Diana O’Brien Co-Authors a New Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The article examines how major climate patterns—including El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole—shape the risk of armed conflict around the world.
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WashU Expert: Research explains Trump’s influence on primary contests
Political Science faculty, and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dan Butler, says by opting out of the primaries, people give power to the leaders of the parties to pursue agendas that are not responsive to moderate voters' preferences.
Study reveals how, when political parties communicate with citizens in multiple languages
A new study conducted by faculty members Margit Tavits, Christopher Lucas, Jacob Montgomery, and former PhD students Dahjin Kim and Taishi Muraoka, takes on the Herculean task of studying the linguistic choices of more than 800 political parties from 87 democracies around the world, including the United States.
Dan Butler Publishes New Article Discussing 2024 Primary Election Study
Michael Strawbridge Named a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
The prestigious award provides Strawbridge a $200,000 research stipend for his project, "In the Thick of It: The Relationship Among Black People, Black Spaces, and Black Political Unity."
Department Chair Betsy Sinclair's Research and Work into AI Chatbots Featured in The Ampersand
“We want to acknowledge that AI is out there in the world, but we also want our students to think about who they are,” Sinclair said.
Timm Betz Publishes New Article in the British Journal of Political Science
The article describes a thus far unexplored consequence of globalization pressures: the place-based nature of globalization pressures reinforces local identity and moves voters towards candidates with local ties, especially when they hit key industries in local economic clusters.
Diana Z. O'Brien Publishes New Article in American Political Science Review
The article utilizes research from 12 democracies to examine gender-quotas in world legislatures.
Post-Doc Hwayong Shin Publishes New Article in Journal Political Communication
The article focuses on a key question that has become more common in modern media criticism: When journalists perceive more misinformation from one side of the political spectrum, do they face a normative dilemma between truth and balance?
PhD Candidates Lukas K. Alexander & Dihan Shi Publish New Article in Journal of Experimental Political Science
The article looks at surveys of rural voters to analyze the trust and influence of politicians from similar rural areas.
Political Science Undergrad, Sonal Churiwal, Publishes Article in St. Louis Magazine
The article looks at Chris Graville, the attorney for the St. Louis Police Board of Commissioners, and the conflicts of interest that many activists and reformers worked to stop after the murder of Michael Brown. The article is a piece of Churiwal's senior thesis.
Ophelia Vedder Publishes New Article in Ethics
The article looks at Vedder's research regarding compulsory sex-marking and the impact of abolishing the practice on freedom and autonomy for all people.