Congratulations to Professor Deniz Aksoy! Her paper, "Electoral and Partisan Cycles in Counterterrorism," has been accepted to be published in The Journal of Politics.

Recent evidence suggests that historical boundary precedents play a central role in the outbreak, character, and long-term consequences of territorial disputes. The institutional theory of borders holds promise in explaining why leaders find old borders to be attractive as new borders.

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Miguel Pereira! He won the Marian Irish Award given to the best paper on women and politics presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.

Congratulations to Professor David Carter!  His paper, "International Trade and Coordination:  Tracing Border Effects," was accepted by the World Politics journal.  This paper was also written with Hein Goemans of Rochester.

Prof. Andrew Reeves article, Donald Trump’s lukewarm response to Puerto Rico was pretty predictable. Here’s why., was published on Washington Post's Monkey Cage Blog.

Congratulations to Professor Jacob Montgomery and PhD candidate Michelle Torres! Their paper, "How conditioning on post-treatment variables can ruin your experiment and what to do about it," was accepted by the American Journal of Political Science. This paper was also written with Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth.

Congratulations to PhD candidate Joan Barceló! His paper, "Are Western Educated Leaders Less Prone to Initiate Militarized Disputes," was accepted at British Journal of Political Science.

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Elena Labzina and former post-doc Olga Chyzh! Their paper, "Bankrolling Repression? Modeling Third-Party Influence on Protests and Repression" was accepted at the American Journal of Political Science.

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Brierley! Her job market paper won the best graduate student paper award from the African Politics Conference Group.

Congratulations to Professor Betsy Sinclair! She has been selected as the winner of the Society for Political Methodology's Emerging Scholar Award.

Ph.D. Candidate Michelle Torres has won the Society for Political Methodology's Poster Award.  Her poster was titled "Measuring Visual Messages: Political Violence and Computer Vision."

In Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption, the authors argue that clarity of responsibility is critical for reducing corruption in democracies. The authors provide a number of empirical tests of this argument, including a cross-national time-series statistical analysis to show that the higher the level of clarity the lower the perceived corruption levels.