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Taylor Carlson receives 2023 PolNet Best Book Award for "What Goes Without Saying"

6.30.23

Congratulations to Taylor Carlson for winning with 2023 PolNet Best Book Award for "What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America", co-authored with Jaime Settle of the College of William and Mary!

Brian Crisp published in British Journal of Political Science

6.23.23

His work, "The Role of District Magnitude in When Women Represent Women," is co-authored with Patrick Cunha Silva of Loyola University Chicago.

Andrew Reeves published in Presidential Studies Quarterly

6.21.23

Reeves co-authored the paper with Jon Rogowski, titled "Democratic Values and Support for Executive Power."

Amy Gais's essay "Worthy Women" published in Inside Higher Ed

6.9.23

Amy Gais writes that her students judge women writers much more harshly than male writers—and considers what can be done about it.

Margit Tavits receives Robert E. Lane Award for Voicing Politics

6.6.23

Margit Tavits and Efrén Pérez have been selected as the winners of the Robert E. Lane Award for their book Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion. 

Carlson and Wayne win NSF grant to study political radicalization

6.6.23

Dan Butler published in The Forum

5.15.23

Dan Butler's article "Top-Four Primaries Help Moderate Candidates via Crossover Voting: The Case of the 2022 Alaska Election Reforms" has been published in The Forum

James L. Gibson to be published in AJPS for "Losing Legitimacy"

5.9.23

James L. Gibson’s article “Losing Legitimacy: The Challenges of the Dobbs Ruling to Conventional Legitimacy Theory” has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Political Science.

WashU’s Weidenbaum Center joins Harvard’s peer pre-review consortium

4.19.23

A new partnership between the Weidenbaum Center and Harvard University will give social scientists at WashU the opportunity to receive constructive, anonymous feedback on their research at any stage. The program aims to improve scholarship and speed its publication.

Tracking the Populist Tsunami

4.18.23

By analyzing social media content generated across the globe, political scientists seek to understand the current wave of populist rhetoric flooding the internet and its threats to democracies.

Research by David Carter and Matt Gabel, funded by the ITF, was covered in the Record

4.6.23

"Transdisciplinary team to study political instability, health outcomes"

Mike Olson awarded the 2023 Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize

4.3.23

Congratulations to Mike Olson, whose article “Franchise Expansion and Legislative Representation in the Early United States” (co-authored with Stephen Ansolabehere and Jaclyn Kaslovsky) was awarded the 2023 Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize for the best article in volume 3 of the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy!