Political scientists Christopher Lucas, Jacob Montgomery, and Margit Tavits recently won funding from the National Science Foundation to study the rise of populist rhetoric on social media and its effects on democracies.
Congratulations to Professor Margit Tavits and co-author, Zeynep Somer-Topcu (University of Texas, Austin) on the acceptance of their paper, "Message Distortion as a Campaign Strategy: Does Rival Party Distortion of Focal Party Position Affect Voters?" in the Journal of Politics.
Congratulations to the 2022 Political Science Department Prize Winners!
Professor Butler and co-authors published Journal of Politics Blog for forthcoming article
Congratulation to PhD candidate Tony Yang! He has been awarded the 2022 APSA Summer Centennial Center Research Grant to support his dissertation project, "Normalization: Explaining Public Support for Government Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes."
Professor David Carter and co-authors published their article, "The Geography of Separatist Violence" in International Studies Quarterly.
Professor Diana O’Brien and co-authors publish, “Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Politics” in APSR
Congratulations to Professors Lucas, Montgomery, and Tavits for being awarded an NSF grant to expand their ongoing study of elite communication on social media throughout the world!
Congratulations to Professor Jacob Montgomery and Ph.D alumn, Erin Rossiter, for publishing a QCMSS Elemental, "Adaptive Inventories: A Practical Guide for Applied Researchers."
Congratulations to Professor Diana O'Brien for winning APSA's Lawrence Longley Award for the best article published in the previous year for the article, "Women’s Descriptive Representation and Gendered Import Tax Discrimination."
Graduate student, Jeremy Siow, wins CRE2's Award for Best Graduate Research Paper in Race & Ethnicity. The winning paper was, "Bilingual Instruction and Political Discrimination of Ethnic Outgroups: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Malaysia."