AMERICAN POLITICS

Allen, Kristen Coopie: “The Structure of Electoral Success: Determining Victory or Defeat from Contribution Dispersion in State Legislative Elections”; University of Pittsburgh

Anastasopoulos, Lefteris Jason: “The Political Consequences of Ethnic, Racial and Gender Diversity: A Causal Inference Approach”; University of California, Berkeley

Anderson, Christopher: “The Causes and Consequences of Congressional Endorsements in Presidential Primaries”; Texas A&M University

Anderson Ponzer, Karin: “A ‘Perfect Storm’: The struggle to forge federal immigration enforcement capacity and the institutional origins of the plenary power doctrine in U.S. immigration law”; New School for Social Research

Armoudian, Maria: “The Politics of Transformation: Mass Media & the Northern Ireland Peace Process”; University of Southern California

Arthur, Charles Damien: “Economic Demagoguery: The Limited Effects of Presidential Rhetoric”; West Virginia University

Atkinson, Mary Layton: “The Influence of Partisan Conflict on Policy Attitudes”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Banda, Kevin K.: “Candidate Strategy and Assessment During Election Campaigns”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Barnes, Carolyn: “The Political Implications of Nonprofit Social Service Provision”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Bateman, David Alexander: “Democratic Exclusion: The Right to Vote in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.”; University of Pennsylvania

Belco, Michelle Helene: “Unilateral Orders and the Legislative Process”; University of Houston

Bishop, Bradford H.: “Public Opinion and the Environment in American Politics”; Duke University

Blackmond Larnell, Twyla: “Networks as a Determinant of Policy Use”; Michigan State University

Braidwood, Travis: “Pork Politics: How Earmarks Affect Voter Behavior and Federal Campaigns”; Florida State University

Brown-Guinyard, Sherral Y.: “Race, Class, Gender and Linked Fate: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of African American Political Partisanship, 1996 and 2004”; University of South Carolina

Burnett, Guy F.: “The Safeguard of Liberty and Property: The Supreme Court, Kelo v. New London, and the Modern Interpretation of the Takings Clause”; Claremont Graduate University

Capper, David W.: “Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Substantive Due Process: Why the Most Powerful Judge in History Isn’t as Dumb as Everybody Thinks He Is”; Baylor University

Cathey, S. Nicole: “Rethinking Civil Rights: The Impacts of Same-Sex Marriage on African American Churches in Washington, D.C.”; Howard University

Chaturvedi, Neil: “Hedging and Hiding: Surviving the Ideological Center of the United States Senate”; University of California, Irvine

Clemens, Austin: “The Industrial Organization of Interest Group Markets”; University of Georgia

Clifford, Scott: “The Moral Presentation of Self: Causes and Consequences of Perceptions of Politicians’ Character Traits”; Florida State University

Coggins, K. Elizabeth: “The Liberal Paradox”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Copeland, Lauren: “Political Consumerism and the Expansion of Political Participation in the U.S.”; University of California, Santa Barbara

Corrigan, Bryce: “Moving Beyond the Collapsed Campaign: Tools and Techniques for Studying Non-Normal, Heterogeneous Dynamics”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Cravens, Matthew D.: “The Role of Habit in Voting: Making and Breaking Habitual Voters”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Curry, Jill L.: “The Transformation of the Role of the Economy in U.S. Presidential Elections Over Time”; University of Maryland, College Park

Czaja, Erica: “Revolutionary Emotion: Empathy and Equality in the United States”; Princeton University

DeWitt, Darin: “A Theory of Party Formation”; University of California, Los Angeles

DiMaggio, Anthony R.: “Political-Media Relations and the Power of Party-Based Regimes”; University of Illinois, Chicago

Donovan, Kathleen M.: “Real Attitudes, Fictional Crime: How Crime Dramas Impact Policy Attitudes”; SUNY, Stony Brook University

Doriean, Charles: “Modeling the Dynamics of Electoral Security and Party Unity in the U.S. House of Representatives”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Easterly, Bianca: “Institutional Responsiveness in Subnational Policymaking: An Examination of Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification Laws”; University of Houston

Eaves, Carrie: “Candidate Quality, Electoral Competition, and the Incumbency Advantage in the U.S. Senate”; University of Georgia

Fairdosi, Amir: “Arrested Development: The Effects of Incarceration on Civic Engagement and Political Beliefs”; University of Chicago

Farris, Emily: “Latino Leadership in City Hall”; Brown University

Foley, Peter W.: “Four Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Political Ideology”; California Institute of Technology

Foster Shoaf, Nicole R: “Assessing the Independence of State Parties: Issue Ownership and Morality Politics in U.S. State Party Platforms”; University of Missouri, Columbia

Fowler, Anthony: “Five Studies on the Causes and Consequences of Voter Turnout”; Harvard University

French, Eric Michael: “The Effect of ‘Easy’ Issue Frames on Public Opinion”; Indiana University, Bloomington

Friedel, Sylvia Yu: “The Effectiveness of Campaign Messages on Turnout and Vote Choice”; University of California, Los Angeles

Frisco, Velda: “American Grail: Contemporary Federal Budget Reform”; West Virginia University

Frost, Amanda: “The American Donator: An Exploration of the Modern Individual Donor”; University of Iowa

Gall, Megan: “The Political Geography and Electoral Consequences of the Slavery and Civil Rights Eras in American History”; SUNY, University at Buffalo

García-Castañon, Marcela: “Theory of Multi-Tiered Membership”; University of Washington

Garrow, Robert: “The Psychology of Modern Liberalism: Pride in Hobbes’ “Laviathan” and Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America””; Claremont Graduate University

Gervais, Bryan: “Incivility in Mass Political Discourse: The Causes and Consequences of an Uncivil Public”; University of Maryland, College Park

Gruszczynski, Mike: “Emotion and Public Attention to Political Issues”; University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Hall, Benjamin L: “The View from the Other Side of the Aisle: Congressional Party Switchers and Their Environments”; University of Missouri, Columbia

Hamilton, Allison: “Competing Pathways of the Digital Media’s Influence on Women Political Candidates”; University of Iowa

Hampton, Antwan: “Rapid Regime Responses: An Urban Regime Analysis of Chicago’s and Miami’s Response to an Emerging Housing Crisis”; Northern Illinois University

Harrison, Brian F.: “Red Brain, Blue Brain: How Selective Perception, Elite Polarization, and Media Choice Impact Presidential Communication”; Northestern University

Haynes, Chris S.: “The Effect of Empathy on Public Opinion on Immigration”; University of California, Riverside

Henderson, John A.: “Downs’ Revenge: Elections, Responsibility and the Rise of Congressional Polarization”; University of California, Berkeley

Herbel, Lindsey C.: “The Effects of Ideology and Politics in Prosecutorial Decision Making: The Myth of Apolitical U.S. Attorneys”; Georgia State University

Hevron, Parker Read: “The Affective Framing of Tort Reform: Toward a Theory of the Mediating Effects of Emotion on Attitude Formation”; University of Southern California

Hickey, Emily G.: “Essays in Congressional Communication”; Harvard University

Hilty, Emily C.: “Who votes, who doesn’t, who cares? The nonvoter in American democratic theory and practice”; Indiana University, Bloomington

Hindman, Matthew Dean: “Interest Group Citizenship: LGBT Politics from the Closet to K Street”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Hinkle, Rachael K.: “The Role of U.S. Courts of Appeal in Legal Development: An Empirical Analysis”; Washington University in St. Louis

Israel, Rebekah: “The American Politics of a Jewish Judea and Samaria”; Florida International University

Jensen, Micah K.: “Pride & Politics: Public Opinion and Political Behavior among Sexual Minorities”; Georgetown University

Joseph, Patricia Hallam: “Liberty, Equality, and Kindness?: How the Strategic Choice of Values Affect Policy Attitudes and Information Choices”; University of Pittsburgh

Joyce, Adam: “The Politics of ‘the Army You Have’: Change and Continuity in the U.S. Military, 1972-2008”; New School for Social Research

Kalmbach, Jason: “Understanding the Debate: The Limits of Scientific Knowledge”; Michigan State University

Keane, Lauren: “Sowing the Seeds for Grassroots Growth: How Recruitment Appeals Impact the Calculus of Citizen Engagement”; University of Notre Dame

Kehrberg, Jason: “Changing America: The Impact of Immigration on Welfare Attitudes and Welfare Reform”; University of Kentucky

Klar, Samara: “The Influence of Identities on Political Preferences”; Northwestern University

Krcatovich, Erin: “Tracing the Roots of Charitable Choice”; Michigan State University

Krimmel, Katherine: “Special Interest Partisanship: The Transformation of American Political Parties”; Columbia University

Lehman, Daniel George: “Local Party Organizations and the Mobilization of Latino Voters”; Temple University

Lenoir, Brandon W.: “Studying the Effects of Mobilization Messages in a Strategic Environment: Applying the Receive-Accept-Sample (RAS) Model”; University of Pittsburgh

Lind, Colene J.: “The Common Style in American Politics: A Rhetorical Analysis of Ordinary, Exceptional Leadership”; University of Texas, Austin

Lupton, Robert: “Examining the Structure of Elite Attitudes: The Role of Sophistication in Attitudes Toward Government Spending”; Michigan State University

Lynch, Emily Kathryn: “Time is on their Side? The Dynamics of Congressional Party Voting and Constituent Support”; Ohio State University

Major, Mark: “Hiding in Plain Sight: The News Media and the Politics of Framing the Unilateral Presidency”; Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Marchetti, Kathleen: “Crossing the Intersection: Diversity in Interest Group Advocacy and Representation”; Pennsylvania State University

Mason, Lilliana Hall: “Behavioral Polarization and Partisan Sorting: How Identity Alignment Drives Polarized Politics”; SUNY, Stony Brook University

McHenry, Kristen Abatsis: “Promising Prevention: Greening the Breast Cancer Movement in the United States”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst

McQueeney, Kevin G.: “The Storm before the Calm”; Rutgers University, New Brunswick

McQuiston, James Michael: “Social Capital in the Production Gap: Social Networking Services and their Transformative Role in Civic Engagement.”; Kent State University

Merseth, Julie Lee: “Racial Solidarity and the Intragroup Politics of Immigrant Incorporation”; University of Chicago

Miles, Matthew: “The Public Presidency: Increasing Return on Investment”; University of Kansas

Miller, Peter: “Redistricting in the United States: Inputs, Institutions, and Outcomes”; University of California, Irvine

Moody, Jonathan: “Campaigning for the Agenda: Agenda Setting in the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Campaigns”; Pennsylvania State University

Muddiman, Ashley: “Instability of Incivility: How Media Frames and Citizen Perceptions Shape Conflict in American Politics”; University of Texas, Austin

Myers, Adam: “The Geographical Foundations of State Legislative Conflict, 1993-2012”; University of Texas, Austin

Neiheisel, Jacob R.: “Party Brands in American Politics: Strategy, Communication, and Electoral Response”; University of Wisconsin, Madison

Ogorzalek, Thomas K.: “The Cities on the Hill: Urban Politics in National Institutions”; Columbia University

Olson, Jeremiah Carl: “Social Construction and Political Decision Making in the American Prison System(s)”; University of Kentucky

Ostrander, Ian: “Winning the Waiting Game: Senatorial Delay in Executive Nominations”; Washington University in St. Louis

Ostrander Swain, Katie: “Local Places Open Spaces: Creating Substantive Citizenship with Race Neutrality”; University of California, Santa Barbara

Park, Saemyi: “What to represent, by whom?: Political Interests and Representation of Asian Americans”; University of Wisconsin, Madison

Perry, Brittany N.: “The Political Representation of Non-Citizen Latinos: An Analysis of Legislative Motivations”; Duke University

Pluta, Anne: “Evolution of Popular Presidential Communications”; University of California, Santa Barbara

Prosky, Melissa: “The Effect of Public Comment Mechanisms on Bureaucratic Implementation: The Case of No Child left Behind: 2002-2009”; Brandeis University

Pump, Barry: “A Day Late and A Dollar Short: A Signaling Model of American Economic Policymaking”; University of Washington

Rainey, Carlisle: “Essays on the Roles and Functions of Political Parties”; Florida State University

Ralston, Jonah: “The Anti-Technocracy: The Unscientific Determinants of Voting on Controversial Scientific Issues”; Michigan State University

Rebe, Ryan J.: “The Influence of Outside Interests over Elected Judges”; Texas Tech University

Reilly, Jack Lyons: “Patterns of Isolation: The Effects of Social Connectedness on Network Diffusion, Social Influence, and American Political Attitudes”; University of California, Davis

Rice, Doug: “Agenda Dynamics in the U.S. Federal Courts”; Pennsylvania State University

Ridge, Charlotte Lee: “Women in Local Government”; University of Iowa

Rippere, Paulina: “Polarization Reconsidered: The Influence of Institutional Structure on Legislative Networks”; University of Florida

Rogers, Steven: “Accountability in State Legislative Elections”; Princeton University

Rogers, Jonathan David: “Colonel Blotto Goes to Washington: Economic Voting, Public Goods, and Lobbying”; Florida State University

Rohr, Lia Naomi: “The Performance of Gender Archetypes in Congressional Campaigns”; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Russon-Gilman, Hollie: “The Participatory Turn: Participatory Budgeting Comes to America”; Harvard University

Ryan, Peter J.: “Charting a Course to Autonomy: Bureaucratic Politics and the Transformation of Wall Street”; University of California, Berkeley

Scharr, Robert W.: “Agents of Exclusion: A Historical Analysis of Immigration Law vis-a-vis Asian-Americans and Latinos”; University of Florida

Schnidman, Evan: “Essays on Federal Reserve Bank Evolution, Transparency, and Market Interaction”; Harvard University

Scott, Lane: “F.A. Hayek and American Libertarianism”; Claremont Graduate University

Shafer, Rebecca: “Gender and Party Stereotypes in the Evaluation of U.S. Senate Candidates”; University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Sharrow, Elizabeth A.: “Forty years “on the basis of sex”: Title IX, the “Female Athlete” and the Political Construction of Sex and Gender”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Sheagley, Geoffrey: “Political Disagreement and Decision-Making in American Politics”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Shoji, Kaori: “When Do Party Leaders Democratize? Analyzing Three Reforms of Voter Registration and Candidate Selection”; Columbia University

Sinclair, John Andrew: “Of Primary Importance: American Primary Elections 1945-2012”; California Institute of Technology

Sivolella, John J.: “Do Politics Matter to this Watchdog? The Effects of Ideology on Civil Enforcement at the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission”; Columbia University

Steinberg, Alan: “Cyber Participation: The Effect of Online Social Media on Political Participation”; University of Houston

Stephens, Lafleur: “Campaigning in a ‘Post Racial’ America: How Black Candidates Win Offce in Majority White Jurisdictions”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Summary, Bryce D.: “Reading the Tea Leaves: An Exploration of the Origins, Composition, and Influence of the Tea Party”; University of Missouri, St. Louis

Sung, Jaeyun: “The Dynamics of Targeting Strategies in the Composition of Presidential Election Campaign Messages”; University of Georgia

Taylor, Jeffrey A: “Electoral Systems and Representation: the Effects of District Magnitude”; University of Maryland, College Park

Taylor, James Benjamin: “Bias that Matters: The Effects of Biased Media on American Political Behavior and Attitudes”; Georgia State University

Thompson, Lucas: “Constitutional Duty: Emergency Power and the American Presidency”; Yale University

Thornburg, Matthew P.: “You Can’t Leave Just Yet!”: The Causes and Consequences of Registering with a Political Party”; George Mason University

Thrower, Sharece: “Presidential Power and Judicial Constraint”; Princeton University

Tomanek-Norman, Sara: “Congress and the Judiciary: The Role of Ideology in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines”; Texas Tech University

Trump, Kris-Stella: “The Status Quo and Perceptions of Fairness: How Income Inequality Influences Public Opinion”; Harvard University

Veal, Keith C.: “The Gating of America: the Political and Social Consequences of Gated Communities on the Body Politic”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Wakao, Shinya: “Wall Street, Main Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue: the Effect of Stock Ownership on Political Behavior in the U.S.”; University of Texas, Austin

Waugh, Andrew Scott: “The Agenda Setting Powers of Party Organizations”; University of California, San Diego

Weikert, Joshua John: “Balancing Act: How an Unbalanced Media Affects the Electorate”; Temple University

Weinschenk, Aaron C.: “‘Cause You’ve Got (Personality): Understanding the Impact of Personality on Political Participation”; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Wendland, Jay L.: “The Good-For-Nothing Campaign? The Importance of Campaign Visits in Presidential Nominating Contests”; University of Arizona

Woolfalk, Miya: “Essays on Social Contexts and Individual Politics: the Political Influence of Religious Institutions and Ethno-Racial Neighborhood Contexts”; Harvard University

Wooten, Meredith: “Moments of Truth: Congressional Investigations of Intelligence and the Construction of Political Accounts”; University of Pennsylvania

Wysocki, Joseph F.: “Congressional Rhetoric: Going Public and Its Effects on the Institution”; Baylor University

Yates, Heather E.: “Their Minds Will Follow: Examining the Role of Voters’ Emotions When Formulating Attitudes on Campaign Issues in the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Elections”; University of Kansas

Yin, Hongxing: “What Economy Matters? Contemporaneous and Refined Economic Measures, Perception of Economic Conditions, and Political Evaluation”; SUNY, University at Buffalo

Zilis, Michael: “Respectfully Dissent: Linking Judicial Voting Behavior, Media Coverage, and Public Responses in the Study of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Abu, Ofir: “State Response to Arab Protest in Israel, 1990-2001: The Role of Dissident Elites”; Brandeis University

Akinyemi, Florence O.: “The Dog that Doesn’t Bark?: Ethno-Religious Conflict and Peace Entrepreneurs in Nigeria”; University of California, Los Angeles

Auerbach, Adam Michael: “Demanding Development: Democracy, Community Governance, and Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums”; University of Wisconsin, Madison

Balarezo, Christine: “Selling Humans: The Political Economy of Contemporary Global Slavery”; University of North Texas

Balderacchi, Claudio: “The Radical Left and Democracy in Latin America: The Role of Participatory Mechanisms in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela”; University of Florida

Bateson, Regina A.: “Order and Violence in Postwar Guatemala”; Yale University

Batta, Anna: “Ethnic Politics in New States: Russian and Serbian Minorities After Secession”; University of North Texas

Becher, Michael: “Essays on the Redistributive Consequences of Democratic Constitutions”; Princeton University

Bevan, Oliver: “Three Papers on the Development and Contribution of Ideational Frameworks in Russian Politics, 1917-1934 and 1991-2008”; Harvard University

Biddle, Lauren: “Corruption in Democratic Brazil”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Bishara, Dina: “Authoritarian Institutions as Objects of Contestation: Challenges to State Corporatism in Egypt”; George Washington University

Bither-Terry, Russell: “Zero Hunger: The Politics of anti-Hunger Policy in Brazil”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Bottomley, Daniel: “Sustaining”; University of Delaware

Bradley-Storey, Lacey: “Institutional Volatility at the Grassroots: Explaining the Localization of Instability in China”; Northeastern University

Bray, Janna: “Friend or Foe? Muslim Immigrants and Left Political Parties in Western Europe”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Brookes, Marissa Danielle: “Transnational Labor Alliances: Why Some Succeed”; Northwestern University

Brown, Cody: “Why Do They Fight? Explaining Participation in the War in Croatia”; University of Kansas

Brule, Rachel E.: “The Political Economy of Gender-Equalizing Land Inheritance Reform’s Impact in Rural India”; Stanford University

Buckley, David T.: “Secular Evolution: Religion, Democracy and Institutional Change in Ireland, Senegal and the Philippines”; Georgetown University

Buehler, Matthew J.: “The Social Base Of Divide-And-Rule: Left-Islamist Opposition Alliances In North Africa’s Arab Spring”; University of Texas, Austin

Bunte, Jonas: “Debt and Coalitions: Domestic Politics and Sovereign Borrowing”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Burns, Sean: “One Hand? Military Structure and Middle East Revolts”; Northwestern University

Cagossi, Alessandro: “Economic and Monetary Union: An Unexplored Case of Federalism”; West Virginia University

Cantu, Francisco: “Electoral Manipulation in Developing Democracies”; University of California, San Diego

Carter, Danielle S.: “Non-State Security, State Legitimacy and Political Participation in South Africa”; Michigan State University

Ceka, Besir: “Causes and consequences of political trust”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chen, Ling: “Globally Distorted Development: Varieties of Local State Capitalism and the Paradox of Industrial Upgrading in China”; Johns Hopkins University

Choudhury, Zahid: “Politics of Natural Disasters: How Governments Maintain Legitimacy in the Wake of Major Disasters, 1990-2010”; University of Iowa

Chu, Katherine: “Enjoying Bird-Caged Press Freedom: A Study of Film and Media Industries in China After 1978 and Its Soft Power”; University of Southern California

Claassen, Christopher: “The Emotional Logic of Participation in Intergroup Violence”; Washington University in St. Louis

Connolly, John: “Political Sophistication in Contemporary Britain”; University of Texas at Dallas

Corral, Margarita: “Uneven representation? Analysis of Democratic Responsiveness in Latin America”; Vanderbilt University

Cruz, Cesi: “Social Networks and Illegal Electoral Strategies”; University of California, San Diego

Curtis, Katherine Amber: “The Psychology of Political-Territorial Identification”; University of Colorado, Boulder

Daniel, William Thomas: “All Roads Lead Through Brussels? Career Ambition and the European Parliament”; University of Pittsburgh

Distelhorst, Gregory: “Publicity-Driven Accountability in China”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dobbs, Erica: “Constituents Without Citizenship: Migrant Political Representation in New Destination Countries”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Donnelly, Michael: “Identity and Interests: Voter Heuristics and Support for Redistributive Policy”; Princeton University

Dukalskis, Alexander J.: “Ideology & Authoritarian Persistence: Shaping the Public Sphere in North Korea and Burma”; University of Notre Dame

Eichorst, Jason: “Conditioning Descriptive Representation: Institutional Moderation of Unique Group Perspectives in Legislative Debates”; Rice University

El Nakhala, Doaa: “Walls and Fences, the Making of Good Neighbors?!”; University of Texas, Austin

Fischer, Sarah: “Democratization, Modernization, and the Headscarf: Women’s Relationship to Secularism in Contemporary Turkey”; American University

Galiñanes, Ramon: “Negotiating a Lasting Peace: A Comparative Analysis of Angola’s Civil War Settlements”; University of Florida

Gellman, Mneesha: “Claiming Culture: A Comparative Study of Ethnic Minority Rights Mobilizations in Mexico, Turkey and El Salvador”; Northwestern University

Goodnow, Regina R: “Post-Soviet Super-Presidentialism: Explaining Constitution Choice in Russia and Ukraine”; University of Texas, Austin

Gottlieb, Jessica: “Peasants into Democrats: Evaluating the Determinants of Democratic Failure in Mali”; Stanford University

Greitens, Sheena Chestnut: “Coercive Institutions and State Violence Under Authoritarianism”; Harvard University

Hale, Christopher: “Religion and Political Activism in Mexico”; Arizona State University

Hart, Austin: “Campaigning for the Economic Vote: The Political Impact of Economic Rhetoric”; University of Texas, Austin

Ho, Selina: “Politics, Business and Development in China’s Urban Water Sector”; Johns Hopkins University

Inman, Molly: “When National Minorities Become Local Majorities: Federalism, Ethnic Conflict and Violence”; University of Maryland, College Park

Jackman, Molly: “The Institutional Foundations of Majority Party Power”; Stanford University

Jeon, Jee Seon: “Dynamic Models of Endogenous Political Power”; Washington University in St. Louis

Jia, Minna: “Political Identity and Political Participation: China’s Post -80’s Generation”; University of Southern California

Johnson, Kristina: “Winning Isn’t Everything (Except When it Is): How Domestic Politics Drive Interstate Competition for Foreign Direct Investment”; Princeton University

Jones, Cara: “Giving Up the Gun: Rebel to Ruler Transitions in Africa’s Great Lakes Region”; University of Florida

Jones, Calvert W.: “Bedouins into Bourgeois? Social Engineering for a Market Economy in the United Arab Emirates”; Yale University

Kenny, Paul D.: “The Patronage Network: Broker Power, Populism, and Democracy in India”; Yale University

Kent, Andrea Kay: “The Winner-Loser Effect in Context: Presidentialism and Democracy across the Americas”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kerr, Nicholas: “The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Administrative Reform in Africa”; Michigan State University

Kiewiet de Jonge, Chad Patton: “Political Learning and Democratic Commitment in New Democracies”; University of Notre Dame

Kim, Mason: “Institutional Varieties of Productivist Welfare Capitalism in East Asia”; University of Pittsburgh

Kim, Diana: “Empire’s Penal Turn: The Rise of Opium Prohibition in Mainland Southeast Asia, 1870-1935”; University of Chicago

Kovalov, Maksym: “The Effects of Populism on Democratic Quality in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Ukraine”; University of Oklahoma

Kramon, Eric J.: “Vote Buying and Accountability in Democratic Africa”; University of California, Los Angeles

Kuo, Joanna Didi: “Patron States: The Decline of Clientelism in the United States and Britain”; Harvard University

Kyle, Brett J.: “Recycling Dictators: Ex-Authoritarians in New Democracies”; University of Wisconsin, Madison

Lawrence, Duncan: “South of the Border: Immigration Attitudes in Latin America”; University of Colorado, Boulder

Le Bihan, Patrick: “Essays on Political Accountability”; New York University

Le Foulon, Carmen: “The effect of Transparency on Legislative Behavior: Taking Position Avoidance into Account. The Case of Chile”; Columbia University

Lee, Yuen-Ching B.: “Development as Governing Tactics - the Three Gorges Dam and the Reproduction and Transformation of State Power in Dengist China”; University of Chicago

Leiter, Debra Lynn: “The Conditionality of Voter Decision-Making”; University of California, Davis

Levi-Sanchez, Suzanne: “All Institutionalization is Local: Border (In)Security and the Case of Tajik/Afghan Badakhshan”; Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Lim, Sijeong: “Modes of Social Policy in the Developing World”; University of Washington

Lori, Noora Anwar: “Unsettling State: Non-Citizens, State Power, and Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates”; Johns Hopkins University

Lowry, Anna: “Between Developmentalism and Neopatrimonialism: Exploring the Causes of Nationalization in Russia”; Indiana University, Bloomington

Macdonald, Geoffrey: “Parties and Peacebuilding: The Institutional Origin of Multiethnic Politics in India, Indonesia, and South Africa”; University of Denver

Malejacq, Romain: “Warlords and the State System: Power and Authority in Afghanistan (2001-2009)”; Northwestern University

Martin, Shannon Leigh: “Financial Stability, Guaranteed: The Use of Bank Guarantees in Financial Crisis Containment”; University of Colorado, Boulder

Mayka, Lindsay Rose: “Bringing the Public into Policymaking: National Participatory Institutions in Latin America”; University of California, Berkeley

Michelitch, Kristin Grace: “Electoral Competition and Interpartisan Economic Discrimination”; New York University

Miller-Gonzalez, Jennifer: “Redefining the Nation: Center-Right Party Outreach Toward Ethnic Minorities in Europe”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Mitchell, Jocelyn Sage: “Beyond Allocation: The Politics of Legitimacy in Qatar”; Georgetown University

Mitchell, Christopher: “Saving the Market from Itself: The Politics of Financial Intervention”; George Washington University

Morse, Yonatan: “Party Matters: The Institutional Origins of Competitiveness and Hegemony in Post Cold War Africa”; Georgetown University

Mukherjee, Shivaji: “Colonial Origins of Maoist Insurgency in India: Historical Legacies of British Indirect Rule”; Yale University

Munoz, Paula: “Campaign Clientelism in Peru: An Informational Theory”; University of Texas, Austin

Munroe, Michelle: “The Dark Side of Globalization: the Transnationalization of a Garrison in the case of Jamaica”; Florida International University

Murali, Kanta: “Economic Liberalization, Sub-National Politics and Private Investment in India”; Princeton University

Nelson, Todd: “Bringing Stalin Back In: Creating a Useable Past in Putin’s Russia”; Kent State University

Nogueira-Budny, Daniel: “From Marxist-Leninism to Market-Liberalism? The Varied Adaption of Latin American’s Leftist Parties”; University of Texas, Austin

Ogbaharya, Daniel Ghebretensae: “Institutional Change and Continuity in Community-based Governance of Natural Resources in Ethiopia and Namibia: A Comparative Historical Analysis”; Northern Arizona University

Oliveros, Virginia: “A Working Machine: Patronage Jobs and Political Services in Argentina”; Columbia University

Olmeda, Juan Cruz: “(Dis)united They Stand? The Politics of Governors’ Coalition Building in Argentina”; Northwestern University

O’Mahen, Patrick N.: “Public Broadcasting, Public Funding and the Public Interest: How Government Broadcasting Subsidies Increase Political Knowledge and Participation”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Osorio, Javier: “Hobbes on Drugs: Understanding Drug Violence in Mexico”; University of Notre Dame

Pallister, Kevin: “Bringing the Ballot Box to the People: Election Administration and the Origins of Inclusive Voting Practices”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Paribatra, Pintbhand: “Thailand’s Relationship with Its Neighbors: A Study of Border Conflict from 1973 to 2011”; Northern Illinois University

Parkinson, Sarah E.: “Reinventing the Resistance: Order and Violence Among Palestinians in Lebanon”; University of Chicago

Perla, Cecilia: “Extracting from the Extractors: Local Direct Investments of Mining Companies in Peru”; Brown University

Popa, Mircea: “Essays on the Political Economy of Corruption and Rent-Seeking”; Harvard University

Porteux, Jonson Nathaniel: “Police, Paramilitaries, Nationalists and Gangsters: The Processes of State Building in Korea”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Potter, Joshua D.: “Evaluating the Strategic Electoral Decisions of Elites, Voters, and Constituencies”; Washington University in St. Louis

Rabinowitz, Beth: “Urban-bias and the Roots of Political Instability: The Case for the Strategic Importance of the Rural Periphery in Sub-Saharan Africa”; University of California, Berkeley

Ratigan, Kerry: “Authoritarian Governance, Decentralization, and State Legitimacy: Healthcare Reform in Rural China”; University of Wisconsin, Madison

Reif, Megan E.: “Making Democracy Safe: Institutional Causes and Consequences of Election Coercion and Violence”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Ricks, Jacob Isaac: “Politics of Participation: Irrigation Associations in Southeast Asia”; Emory University

Rios, Viridiana: “How Government Structure Encourages Criminal Violence: The Causes of Mexico’s Drug War”; Harvard University

Rivero, Gonzalo: “Essays on the Political Economy of the Coercive Apparatus”; New York University

Robinson, Amanda Lea: “Trust Amid Diversity: Nationalism and Inter-Ethnic Trust in Africa”; Stanford University

Rodriguez, Mariana: “The Sustainability of Populism in Times of Crisis: Explaining the Chávez Phenomenon”; Vanderbilt University

Ruiz-Euler, Alexander: “Inter-temporal Dilemmas in New Democracies: The Case of Inequality and Public Goods in Mexico”; University of California, San Diego

Russell, Christopher: “The Politics of Production: Understanding the Organization of the Petroleum Sector in Major Oil-Producing States”; University of Pennsylvania

Shafique, Aisha: “Political Competition and Social Organization: Explaining the Effect of Ethnicity on Public Goods Provision in Pakistan”; Ohio State University

Smith, Nicholas Rush: “The Rights of Others: Vigilantism and the Contradictions of Democratic State Formation in Post-Apartheid South Africa”; University of Chicago

Smith, David Michael: “Immigrants and Counterterrorism Policy: A Comparative Study of the United States and Britain”; Northeastern University

Son, Byunghwan: “Political Economy of Exchange Rate”; University of Missouri, Columbia

Sullivan, Heather A.: “Managing Dissent: State Capacity, Democracy, and Contentious Politics in Mexico”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tay, Stephen: “Perceptions of Inequality: Its Formation and Impact on Redistribution, Political Participation, and Protests”; University of California, Los Angeles

Tekelioglu, Ahmet Selim: “Construction of Transnational Muslim Identity among American Converts to Islam: Investigating Contending Imaginations of Political Community”; Boston University

Thaut, Laura: “The Inevitable Clash? Inter-religious Violence and Local Power-sharing in Nigeria.”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Thibert, Joël: “Does Urban Regional Collaboration Make a Difference? Evidence from North American Metros”; Princeton University

Tolay, Juliette: “Turkey’s Worldviews: Toward a Comparative Political Theory of Migration”; University of Delaware

Travaglianti, Manuela: “The Logic of Intra-ethnic Violence during Elections”; New York University

Trieu, Huong: “Building a Welfare State: A Case Study of Rural Migrant Medical Insurance in Urban China”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Tugdar, Emel: “Europeanization of Minority Policies Under Conditionality: A Comparative Analysis of Latvia, Bulgaria and Turkey”; West Virginia University

Tzelgov, Eitan: “Words as Weapons: Opposition Rhetoric and Partisan”; Pennsylvania State University

Ugues, Antonio: “A Comparative Analysis of Electoral Management Bodies in Central America”; University of California, Riverside

Van Dyck, Brandon: “The Paradox of Adversity: New Left Party Survival and Collapse in Lain America”; Harvard University

Wainscott, Ann Marie: “How an Islamic Solution Became an Islamist Problem: Islamic Education, Authoritarianism, and the Politics of Opposition in Morocco”; University of Florida

Wang, Zhen: “Career Ambition and Local Compliance: The Political Logic of Tourism Development Policy Implementation in China.”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Zach, Danielle: “Diaspora Movements, Social Networks, and Civil Wars: The Irish-American (Dis)connection and the Northern Ireland Troubles”; CUNY-Graduate Center

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Albon, Chris: “Civil Wars and Health Systems”; University of California, Davis

Alves, Ana C. A.: “Elites, Resources, and Interstate Violence in South America”; University of Virginia

Amri, Puspa: “Spotting Perfect Storms: Financial Regulation, Rapid Credit Growth and Banking Crises”; Claremont Graduate University

Ayoub, Phillip M: “When States ‘Come Out’: The Politics of Visibility and the Diffusion of Sexual Minority Rights in Europe”; Cornell University

Babiarz, Renny: “The People’s Nuclear Weapon: Strategic Culture, Path Dependence, and China’s Nuclear Weapons Program 1955-2011”; Johns Hopkins University

Bacon, Tricia: “Strange Bedfellows or Brothers-in-Arms: When Do Terrorist Organizations Ally?”; Georgetown University

Baerg, Nicole Rae: “The Political Economy of Conquering Inflation: The Impact of Elite Polarization and Elite Consensus on Inflation-Stabilization”; Emory University

Bagherpour, Amir K: “Religion and Evolution of Democracy: A Revised Selectorate Model for the Arab Spring”; Claremont Graduate University

Bagozzi, Benjamin E.: “Strategies of Environmental Treaty Participation by Authoritarian Regimes”; Pennsylvania State University

Bak, Daehee: “Leader Tenure Domestic Constraints, and International Conflicts”; Pennsylvania State University

Barry, Colin: “Conflict, Cooperation, and the Multinational Corporation: Security and Foreign Direct Investment in the Developing World”; SUNY, Binghamton University

Beaudette, Donald Michael: “Beyond Coercion: The Politics of Punishment Attacks and Policing in Northern Ireland”; Emory University

Beesley, Celeste: “Rising Tides, Rocking Boats: FDI and Globalization’s “Insecure Winners” in Eastern Europe”; University of California, San Diego

Berg, Louis-Alexandre: “Security Governance After Civil War: Aid Influence and the Politics of Post-Conflict State-Building”; Georgetown University

Bouka, Yolande A. F.: “In the Shadow of Prison: Power, Identity, and Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda”; American University-SIS

Bowdish, Randall G.: “Military Strategy: Theory and Concepts”; University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Bracic, Ana: “Essays on Human Rights”; New York University

Brandle, Shawna M.: “The Violations Will Not Be Televised: Television News Coverage of Human Rights in the US & UK”; CUNY-Graduate Center

Brigden, Noelle K.: “Uncertain Odysseys: Migrant Journeys and Transnational Routes”; Cornell University

Briggs, Ryan C.: “Aiding and Abetting: The Influence of Foreign Assistance on Incumbent Advantage in Africa”; American University-SIS

Burch, Michael: “The Political Economy of Rebel Financing: Transnational Crime and the Conflict Trap”; University of Colorado, Boulder

Carson, Austin: “Secrecy, Acknowledgement, and War Escalation: A Study in Covert Competition”; Ohio State University

Castellano, Isaac: “Kantian Peace Extended: Liberal Influences on Military Expenditures”; University of Kentucky

Chatagnier, Tyson: “Bargaining Under Watchful Eyes: International Conflict and Third Party Observation”; University of Rochester

Chen, Chien-Kai: “Cross-Strait Economic Ties, Taiwan’s Domestic Politics, and China-Taiwan Relations, 1990-2008”; Boston University

Chyzh, Olga: “Tell Me Who Your Friends Are: An Endogenous Model of International Network Formation and Effect on Domestic Political Outcomes”; University of Iowa

Collard-Wexler, Simon: “Understanding Resistance to Foreign Occupation”; Columbia University

Cooper, Walter: “Blood and Treasure: Money and Military Force in Irregular Warfare”; Harvard University

Dallas-Feeney, Christopher P.: “The Social Fitness of Insurgencies: The Organizational Payoff for Legitimated Power”; George Washington University

Dancy, Geoff: “The Impact of Human Rights Law in Time.”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Danneman, Nathan: “Committing to Bargain: How Mediation Contributes to the Onset and Success of Peace Talks”; Emory University

de las Casas, Gustavo: “Nationalism-as-Technology and Peace in Europe, 1815-1914”; Columbia University

Demirdas, Ali: “The Turkish Foreign Policy under the Justice and Development Party: A Paradigm Shift?”; University of South Carolina

Eastin, Joshua C.: “Violent Eruptions: Natural Disasters, War, and Peace”; University of Washington

Elias, Barbara: “The Critical Ally: Coercion and Defiance in Counterinsurgency Partnership”; University of Pennsylvania

Ellington, Sidney Thomas: “Adopting Counterinsurgency Doctrine to Policy-Making Realities in the 21st Century: An American Approach”; University of Oklahoma

Englund, Scott H.: “At What Cost: United States Counter-terror Policy, Reputation, and American Public Opinion”; University of California, Santa Barbara

Faegri, Christina Wagner: “Reconstituting the Fiscal Bargain: The Politics of Taxation in Latin America’s Emerging Markets”; University of Southern California

Fariss, Christopher J.: “The More Things Stay the Same the More They Change: Measuring Changing Levels of Human Rights Using Computational Methods”; University of California, San Diego

Flynn, Michael E.: “Those Halcyon Days: The Evolution of the American Foreign Policy Establishment”; SUNY, Binghamton University

Foss, Andrew: “Public Opinion Under Conditional Threat: Psychological, Emotional, Cognitive, and Biological Explanations for Retaliatory Measures Following Terrorist Acts”; Northern Illinois University

Friedman, Jeffrey A.: “Cumulative Dynamics and Strategic Assessment: U.S. Military Decision Making in Iraq, Vietnam, and the American Indian Wars”; Harvard University

Gibb, Ryan: “The Politics of Land Reform in Uganda”; University of Kansas

Gokkir, Betul: “Networking for Global Commons: Governance of Marine Protected Areas in the High Seas and the Impact of Nongovernmental Actors”; University of Florida

Greene, Brooke C.: “Watching the Watchers: The Politics of International Humanitarian Law Monitoring”; Columbia University

Gupta, Kuhika: “Order in a Chaotic Subsystem: A Comparative Analysis of Nuclear Facility Siting Using Coalition Opportunity Structures and the Advocacy Coalition Framework”; University of Oklahoma

Haddad, Heidi Nichols: “Advocates, Institution Builders, and Gatekeepers: NGOs and International Human Rights Justice”; University of California, Irvine

Harrison, William H.: “Foreign Christian Influence in Developing World Domestic Social Policy”; West Virginia University

Heinrich, Tobias: “Strategic Choices in Foreign Aid”; Rice University

Henshaw, Alexis L.: “Why Women Rebel”; University of Arizona

Hirose, Kentaro: “Bargaining Outside the Shadow of War”; University of Chicago

Homan, Patrick: “The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification in the Post-Cold War Era”; Northern Illinois University

Hunzeker, Michael A.: “Perfecting War: The Organizational Sources of Doctrinal Change”; Princeton University

Hutnick, Jennifer A. Laks: “A Regional Weapon of Choice: Forum Choice in International Trade Disputes”; University of Pittsburgh

Irish, Adam: “Wait Til Next Year? The Politics and Timing of Treaty Ratifications”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Itzkowitz-Shifrinson, Joshua: “Dilemmas of Decline, Risks of Rise: The Systemic and Military Sources of Rising State Strategy towards Declining Great Powers”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jablonski, Ryan Steele: “The Effect of Electoral Politics on Foreign Aid Spending”; University of California, San Diego

Jacobs, Michael N.: “An Investigation of the Internal Dynamics of Bilateral Investment Treaties: Every BIT Counts”; University of Nevada, Reno

Johnston, Noel Pereyra: “The Politics of Compensation for Expropriation”; Washington University in St. Louis

Jones, Benjamin Thomas: “The Past is Ever-Present: Civil War as a Dynamic Process”; Ohio State University

Junio, Timothy J.: “A Theory of Information Warfare”; University of Pennsylvania

Kalu, Nkemjika E.: “Understanding Africa’s China Policy: A Test of Dependency Theory and a Study of African Motivations in Increasing Engagement with China”; University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Karakaya, Suveyda: “Religion and Conflict: What Explains the Puzzling Case of Islamic Violence”; University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Katzenstein, Suzanne: “Why Surrender Sovereignty? Empowering Non-State Actors to Protect the Status Quo”; Columbia University

Kavakli, Kerim Can: “Three Essays on the Links Between Domestic and International Politics”; University of Rochester

Kertzer, Joshua D.: “Resolve in International Politics”; Ohio State University

Kim, Yi Yeon: “Armed Conflict and HIV”; Texas Tech University

Koga, Jun: “Domestic Political Institutions, Leadership Survival and Conflicts in Dictatorships”; Emory University

Kogan, Eugene B.: “Coercing Allies: Why Friends Abandon Nuclear Plans”; Brandeis University

Koh, Geun: “Issues in the Development of Foreign Worker and Immigration Policy in the Republic of Korea”; University of Delaware

Kuru, Deniz: “A Disciplinary History of International Relations (IR) in Europe: The Development of the IR discipline in Germany and France”; University of Southern California

Kwon, Bo Ram: “The Effectiveness of Sanctions Revisited: An Empirical Analysis Using a Bargaining and Enforcement Framework”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Landis, Steven Tyler: “The Seasonal Influence of Meteorological & Physical Factors on the Onset of Violent Conflict”; Pennsylvania State University

Langlois, Michael James: “Averting Dyadic Conflict: The Role of International Political Economy”; Wayne State University

Lantrip, Julie: “Test Case Linkage: Civil Society and the Development of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights”; Georgetown University

Lauterbach, Toby: “Strategic Culture and the Iraq War”; Purdue University

Lee, Chia-yi: “The Globalization of Natural Resources: How External Actors Affect Political Survival in Resource Rich Countries”; Washington University in St. Louis

Lee, Su-Mi: “Mediator Impartiality and Interest”; University of Kentucky

Li, Xiaojun: “Access, Institutions and Policy Influence: The Changing Political Economy of Trade Protection in Post-Reform China”; Stanford University

Liao, Chia-Yueh: “Trade and Legalization in East Asia: Government Business Collaboration in Trade Dispute Settlements”; University of Southern California

Lin, Wei-hsiu: “The Comparative Perspectives of the Impacts of Political Institutions on the Incidence of Speculative Attacks”; Claremont Graduate University

Long, Tom: “Convincing the Colossus: Latin American Leaders Face the United States”; American University-SIS

Luecke, Tim: “Generations in World Politics: Cycles in U.S. Foreign Policy, the Construction of the ‘West,’ and International Systems Change, 1900-2008”; Ohio State University

Maass, Richard W.: “To Conquer Land or People: Democracy and the Domestic Political Costs of Annexationism”; University of Notre Dame

Madeira, Mary Anne: “The New Politics of the New Trade: The Political Economy of Intra-Industry Trade”; University of Washington

Maness, Ryan C.: “Coercive Energy Policy: Russia and the Near Abroad”; University of Illinois, Chicago

Mantilla, Giovanni: “Under (Social) Pressure: The Historical Regulation of Internal Armed Conflicts through International Law”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Mastro, Oriana: “Settling the Score: The Interactive Effect of Talking and Fighting on War Duration and Termination”; Princeton University

Mathewson, JD: “Occupied with Democracy”; University of Maryland, College Park

Maves Braithwaite, Jessica: “Cooperation, Coercion, and Competition: Essays on Domestic Political Institutions and Civil Conflict”; Pennsylvania State University

McBride, Becca: “The Diffusion of Intercountry Adoption: Learning and Networks in the Global Arena”; Vanderbilt University

McIntosh, Christopher: “What Makes a War, a War? War, Sovereignty, and the Subject of International Politics”; University of Chicago

Metzger, Shawna K.: “Conflict Dynamics in Militarized Interstate Disputes”; University of Pittsburgh

Miller, Charles A.: “Destructivity: a Political Economy of Military Effectiveness in Conventional Combat”; Duke University

Mvukiyehe, Eric N.: “Essays on Micro-foundations of Peace-building in War-Torn Societies: Survey Evidence and Insights from a Field Experiment in Rural Liberia.”; Columbia University

Nelson, Amy J.: “Improving the Efficacy of Arms Control: From Risk Reduction to Uncertainty Management”; University of California, Berkeley

Nicoletti, Nicholas P.: “Politicizing War: Information, Democracy, and Public Opinion”; SUNY, University at Buffalo

Nielsen, Richard: “The Lonely Jihadist: Weak Networks and the Radicalization of Muslim Clerics”; Harvard University

Nieman, Mark David: “The Return on Social Bonds: The Effect of Social Contracts on International Conflict and Economics”; University of Iowa

Noonan, Michael P.: “Complexity, Conflict, and Cooperation: The Micropolitics of American Civil-Military Relations In Small Wars, 1945–Present”; Loyola University, Chicago

Nunez-Mietz, Fernando Gabriel: “Lawyering Compliance: Legal Advisers and the Legalization of International Politics”; Ohio State University

Oates, John: “The Constitution of Supranationalism: Interdependence, Sovereignty and International Organization”; Ohio State University

Ohls, David: “Exchanging Fire: Trade, Conflict, and the Strategic Incentives of Indirect Economic Interdependence”; University of Wisconsin, Madison

O’Keefe, Christopher Blake: “Why States Create Multiple Multilateral Development Finance Institutions”; University of California, San Diego

Osgood, Iain: “Dofferemtoated Products, Divided Industries: Firms and the Politics of Intra-Industry Trade”; Harvard University

Ovodenko, Alexander: “Pathways of Cooperation: Integrated and Un-integrated International Environmental Governance”; Princeton University

Palkki, David: “Deterring Saddam Hussein’s Iraq: Domestic Audience Costs and Credibility Assessments in Theory and Practice”; University of California, Los Angeles

Pardesi, Manjeet S.: “Explaining the Origins of Strategic Rivalries and Their Escalation to War: A Study of the China-India, US-China, and US-Japan Dyads”; Indiana University, Bloomington

Pathak, Swapna: “Footprints of War: Environmental Consequences of Violent Conflicts”; University of South Carolina

Pechenkina, Anna: “The Complexity of Conflict Management”; Pennsylvania State University

Pegahi, Negeen: “Dangerous Deterrent? Assessing the Risk that Nuclear Acquisition Will Embolden Weak States”; University of Chicago

Perez, Michael David: “Budget Institutions and the Positive Theory of Fiscal Policy”; University of Southern California

Petersen, Mark William: “Security Neorealism and the British Empire”; Purdue University

Pfaff, Lukas: “Secrets, Mercenaries, and War: Three Models of International Conflict”; University of Rochester

Plouffe, Michael: “The New Political Economy of Trade: Heterogeneous Firms and Trade Policy”; University of California, San Diego

Poliquin, Etienne: “Informal Commitments in International Relations: Explaining the Credibility of Alliances”; University of California, Los Angeles

Popescu, Ionut: “Design and Emergence in the Making of American Grand Strategy”; Duke University

Quek, Kai: “Rationalist Causes of War: Mechanisms, Experiments, and East Asian Wars”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Radheshwar, S. Jovian: “What is Freedom? - Contingency, Violence, Democracy - The ‘War on Terrorism’ and the Globalization of Slave Morality”; University of California, Santa Barbara

Ramirez, Shawn L.: “Accountability and International Conflict”; University of Rochester

Repogle, Sherri: “The Civilian in the War on Terror: Do Norms Shape Strategy?”; Loyola University, Chicago

Ripley, Charles: “Pathways to Peace, Progress, and Public Goods: Rethinking Regional Hegemony”; Arizona State University

Rivera, William Anthony: “The Complexity of Iranian Foreign Policy: the politics of fear, interest, and honor”; University of Delaware

Ruhlman, Molly Anne: “Nongovernmental Participation in Intergovernmental Organizations”; Temple University

Saiya, Nilay: “Religion, State, and the Roots of Religious Terrorism”; University of Notre Dame

Salem, Hazem: “Islamic Political Thought: Reviving a Rationalist Tradition”; University of Denver

Savic, Ivan: “The Politics of International Financial Crisis Response”; Columbia University

Shea, Patrick E.: “Sovereign Credit, Conflict, and International Relations”; Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Shelton, Crystal E.: “Deadly Connections: The Role of IGO Membership in State Vulnerability to Transnational Terrorism”; Purdue University

Skuldt, Amanda C.: “State Sponsored Terrorism? Leader Survival and the Foreign Policy of Fear”; University of Texas, Austin

Sokhom, Sovathana: “How Does Intangible Human Capital Impact Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries (LDC): Using Cambodia as a Case Study”; Claremont Graduate University

Svyatets, Ekaterina: “Power, Profits, and Politics: Energy Security and Cooperation in Eurasia”; University of Southern California

Tan, Bann Seng: “Spear Versus Shield: The Impact of Democracy on Rivalry”; CUNY-Graduate Center

Tao, Jing: “Legitimacy, Sovereignty, and National Interests: China’s Strategy of Signing and Ratifying Legalized Treaties”; Cornell University

Tkach, Benjamin: “Corporate Security and Conflict Outcomes”; Texas A&M University

Travlos, Konstantinos: “From Warmongers to Peace Builders: Major Power Managerial Coordination and the Transformation of International Relations, 1715–2001”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Trownsell, Tamara: “Robust Relationality: Lessons from the Ontology of Complete Interconnectedness for the Field of International Relations”; American University

Tusicisny, Andrej: “Reciprocity and Prejudice: An Experiment of Hindu-Muslim Cooperation in the Slums of Mumbai”; Columbia University

Unger, Katherine: “Networks and Human Rights: An Examination of Human Rights Treaties and the Influence of Dependence on States’ Human Rights Practices”; University of California, Davis

Uzonyi, Gary: “Protecting Civilians at Home and Abroad”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Vincent, Tiffiny: “Examining State Compliance with the International Court of Justice”; Texas Tech University

Voss, Michael Joel: “Panacea or False Hope? From the Commission on Human Rights to the Human Rights Council”; University of Virginia

Walter, Martin: “Explaining the Emergence of Transboundary Groundwater Management: the Aquifer System, the Hueco and Mesilla-Bolson Aquifers, and the Genevois Aquifer”; Northwestern University

Wang, Ray: “Quiet Confrontations: Transnational Advocacy Networks, Local Churches, and the Pursuit of Religious Freedoms in China”; University of California, Riverside

Wells, Jeremy L.: “Power and Purpose: U.S. Foreign Aid and Development”; Louisiana State University

Wick, Shelley: “Constructing Threat: How Americans Identify Economic Competitors”; Florida International University

Willardson, Spencer L.: “Under the Influence of Arms - The Foreign Policy Causes and Consequences of Arms Transfers”; University of Iowa

Wilson, Christopher S.: “Striking a Deal with Terrorists: The Separation of and Bargaining with Terrorist Organizations”; University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Winecoff, William Kindred: “A Complex Political Economy of the Global Banking System”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Wolf, Albert B.: “The Microfoundations of Audience Costs”; University of California, Irvine

Yaylaci, Ismail: “The Discourse of Post-Islamism and Performative Socialization in International Order: Secularism, Democracy, and Islamist Subjectivity in Turkey and Egypt”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Yoder, Brandon: “The Uncertainty of Decline: Power Shifts, Interstate Signaling, and Conflict”; University of Virginia

Yonamine, James: “A Nuanced Study of Political Conflict using the Global Datasets of Events Location and Tone”; Pennsylvania State University

Young, Laura D: “Competition Scarcity: A New Theory of State Formation”; Purdue University

Zeigler, Sean M.: “Civil Conflict and Competitive Coalitions: Allying in the Shadow of War”; Duke University

Zeitzoff, Thomas: “Three Essays on the Macro- and Microfoundations of Conflict”; New York University

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Howard, Lauren: “Service Satisfaction, Competence and Caring: Examining the Influence of Experience with the Public Bureaucracy on Citizen Attitudes of Trust in Government”; University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Koelling, Peter: “Caseflow Management and its Effect on Timeliness in the Colorado District Courts”; Northern Illinois University

McMillin, Stephen Edward: “Transferring Training to Evidence-Based Practice in Home Visitation”; University of Chicago

Rabovsky, Tom: “Accountability and Performance in Higher Education: Promise, Potential, and Pitfalls of Performance Management”; University of Oklahoma

Sayogo, Djoko Sigit: “Modeling Incentives to Disclose: Smart Disclosure Policy, Private Sector Transparency and Demanded Disclosure”; SUNY, University at Albany

Walker, KW: “Public Libraries and Democracy: The Library’s Effect on User Civic Engagement”; Auburn University

Zhang, Jian-Chuan: “Towards a Citizen-Centered E-Government: Exploring Citizen Satisfaction with E-Government in China”; Northern Illinois University

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY

Ackerman, John Wolfe: “The Politics of Political Theology: Rosenzweig, Schmitt, Arendt”; Northwestern University

Alexander-Davey, Ethan: “Birthright Democracy: Nationhood and Self-Government in History”; University of Wisconsin, Madison

Andersen, Daniel: “From Deliberation to Dialogue: The Role of the I-Thou in Democratic Experience”; University of Oregon

Archer, Crina: “Times of Democratic Revolution: Historical Teleology and Political Freedom in Kant, Tocqueville, and Arendt”; Northwestern University

Aroosi, Jamie: “The Dialectical Self: Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, and the Birth of Radical Freedom”; CUNY-Graduate Center

Baluch, Faisal: “Machiavelli on Liberty, Empire, and Necessity”; University of Notre Dame

Barlow, Robert: “Value Pluralism and the Politics of Exclusion”; Stanford University

Bejan, Teresa M.: “Mere Civility: Toleration and its Limits in Early Modern England and America”; Yale University

Blakely, Jason: “Three Political Philosophers Debate Social Science: Leo Strauss, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Charles Taylor”; University of California, Berkeley

Bolar, R. Allen: “Rational Irrationality: Slavery, Eugenics, and the Politics of Darwinism”; University of California, San Diego

Burns, Sarah: “Enlightened through Conquest and Commerce: Montesquieu on Liberal Constitutional Development”; Claremont Graduate University

Cammack, Daniela: “Rethinking Athenian Democracy”; Harvard University

Chiu, William: “The Internet, Political Communications Research and the Search for a New Information Paradigm”; University of California, Irvine

Cole, Kathleen: “Thinking Through Race: Social Construction, Social Cognition and the Unconscious Maintenance of Racial Hierarchy”; University of California, Santa Barbara

Deckert, Joseph: “Patterns of Fraud: Tools for Election Forensics”; University of Oregon

Delaune, Timothy A.: “Democratizing the Criminal: Jury Nullification as Exercise of Sovereign Discretion over the Friend-Enemy Distinction”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Dobard, John: “Against Dignity: Toward a New Normative Framework for Human Rights”; University of Chicago

Galisanka, Andrius: “John Rawls: The Path to A Theory of Justice”; University of California, Berkeley

Gerlsbeck, Felix: “Experimental Democracy: Collective Intelligence for a Diverse and Complex World”; Columbia University

Greear, Jake P.: “Walking, Working and Tinkering: Perception and Practice in Environmentalism”; Johns Hopkins University

Harding, Michael: “Nietzsche’s Philosophic Politics and the Crisis of the West”; University of Dallas

Hoffman, Mark: “Rethinking the Politics of Immigration: Colonial Modes of Immigration Management and the Ambivalent Resilience of the Empire State.”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Hoye, J. Matthew: “Epistemology, Theatricality, and the Rhetoric of Statecraft in Hobbes’s Leviathan”; New School for Social Research

Ince, Onur Ulas: “Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism: Locke, Burke, Wakefield and the British Empire”; Cornell University

Jefferson, Brian Jordan: “Guarding the Guardians: NYPD and the Politics of Police Accountability”; New School for Social Research

Kim, Man Kwon: “The Politics of Constitution-Building for Reconciliation between Political Enemies: A Political Justification for the Peaceful and Gradual Unification of Korea”; New School for Social Research

Kirkpatrick, Jesse L.: “After the Fire the Embers Still Burn: A Theory of Jus Post Bellum”; University of Maryland, College Park

Lambacher, Jason: “The Politics of the Extinction Predicament —Democracy, Futurity, and Responsibility”; University of Washington

Lebow, David: “Deliberative Realism”; Yale University

LeJeune, John Louis: “Rise and Fall of the Councils: Hannah Arendt and Democratic Revolution”; University of California, San Diego

Levitov, Alex: “Legitimacy as Self-Determination”; Princeton University

Lovato, Brian: “Democracy, Dialectics, and Difference: A Critical Representation of the Hegelian-Marxist Tradition”; University of California, Santa Barbara

Majdi Clark, Parissa: “From El Nuevo Despertar to Nonprofit: Changes in Puerto Rican Political Identity since 1980”; University of California, Los Angeles

Mathie, Mary E.: “Aquinas on Judgment, Justice, and the Unity of Peace”; Baylor University

McCormick, William A.: “On the De Regno of St. Thomas Aquinas”; University of Texas, Austin Menchaca-Bagnulo, Ashleen K.: “Re-Appropriating Romanitas: Machiavelli’s Response to Augustine on Rome and the Transcendent”; University of Notre Dame

Meyerhoff, Eli: “Political Theory for an Alter-University Movement: Decolonial, Abolitionist Study within, against, and beyond the Education Regime”; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Mohanty, Pete: “Immigration Politics in a (Dis)Integrating Europe”; University of Texas, Austin

Novitsky, David James: “Understanding Our ‘Sense of the Just’: Between Thrasymachean Realism and Hegelian Idealism”; University of Virginia

Otobe, Nobutaka: “Stupidity in Politics: Its Unavoidability and Potential”; Johns Hopkins University

Parsi, John: “Defining Sex and Gender in Law, Politics, and Science”; Arizona State University

Ponce, Albert: “War Against Migrants, Racial Violence in the United States: A Critical Ethnography of Mexican and Latino Day Labor”; University of California, Los Angeles

Popa, Bogdan: “Shame and Political Agency in Nineteenth Century Feminist Activism”; Indiana University, Bloomington

Price, Sara: “What Can Be Done In Light of What Has Been Done: The Intersection of Theory and Practice in Rousseau”; University of California, Davis

Rahman, K. Sabeel: “Governing the Economy: Markets, Experts, and Citizens”; Harvard University

Reppert, Jamuna: “Plato’s Theaetetus: The Problem of the Unity of Knowledge”; Claremont Graduate University

Rodriguez, Gilda M.: “Translocal Citizenship: The Political Subjectivity of Indigenous Mexican Migrants”; University of California, Los Angeles

Roeder, Oliver: “Essays on Political Competition”; University of Texas, Austin

Ross, Robert: “The Constitutional Incorporation of Political Parties”; University of Houston

Sanders, Rachel: “The Color of Fat: Racial Biopolitics of Obesity”; University of Washington

Santos, Gustavo A.: “Practical Reason and the Metaphysics of Human Dignity: A Dialogue Between Christian Personalists and Kantian Liberalism”; Catholic University of America

Schwarze, Michelle A.: “Enlightened Motives: Justice and the Transformation of Violent Passions in Eighteenth Century Political Thought”; University of California, Davis

Staudinger, Alison K.: “Work Under Democracy: Labor, Gender and Arendtian Citizenship”; University of Maryland, College Park

Syedullah, Jasmine: “Of Prayers and Protests: A Political Theology of Captivity and Escape from the Plantation to the Prison”; University of California, Santa Cruz

Verovsek, Peter J.: “A New Beginning for Europe: Memory, Rupture and Integration in the Wake of Total War”; Yale University

Villegas, Christina: “Reshaping the Federal Response to Violence: The Theoretical Foundations and Legislative History of the Violence Against Women Act”; University of Dallas

Walker, Drew: “Humanism at the Limits”; Johns Hopkins University

Watson, Ronald E.: “Spying: A Normative Account of the Second Oldest Profession”; Washington University in St. Louis

Wright, Wendy: “Grim Realities: Toward a Critical Theory of Punishment”; Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Yenigun, Halil Ibrahim: “Political Ontology of Islamic Democracy: An Ontological Narrative of Contemporary Muslim Political Thought”; University of Virginia

Zeigerman, Tomer: “Political Inactivity - Reconsidering Political Practice”; New School for Social Research

PUBLIC LAW AND COURTS

Beim, Deborah: “Learning in the Judicial Hierarchy”; Princeton University

Bennett, Daniel: “Organizations, Religion, and Legal Mobilization: The Case of Christian Conservative Legal Advocacy”; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Blake, William: “Judicial Independence in the American States”; University of Texas, Austin

Dasgupta, Sandipto: “Legalizing the revolution”; Columbia University

Dias, Clarissa F.: “Do Constitutions Matter? Essays on the Impact of the Constitutional Provisions on De Facto Judicial Independence in Latin American Countries”; Georgia State University

Frost, Daniel: “Reasonable Constitutional Decisions”; Princeton University

Hunter, James Robert: “Contestatory Constitutionalism: Participatory Democracy as Constituent Power against Judicial Supremacy”; Princeton University

Jakle, Alexander Dunning: “Stealing Signs: How Broken Rules Structure Identity”; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Lempert, Daniel: “Testing Theories of Strategic Decision-making on the U.S. Supreme Court”; Ohio State University

Mark, Daniel I.: “Authority and the Obligation to Obey the Law”; Princeton University

Ng, Kristen: “Examining the Effects of Extra Legal Factors on Immigration Decision Making in Asylum Cases”; SUNY, University at Buffalo

Payne, Michelle: “Redistricting and Reapportionment: Reforming Texas District Courts”; University of Texas at Dallas

Strayhorn, Joshua A.: “Institutions and Legal Consistency in the U.S. Courts of Appeals”; Emory University

Wobig, Jacob: “International Law and Democratic Consolidation”; University of Nebraska, Lincoln

PUBLIC POLICY

Breetz, Hanna: “Fueled by Crisis: U.S. Alternative Fuel Policy, 1975-2007”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chang, Yi-Bin: “Personal Value Orientations and Redistribution: Why Do People not Support Redistribution Even if They Are Suffering from Economic Distress?”; University of Texas at Dallas

Domanski, Robert J.: “Who Governs the Internet? The Emerging Policies, Institutions, and Governance of Cyberspace”; CUNY-Graduate Center

Gastineau-Grimes, Holly: “Making an Exception for Care: Balancing Welfare State and Immigration Policies”; Purdue University

Hedrick, James: “Welcoming the Huddled Masses: Immigration Policy in States and Municipalities”; Rice University

Kang, Eunju: “Contracting-out Public Services”; Claremont Graduate University

Madden, Nathan J.: “It’s Not Easy Being Green: Veto Players, Climate Policy Adoption, and Outcomes in OECD States”; University of Missouri, Columbia

Nowlin, Matthew: “Defining Policy Issues: The Dynamics of Information Processing and Issue Definitions”; University of Oklahoma

O’Brien, Cheryl: “Beyond The National: Transnational Influences on (Subnational) State Policy Responsiveness to an International Norm on Violence Against Women.”; Purdue University

Rex, Justin: “The Federal Banking Regulators: Agency Capture, Regulatory Failure, and Industry Collapse During the 2008 Financial Crisis”; Wayne State University

Ripberger, Joseph T.: “The Influence of Group Interaction on Public Attitudes about the Use of Nuclear Weapons”; University of Oklahoma

Schamel, Craig: “Idealism and Actualization. Saint-Just in Theory, Practice, and Exigency”; Claremont Graduate University

Shin, GeiGuen: “The Political Economy of Functional Federalism: Exploring the Effect of Federal Welfare Policy on State Economic Performance”; University of Missouri, Columbia

Tai, Laurence: “Hierarchical Game-theoretic Models of Transparency in the Administrative State”; Harvard University

Whiteman, Meredith: “Networks, Institutions and Individuals: Interactive Effects on the Formation and Maintenance of Social Capital”; Florida State University

Table 1 Dissertations 2010–2013