It was announced this week that Associate Professor of Political Science, Timm Betz, and PhD in Political Science candidate, Annie Jarman, both received prestigious awards for papers presented at the 2024 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) annual conference in April.
Betz work, titled "Production Networks and U.S. Anti-Dumping Petitions," was co-authored with Leonhard Hummel, PhD student at Technical University of Munich, and highlights production networks as a central aspect in understanding trade politics. It examines how economic links throughout the economy shape political coalitions and the political power of firms. It was awarded the Best Paper in International Relations.
Jarman's work, titled "Clicks and Stones: Women Politicians and Gendered Hostility Online," looks at the content of hostile language toward women rather than quantity of messages. Jarman's research uses natural language processing to analyze hostile and gendered language in three million Twitter mentions of U.S. state representatives. Jarman finds that hostility toward women differs from men in content rather than volume. While men and women receive similar volumes of general hostility, women face twice as much gender-specific abuse. Further, women’s conformity to traditional gender expectations affects the amount of gendered, but not general, hostility they receive. The work received the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award for best paper on the topic of women and politics.
The two will travel to the 2025 conference in Chicago in April to represent their work and receive their awards. Read more about these awards and others presented at the MPSA website.
