Congratulations Professor Ted Enamorado and collaborators Soumendra Lahiri and Kunal Agrawal have been awarded $10,000 in funding from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures for their proposal on "Improving Data Integration Techniques."
Frank Lovett is Professor of Political Science and Director of Legal Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 2004, and from 2008-2009 he was Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values. His book A General Theory of Domination and Justice (OUP) won the APSA Foundations First Book Award for 2010. His primary research concerns the role of freedom and domination in developing theories of justice, equality, and the rule of law.
"Not who you think? Exposure and vulnerability to misinformation" considers the possibility that certain individuals hold misinformed beliefs without encountering misinformation, thus questioning for whom exposure to “fake news” is most deleterious.
Professor Deniz Aksoy, Professor Margit Tavits, and co-author, Andrew Menger, published a new paper, "The Effect of Curfews on Political Preferences" in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Professor Will Nomikos pens blog, "Impartiality among UN Peacekeepers is key to ending communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa" for LSE's Firoz Lakji Institute for Africa.
Professor Will Nomikos published an article, "Does UN Peacekeeping Work? A New Perspective" in Political Violence at a Glance
Congratulations to Professor Margit Tavits and co-author, Zeynep Somer-Topcu (University of Texas, Austin) on the acceptance of their paper, "Message Distortion as a Campaign Strategy: Does Rival Party Distortion of Focal Party Position Affect Voters?" in the Journal of Politics.
Professor David Carter and co-authors published their article, "The Geography of Separatist Violence" in International Studies Quarterly.
Professor Diana O’Brien and co-authors publish, “Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Politics” in APSR
Congratulations to Professors Lucas, Montgomery, and Tavits for being awarded an NSF grant to expand their ongoing study of elite communication on social media throughout the world!
Congratulations to Professor Jacob Montgomery and Ph.D alumn, Erin Rossiter, for publishing a QCMSS Elemental, "Adaptive Inventories: A Practical Guide for Applied Researchers."
Professor Keith Schnakenberg and Graduate Students Dahjin Kim & Gechun Lin Publish Paper, "Informative Campaigns, Overpromising, and Policy Bargaining."