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New study probes how emotions influence public attitudes on counterterrorism

1.19.24

Assistant professor of political science Carly Wayne discusses the role anger plays in public attitudes about counterterrorism.

Graduate Spotlight: Jeremy Siow

1.17.24

Get to know Dr. Jeremy Siow, one of our newest PhD graduates who is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Quantitative Political Science at the University of Oxford.

Michael Strawbridge to join department as Assistant Professor in Fall 2024

12.20.23

TRIADS receives $330,000 Carnegie Corporation grant to study online populist rhetoric

12.12.23

Research by Diana O'Brien: Voters prefer decisions made by panels balanced between men and women

12.1.23

"We find that citizens strongly prefer that political decision-making bodies have gender parity, meaning that they have equal numbers of men and women. Even when governments require gender quotas for women candidates, citizens still prefer to see gender parity amongst officeholders."

Skeletal Records and Gender Bias

11.30.23

Jeremy Siow, Taylor Damann, and Margit Tavits discuss both historical and modern gender inequality in Europe in the PNAS Science Sessions Podcast.

Carly Wayne published in International Organization

11.16.23

Carly Wayne's new article "Terrified or Enraged? Emotional Microfoundations of Public Counterterror Attitudes" was published in the journal International Organization.

Dan Butler presents at Levin Center Symposium

11.7.23

Professor Dan Butler (Washington University in St. Louis) and Professor Jeff Harden (University of Notre Dame) will present their paper "Can Institutional Reform Protect Election Certification?" at the State Oversight Academy Symposium 2023

Visiting Professor Spotlight: Princess Williams

11.6.23

Get to know Professor Princess Williams, Visiting Professor of Political Science.

Margit Tavits in Journal of Experimental Political Science, now open access

11.1.23

Professor Margit Tavits' 2022 paper, "Can Policy Responses to Pandemics Reduce Mass Fear?" is now available for Open Access in the Journal of Experimental Political Science by the Cambridge University Press.

Presidential prose

10.31.23

Graduate student Ben Noble’s research on the American presidency has launched him into the political science spotlight and landed him a job at one of the top universities in his field.

TRIADS receives $330,000 Carnegie Corporation grant to study online populist rhetoric

10.30.23