Faculty Research

The faculty of the Department of Political Science includes thirty-eight full time members, as well as distinguished visiting faculty from other universities in the United States and Europe. Members of the faculty have published dozens of books and hundreds of articles that have appeared in every major political science journal. Various members of the faculty edit or serve on the editorial boards of major professional journals of the discipline. Our faculty have won national competitions, grants and fellowships from around the world.

Additionally, our department is recognized for outstanding undergraduate teaching. Teaching honors attest to the importance we give to instruction. Faculty members have received the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awards in  Teaching, Research and Graduate Mentoring, and two have been awarded the title of Distinguished Professor.

This section gives but a few highlights of the research and publications from our department.

Research Publications 2019

• Arel-Bundock, Vincent; Peinhardt, Clint; and Pond, Amy. Forthcoming. “The Origins of Political Risk: Insights From Firm-Level Insurance Data.” Journal of Conflict Resolution.
• Pond, Amy and Zafeiridou, Christina. Forthcoming. “The Political Importance of Financial Performance.” American Journal of Political Science.
• Betz, Timm. “Tariff Evasion and Trade Policies.” International Studies Quarterly 63.2 (2019): 380-393.
• Betz, Timm, and Amy Pond. “Foreign Financing and the International Sources of Property Rights.” World Politics (2019): 1-39.
• Betz, Timm, and Amy Pond. “The Absence of Consumer Interests in Trade Policy.” The Journal of Politics 81.2 (2019): 585-600
• Brockway, Mark D., Alexander C. Pacek, and Benjamin F. Radcliff. 2019. “Well-Being and the Democratic State: How the Public Sector Promotes Human Happiness.” Social Indicators Research. 143(3): 1147-1159.
• Flavin, Patrick, Alexander c. Pacek, and Benjamin F. Radcliff. 2019. “Labor Market Regulation and Subjective Well-Being in Low and Middle Income Countries.” European Journal of Political Research. 58: 1088-1107.
• Harmel, Robert, and Yao‐Yuan Yeh. “Impacts of Internet on Openness to Change in China: Millennials Versus Pre‐Millennials.” Social Science Quarterly 100.5 (2019): 1744-1754.
• Harmel, Robert, Yao‐Yuan Yeh, and Xinsheng Liu. “Age Versus Socialization in Understanding Attitudes Toward Economic Reforms in China.” Social Science Quarterly 100.5 (2019): 1755-1767.
• Nederman, Cary J. “Beyond Aristotelian Political Science: Scientia Civilis and Romanism in Marsiglio of Padua’s Thought.” International Journal of the Classical Tradition (1996): 1-20.
• Pedraza, Francisco I., and Brittany N. Perry. “Validating a Measure of Perceived Parent–Child Political Socialization.” Political Research Quarterly (2019): 1065912919850632.
• Robert Harmel and Lars Svasand, editors.  (2019)   Institutionalisation of Political Parties: Comparative Cases.  Rowman & Littlefield International, in partnership with ECPR Press.
• “The ‘Apparitional’ Magna Carta in the Long Fourteenth Century.” Fourteenth Century England 11 (2019), 109-128.

Research Publications 2018

• Baccini, Leonardo, Quan Li, Irina Mirkina, and Kris Johnson. 2018. “Regional Competition, Business Politicians, and Subnational Fiscal Policy,” Business and Politics 20(3): 410-437.
• Barnes, Tiffany D., and Diana Z. O’Brien. “Defending the realm: The appointment of female defense ministers worldwide.” American Journal of Political Science 62.2 (2018): 355-368.
• Betz, Timm, Scott J. Cook, Florian M. Hollenbach. 2018. “On the Use and Abuse of Spatial Instruments.” Political Analysis. 26(4). 474–479.
• Conway, Nicholas J., Soren Jordan, and Joseph Daniel Ural: 2018. Courts and Issue Attention in Canada. Social Science Quarterly 99(4): 1324-1348.
• Crisman-Cox, Casey. “Enemies within: Interactions between Terrorists and Democracies.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 62.8 (2018): 1661-1685.
• Crisman‐Cox, Casey, and Michael Gibilisco. “Audience Costs and the Dynamics of War and Peace.” American Journal of Political Science 62.3 (2018): 566-580.
• Fulton, Sarah A., and Sarah Allen Gershon. “Too liberal to win? Race and voter perceptions of candidate ideology.” American Politics Research 46.5 (2018): 909-939.
• “Governing the Body Politic: Christine’s Political Advice.” In Andrea Tarnowski, ed., Approaches to Teaching Christine de Pizan (New York: Modern Language Association, 2018), 119-126.
• Harmel, Robert. “The how’s and why’s of party manifestos: Some guidance for a cross-national research agenda.” Party Politics 24.3 (2018): 229-239.
• Harmel, Robert, et al. “Manifestos and the “two faces” of parties: Addressing both members and voters with one document.” Party Politics 24.3 (2018): 278-288.
• Hollenbach, Florian M., et al. “Multiple Imputation Using Gaussian Copulas.” Sociological Methods & Research (2018): 0049124118799381.
• Ives, Anthony. 2018. “Frederick Douglass’s Reform Textualism: An Alternative Jurisprudence Consistent with the Fundamental Purpose of Law,” The Journal of Politics 80, no. 1, 88-102.
• Koch, Bettina, and Cary J. Nederman. Inventing Modernity in Medieval European Thought ca. 1100–ca. 1550. Medieval Institute Publications, 2018.
• Li, Quan, Erica Owen, and Austin Mitchell. “Why do democracies attract more or less foreign direct investment? A metaregression analysis.” International Studies Quarterly 62.3 (2018): 494-504.
• Li, Quan. 2018. “The Second Great Debate Revisited: Exploring the Impact of the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide in International Relations.” International Studies Review 21.3 (2018): 447-476
• Mummolo, Jonathan and Erik Peterson. 2018. “Improving the Interpretation of Fixed Effects Regression Results.” Political Science Research and Methods 6(4): 829-835.
• Maranto, Robert, Kristen Carroll, Albert Cheng & Manuel P. Teodoro. 2018. “Boys will be superintendents: School leadership as a gendered profession,” Phi Delta Kappan 100(2): 12-15.
•  “Niccolò Machiavelli” (with Guillaume Bogiaris-Thibault). In Chad Meister and Charles Taliaferro, eds., The History of Evil in the Early Modern Age (London/New York: Routledge, 2018), 53-68.
• O’Brien, Diana Z. 2018. “Righting Conventional Wisdom: Women and Right Parties in Parliamentary Democracies.” Politics & Gender 14(1): 27-55.
• Peterson, Erik and Gabor Simonovits. 2018. “The Electoral Consequences of Issue Frames.” Journal of Politics 80(4): 1283-1296.
• Robert Harmel, Lars Svasand, and Hilmar Mjelde. (2018) Institutionalisation (and De-Institutionalisation) of Right-Wing Protest Parties. Rowman & Littlefield International, in partnership with ECPR Press.
• “ There Are No `Bad Kings’: Evil Counselors and Tyrannical Characters in Medieval Political Thought.” In Nicos Panou and Hester Schadee, eds., Evil Lords: Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 137-156.
• Switzer, David & Manuel P. Teodoro. 2018. “Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Justice in Safe Drinking Water Act Compliance,” Social Science Quarterly 99(2): 524-535.
• Tarar, Ahmer. 2018. “A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Pascal’s Wager.” Economics and Philosophy 34(1):31-44.
• Teodoro, Manuel P. & Seung-Ho An. 2018. “Citizen-Based Brand Equity: A Model and Experimental Evaluation,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 28(3): 321-338.
• Teodoro, Manuel P., Mellie Haider & David Switzer. 2018. “U.S. Environmental Policy Implementation on Tribal Lands: Trust, Neglect, and Justice,” Policy Studies Journal 46(1): 37-59.
• Teodoro, Manuel P. 2018. “Measuring Household Affordability for Water and Sewer Utilities,” Journal of the American Water Works Association 110(1): 13-22.
• von Vacano, Diego A. and Kazuko Suzuki (eds.) Reconsidering Race: Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics. Oxford University Press. Preface by Henry Louis Gates (published June 2018).
• Wood, Dan, B., and Soren Jordan. “Presidents and Polarization of the American Electorate.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 48.2 (2018): 248-270.
• Wutich, Amber, Jessica Budds, Laura Eichelberger, Jo Geere, Leila Harris, Wendy Jepson, Emma Norman, Kathleen O’Reilly, Amber Pearson, Sameer Shah, K. Simpson, Chad Staddon, Justin Stoler, Manuel P. Teodoro & Sera Young. 2018. “Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance,” Water Security 2: 1-10.

Research Publications 2017

• Acevedo, Delia N., Carlie Fogleman, and Joseph Daniel Ura. 2017. Peasants and Bankers: Education, Consumer Sentiment, and Presidential Approval Presidential Studies Quarterly 47(2): 230-244.
• “Cicero Speaks French: Ciceronian Themes in Brunetto Latini, Nicole Oresme and Christine de Pizan.” Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 22 (2017), 205-229.
• Foucault, Martial, Katsunori Seki and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “Good times, bad times: Taxation and electoral accountability.” Electoral Studies. 45:191-200.
• Katsunori Seki and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “Merkwürdig oder nicht? What Economic Voting Models and the 2013 Bundestag Elections Have to Say about Each Other.” German Politics. 26(1):65-82.
• Lipsmeyer, Christine S., Andrew Q. Philips, and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “The Effects of Immigration and Integration on European Budgetary Trade-offs,” Journal of European Public Policy, 24(6):912-930.
• Fuhrmann, Matthew, and Michael C. Horowitz. “Droning on: explaining the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles.” International organization 71.2 (2017): 397-418.
• Owen, Erica. 2017. “Exposure to Offshoring and the Politics of Trade Liberalization: Debates and Votes on Free Trade Agreements in the U.S. House of Representatives, 2001-2006.” International Studies Quarterly 61(2):297-311.
• Owen, Erica and Noel Johnston. 2017. “Occupation and the Political Economy of Trade: Job routineness, offshorability and protectionist sentiment.” International Organization 71(4):665-699.
• Owen, Erica and Stefanie Walter. 2017. “Open Economy Politics and Brexit: Insights, Puzzles and Ways Forward.” Review of International Political Economy 24(2):179-202.
• Teodoro, Manuel P., and Jon R. Bond. 2017. “Presidents, Baseball, and Wins above Expectations: What Can Sabermetrics Tell Us about Presidential Success?” PS: Political Science and Politics 50 (April): 339-346.
• Todd S. Sechser and Matthew Fuhrmann. 2017. Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Teodoro, Manuel P. and M. Anne Pitcher. 2017. “Contingent Technocracy: Bureaucratic Independence in Developing Countries,” Journal of Public Policy 37(4): 401-429. (2016 Impact Factor = 1.78)
• Wimpy, Cameron and Guy D. Whitten. 2017. “What Is and What May Never Be: Economic Voting in Developing Democracies.” Social Science Quarterly. 98:1099-1111.
• Wood, B. Dan, and Soren Jordan. Party Polarization in America: The War Over Two Social Contracts. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Research Publications 2016

• Compton, Mallory E., and Kenneth J. Meier. “Managing social capital and diversity for performance in public organizations.” Public Administration 94.3 (2016): 609-629.
• Cook, Scott J. and Burcu Savun. 2016. “New Democracies and the Risk of Civil Conflict: The Lasting Legacy of Military Rule,” Journal of Peace Research. 53(6): 745 -757.
• David Fortunato, Randolph T. Stevenson, and Greg Vonnahme. 2016. “Context, Heuristics, and Political Knowledge: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Citizens’ Left-Right Knowledge.” Journal of Politics 78: 12111228.
• Dyer, Megan K., and Cary J. Nederman. “Machiavelli against Method: Paul Feyerabend’s Anti-Rationalism and Machiavellian Political ‘Science’.” History of European Ideas 42.3 (2016): 430-445.
• Escobar-Lemmon, Maria C., Valerie Hoekstra, Alice Kang, and Miki Caul Kittilson. 2016. “Just the facts? Media Coverage of Female and Male High Court Appointees in Five Democracies” Politics and Gender 12(2): 254-274.
• Escobar-Lemmon, Maria C. and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson. 2016. Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens? Oxford University Press.
• Franzese, Robert J., Jude C. Hays, and Scott J. Cook . 2016. “Spatial-, Temporal-, and Spatiotemporaln Autoregressive Probit Models of Interdependent Outcomes,” Political Science Research and Methods. 4( 1): 15I – 173.
• Gandrud, Christopher, Laron K. Williams and Guy D. Whitten. 2016 “Visualize Dynamic Simulations of Autoregressive Relationships in R.” The Political Methodologist. Spring 2016:6-10.
• Harmel, Robert, and Yao-Yuan Yeh. “Attitudinal Differences within the Cultural Revolution Cohort: Effects of the Sent-down Experience.” The China Quarterly 225 (2016): 234-252.
• Kenneth J. Meier, Nathan Favero, and Mallory Compton. “Social Context, Management, and Organizational Performance: When Human Capital and Social Capital Serve as Substitutes.” Public Management Review 18 (Number 2, 2016), 258-277. SSCI Impact factor 1.872.
• Kenneth J. Meier, Søren Winter, Laurence J. O’Toole, Nathan Favero, and Simon Calmar Andersen “The Validity of Subjective Performance Measures: School Principals in Texas and Denmark.” Public Administration 93 (Number 4 2016), 1084-1101. doi: 10.1111/padm.12180 SSCI Impact Factor 1.922.
• Koch Michael T. 2016. “Some Agents are Freer than Others: Variation in the Re-election Incentive, Agency Loss and the Timing of Democratic Interstate Conflict” Presidential Studies Quarterly 46(4): 828–848.
• Koch, Michael T. and Stephen P. Nicholson. 2016.“Death and Turnout: The Human Costs of War and Voter: Participation in Democracies.” American Journal of Political Science, 60 (4): 932–946.
• Konisky, David M. and Manuel P. Teodoro. 2016. “When Governments Regulate Governments,” American Journal of Political Science 60(3): 559-574.
• Li, Quan. 2016. “Fiscal Decentralization and Tax Incentives in the Developing World,” Review of International Political Economy. 23(2): 232-260.
• Fuhrmann, Matthew, and Yonatan Lupu. “Do arms control treaties work? Assessing the effectiveness of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty.” International Studies Quarterly 60.3 (2016): 530-539.
• Meier, Kenneth J., and M. Apolonia Calderon. “Goal displacement and the protection of human subjects: The view from public administration.” PS: Political Science & Politics 49.2 (2016): 294-298.
• “Medieval Toleration through a Modem Lens: A ‘Judgmental’ View.” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 4 (2016), 1-26.
• Michael C. Horowitz, Sarah E. Kreps, and Matthew Fuhrmann. 2016. “Separating Fact from Fiction in the Debate over Drone Proliferation,” International Security 41 (2): 7-42.
• Favero, Nathan, Kenneth J. Meier, and Laurence J. O’Toole Jr. “Goals, trust, participation, and feedback: Linking internal management with performance outcomes.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 26.2 (2014): 327-343.
• Nederman, Cary J. “Polybius as monarchist? receptions of histories vi before Machiavelli, c. 1490–c. 1515.” History of Political Thought 37.3 (2016): 461-479.
• Owen, Erica and Dennis Quinn. 2016. ”Does Economic Globalization Influence the U.S. Policy Mood?: A Study of U.S. Public Sentiment, 1956-2009.” British Journal of Political Science 46(1):95-125.
• Philips, Andrew Q., Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. “Dynamic pie: A strategy for modeling trade‐offs in compositional variables over time.” American Journal of Political Science 60.1 (2016): 268-283.
• Philips, Andrew, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. 2016. “Dynsimpie: A Program to Examine Dynamic Compositional Dependent Variables.” Stata Journal. 16(3):662-677.
• Predicting the Presidency: The Path to Successful Leadership (Princeton University Press, 2016). Refereed
• Switzer, David, Manuel P. Teodoro and Stuart Karasik. 2016. “The Human Capital Resource Challenge: Recognizing and overcoming small utility workforce obstacles,” Journal of the American Water Works Association 108(8): E416-E424.
• Tarar, Ahmer. 2016. “A Strategic Logic of the Military Fait Accompli.” International Studies Quarterly 60(4):742-752.
• Teodoro, Manuel P. and David Switzer. 2016. “Drinking from the Talent Pool: A Resource Endowment Theory of Human Capital and Agency Performance,” Public Administration Review 76(4): 564-575.
• Ura, Joseph Daniel and Carla M. Flink. 2016. Experience Counts: The Chief Justice, Management Tenure, and Strategic Behavior on the U.S. Supreme Court Research and Politics 3(2): DOl: 10.1177/2053168016644464.
• Williams, Laron K., Katsunori Seki and Guy D. Whitten. 2016. “You’ve Got Some Explaining to Do: The Inuence of Economic Conditions and Spatial Competition on Party Strategy.” Political Science Research and Methods. 4(1):47-63.
• Wang, Di and Quan Li. 2016. “Democracy, Veto Player, and Institutionalization of Sovereign Wealth Funds,” International Inte0ractions. 42(3): 377-400.

Research Publications 2015

• Baer, Judith A. “Privacy at 50: The Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Spaces in Between.” Md. L. Rev. 75 (2015): 233.
• “Dante’s Imperial Road Leads to … Byzantium? The Internal Logic of the Monarchia.” Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 62, No. 143 (June 2015), 1-14.
• Escobar-Lemmon, Maria C. and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson. 2015. “Sex, survival and scandal: A comparison of how men and women exit presidential cabinets.” Politics and Gender 11(4): 665-88.
• Hall, Matthew E.K. and Joseph Daniel Ura, 2015.Judicial Majoritarianism Journal of Politics 77(3): 818-832.
• Kellstedt, Paul M., Suzanna Linn, and A. Lee Hannah. 2015. “The Usefulness of Consumer Sentiment: Assessing Construct and Measurement.” Public Opinion Quarterly 79(1):181-203.
• Koch, Michael T. and Stephen Nicholson. 2015. “Death and Turnout: The Human Costs of War and Voter Participation in Democracies” American Journal of Political Science Article first published online: 6 NOV 2015 DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12230
• Li, Q., 2015. Fiscal decentralization and tax incentives in the developing world. Review of International Political Economy, pp.1-32.
• Matthew Fuhrmann and Michael C. Horowitz. 2015. “When Leaders Matter: Rebel Experience and Nuclear Proliferation,” Journal of Politics 77 (1): 72-87.
• Matthew Fuhrmann and Benjamin Tkach. 2015. “Almost Nuclear: Introducing the Nuclear Latency Dataset,” Conflict Management and Peace Science 32 (4): 443-461.
• Meier, Kenneth J. “Proverbs and the evolution of public administration.” Public Administration Review 75.1 (2015): 15-24.
• Meier, Kenneth, et al. “Taking managerial context seriously: Public management and performance in US and Denmark schools.” International Public Management Journal 18.1 (2015): 130-150.
• Meier, Kenneth J., Nathan Favero, and Ling Zhu. “Performance gaps and managerial decisions: A Bayesian decision theory of managerial action.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 25.4 (2015): 1221-1246.
• Meier, Kenneth J. “Replenishing Our Theoretical Capital: An Introduction to the Public Management Theory Symposium.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 25.1 (2014): 1-4.
• O’Toole Jr, Laurence J., and Kenneth J. Meier. “Public management, context, and performance: In quest of a more general theory.” Journal of public administration research and theory 25.1 (2014): 237-256.
• Owen, Erica. 2015.“The Political Power of Organized Labor and the Politics of Foreign Direct Investment in Developed Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies 48(13): 1746-1780.
• Philips, Andrew, Amanda Rutherford, and Guy D. Whitten. 2015. “The Dynamic Battle for Pieces of Pie–modeling party support in multi-party nations.” Electoral Studies. 39:264-274.
• Robert Harmel and Yao-Yuan Yeh. “China’s Age Cohorts: Differences in Political Attitudes and Behavior. First published by Social Science Quarterly online 22 July 2014.
• Rutherford, Amanda, and Kenneth J. Meier. “Managerial Goals in a Performance‐Driven System: Theory and Empirical Tests in Higher Education.” Public Administration 93.1 (2015): 17-33.
• Sirin Cigdem V. and Michael T. Koch. 2015. “Dictators and Death: Casualty Sensitivity of Autocracies in Militarized Interstate Disputes” International Studies Quarterly 59(4):802-14.
• Von Vacano, Diego. “The scope of comparative political theory.” Annual Review of Political Science 18 (2015): 465-480.
• Williams, Laron K. and Guy D. Whitten. 2015. “Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Spatial Contagion Effects and Party Competition.” American Journal of Political Science. 59(2):309-325.
• Zhu, Ling and Christine S. Lipsmeyer. 2015. “Policy feedback and economic risk: the influence of privatization on social policy preferences,” Journal of European Public Policy, 22(10): 1489-1511.

Research Publications 2014

• Bollermann, Karen, and Cary J. Nederman. “The “Sunset Years”: John of Salisbury as Bishop of Chartres and the Emergent Cult of St. Thomas Becket in France.” Viator 45.2 (2014): 55-76.
• Bollermann, Karen, T. Izbicki, and C. Nederman, eds. Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries: Playing the Heresy Card. Springer, 2014.
• Escobar-Lemmon, Maria and Ashley D. Ross. 2014. “Does decentralization improve perceptions of accountability? Attitudes in response to decentralization in Colombia” American Journal of Political Science 58(1): 175-188. DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12043
• Escobar-Lemmon, Maria and Michelle Taylor Robinson (eds). 2014. Representation: The Case of Women. Oxford University Press. (peer-reviewed).
• Escobar-Lemmon, Maria and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson (eds.). 2014. Representation: The Case of Women. Oxford University Press.
• Fuhrmann, Matthew and Todd S. Sechser. 2014. “Signaling Alliance Commitments: Hand-Tying and Sunk Costs in Extended Nuclear Deterrence. American Journal of Political Science 58 (4): 919-935.
• Flavin, Patrick, Alexander Pacek, and Benjamin Radcliff. 2014. “Assessing the Impact of the Size and Scope of Government on Human Well-Being. Social Forces. 92(4): 1241-1258.
• Funk, Kendall and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson. 2014. “Gender balance in committees and how it impacts participation: Evidence from Costa Rica’s legislative assembly.” Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política 23(2): 111-134.
• Fuhrmann, Matthew and Todd S. Sechser. 2014. “Nuclear Strategy, Nonproliferation, and the Causes of Foreign Nuclear Deployments,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2): 455-480.
• Fulton, Sarah A. 2014. “When Gender Matters: Macro-Dynamics and MicroMechanisms.” Political Behavior 36: 605-630. Winner of the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award, Best Paper Presented on Women in Politics at the Midwest Political Science Conference.
• Harvey J. Tucker, 2014, “Visualizing Timescape Issues in a Comparative Study of the American States,” International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 80 (3) 2014, 533-552.
• Hill, Kim Quaile, K. Jurée Capers, and Carla Flink. ““Why Some and Not Others?” The Determinants of the Quality and Prestige of Public Graduate Research Universities.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 14.1 (2014): 29-49.
• Hill, Kim Quaile, and Rebekah Myers. “Scientific Literacy in Undergraduate Political Science Education: The Current State of Affairs, an Agenda for Action, and Proposed Fundamental Benchmarks.” PS: Political Science & Politics 47.4 (2014): 835-839.
• Jo, Hyeran and Catarina Thomson. 2014. “Legitimacy and Compliance with International Law: Accessto Detainees in Civil Conflicts, 1991-2006” British Journal of Political Science. 44(2): 323-355.
• Johnson, Tyler, and Paul M. Kellstedt. 2014. “Media Consumption and the Dynamics of Policy Mood.” Political Behavior 36(2):377-399.
• Jordan, Soren, Clayton McLaughlin Webb, and B. Dan Wood. “The president, polarization and the party platforms, 1944–2012.” The Forum. Vol. 12. No. 1. De Gruyter, 2014.
• Leonard Baccini, Quan Li and Irina Mirkina. 2014. “Corporate Tax Cuts and Foreign Direct Investment,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33(4): 977–1006.
• Nederman, Cary J. “Practical and Productive Knowledge in the Twelfth Century: Extending the Aristotelian Paradigm, c. 1120–c. 1160.” Parergon 31.1 (2014): 27-45.
• Owen, Erica and Dennis Quinn. “Does Economic Globalization Influence the U.S. Policy Mood?: A Study of U.S. Public Sentiment, 1956-2011.” Forthcoming at British Journal of Political Science (published online May 2014). 5year impact factor: 2.427.
• Oxley, Douglas R., Arnold Vedlitz, and B. Dan Wood. “The effect of persuasive messages on policy problem recognition.” Policy Studies Journal 42.2 (2014): 252-268.
• Teodoro, Manuel P. 2014. “When Professionals Lead: Executive Management, Normative Isomorphism, and Policy Implementation,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 24(4): 983-1004.
• Ura, Joseph Daniel. 2014. Backlash and Legitimation: Macro Political Responses to Supreme Court Decisions American Journal of Political Science 58(1): 110-126.

Research Publications 2013

• Manzano, Sylvia, and Joseph D. Ura. “Desperately seeking Sonia? Latino heterogeneity and geographic variation in Web searches for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.” Political Communication 30.1 (2013): 81-99.
• Matthew Fuhrmann and Jeffrey Berejikian, “Disaggregating Noncompliance: Abstention versus Predation in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty,” Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013).
• Nederman, Cary J. “2012 Arthur O. Lovejoy Lecture Civil Religion—Metaphysical, Not Political: Nature, Faith, and Communal Order in European Thought, c. 1150–c. 1550.” Journal of the History of Ideas 74.1 (2013): 1-22.
• Taylor-Robinson, Michelle M., and Joseph Daniel Ura. “Public opinion and conflict in the separation of powers: Understanding the Honduran coup of 2009.” Journal of Theoretical Politics 25.1 (2013): 105-127.
  
• Whang, Taehee, Elena V. McLean, and Douglas W. Kuberski. “Coercion, information, and the success of sanction threats.” American journal of political science 57.1 (2013): 65-81.

Research Publications 2012

• Avellaneda, Claudia N., Felipe Botero, and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. “Policymaking in Parochial Legislatures: What Laws Pass the Colombian Legislature?.” The Latin Americanist 56.2 (2012): 7-33.
• Fuhrmann, Matthew. “Splitting Atoms: Why do countries build nuclear power plants?.” International Interactions 38.1 (2012): 29-57.
• Fulton, Sarah A. “Running backwards and in high heels: The gendered quality gap and incumbent electoral success.” Political Research Quarterly 65.2 (2012): 303-314.
• Harmel, Robert, and Alexander C. Tan. “One-Party Rule or Multi-Party Competition?: Chinese Attitudes Toward Party Systems Alternatives.” Chinese Attitudes Toward Party Systems
• Enns, Peter K., Paul M. Kellstedt, and Gregory E. McAvoy. “The consequences of partisanship in economic perceptions.” Public Opinion Quarterly 76.2 (2012): 287-310.
• Mihalache-O’Keef, Andreea, and Quan Li. “Modernization vs. dependency revisited: effects of foreign direct investment on food security in less developed countries.” International Studies Quarterly 55.1 (2011): 71-93.
• Li, Q., Fuhrmann, M., Early, B. R., & Vedlitz, A. (2012). Preferences, knowledge, and citizen probability assessments of the terrorism risk of nuclear power. Review of Policy Research, 29(2), 207-227.
• McLean, Elena V., and Randall W. Stone. “The Kyoto Protocol: two-level bargaining and European integration.” International Studies Quarterly 56.1 (2012): 99-113.
• McLean, Elena V. “Donors’ preferences and agent choice: Delegation of European development aid.” International Studies Quarterly 56.2 (2012): 381-395.
• Kenneth J. Meier and Rhys Andrews, George Boyne, Laurence O’Toole, and Richard Walker, “Vertical Strategic Alignment and Public Service Performance,” Public Administration 90 (No1, 03. 2012).
• Nederman, Cary J., and Mary Elizabeth Sullivan. “The Polybian Moment: The Transformation of Republican Thought from Ptolemy of Lucca to Machiavelli.” The European Legacy 17.7 (2012): 867-881.
•  Ura, Joseph Daniel, and Christopher R. Ellis. “Partisan moods: Polarization and the dynamics of mass party preferences.” The Journal of Politics 74.1 (2012): 277-291.
• Von Vacano, Diego. “Las Casas and the birth of race.” History of Political Thought 33.3 (2012): 401-426.

Research Publications 2011

• Ross, Ashley, and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. “The price of personalizing politics: Political distrust and economic performance in Latin America, 1996–2006.” Electoral Studies 30.3 (2011): 406-416.
• Kreps, Sarah E., and Matthew Fuhrmann. “Attacking the Atom: Does Bombing Nuclear Facilities Affect Proliferation?.” Journal of Strategic Studies 34.2 (2011): 161-187.
• Taylor-Robinson, Michelle M., et al. “What should congress members do? using survey embedded exPeriments to study citizens’ clientelistic exPectations in mexico.” Revista latinoamericana de opinión pública: investigación social aplicada (año 2011): 147.
• Sirin, Cigdem V., José D. Villalobos, and Nehemia Geva. “Political information and emotions in ethnic conflict interventions.” International Journal of Conflict Management 22.1 (2011): 35-59.
• Duch, Raymond M., and Paul M. Kellstedt. “The heterogeneity of consumer sentiment in an increasingly homogenous global economy.” Electoral Studies 30.3 (2011): 399-405.
• Koch, Michael T., and Sarah A. Fulton. “In the defense of women: Gender, office holding, and national security policy in established democracies.” The Journal of politics 73.1 (2011): 1-16.
•  Koch, Michael T. “Casualties and incumbents: do the casualties from interstate conflicts affect incumbent party vote share?.” British Journal of Political Science 41.4 (2011): 795-817.
• Li, Quan, and Rafael Reuveny. “Does trade prevent or promote interstate conflict initiation?.” Journal of Peace Research 48.4 (2011): 437-453
• Lipsmeyer, Christine S., and Heather Nicole Pierce. “The eyes that bind: Junior ministers as oversight mechanisms in coalition governments.” The Journal of Politics 73.4 (2011): 1152-1164.
•  Lipsmeyer, Christine S. “Booms and busts: how parliamentary governments and economic context influence welfare policy.” International Studies Quarterly 55.4 (2011): 959-980.
• Lipsmeyer, Christine S., and Ling Zhu. “Immigration, globalization, and unemployment benefits in developed EU states.” American Journal of Political Science 55.3 (2011): 647-664.
• Kenneth J. Meier, Rhys Andrews, George Boyne, Laurence O’Toole, and Richard Walker, “Managing Migration: How Some Councils Cope Better than Others,” Public Policy Research 17 (February 2011): 207-213.
• _____ and Laurence J. O’Toole, “Comparing Public and Private Management: Theoretical Expectations,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 21 (Supplement 3, July 2011): 283-301.
• Andrews, Rhys, et al. “Environmental and organizational determinants of external networking.” The American Review of Public Administration 41.4 (2011): 355-374.
• Nederman, Cary J. “Toleration in a new key: historical and global perspectives.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14.3 (2011): 349-361.
• _____ and Karen Bollerman, “The Extravagance of the Senses’: Epicureanism, Priestly Tyranny, and the Becket Problem in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 3rd series, 8 (2011): 1-25.
• Shogimen, Takashi, and Cary J. Nederman. “The Best Medicine? Medical Education, Practice, and Metaphor in John of Salisbury’s Policraticus and Metalogicon.” Viator 42.1 (2011): 55-73.
• Alexander C. Pacek, Patrick Flavin, and Benjamin Radcliff, “State Intervention and Subjective Well-Being in Advanced Industrial Democracies,” Politics and Policy 39 (No2, 2011): 251-270.
• Ahmer Tarar and Branislav Slantchev, “Mutual Optimism as a Rationalist Explanation of War,” American Journal of Political Science 55 (January 2011): 135-148.
• Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Ashley Ross, “Can Formal Rules of Order be Used as an Accurate Proxy for Behavior Internal to a Legislature? Evidence from Costa Rica?” Journal of Legislative Studies 17 (4, 2011).
• Guy D. Whitten and Harvey D. Palmer, “Through Thick and Thin? The Dynamics of Government Support Across Income Groups During Economic Crises,” Electoral Studies (forthcoming 2011).
• Whitten, Guy D., and Laron K. Williams. “Buttery guns and welfare hawks: The politics of defense spending in advanced industrial democracies.” American Journal of Political Science 55.1 (2011): 117-134.

Research Publications 2010

• Meier, Kenneth J., et al. “Alignment and results: Testing the interaction effects of strategy, structure, and environment from Miles and Snow.” Administration & Society 42.2 (2010): 160-192.