AMERICAN POLITICS

Nicolas Anspach: “The Facebook Effect: Political News in the Age of Social Media”; Temple University

Michael Armato: “Practicing Representation: The Impact of Electoral Competition on the Home Styles of US Representatives”; Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

LaShonda Brenson: “Where’s the Caucus? A Study of Minority Agenda Setting”; University of Michigan

Jennifer Brookhart: “Walk the Talk: Representational Rhetoric and Behavior in the US House”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Timothy Callaghan: “Appealing Politics? Using the Bully Pulpit to Change Opinions and Influence Policy”; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Logan Casey: “The Politics of Disgust: Public Opinion Toward LGBTQ People and Policies”; University of Michigan

Dennis Dallaire: “Party Registration and Party Vote: The Relationship between Registration and Results in Massachusetts Elections”; Northeastern University

Bradley Dickerson: “Motivated Reasoning, Ambivalence, and the Local Economy: Asymmetric Biases in Formation of Economic Perceptions”; University of Mississippi

Jill Dunlap: “The Personal Is Suddenly Very Political: Legislative Efforts to Improve the Experiences of Campus Sexual Assault Survivors”; Northern Illinois University

Ashton Ellis: “Measuring the Disability Rights Framing Effects on Public Opinion About Assisted Suicide: Elite Interviews and an Experimental Survey”; Claremont Graduate University

Ashley English: “Implementing Intersectionality: Creating Women’s Interests in the Rulemaking Process”; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Alex Garlick: “Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Polarization in the United States”; University of Pennsylvania

Kacee Garner: “Citizen Entrepreneur: Social Good and the Good Citizen”; Idaho State University

Kristin Garrett: “The Moralization of Politics: Causes, Consequences, and Measurement of Moral Conviction”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jeremy Gelman: “Why Bills Fail: Electioneering with the Legislative Agenda”; University of Michigan

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez: “Whose Bills? Corporate Interests and Conservative Mobilization Across the US States, 1973–2013”; Harvard University

Flavio Hickel, Jr.: “Seeking Legitimacy in the Past: Civil Religion and Ideological Conflict”; Rutgers University

Bai Linh Hoang: “Democratic Listening? Race and Representation in Local Politics”; University of Michigan

Kiku Huckle: “Es Su Casa Mi Casa? Latinos, Political Incorporation, and the American Catholic Church”; University of Washington

Joshua Jansa: “Laboratories of Inequality: The Politics of Economic Development Incentives and the Distribution of Resources in America”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Bradley Jones: “The Building Blocks of Politics: How Pre-Political Dispositions Structure Conflict in the Contemporary United States”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ashley Koning: “(Grand Old) Party Crashers: The Effects of Republican Atypical Issue Advocacy and Cross-Pressure Framing on Party Opinion Change”; Rutgers University

Michael Kowal: “The Social Corporation: Firms, Networks, and Politics”; University of Massachusetts Amherst

John Lovett: “Individual Members of Congress and Policy Change: The Use of Issue Salience as Subsidy”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Maureen Lowry-Fritz: “Is Legal Action the Right ‘Idea’: An Examination of Client-Based Legal Action and its Effects on Organizational Responses to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)”; Northern Illinois University

Matthew Luttig: “The Rise of Partisan Rigidity: The Nature and Origins of Partisan Extremism in American Politics”; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Matthew MacWilliams: “American Authoritarianism in Black and White”; University of Massachusetts Amherst

Elizabeth Mann: “Presidential Policymaking at the State Level: Revision through Waivers”; University of Michigan

Melissa Mouritsen: “Looking Inside the Black Box: Economic Development in Suburbia”; University of Illinois at Chicago

Zein Murib: “Brokering Identity: Exploring the Construction of LGBT Political Identity and Interests in US Politics, 1968–2001”; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Abdol-Razagh Oskoolii: “Disentangling Discrimination: The Impact of Political and Societal Discrimination on Democratic (Dis)Engagement”; University of Washington

Jessuina Perez-Teran: “Partisan Preferences: The Enforcing and Crafting of Immigration Policy”; University of Michigan

Samantha Pettey: “Run, Women, Run! Female Candidates and Term Limits: A State-Level Analysis”; University of North Texas

Michael Pomante: “The Young American Voter”; Northern Illinois University

Thomas Pryor: “The Psychology of Legal Decision Making”; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Michael Riley: “Constitutional Obedience vs. Unilateral-Executive Power: President Obama’s Responses to Chemical and Nuclear Weapons and ISIS”; Idaho State University

Meghan Rubado: “The Diffusion of Interlocal Cooperation in the United States”; Temple University

Benjamin Schneeer: “How Electoral Institutions Shape Citizen Participation and Legislative Behavior”; Harvard University

Carley Shinault: “When the Black Bourgeoisie Meets the Truly Disadvantaged: An Analysis of Black Middle-Class Responses to Low-Income Residential Mobility in Prince George’s County, Maryland”; Howard University

Maron Sorenson: “The Impact of Institutional Rules on the US Supreme Court”; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Derek Stafford: “The Relationship Between Participation, Social Networks, and Cooperation: How Social Networks Influence Voter Turnout through Mobilization and how both Networks and Turnout are Related to Cooperation”; University of Michigan

James Sutherland: “Municipal Institutions, Electoral System Designs, and Voter Turnout in Large American Cities”; Northeastern University

Paul Testa: “The Politics of Race and the Criminal Justice System”; University of Illinois

Amanda Tillotson: “Risky Business: Race, Risk, and Real Estate in the Development of the Home Ownership State”; University of Michigan

Benjamin Toff: “The Blind Scorekeepers: Journalism, Polling, and the Battle to Define Public Opinion in American Politics”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Clifford Vickrey: “Seeking the Constituent Signal: Exit Poll Measures of Public Opinion and Dynamic Congressional Responsiveness”; University of Connecticut

Hannah Walker: “Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race”; University of Washington

Harold Watkins, Jr.: “Assessing the Legislative Agenda and Legislative Behavior of the Congressional Black Caucus from 1992–2012, the 102nd through the 112th Congresses”; Howard University

Ariel White: “Voter Behavior in the Wake of Punitive Policies”; Harvard University

COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Luai Allarakia: “Three Essays on the Dynamics of Legislatures in Monarchical Regimes: Kuwait’s National Assembly”; University of Houston

Ashley Anderson: “Going Political: Labor, Institutions, and Democratic Unrest in North Africa”; Harvard University

Sanja Badanjak: “Coping with Europe: Europeanization of Party Systems in European Democracies”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Osman Balkan: “Death on the Move: Burial, Repatriation, and the Politics of Belonging among Muslims in Germany”; University of Pennsylvania

Salil Benegal: “A Changing Climate in the Public Mind: How Do Economic Risk and Political Partisanship Affect How We Think about Climate Change?”; University of Connecticut

Noah Buckley: “Calculating Corruption: Political Competition and Bribery Under Autocracy”; Columbia University

Joan Cho: “The Dictator’s Modernity Dilemma: Theory and Evidence from South Korea”; Harvard University

Jean Clipperton: “Now or Later: Tradeoffs in Implementation of Directives Among European Union Member States”; University of Michigan

Anna Cotter: “The Politics of the Terrorist Watch List”; University of Michigan

Aditiya Dasgupta: “The Puzzle of Democratic Monopolies: Single Party Dominance and Decline in India”; Harvard University

Emmerich Davies: “Making Markets: The Political Causes and Consequences of Private Education in India”; University of Pennsylvania

Dominic Despaio: “Structuring Crisis: Bureaucratic Influence and Regulatory Distortion in China”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Yue Ding: “Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China”; Harvard University

Casey Ehrlich: “Grassroots Peace: Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Rural Columbia”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aaron Erlich: “The Political Economy of Information Provision in Developing Democracies”; University of Washington

Paula Finch: “The Cycle of Violence Between Terrorism and Repression”; The University of Texas at Dallas

Roberto Foa: “Ancient Polities, Modern States”; Harvard University

Lynn Fredriksson: “Why Should You Recognize Us? Somaliland’s Pursuit of Recognition via Adherence to International Norms and Law”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Noam Gidron: “Many Ways to be Right: The Unbundling of European Mass Attitudes and Partisan Asymmetries across the Ideological Divide”; Harvard University

Shelby Grossman: “The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: Evidence from Lagos”; Harvard University

Hyeonho Hahm: “The Partisan Secret: Institutional Constraints on Policy Change and Partisanship”; University of Michigan

Luzia Helfer: “How Politics Becomes News and News Becomes Politics”; Leiden University

Bekele Bengessa Hirbe: “Intra-State Conflicts in the Horn of Africa and Their Implications for Regional Security”; Howard University

Hala Hweio: “Libyan Women and Revolution: A Study on the Changes of Women’s Political and Social Roles During and After the Libyan Revolution”; Northern Illinois University

Hiroki Kubo: “Organizing Parties in Legislatures: How Elections and Policy Positions Shape Intraparty Politics”; Rice University

Junghwa Lee: “A Study on the Party System in South Korea after Democratization”; University of Michigan

Na Youn Lee: “Understanding Interracial Closeness, Racial Policy Attitudes, and Children’s Academic Achievement through the Prism of Racial Frameworks”; University of Michigan

Yuting Li: “Housing Welfare State: The Political Economy of Social Housing Provision in China, Evidence from Chongqing and Shanghai”; University of Washington

Joseph Luna: “Political Finance in Developing States”; Harvard University

Khalid Madhi: “Back to the Medina: State, Citizenship, and Capital in Marrakesh”; University of Illinois at Chicago

Shahirah Mahmood: “Contextualizing the Global and Remaking the Local: Islam and Women’s Rights in Indonesia”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

John L. Marshall: “Information Consumption and Electoral Accountability in Mexico”; Harvard University

Danielle Martin: “Individual Risk Attitudes and Democratic Representation”; University of Michigan

Shaun McGirr: “Andrei Drives Bentley, Boris Drives Lada: Why Corrupt States Have Clean Agencies”; University of Michigan

Erin McGovern: “Dictators Who Dominate: Betraying Allies to Gain a Preponderance of Power”; University of Michigan

Amanda Meng: “The Social Impact of Open Government Data”; Georgia Institute of Technology

Bradley Murg: “Impetus or Impediment: Market Power, Foreign Direct Investment, and Judicial Reform in Russia and Kazakhstan”; University of Washington

Yunmin Nam: “Globalization, Welfare Policy, and Income Inequality in Developed Economies”; University of Connecticut

Noah Nathan: “Electoral Politics amid Africa’s Urban Transition: A Study of Urban Ghana”; Harvard University

Rodrigo Nunez Donoso: “Are Ethnically Heterogenous Cities More Democratic? Explaining the Subnational Component of Consociationalism in Post-Conflict Countries”; University of Houston

Paula Pineda: “Deconstructed Decentralization and Ethnic Conflict”; University of Houston

Amanda Pinkston: “Insider Democracy: Private Sector Weakness and the Closed Political Class in Democratic Africa”; Harvard University

Richard Potts: “Salt, Light, and Cocaine: Religious Civil Society and Narco-Violence in Mexico’s Border Region”; George Mason University

Taylor Price: “Uneasy Alliances: Traditional Leaders and the Promotion of Women’s Rights Policies in Namibia”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Elizabeth Rhodes: “The Micro-Dynamics of Health and Education Provision in the Slums of Nairobi”; University of Michigan

Mark R. Royce: “The Political Theology of European Integration”; George Mason University

Shin Kue Ryu: “Where is the Safe Water? Capturing the Missing Explanation in Inter-Country Variation in Access”; George Mason University

Turkhan Sadigov: “Modalities and Citizen Bribe Offers: The Case of Post-Soviet Corruption”; Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

Evann Smith: “Mass Mobilization in the Middle East: Form, Perception, and Language”; Harvard University

Elena Sokolova: “State Rsponse to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Russia: Institutional Factors”; Temple University

Basak Taraktas: “Making Autocrats Accountable: Interests, Priorities, and Cooperation for Regime Change”; University of Pennsylvania

Charles Taylor: “Ethnic Politics and Campaign Strategies in Contemporary Africa: Evidence from Ghana and Kenya”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hulya Unlusoy: “Do Parties Matter? A Political Model of Monetary Policy in Open Economies”; Western Michigan University

Cynthia Van Vonno: “Achieving Party Unity; A Sequential Approach to Why MPs Act in Concert”; Leiden University

Ana Weeks: “Identity and Policymaking: The Policy Impact of Gender Quota Laws”; Harvard University

Steven Wilson: “Information and Revolution”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Muhammad Ab dur-Rashid: “Partisanship and Military Intervention in Iraq: Muslim American Voters, Special Interest Groups, and Attitudes toward the Iraq War”; Howard University

Haitham Al-Mayahi: “Terrorism, Sectarianism, Corruption, and the Transition to Democracy in the Post-Saddam Hussein Era in Iraq”; Howard University

Robert Asaadi: “Colonies, Clients, and Rogues: Power and the Production of Order in International Politics”; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Erin Baggott: “Four Essays in Computational Approaches to Autocratic Politics”; Harvard University

Eyal Bar: “‘Us Here, Them There’: The Politics of Recognition in Israel-Palestine”; Arizona State University

Mary Taylor Benjamin Britton: “The Politics of Humanitarian Disarmament: Civil Society and the Cluster Bomb Ban”; Temple University

Sema Binay: “Coloring the Lines through Culture? Race and Racialization in International Relations”; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Jason Charrette: “A Difference that Makes a Difference: The Role of the United States in World Society”; University of Connecticut

Jessica Clayton: “Terms of Engagement: How Informational and Reputational Resources Motivate the Structure of IO-NGO Relationships”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Cosette Creamer: “Dilemmas of Delegation: The Politics of Authority in International Courts”; Harvard University

William d’Ambruoso: “The Persistence of Torture: Explaining Coercive Interrogation in America’s Small Wars”; University of Washington

Carine DeSy: “Media Sources Tell Stories to Frame Groups: A Study of Syrian Refugees in Quebec Analyzed by the Narrative Policy Framework”; Idaho State University

Gorana Draguljic: “The Politics of Choice and Institutional Development of Global Enfironmental Regimes”; Temple University

Kendr Dupy: “Harnessing Natural Resources for Development: New Legal Regimes for Localized Benefit Sharing in the Mining Sector”; University of Washington

Meltem Ersoy: “Political Crisis and Party Transformation: The Case of AKP in Turkey”; George Mason University

Lauren Farmer: “Bastions Against the Fourth Wave: Toward a Theory of Authoritarian Organizations”; Temple University

Kevin Generous: “Procuring Swords for Plowshares: Congressional Use of Strategic Weapons Acquisition to Influence US Arms Control Negotiations”; University of Connecticut

Michael Gill: “Empirical Essays on Secrecy and Security in the United States”; Harvard University

Mi Hwa Hong: “Crafting Reputation before Domestic and International Audiences: Autocratic Participation in the United Nations Human Rights Institutions”; University of Michigan

Casper Kamau: “National Level Tolerance for ‘Customary’ Neo-Autogenous Sub-Saharan (NAS) Law”; University of Texas at Dallas

Youcheer Kim: “Treaty Commitment and the Reconstruction of Social Relations among States”; Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy

Patrick Larue: “Investigating Transnational Terrorism: Three New Looks”; The University of Texas at Dallas

Rakeen Mabud: “Appreciating Housing: The Role of Housing in Politics”; Harvard University

Krishan Malhotra: “Voting for Victory: The Impact of Elections on Counterinsurgency Wars”; University of Pennsylvania

Gina Martinez: “Unraveling Red Tape: Foreign Aid Allocation and the Domestic Bureaucracy”; University of Illinois

Crystal Pryor: “Beyond Economics and Security: Strategic Export Control Policies in Advanced Countries”; University of Washington

Lindsay Reid: “Generating a Quality Peace: Negotiated Settlements and Governments’ Respect for Rights in the Wake of Civil War”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Evangeline Reynolds: “Supranational Law and Compliance”; University of Illinois

Kurt Robertson: “The Social Construction of the HIV/AIDS Masculinity Syndrome and Its Role in Jamaican Politics and Culture from 1982–2013”; Howard University

Robert J. Schub: “Certainty and War”; Harvard University

Adrian Shin: “Primary Resources, Secondary Labor: Natural Resources and Immigration Policy around the World”; University of Michigan

Fanglu Sun: “Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Ethnic Rebellion”; Rice University

Burcu Ucaray-Mangitli: “A Bottom-Up Approach to International Cooperation: Econocrats’ Role in Compliance with IMF Agreements”; University of Illinois

Alper Yagci: “Managing the Agricultural Biotechnology Revolution: Responses to Transgenic Seeds in Developing Countries”; University of Massachusetts Amherst

Piotr Zagorowski: “From the Heavens to the Earth: An Empirical Analysis of Weather Variability and Civil Conflict”; Claremont Graduate University

Steve Zech: “Between Two Fires: Civilian Resistance during Internal Armed Conflict in Peru”; University of Washington

Emily Zerndt: “The House that Propaganda Built: Historicizing the Democracy Promotion Efforts and Measurement Tools of Freedom House”; Western Michigan University

POILTICAL PHILOSOPHY & THEORY

Catherine Bartch: “For What Kind of Democracy Should We Educate: Examining the Potential of Education for a Participatory Democracy with a Case Study of an Urban, Experiential, First-Year Civic Engagement Course at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA”; Temple University

Tim Beaumont: “Mill, Method, and the Art of Life”; Harvard University

Joshua Berkenpas: “The Behavioral Revolution in Contemporary Political Science: Narrative, Identity, Practice”; Western Michigan University

Vincent Commisso: “Dynamic Politics: Necessity, Founding, and (Re)Founding in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy”; Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

Greg Conti: “The Politics of Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Britain”; Harvard University

Melonas Desiree: “We Are Where We Stand: Space and the Politcal Identity”; Temple University

Jacob Eisler: “Personhood and the Law of Corruption in Federal Courts”; Harvard University

Rodney Gill: “A History of Overcoming: Nietzsche on the Religious and Moral Antecedents of Modern Liberalism”; University of North Texas

Bruce Hunt: “Desiring Immortality and Resisting the Regime in Political Liberalism”; University of Houston

Kevin Kearns: “Scripture for America: Scriptural Interpretation in John Locke’s ‘Paraphrase’”; University of North Texas

Rita Koganzon: “Fathers and Sovereigns: The Uses of Paternal Authority in Early Modern Thought”; Harvard University

Daniel Kuchler: “The Grammar of Politicization and Depoliticization: Arendt’s Republicanism and the Translation of Revolutionary Politics and Judgment into Political Institutions”; Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

Charles Lesch: “Deep Solidarity: Political Theology, Jewish Thought, and Liberal Commitment in a Secular Age”; Harvard University

Joe Muller: “Constructing Kallipolis: The Political Argument of Plato’s Socratic Dialogues”; Harvard University

Benjamin Peterson: “‘Worthy of a Certain Seriousness’: Games, Ludic Attention, and Political Life”; University of Michigan

Clyde Ray: “John Marshall’s Constitutionalism”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

David Temin: “Remapping the World: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Ends of Settler Sovereignty”; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Bonnie Washick: “Strange Spaces and Stranger Sensibilities: Feminist Counter-Publicity in the Digital Age”; University of Michigan

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Benjamin Bingle: “A Matter of Size: Examining Representation and Responsiveness in State Legislatures and City Councils”; Northern Illinois Univeristy

Brett Doyle: “Beyond Ad Hoc: The Role of Inter-Organizational Collaboration in US Stabilization Efforts”; George Mason University

Kacee Garner: “Citizen Entrepreneur: Social Good and the Good Citizen”; Idaho State University

Eileen Setti: “The Ability to Build Absorptive Capacity in the Nonprofit Sector”; Northern Illinois Universtiy

PUBLIC LAW & COURTS

James Ben-Aaron: “Citation Networks, Linguistics-Based Cues, and Logic-Based Approaches to Understanding What Persuades a Judge to Forsake Bias”; University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mark Beougher: “Who Controls Immigration Judges? Towards a Multi-Institutional Model of Administration Judge Behavior”; Western Michigan University

Scott Harris: “Sociopolitical Influence on Federal District Court Judges’ Criminal Sentencing Behavior”; West Virginia University

Allen Linken: “Examining the Civil-Military Divide Through New (Institutional) Lenses: The Influence of the Supreme Court”; University of Massachusetts Amherst

Deron Marquez: “The Executive Branch and Indian Health Care”; Claremont Graduate University

Bennet Min: “How Attorneys Think: Political Giving in Judicial Elections as a Hiring Decision”; The University of Texas at Dallas

Robert Whitaker: “Freedom of a Speech: The Speeches of the Warren Court Justices and the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court”; Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

Allyson Yankle: “Just Like Any Other Court: The European Court of Human Rights as a Political Institution”; University of Connecticut

PUBLIC POLICY

Jarvis Chen: “Charter Schools and Accountability: A Study of Market and Compliance Accountability by Charter Authorizers”; Northeastern University

Andrea Eckelman: “From Invisible to Visible: How Women Have Transformed Representation and Equity in the American States”; University of Houston

LaGina Gause: “The Advantage of Disadvantage: Legislative Responsiveness to Collective Action by the Politically Marginalized”; University of Michigan

Simon Haeder: “Does Policy Analysis Matter? The Role of Expertise in State Policymaking”; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Andrew Tuholski: “Understanding the Formation of American Mental Health Policy Preferences, 1952–1981”; Purdue University