Matthew Ribar Receives Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the African Politics Conference Group
The article, part of his PhD dissertation, looks at why formal land titles are so rare in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Daniel Butler Receives NSF Grant for State Politics Project
The project looks to create a first of its kind database of US governor State of the State addresses.
Timm Betz Publishes New Article in International Organization
The article looks at how corporations can receive more governmental privileges by developing stronger links to the domestic economy.
PhD Candidate Rex Weiye Deng Receives APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
The grant provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.
Jaclyn Kaslovsky Co-Authors New Article in Legislative Studies Quarterly
The article investigates how senators discuss Supreme Court nominations with their constituents, focusing on one common rhetorical strategy: highlighting the descriptive traits of nominees.
Dan Butler Co-Authors New Article in American Politics Research
The article looks at a political candidates sources of funding and how those sources affect perceptions of the candidate and campaign.
Michael Strawbridge Publishes Article with the London School of Economics
Strawbridge's article highlights his research into Black political socialization earlier published in Politics, Groups and Identities.
The intersection of technology and politics
Covering everything from social media to bitcoin to AI, a timely and all-too-topical political science graduate course challenges students to think differently.
Shiran Victoria Shen Publishes Article in Policy Studies Journal
The article highlights research that looks at “regularized campaigns” as an institutional innovation that combines the high-intensity enforcement of campaigns with the stability of institutions to mitigate principal-agent problems.
James Gibson Publishes Article with The Conversation - "Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues"
Gibson's article builds off his research into political affiliation and self-censorship published in Political Science Quarterly.
Tavits, Montgomery, Lucas, and Former PhDs Kim and Muraoka Publish in Political Science Research and Methods
The article investigates whether election results are associated with emotional reactions among voters across democracies and under what conditions these responses are more intense.
Dan Butler Publishes New Articles in Political Behavior and Administration & Society
One article presents a study on primary voters during the 2022 statewide primary elections, while the other looks at the impact of the Supreme Court's ruling in Loper Bright.