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Lucia Montolinia won the Best Graduate Paper Award with Repal for her paper “Cultivating a Personal Vote Can Increase Legislative Cohesion: Evidence from Clientelistic Parties in Mexico.”

PhD candidates Jordan McAllister and Afiq bin Oslan's paper "Issue ownership and salience shocks: The electoral impact of Australian bushfires" is published in Electoral Studies.

Congratulations to Professor Andrew Reeves and PhD Candidate Zoe Ang along with their co-authors, Jon C. Rogowski and Arjun Vishwanath, on publishing their article, "Partisanship, Economic Assessments, and Presidential Accountability," in the American Journal of Political Science.

Professor James L. Gibson and co-author Michael J. Nelson discuss the high state courts and their book "Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis" with The Washington Post.

James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson (Penn State, Washington U Ph.D.) have just published a new book (Russell Sage Foundation) on the role of state supreme courts in the creation, maintenance, and amelioration of political, legal, economic, and social inequality in the U.S.

Professor William Nomikos was interviewed by local news, KSDK, about the crisis in Afghanistan.

Professor William Nomikos was interviewed by The Source's Sarah Savat for an article titled, "WashU Expert: Afghanistan Crisis Was a Predictable Catastrophe".

Congratulations to PhD candidate Bryant Moy! His poster won the PolMeth best applied graduate student poster award.

Congratulations to Professor Chris Lucas and his collaborator, Dean Knox (UPenn), for being awarded a grant through the Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Program for their project, "Computational Methods for Speech Analysis."

Congratulations to Patrick Tucker, a 2017 PhD graduate! He recently accepted a position at election forecasting firm, Edison Research.

Professor Lucia Motolinia wins the Leon Weaver Award, given to the best paper presented at an APSA 2020 panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems section. Her paper is titled “Geographically-Targeted Spending in Mixed-Member Majoritarian Electoral Systems” and co-authored with Amy Catalinac (NYU).

Betsy Sinclair has been named as a Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology! The position of Fellow “honors individuals who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the development of political methodology, and whose methodological work has had a major international impact on subsequent scholarship in the field, in the discipline more broadly, and where appropriate in other areas.”