Why has economic inequality risen dramatically over the past few decades even in democracies where individuals could vote for more redistribution? We experimentally study how individuals respond to inequality and find that subjects generally take from richer and give to poorer individuals.
Congratulations to Professor David Carter and his coauthors Rachel Wellhausen (Texas) and Paul Huth (Maryland). Their paper, "International Law, Territorial Disputes, and Foreign Direct Investment" has been accepted at International Studies Quarterly.
Professor Andrew Reeves' and co-author Jon Rogowski's, former Washington University professor, paper "The Public Cost of Unilateral Action" is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science. You can view it in advance of publication here: http://www.andrewreeves.org/papers/constraints.pdf
Congratulations to Professor Matt Gabel! His paper, "Political Ideology, Confidence in Science, and Participation in Alzheimer Disease Research Studies," co-authored by Jonathan Gooblar, Catherine M. Roe, Natalie J. Selsor, and John C. Morris, has been published in Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders (2018).
Congratulations to Professor Keith Schnakenberg! He won the Gordon Tullock Prize from Public Choice for the best paper published by a junior scholar in 2017.
Congratulations to Professor Deniz Aksoy! Her paper, "Electoral and Partisan Cycles in Counterterrorism," has been accepted to be published in The Journal of Politics.
Recent evidence suggests that historical boundary precedents play a central role in the outbreak, character, and long-term consequences of territorial disputes. The institutional theory of borders holds promise in explaining why leaders find old borders to be attractive as new borders.
Congratulations to Professor David Carter! His paper, "International Trade and Coordination: Tracing Border Effects," was accepted by the World Politics journal. This paper was also written with Hein Goemans of Rochester.
Prof. Andrew Reeves article, Donald Trump’s lukewarm response to Puerto Rico was pretty predictable. Here’s why., was published on Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog.
Congratulations to Professor Jacob Montgomery and PhD candidate Michelle Torres! Their paper, "How conditioning on post-treatment variables can ruin your experiment and what to do about it," was accepted by the American Journal of Political Science. This paper was also written with Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth.
In Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption, the authors argue that clarity of responsibility is critical for reducing corruption in democracies. The authors provide a number of empirical tests of this argument, including a cross-national time-series statistical analysis to show that the higher the level of clarity the lower the perceived corruption levels.
Congratulations to Professor Gary Miller and cowriter Andrew Whitford! Their book "Above Politics: Bureaucratic Discretion and Credible Commitment" is the winner of APSA's 2017 Gladys Kammerer Award for US National Public Policy and also will receive the 2017 Charles H. Levine Prize of the International Political Science Association for the best book on comparative administration and public policy.