Students in the Department of Political Science at Western Michigan University will want to review these sample research topics when selecting their own research topic.
- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Office of Independent Counsel
- A Study on Equitable Water Provision in Latin America
- Affirmative Action: National Origin Minorities
- Aid to the Health-Related Sector: The United States, Japan, and Germany
- An Assessment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- An Evaluation of International Law as Applied to Genocide from Nuremberg to the Balkans
- Celebrity Influence on Political Campaigns
- Children Soldiers in Africa
- Development of a Constitutional Right of Privacy
- Educational Outcomes in Michigan: A Lack of Focus and Context
- Effectiveness of Rape Shield Laws
- Globalization and the Anti-Globalization Movement
- Legislative Redistricting in Illinois for 2002
- Mexico, Corporate Globalization and the Media
- Mexico's Changing Political Party System
- Nature Within the City: The Greenway Movement and the Transformation of Urban Form
- Pretextual Automobile Stops and the Fourth Amendment
- Public Education and Religious Establishment
- Racial Profiling in post 9/11 United States Content Regulation in Broadcasting
- Religious Exercise in Public Schools: Continuing Debate
- Rights and Their Progression from State to Federal Policy: The Case of the Disability Rights Movement
- Sexual Harassment: Comparative Legal Analysis
- Squatter Settlements in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- Stereotypes Between American and Arab-Americans in the United States
- Telecommunications Policy in China
- The "Political Question" Doctrine and Reapportionment
- The Austrian Freedom Party in 2000
- The Debt Crisis in Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
- The Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement
- The Equal Rights Amendment: Why Controversy Ensured its Defeat
- The Evolution (and Devolution) of Affirmative Action Initiatives
- The 14th Amendment and Privacy
- The Influence of the Antislavery Movement, Republican Ideology, and Federalism on the 14th Amendment
- The Lemon Test and the Religious Establishment Clause
- The Patriot Act: Security/Rights Issues in Historical Perspective
- The Political Economy of the Micro-Island Nations of the Caribbean: The Impact of Tourism on Caribbean Culture, Environment and Society
- The Supreme Court and Reproductive Rights
- The Supreme Court and Sexual Preference
- Title IX and Collegiate Athletic Opportunities
- Truth Commissions and Civil Society
- U.S.-Japanese Trade Policy: A Defense of Limited Unilateralism
- Weapons of the Weak and the Chinese Occupation of Tibet
- Women and Equal Pay: An Assessment of Differences in Universities
- Women, Identity and Political Activism During the Allende Regime in Chile