, Collegiate Athletic Opportunities
– An examination of the relationship between Civil Society and Truth Commissions
– U.S. – Japan Trade Policy: A Defence of Limited Unilateralism
– Weapons Of The Weak and Chinese Occupation in Tibet
– Equal Pay for Women: An Evaluation of Differences in Universities
– Women and Identity during the Allende Regime of Chile

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