Professor Tavits, a former graduate student William O’Brochta (currently at Louisiana Tech University) and former colleague Michael Bechtel (currently at Cologne) publish in the Journal of Experimental Political Science on whether and when policy responses to pandemics can fuel or tame feelings of fear.

The State Politics & Policy Organized Section of the American Political Science Association has announced that the book Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis by James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson (published by the Russell Sage Foundation, 2021) has been awarded the Virginia Gray Book Award, an annual award that recognizes the best political science books published on the subject of U.S. state politics or policy in the preceding three calendar years.

Postdoc Andrew Stone's research mentioned in FiveThirtyEight article, "Ketanji Brown Jackson's Nomination May Not Be Enough To Turn Out Black Voters For Democrats."

Professor emeritus Bill Lowry finishes friends book - an urgent plea to save national parks from climate change.

Professor Christopher Lucas' article "Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies" will be published in the May Annual Review of Political Science.

Professor Carly Wayne's article, "Hawkish Biases and Group Decision Making," has been published in International Organizations.

Graduate students in political science have recently seen remarkable outcomes on the academic job market, earning multiple interviews and offers and accepting excellent placements. One key to the success of the highly ranked graduate program is a team-based approach to mentoring and navigating the job market.

Professor Frank Lovett and co-author Sean Ingham (UCSD) published their article, "Domination and democratic legislation" in Politics, Philosophy & Economics.

Professor Will Nomikos published his article, "Peacekeeping and the Enforcement of Intergroup Cooperation: Evidence from Mali" in the Journal of Politics.