American Politics

Acevedo, Emily: 2007; “The Alternative Path to Dignity and Justice: Rethinking Political Opportunity Structure”; Claremont Graduate University.

Albertson, Bethany: 2006; “Mysterious Ways: The Mechanisms of Religious Persuasion in American Politics”; University of Chicago.

Allen, Victoria Heavey: 2007; “Walking the Line: Social Movement Interest Groups and the Delicate Balance Between Social Movements and Political Parties”; CUNY-Graduate Center.

Almeida, Richard A.: 2006; “Interest Group Coalitions and the Spatial Theory of Choice: A Spatial Model of Group Participation on Amicus Curiae Briefs”; University of Missouri, Columbia.

Anderson, Melissa Cully: 2007; “Entrusting Legislators to to Self-Reform: A Study of Initiative-Enabling Bills from 1987–1916”; University of California, Berkeley.

Anderson, Sarah: 2006; “Who Matters? Testing Floor, Party, and Committee Models of Appropriations Policy Formation”; Stanford University.

Arbour, Brian K.: 2007; “Resume Politics: How Campaigns Use Background Appeals to Win Votes and Elections”; University of Texas, Austin.

Azari, Julia Rezazadeh: 2007; “Delivering the People's Message: Presidential Mandate Claims from 1929 to 2005”; Yale University.

Bailey, Mandi B.: 2007; “Race or Place? The Impact of News Depictions of Urban and Rural Poverty”; University of Kentucky.

Bartels, Brandon L.: 2006; “Heterogeneity in Supreme Court Decision Making: How Situational Factors Shape Preference-based Behavior”; Ohio State University.

Bejarano, Christina Elizabeth: 2007; “Latina's Double Electoral Advantages”; University of Iowa.

Benham, Liza Abram: 2006; “Voting Minorities, Electoral Structure and Policy Responsiveness”; SUNY, Binghamton University.

Bensonsmith, Dionne: 2007; “Lacking Legitimacy: Race, Gender and the Social Construction of African American Women in Welfare Policy (1935–2006)”; Syracuse University.

Bigelow, Nathan S.: 2006; “Representation in State Legislatures: Searching for Responsiveness in an Age of Polarization”; University of Maryland.

Black, Millie D.: 2007; “The Effects of Race, Racial Consciousness, and Income on Political Trust”; University of Texas, Dallas.

Blakelock, Paul: 2006; “Changing Trust: Individual-level Assessments of Political Legitimacy”; University of Houston.

Bos, Angela L.: 2007; “Stereotypes at the Gate? Gender Stereotypes and Candidate Nomination Rules”; University of Minnesota.

Boudreau, Cheryl: 2007; “When Do Simple Cues Make Citizens Smart? Understanding the Conditions Under Which Cues Improve Decisions”; University of California, San Diego.

Bow, Shannon L.: 2007; “Regionalism and Presidential Rhetoric”; University of Florida.

Boyea, Brent D.: 2006; “State Methods of Judicial Selection: An Evaluation of Career Ambition”; Rice University.

Bullock, John G.: 2007; “Experiments on Partisanship and Public Opinion”; Stanford University.

Burch, Traci: 2007; “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy”; Harvard University.

Burdein, Inna: 2007; “Principled Conservatives or Covert Racists: Disentangling Racism and Ideology through Implicit Measures”; Stony Brook University.

Burkhalter, Stephanie: 2007; “Talking Points: Message Strategies and Deliberation in the U.S. House of Representatives”; University of Washington.

Butler, Daniel Mark: 2007; “Moving to Win: Candidate Positioning, Polarization, and the Partisan Control of Congress”; Stanford University.

Cain, Sean A.: 2006; “The Strategic Role of Political Consultants in United States House Elections”; University of California, San Diego.

Calfano, Brian R.: 2007; “Strategic Saints? Rational Choice and the Political Positions of Religious Elites”; University of North Texas.

Carter, Niambi M.: 2007; “The Black/White Paradigm Revisited: African Americans, Immigration, Race, and Nation in Durham, NC”; Duke University.

Cavanaugh, Jeffrey M.: 2007; “The Protection Racket: Patron, Colients, and the Political Economy of Interstate Security-Provision”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Chapp, Christopher B: 2007; “Holier Than Thy Opponent? Religious Rhetoric and Political Preferences in Presidential Campaigns”; University of Minnesota.

Civettini, Andrew J.W.: 2007; “The Formation, Functions, and Effects of Women's State Legislative Caucuses”; University of Iowa.

Claborn, David: 2007; “Can States Increase Religious Freedom in They Try? Judicial and Legislative Effects on Religious Actor Success in the State Courts”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Clark, Allison: 2007; “The Rise of Presidential Preeminence: Presidential-Congressional Rhetorical Relations, 1978–2006”; University of Florida.

Clark, Jennifer Hayes: 2007; “Majority Party Dominance or Norm of Cooperation? Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Minority Party Influence in Legislative Decision-Making”; Indiana University.

Cody, Scott: 2006; “The Causes and Consequences of Restrictive Rules of Debate in State Senates”; University of Iowa.

Coffey, Daniel J.: 2006; “State Party Agendas: Representation in an Era of Polarized Parties”; University of Virginia.

Cohen, Diana Tracy: 2007; “Campaign versus Official Government Internet Sites: An Exploration into the Web-based Congressional Presentation of Self”; University of Florida.

Collins, Ann V.: 2007; “All Hell Broke Loose: A Compartive Analysis of American Race Riots from the Progressive Era through World War II”; Washington University, St. Louis.

Cortina, Jeronimo: 2007; “Three Papers on Migration, Political Socialization, and Political Participation”; Columbia University.

Currin-Percival, Mary G.: 2006; “Distant Voices: Citizen Judgments about Polling Methods and Collective Public Opinion”; University of California, Riverside.

Dauber, Noah: 2006; “The Invention of Political Science”; Harvard University.

Davis, Bill: 2007; “Public Opinion, Security Threats, and Foreign Policy: A Theoretical Framework and Comparative Analysis”; Florida State University.

DeFrancesco Soto, Victoria Maria: 2007; “Do Latinos Party All the Time? The Influence of Ethnic Group Identity on Political Choice”; Duke University.

Dell, Kyle D.: 2007; “ ‘A History Unwritten’: The Impact of an Environmental Ethos in American Environmental Politics”; Boston College.

Dempsey, Jason: 2007; “Our Army: Soldiers, Politics, and American Civil-Military Relations”; Columbia University.

DePalo, Kathryn A.: 2006; “State Legislative Term Limits and the Law of Unintended Consequences: An Examination of Member Behavior, Power Structures, and Legislative Organization in Florida”; Florida International University.

Deufel, Benjamin J.: 2006; “Trial Membership: Responses to Immigrants in American Communities”; Harvard University.

DiSalvo, Daniel R.: 2007; “Intra-Party Factions in American Political Development”; University of Virginia.

Doherty, Brendan J.: 2006; “The Politics of the Permanent Campaign: Presidents, Fundraising, and the Electoral College”; University of California, Berkeley.

Doherty, Joseph W.: 2006; “The Candidate-Consultant Network in California Legislative Campaigns: A Social Network Analysis of Informal Party Organization”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Dolence, David M.: 2006; “Tocquevillian Political Associations, Social Capital, and the Centralizing Tendency of Democracy in the United States”; Northern Illinois University.

Donavan, Janet L.: 2006; “The Media Environment for Local Political News: Differences in Media Content and Implications for Political Participation Research”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Drummond, Andrew J.: 2006; “Thinking Outside the (Ballot) Box: Gauging the Systemic and Cognitive Consequences of Electoral Rules for Parties, Partisans, and Partisanship”; University of California, Irvine.

Dull, Matthew M.: 2006; “The Politics of Results: Comprehensive Reform and Institutional Choice”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Dunaway, Johanna: 2006; “What Makes the News? The Institutional Determinants of the Political News Agenda”; Rice University.

Dyck, Joshua J.: 2006; “Dissociated Choices in Direct Democracy: Preferences, Policy Responsiveness and Trust in Ballot Initiative Elections”; University of Maryland.

Egan, Patrick J.: 2007; “Issue Ownership and Representation in the United States”; University of California, Berkeley.

Ellis, Christopher Reid: 2006; “Polarization and Mass-elite Dynamics in the American Party System”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Enns, Peter: 2007; “The Uniform Nature of Mass Opinion”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Ernst, Rose: 2007; “Intersectional Roots, Realities, and Responses of the Welfare Rights Movement to Racial Frames”; University of Washington.

Estep, Clarissa: 2006; “Democracy by any Other Name Just isn't the Same”; West Virginia University.

Farhang, Sean: 2006; “The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the American Separation of Powers System”; Columbia University.

Farley, Anne M.: 2007; “Street-Level Democracy”; University of Delaware.

Farley, Jared A.: 2006; “The Politicalization of the American Evangelical Press, 1960–1981: A Test of the Ideological Theory of Social Movement Mobilization”; Miami University.

Fine, Jeffrey A.: 2006; “Adversity Politics: The Effect of Structure and Ideology on American Political Outcomes”; University of Kentucky.

Fistein, David: 2006; “Social Revolutions in Small States”; University of Missouri, Saint Louis.

Fleming, Eleanor: 2006; “Making the Invisible Visible: A Black Feminist Account of Integrated Oppression”; Vanderbilt University.

Foster, Joe: 2006; “Political Influence and the Commander in Chief: Congress, the President, and War Powers”; University of South Carolina.

Foy, Joseph: 2006; “Applying the New Federalism of 1996: Governors and Welfare Reform”; University of Notre Dame.

Franklin Fowler, Erika: 2007; “Missing Messages: The Political Content and Effectiveness of Local Television News across America”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Frederick, Brian P.: 2007; “Frozen at 435: The Size of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Implications for Legislative Representation”; Northern Illinois University.

Frisby, Tammy M.: 2007; “Three Essays on State Legislative Electoral Competition under Term Limits”; Harvard University.

Fulton, Sarah: 2006; “Alice Through the Looking Glass: Gender, Perceptions, and the Decision to Run”; University of California, Davis.

Garner, Andrew D.: 2007; “Issue Clarity and Heterogeneity in the Issue-Basis of Party Identification”; University of Mississippi.

Gerrity, Jessica C.: 2006; “Interest Group Framing in Congress and the Media: The Case of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Debate”; Indiana University.

Gershkoff, Amy R.: 2006; “How Issue Interest Can Rescue the American Public”; Princeton University.

Gibson, Tobias T.: 2006; “The Office of Legal Counsel and the Presidency: The Legal Strategy of Executive Orders”; Washington University, St. Louis.

Ginsberg, Beth: 2007; “Why Do People Vote? The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Turnout in U.S. Presidential Elections”; New York University.

Godbout, Jean-Francois: 2007; “Three Essays on Political Participation”; Northwestern University.

Gold, Suzanne: 2007; “Pressures, Priorities, and Legislative Behavior: Roll-Call Voting in the House of Representatives”; Michigan State University.

Golden, Anne V.: 2007; “Framing Political New in the High School Classroom: The Case of Channel One”; University of Utah.

Goldin, Richard W.: 2006; “Identity/Politics: Strategy and Structure”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Gollob, Justin: 2007; “Beyond the District: Extra-District Representation in State Legislatures”; Temple University.

Greenberg, Nadivah: 2006; “The Green and the Right: Rival Views of Consumption and the Environment in American Conservative Thought”; University of Pennsylvania.

Greenlee, Jill S.: 2007; “The Political Dynamics of Parenthood”; University of California, Berkeley.

Ha, Shang E.: 2007; “Backlash: Public Attitudes toward Immigration in Multiracial America”; University of Chicago.

Habel, Philip: 2006; “The Dynamics of Democracy: Politicians, People, and the Press”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hannagan, Rebecca J.: 2006; “Perceptual Asymmetry in Gendered Group Decision Making”; University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Harrison, Chase H.: 2006; “It's How You Know Who You Know: The Impact of Interpersonal Contact on American Attitudes Toward Immigration”; University of Connecticut.

Hartman, Michelle L: 2006; “Irish Military Service During the American Civil War: A Case Against Assimilation—New York 1861–65”; New School for Social Research.

Hatcher, Andrea C.: 2006; “United States Senate Majority Leadership”; Vanderbilt University.

Hatemi, Peter: 2007; “The Genetics of Political Attitudes”; University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Haugen, Douglas Mark: 2007; “The Epistemic Origins of American Empire”; CUNY-Graduate Center.

Hayes, Danny: 2006; “Beyond the Horse Race: The Content and Consequence of Issue News in American Elections”; University of Texas, Austin.

Hayes, Robin J.: 2006; “I Used the Term ‘Negro’ and I was Firmly Corrected: African Independence, Black Power, and Channels of Diasporic Resistance”; Yale University.

Healy, Conor: 2006; “Politics in a Tight Fix: The Role of Politics in Determining the Sustainability of Hard Exchange Rate Regimes”; Princeton University.

Holtzman, Richard Gibbons: 2006; “When Talking the Talk is Enough: Rhetorical Policymaking and George W. Bush's ‘Call to Service’ ”; University of Texas, Austin.

Horner, Debra: 2006; “Rethinking Political Interest and Its Role in Participation”; University of Michigan.

Horowitz, Juliana Menasce: 2006; “The Culture Wars and the Agenda of the United States Congress”; University of Maryland, College Park.

Hoston, William T.: 2007; “African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House of Representatives”; University of New Orleans.

Hummer, Jill A.: 2007; “The First Lady, the Women's Movement, and the Modern Presidency”; University of Virginia.

Ivanchenko, Roman: 2007; “Interactions Between Congress and the Supreme Court”; Ohio State University.

Janson, Michael: 2007; “A Christian Century: Liberal Protestantism, the New Deal, and the Origins of Post-War American Politics”; University of Pennsylvania.

Janssen, Marc: 2006; “Presidential Cabinets: Political Dynamics and Development in the United States, 1789–2006”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Jarvis, Matthew: 2006; “The Public Opinion Consequences of Passing Major Legislation”; University of California, Berkeley.

Jasso, Sean D.: 2006; “The Doctrine of the Mean. From Aristotle to Sarbanes-Oxley: The quest for arete in the New Corporation”; Claremont Graduate University.

Jensen, Michael J.: 2007; “Electronic Democracy in America: The Internet and Participation in American Local Politics”; University of California, Irvine.

Jessee, Stephen: 2007; “Policy, Party, and Perceptual Bias in American Politics”; Stanford University.

Jividen, Jason: 2007; “The Use and Abuse of Abraham Lincoln”; Northern Illinois University.

Jones, Sara: 2006; “Federalism and Internal Conflict: The Effects of Decentralization on Protest and Rebellion”; Claremont Graduate University.

Jordan, Jason: 2006; “Who is in? Who is out? Inclusion and Exclusion in Western Welfare States”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Jurkiewicz, Theodore: 2006; “Citadels in the Suburbs: White Resistance to Black Neighbors in Metropolitan Detroit from 1950–1970”; Wayne State University.

Kang, Insun: 2006; “Essays on Electoral Competition and Voting Behavior”; University of Rochester.

Karjala, Aleisha: 2007; “Perceptions of People, Process, and Policy on Political Trust”; University of Oklahoma.

Kasper, Eric T.: 2007; “The Enjoyment of Life and Liberty: James Madison's Liberal Design for the Bill of Rights”; University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Kato, Kenneth: 2007; “The Creation and Evolution of the American Presidency”; Johns Hopkins University.

Kendrick, J. Alan: 2006; “Kith and Kin Across the Atlantic: ‘Black’ Political Behavior and Democracy in Britain”; University of Virginia.

Kenski, Kate M.: 2006; “The Gender Gap in Political Knowledge: Do Women Know Less Than Men About Politics?”; University of Pennsylvania.

Kim, Dukhong: 2006; “Core Values and Public Opinion on Foreign Policy”; Northwestern University.

Kim, Henry A.: 2007; “The Consequences of Clout: Agenda Control in U.S. Legislatures”; University of California, San Diego.

King, Marvin P.: 2006; “A Black/Non-black Theory of African-American Partisanship: Hostility, Racial Consciousness and the Republican Party”; University of North Texas.

Kloha, Philip: 2006; “On the Structure and Composition of Legislative Committees: Testing a Theory of Majority Party Reliability”; Michigan State University.

Knowles, Helen J.: 2007; “A Dialogue on Liberty: The Classical Liberal and Civic Educational Principles of Justice Kennedy's Vision of Judicial Power”; Boston University.

Koch, Walter E.: 2007; “Explaining the Age Gap in Voter Turnout in the United States”; SUNY, University at Buffalo.

Kriner, Douglas L.: 2006; “Taming the Imperial Presidency: Congress, Presidents, and the Conduct of Military Action”; Harvard University.

Kuru, Ahmet T.: 2006; “Dynamics of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United States”; University of Washington.

Lacey, Robert J.: 2006; “American Pragmatism and Democratic Faith”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Ladd, Jonathan McDonald: 2006; “Attitudes Toward the News Media and Political Competition in America”; Princeton University.

Lamis, Renee: 2006; “Pennsylvania Electoral Change Since 1960: The Partisan Ebbs and Flows of a Bellweather State”; Case Western Reserve University.

Larimer, Christopher W.: 2006; “Ambitious Leaders and Policy Fairness”; University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Larsen-Price, Heather A.: 2006; “The Dynamics of Presidential Policy Attention”; University of Washington.

Latner, Michael: 2007; “Metropolitan Fragmentation and Electoral Mobilization: How Urban Form and Reform Impact Participation and Political Equality”; University of California, Irvine.

Lawrence, Eric D.: 2006; “Essays on Procedural Development in the United States Congress”; University of Minnesota.

Leblanc, William M.: 2007; “Party Positions and the Seats/Votes Relationship with Ideological Voters”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lee, So Young: 2007; “Information Heterogeneity and Voter Uncertainty in Spatial Voting: the U.S. Presidential Elections, 1992–2004”; University of Texas, Austin.

Levendusky, Matthew S.: 2006; “Sorting: Explaining Change in the United States Electorate”; Stanford University.

Li, Quan: 2006; “To Prosecute or Not to Prosecute, That is the Question: The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division's Enforcement Dilemma Under Instable Courts”; Texas A&M University.

Lindstaedt, Rene: 2006; “Three Essays on the Political Ecconomy of Separation-of-Powers Institutions”; Washington University in St. Louis.

Longoria, Richard T.: 2006; “Meritocracy and Americans' Views on Distributive Justice”; University of Maryland.

Lucas, Jennifer C.: 2006; “Women's Words: Gender and Floor Speeches in the U.S. Congress”; University of Maryland.

Lupo, Lindsey J.H.: 2007; “The Flak Catchers: One Hundred Years of Riot Commission Politics in America”; University of California, Irvine.

Lynch, Michael S.: 2007; “Modeling Legislative Outcomes: Assessing the Effects of Institutional Rules and Legislative Preferences”; Washington University, St. Louis.

Mackie, Christopher J.: 2006; “EID: A Computational Model of Emergent Sociopolitical Identity”; Princeton University.

Mariani, Mack: 2006; “A Gendered Pipeline? The Advancement of State Legislators to Congress in Five States”; Syracuse University.

Marquez, Frances : 2006; “Latina/o Political Appointees in the Federal Government: An Examination of the Characteristics, Career paths and Impact on Executive Decision-making of the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Appointees”; Claremont Graduate University.

Marrow, Helen B.: 2007; “Southern Becoming: Immigrant Incorporation and Race Relations in the Rural U.S. South”; Harvard University.

Mason, Aaron: 2006; “The Evolving Nature of Federalism: The Tribal-State Relationship”; Northern Arizona University.

Matsubayashi, Tetsuya: 2007; “Racial Environment and Political Participation”; Texas A&M University.

Matthews, Cameron: 2007; “The Fortunes of a President: Timing and Skill in Presidential Success”; University of Houston.

McDaniel, Jason A.: 2007; “Urban Space and Political Power: Spatial Theory and Spatial Data Analysis of Local Voting Behavior”; University of Southern California.

McKay, Amy Melissa: 2006; “The Effects of a Competitive Lobbying Environment on Policy Makers, Demanders, and Outcomes”; Duke University.

McLean, Stephanie C.: 2006; “Electoral Legitimacy in the United States: Effects on Political Efficacy, Trust, and Participation”; University of Pittsburgh.

McQuide, Bryan S.: 2007; “Information & Interest Group Lobbying in Congress: Policy v. Political Information”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mello, Brian Jason: 2006; “Evaluating Social Movement Impacts: Labor and the Politics of State-society Relations”; University of Washington.

Merola, Linda M.: 2007; “A Culture of Crisis: Information and the Scope of American Civil Liberties in an Era of Terrorist Threat”; Georgetown University.

Michaud, Kristy: 2007; “Climate Change Beliefs and Energy Policy Preferences among Californians: The Role of Trust”; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Miller, Beth: 2006; “Constructing Optimal Campaign Strategies: A Test of the On-line and Memory-Based Models”; Rice University.

Mogg, Jennifer A.: 2006; “America's False Dichotomy: Sovereignty and the Federal/National Distinction at the Constitutional Convention of 1787”; University of Houston.

Morris, Brett E.: 2006; “The Effects of the Draft on United States Presidential Approval Ratings During the Vietnam War, 1954–1975”; University of Alabama.

Mulcare, Daniel: 2007; “Bound Government: Slavery, Internal Improvements, and the Limitation of National Power”; New School University.

Nazworth, Napp: 2006; “Institutionalization of the Christian Right”; University of Florida.

Nelson, Claudia D.: 2007; “African American Women's Activism Undergirded by Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., A Legacy of Social and Political Action, 1913–2006”; Clark Atlanta University.

Newman, James Allen: 2006; “Examining Interest Group Conflict in River Basin Interstate Compacts in the Southeastern United States”; Mississippi State University.

Noel, Hans: 2006; “The Coalition Merchants: How Ideologues Shape Parties in American Politics”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Nteta, Tatishe Mavovosi: 2007; “Plus Cha Change, Plus C'est la Meme Chose: An Examination of African American Attiudes Toward Immigration”; University of California, Berkeley.

Ochs, Holona LeAnne: 2007; “Social Policy and Inequality”; University of Kansas.

Okura, Masako Rachel: 2006; “What is the Color of Social Capital? Bringing Race in Political Science”; University of Connecticut.

Ondercin, Heather L.: 2007; “The Changing Social Definitions of Men and Women and Their Effect on the Partisan Gender Gap, 1953–2003”; Pennsylvania State University.

O'Shaughnessy, Elizabeth: 2006; “State Adjustments to Recent Congressional Lawmaking: Adapting to Stifling Federalism”; University of Illinois, Chicago.

Oyler, Diane Costlow: 2006; “How Does Trust in Government Affect Voter Turnout? The Non-monotonic Hypothesis”; SUNY, University at Buffalo.

Paden, Catherine: 2006; “National Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor: An Analysis of Organizational Decision-Making”; Northwestern University.

Parker-Stephen, Evan: 2007; “Learning about Change: Information, Motivation, and Political Perception”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Parkin, Michael: 2006; “When Image Matters: The Saliency of Candidate Image in the ‘New Media’ Age”; University of Minnesota.

Parsneau, Kevin: 2007; “Presidents and Subcabinet Nominations: A President-Centered Account of the Nomination and Confirmation of Executive Officers”; University of Minnesota.

Pelika, Stacey L.: 2007; “Picking Teams and Choosing Sides: The Strategic Use of Opinions as Symbols in the Policymaking Process”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Pieper, Andrew: 2007; “Competing Traditions? Religion and the American Left, 1977–2000”; University of Connecticut.

Pimlott, Jamie Pamelia: 2007; “This isn't Your Mom's Tupperware Party: How Emily's List has Changed the Political Landscape”; University of Florida.

Plagens, Gregory K.: 2006; “Social Capital and School Performance: How Norms, Networks, and Relationships Influence Outcomes”; University of South Carolina.

Plazek, David J.: 2006; “Democracies and Foreign Policy, Conflict, or Cooperation? The Leadership/Institutions Nexus”; West Virginia University.

Portteus, Kevin: 2006; “Administration and the American Regime”; University of Dallas.

Prasad, Shankar: 2006; “Red, Brown, and Blue: The Political Behavior of Asian Indian Americans”; Brown University.

Prata, Adriana: 2006; “Government Domination, Consensus, or Chaos? A Study of Party Discipline and Agenda Control in National Legislatures”; University of California, San Diego.

Prince, David: 2006; “Timing of Campaign Contributions in State Legislatures: An Examination of the Motives and Strategies of Contributors”; University of Kentucky.

Quon, Nicole C.: 2007; “Decisions at Scientific Agencies: How do the NIH and the FDA Balance Expert Opinions, Changing Agendas, and Political Pressure”; Yale University.

Reifler, Jason A.: 2006; “The Organization of Power and the Power of Organization: Strategic Gerrymandering and Congressional Policy Outcomes”; Duke University.

Roberts, Patrick S.: 2006; “Crises as Opportunity: Innovation in Federal Homeland Security Agencies, 1946–2004”; University of Virginia.

Robinson, Gregory: 2007; “Ambition Theory and Legislative Organization”; Michigan State University.

Rocha, Rene R.: 2006; “Black-Brown Cooperation and Conflict in the Education Policymaking Process”; Texas A&M University.

Rodgers, Robert R.: 2007; “The Land is Your Land: The Politics of Public Open Space Preservation”; Princeton University.

Rodriguez, Christopher: 2006; “The Goal-Seeking Executive: Presidents as Purposive Actors in the Nineteenth Centry”; University of Notre Dame.

Root, Erik Scott: 2006; “All Honor to Jefferson? The Virginia Debates Over Slavery and the Development of the Positive Good Thesis”; Claremont Graduate University.

Royer, Robin N.: 2006; “Extending the Selectorate Model: A Multi-institutional Approach”; Claremont Graduate University.

Rugeley, Cindy: 2007; “Home or Away: Examining Representation in State Legislatures”; Florida State University.

Sacco, Jennifer Schenk: 2006; “Role Play: Candidates, Potential Voters, and Family/Gender Roles”; Rutgers University.

Schrader, William T.: 2006; “The Rules of the Game: A New Historical Institutionalist Analysis of United States Defense Reorganization”; Temple University.

Schwab, David Van Martin: 2007; “Rethinking Critical Communication: Lessons from Social Dilemma Resolution”; Indiana University.

Selinger, Jeffrey: 2007; “Embracing Dissent: Presidential Leadership and the Development of Legitimate Party Opposition in the United States”; Cornell University.

Seo, Jungkun: 2007; “Breaking Ranks with the Party: Preferences, Procedures, and Party Position Shifts in Congress”; University of Texas, Austin.

Shields, Jon A.: 2006; “The Civic Virtues of the Christian Right”; University of Virginia.

Shinn, Paul L.: 2006; “Executive Budget Success: Evidence from the American States”; University of Oklahoma.

Sidman, Andrew H.: 2007; “Distributive Benefits and American House Elections: Outcomes and Voter Heterogencity”; SUNY, Stony Brook University.

Sin, Gisela: 2007; “Separation of Power and Legislative Institutions: The Constitutional Theory of Legislative Organization”; University of Michigan.

Sitomer, Joan: 2007; “Race, Sex, and Citizenship: Constructions of Citizenship in Legal Investigations of Sexualized Violence Against African-American Women”; University of Michigan.

Smith, Jinney: 2006; “The Supreme Court and National Policy-Making: Influence through Anticipatory Compliance by State Legislatures”; Northwestern University.

Sollenberger, Mitchel Alan: 2006; “Advice and Consent: A Study of the Pre-Nomination Process”; Catholic University of America.

Solowiej, Lisa A.: 2007; “Bicameralism: The Politics of Domination in Conference Committee”; SUNY, Binghamton University.

Springer, Melanie Jean: 2006; “Electoral institutions, voter turnout and American democracy: The States, 1920–2000”; Columbia University.

Straus, Jacob R.: 2006; “Amateurs and Professionals in the House of Representatives: The Impact of Pre-Congressional Political Experience”; University of Florida.

Suthammanont, Christina: 2006; “Illusions Matter: How The Socioeconomic Context and Perceptions of Economic Prospects Influence Racial And Ethnic Groups' Political Participation”; Texas A&M University.

Sylvester, Dari Elise: 2006; “Attitudes and Opportunities as Antecedents to Volunteer Activity: A Multi-level Analysis”; SUNY, Stony Brook University.

Tankersley, Holley E.: 2006; “National and State Dimensions of Major Policy Change: The Reagan Revolution Reexamined”; University of Georgia.

Taylor, Erin N.: 2006; “Specious poisons? Reputation, Gender, and Democratic Politics”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Taylor, Jami Kathleen: 2007; “The Adoption of Gender Identity Inclusive Legislation in the American States”; North Carolina State University.

Taylor, Mark Zachary: 2006; “Political Economy of Technological Innovation”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tirelli, Vincent: 2007; “The Invisible Faculty Fight Back: Contingent Academic Labor and the Political Economy of the Corporate University”; CUNY-Graduate Center.

Townsend-Bell, Erica: 2007; “Identities Matter: Identity Politics, Coalition Possibilities, and Feminist Organizing”; Washington University, St Louis.

Trautman, Linda: 2007; “The Impact of Race Upon Legislators' Policy Preferences and Bill Sponsorship Patterns: The Case of Ohio”; Ohio State University.

Turgeon, Mathieu: 2006; “Just Thinking: Political Attitudes, Political Knowledge, and Political Thought”; University of Texas, Austin.

Turner, Joel: 2007; “The Messenger Overwhelming the Message: The Impact of Ideological Cues on Information Acquisition, Counterarguing, and Perceptions of Media Bias”; Florida State University.

Uscinski, Joseph E.: 2007; “The Economics of News Content”; University of Arizona.

Vander Wielen, Ryan J.: 2006; “Congressional Conference Committees and Policy Outcomes”; Washington University.

VanSickle-Ward, Rachel: 2007; “Explicit Language: Fragmentation and Policy Specificity in U.S. States”; University of California, Berkeley.

Wabindato, Elizabeth Arbuckle: 2006; “Exploring the Concepts of Sovereignty and Belonging of the Bad River Chippewa”; University of Michigan.

Wagner, Michael W.: 2006; “Think of it this Way: The Conditional Influence of Competitive Partisan Issue Framing on Public Opinion and Party Identification”; Indiana University.

Weinstein, Matthew: 2006; “Trying to Keep Up with the Joneses: A Study of Peer Diffusion by American Public Research Universities”; University of Pittsburgh.

Weldon, Steven: 2006; “The Party on the Ground: Shaping Modern Democracy”; University of California, Irvine.

Williams, Blair S.: 2006; “Essays in Legislative Behavior”; Harvard University.

Wiltse, Dave: 2006; “Creating a Culture of Political Giving”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Winton, Sonya D.: 2007; “All Things Being Equal: The Politics of Environmental (In)-Justice”; Yale University.

Woelfel, Stacey: 2006; “Suspicious Signs: Effects of Newscaster Scripts, Symbols, and Actions on Audience Perceptions of News Organization Bias”; University of Missouri, Columbia.

Yamagishi, Takakazu: 2007; “World War II and the Health of the State”; Johns Hopkins University.

Yeates, Owen D.: 2007; “Tolerating on Faith: The Theological Origins of Political Toleration”; Duke University.

Yu, Eric Chen-hua: 2006; “Essays on America Welfare Reform: The Politics of State Welfare Reforms Under Devolution”; Columbia University.

Yun, Hyun Jung: 2007; “The Different Tiers of Social Lives in Policies: Policy Beliefs and Different Aspects of Social Capital”; University of Florida.

Zinman, Donald A.: 2006; “Constructing and reconstructing the New Deal regime”; University of Texas, Austin.

Comparative Politics

Adams, Paul S.: 2007; “The Europeanization of the Social Partnership: The Future of Neo-Corporatism in Austria and Germany”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Aguilera, Gabriel: 2006; “The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Latin America during the 1990s: Mexico and Venezuela in Comparative Perspective”; Harvard University.

Aideyan, Osaore: 2006; “The Social-Institutional Dimension to Poverty Alleviation: A Theoretical and Policy Framework for Evaluating Micro-Finance Programs”; Claremont Graduate University.

Alberro, Irina: 2006; “Political Competition and theEmpowerment of the Poor: An Analysis of the Socio-Economic Composition of the Mexican Electorate, 1994–2000”; Northwestern University.

Fernandez-Albertos, Jose: 2007; “Domestic Institutions and Exchange Rate Politics in the Open Economy”; Harvard University.

Aleksy-Szucsich, Agnieszka: 2007; “Ethnolinguistic Diversity as a Potential Economic Benefit for Countries: Implications for International Political Economy”; Johns Hopkins University.

Allison, Michael E.: 2006; “Leaving the Past Behind? A Study of the FMLN and URNG Transitions to Political Parties”; Florida State University.

Altan, Ozlem: 2006; “The American Third World: Transnational Elite Networks in the Middle East”; New York University.

Ancelovici, Marcos: 2007; “Between Adaptation and Resistance: Labor Responses to Globalization in France”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Anil, Merih: 2007; “Gender and Voting by Nativity and Ethnicity in New York City”; CUNY-Graduate Center.

Anker, Elisabeth: 2007; “The Venomous Eye: Melodrama and the Making of National Identity andState Power”; University of California, Berkeley.

Appah, Frederick: 2007; “The Politics of Health Promotion: Analyzing Healthy Public Policy's Impact on Tobacco Control In the United States and South Africa”; West Virginia University.

Ardovino, Michael L.: 2006; “Europe as an Imagined Community? Testing Support for European Union Accession in Five Post-Communist Societies”; Catholic University of America.

Arriola, Leonardo R.: 2007; “Between Coordination and Cooptation: The Opposition's Dilemma in Africa States”; Stanford University.

Asay, Garrett: 2006; “Strategic Positioning and Elections: Issue Selection and Negative Campaigning”; University of California, Irvine.

Bae, Yooil: 2007; “State Restructuring and Pathways to Local Democracy: Idea and Politics of Decentralization in Japan and Korea”; University of Southern California.

Baek, Kyeonghi: 2007; “Is Victory Enough? Taking the Economy Seriously”; University of Mississippi.

Bakke, Kristin Marie: 2007; “Federal Institutions and the Societies They Govern: How Can Decentralized Governance Contribute to Peace?”; University of Washington.

Bakker, Ryan : 2006; “Re-measuring Left-Right: A New Model for Extracting Political Parties' Left-Right Policy Preference Positions”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Bambaci, Juliana: 2006; “Presidential Discretion in Separation of Powers Systems”; Stanford University.

Barker, Fiona: 2007; “Redefining the Nation: Sub-state Nationalism and the Political Challenges of Immigrant Integration”; Harvard University.

Barma, Naazneen: 2007; “Crafting the State: Transitional Governance and the International Role in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding”; University of California, Berkeley.

Baskan, Birol : 2006; “Religious Institutions and State Building: Incorporation vs. Exclusion?”; Northwestern University.

Battle, Martin: 2006; “Local Campaigning and Strategic Voting: Individual and Aggregate Evidence from British Elections, 1945–2001”; Washington University.

Beard, Virginia Parish: 2006; “Democratic Orientation in Emerging African Democracies: Do Religion and Gender Matter?”; Michigan State University.

Beaulieu, Emily Ann: 2006; “Protesting the Contest: Election Boycotts Around the World, 1990–2002”; University of California, San Diego.

Best, Robin E.: 2007; “Political Parties, Voters, and Institutions: An Examination of Party System Fragmentation in Advanced Democracies, 1950–2005”; SUNY, Binghamton University.

Biziouras, Nikolaos: 2006; “Economic Liberalization and the Propensity for Ethnic Conflict in Multi-ethnic Societies: A Crossregional Analysis with Illustrative Case Studies (Sri Lanka, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, and Malaysia)”; University of California, Berkeley.

Bodea, Cristina: 2006; “Essays on the Politics of Exchange Rates and Central Banks: Evidence from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union”; University of Rochester.

Bozovic, Iva: 2007; “The Impact of Social Capital on Economic Performance: Lessons from Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMES)”; University of Southern California.

Bragg, Belinda: 2006; “When Will States Talk? Predicting the Initiation of Conflict Management in Interstate Crises”; Texas A&M University.

Breunig, Christian: 2007; “Institutions, Attention Shifts, and Changes within National Budgets”; University of Washington.

Brinegar, Adam: 2006; “Partisanship and Anti-Corruption Reform in Latin America”; Duke University.

Brooks, Murrell L.: 2007; “Coffee, Liberalization and Democratic Development in Tanzania: A Study in the Politics of Agriculture and Development in Transitional States”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Byrne, Jennifer Eileen: 2007; “The Link Between Differing Conceptions of National Identity and Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from the U.S.”; University of Arizona.

Burki-Liebl, Shireen: 2007; “The Politics of State Intervention: State Policy and the Status of Women in Pakistan (1947–2006) and Afghanistan (1919–2006)”; University of Utah.

Callaghan, Helen: 2006; “European Integration and the Clash of Capitalisms: British, French, and German Disagreement over Corporate Governance, 1970–2003”; Northwestern University.

Camyar, Isa: 2007; “Casting Light into ‘The Black Hole’: Partisan Politics of European Compliance”; Louisiana State University.

Cao, Xun: 2007; “Convergence, Divergence, and Networks in International Political Economy”; University of Washington.

Carroll, Royce A: 2007; “The Electoral Origins of Governing Coalitions”; University of California, San Diego.

Cassese, Erin: 2007; “Culture Wars as Identity Politics”; SUNY, Stony Brook University.

Celep, Odul: 2006; “The Effect of Extreme Right-Wing Parties on the Politics of Established Democracies”; SUNY, Binghamton University.

Centellas, Miguel: 2007; “Democracy on Stilts: Bolivia's Democracy from Stability to Crisis”; Western Michigan University.

Chang, Chuan-Hsien: 2006; “Politics of Defection”; University of Iowa.

Chen, Kuang-hui: 2007; “Democratic Values of University Students in Taiwan: A Study of Two Generations”; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Chen, Shang-chih: 2006; “Between Negotiation and Confrontation: Understanding China's Taiwan Policy Redirections in the 1990s”; Syracuse University.

Chiorazzo, Sharin: 2007; “A Theoretical Discussion of the Nation-State in Western Discourse and its Application to Non-Western Peoples”; New York University.

Chiu, Ming-Ping (Eric): 2006; “A Political Economy Analysis of Exchange Rate Regimes and Currency Crises: A Large N Empirical Study”; Claremont Graduate University.

Choi, Eunjung: 2007; “What's In The Voters' Minds? Economic Conditions and Identity Issues in Korean and Taiwanese Elections”; University of Texas, Austin.

Collins, Jennifer N.: 2006; “Democratizing Formal Politics: Indigenous and Social Movement Political Parties in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1978–2000”; University of California, San Diego.

Costa, Sergio Alexandre: 2007; “The Haitian crisis of 1991–1994: Constraints and asymmetry in United States-Latin American relations”; Boston University.

Cremona, Rachel K.: 2006; “A Meaningful Majority: Rediscovering Government by the People”; SUNY, Binghamton University.

Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher: 2007; “Bargaining for Autonomy: Why Governments Grant Autonomy to Separatists”; University of California, San Diego.

Dancygier, Rafaela: 2007; “Immigration and Conflict”; Yale University.

Danley-Scott, Jennifer H.: 2006; “Properly Appreciating the Attentive Public”; University of California, Riverside.

Deo, Nandini: 2007; “An Organizational Theory of Social Movements in a Transnational Context”; Yale University.

Desai, Nikita: 2007; “Dynamics of Dissent: A Study of Inclusion and Solidarity in the Transnational Women's Movement”; Purdue University.

Duggan, Catherine: 2007; “Money from Strangers: Indirect Regulation in Developing Financial Markets”; Stanford University.

Dursun-Ozkanca, Oya: 2007; “Press Coverage of the Enlargement of the European Union and Public Opinion in the United Kingdom And France: A Cross-National Comparative”; University of Texas, Austin.

Duvanova, Dinissa S.: 2007; “Interest Groups in Post-Communist Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Business and Employer Associations”; Ohio State University.

Ear, Sophal: 2006; “The Political Economy of Aid, Governance, and Policy-Making: Cambodia in Global, National, and Sectoral Perspectives”; University of California, Berkeley.

Ellinas, Antonis A.: 2007; “Playing the Nationalist Card”; Princeton University.

Erdem, Ebru: 2006; “Political Salience of Ethnic Identities: A Comparative Study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan and Kurds in Turkey”; Stanford University.

Espach, Ralph: 2006; “Global Standards, Local Constraints: Private Environmental Regulation in Argentina and Brazil”; University of California, Berkeley.

Feeley, Maureen: 2006; “Transnational Movements, Human Rights, and Democracy: Legal Mobilization Strategies and Majoritarian Constraints in Kenya, 1982–2002”; University of California, San Diego.

Fesnic, Florin Nicolae: 2006; “Welfare Chauvinism East and West: Romania and France”; University of Illinois.

Fitzgerald, Jennifer: 2006; “Social Ties and Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe”; Brown University.

Frajman, Eduardo: 2006; “Civil Society, Popular Protest, and Democracy in Latin America”; University of Maryland.

Freiner, Nicole: 2006; “Gender, the Environment, and Political Participation in Japan”; Colorado State University.

Fritz, Paul: 2006; “Prudence in Victory: The Management of Defeated Great Powers”; Ohio State University.

Furtado, Christina: 2007; “Inter Rebel-Group Dynamics: Cooperation or Competition”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Furuya, Harumi Shidehara: 2006; “Frame Politics. The Politics of Ideas in Immigration Policymaking in Germany, Sweden, and France (1973–2004)”; Harvard University.

Gastelum, Yvonne Aime: 2006; “Justice at the Edge of the Liberal State: Borderlands, Transnational Migration, and Citizenship”; Harvard University.

Gaylord, Sylvia: 2006; “The Devil is in the Details: Delegation and the Content of Legislation in Brazil”; Northwestern University.

Gelbman, Shamira M.: 2007; “Coalitions of the Unwilling: Insurgency and Enfranchisement in the United States and South Africa”; University of Virginia.

Gingerich, Daniel W.: 2007; “Corruption in General Equilibrium: Political Institutions and Bureaucratic Performance in South America”; Harvard University.

Gisselquist, Rachel M.: 2007; “Ethnic Leftists, Populist Ethnics: The New Politics of Identity”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Glidden, Lisa: 2007; “To Be or Not to Be An Indian: Ethnic Identity and Political Mobilization in Ecuador and Peru”; University of Washington.

Golubovic, Milica: 2007; “Assisting Democratization: Impact of International Organizations on the Rule of Law Reform in Serbia”; Northeastern University.

Goodman, Gary L.: 2006; “Voice, Loyalty, Exit, or ‘Extension’? Indigenous Options in the Mexican Political System”; University of California, Riverside.

Goyer, Michel: 2007; “Corporate Governance under Stress: An Institutional Perspective on the Transformation of Corporate Governance in France and Germany”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gupta, Devashree: 2007; “Militant Flanks and Moderate Centers: The Struggle for Power and Influence in Nationalist Movements”; Cornell University.

Gurses, Mehmet: 2007; “Wealth and Regime Formation: Social and Economic Origins of the Change Toward Democracy”; University of North Texas.

Gursoy, Yaprak: 2007; “Military Rule and Democracy in Greece and Turkey”; University of Virginia.

Gutierrez, Ricardo A.: 2007; “Between Knowledge and Politics: State Water Management Reform in Brazil”; Johns Hopkins University.

Gyekye-Jandoh, Maame Adwoa: 2006; “Explaining Democratization in Africa: The Case of Ghana”; Temple University.

Haeg, Claire: 2006; “Neo-Populist Party Emergence in Advanced Industrial Democracies: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand”; University of Oklahoma.

Hamerly, Ivy Orr: 2007; “A Matter of Timing: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Parliamentary Oversight of European Union Affairs”; University of California, San Diego.

Han, Hoeng Hun: 2007; “Serving Two Masters: Party Representation in the European Parliament”; University of Rochester.

Han, Jeong Hun: 2007; “Rethinking the European Party Representation: Linkage Between European Voters' Electoral Choice and the Legislative Voting of Members of the European Parliament”; University of Rochester.

Harper, Marcus A.G.: 2006; “Protest in the Postcommunist Context: A Comparative Study of Protest Behavior in Postcommunist European and Advanced Industrial Societies in the Mid-1990s”; University of California, Irvine.

Haupt, Andrea B.: 2007; “Parties' Responses to Globalization: What is Left for the Left and Right for the Right? A Quantitative Analyis and the Cases of Austria and Germany”; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Hazan, Miryam: 2006; “Incorporating in the United States and Mexico: Mexican Immigrant Mobilization and Organization in Four American Cities”; University of Texas, Austin.

He, Wenkai: 2007; “Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England (1642–1752), Japan (1868–1895), and China (1850–1911)”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Heath, Roseanna Michelle: 2006; “Explaining Congressional Organizational Reform: Electoral Laws, Congressional Organization, and the Balance of Power between Party Leaders and Backbenchers in Latin American Legislatures”; Texas A&M University.

Hecock, Douglas: 2007; “The Sub-National Political Economy of Education Reform in Mexico”; University of New Mexico.

Heindl, Brett S.: 2007; “By Any Means Necessary: Ethnic Political Activism and Change in the Home Country”; Syracuse University.

Henderson, Frances B.: 2007; “New Voices, Enduring Interests: Women and Politics in Mozambique”; Washington University.

Hendrickson, Roshen: 2006; “Promoting investment in Africa: Historical Transition in the Politics of United States Hegemony”; Northwestern University.

Hesselroth, Alba: 2006; “Ideas and Economic Policy Change: The Influence of Policy Ideas Armeand Non-State Actors in the Peruvian Case of Market-Oriented Reform”; University of Southern California.

Hines, Eric H.: 2006; “Voting Correctly in Europe”; University of Iowa.

Hopkins, Daniel J.: 2007; “When Differences Divide: How National Influences and Local Demographics Shape Politics Between Ethnic Groups”; Harvard University.

Hristova, Eugenia: 2007; “New Regimes, Old Myths Construction of Gender Identity and Women's Political Participation in Egypt and Bulgaria”; Northeastern University.

Huckaby, Melody R.: 2006; “The Representative Method: Legislative Behavior in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico”; University of Oklahoma.

Hudson, Natalie Florea: 2007; “Evolving Threats and Faceless Enemies: Engendering Human Security in the United Nations”; University of Connecticut.

Huo, Jingjing: 2006; “Third Way Reforms: A Comparative Study of Social Democratic Welfare State Reforms after the Golden Age”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Hurtak, Desiree: 2007; “The European Union and The Enviornmental Movement in Europe: An Analysis of the Purpose of Insider Status”; New School University.

Hwang, Balbina Y.: 2006; “Globalization, Strategic Culture, and Ideas: Explaining Continuity in Korean Foreign Economic Policy”; Georgetown University.

Jellissen, Susan M.: 2007; “Civil Conflict in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Spain, Italy, and Britain, 1968–2001”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jiang, Maorong: 2006; “Deadlock or Dilemma: Sinicized Nationalism and Taiwanese Democracy. Political Detour and Security Zigzag beyond the Taiwan Issue”; University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

Johnson, David: 2006; “Market Integration and the Politics of Regulatory Integration: Insights from the Integration of Banking Regulations in the United States, Canada, and China”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Jones, Brandy: 2007; “Reconsidering Diaspora-Homeland Relations in the New-World Order”; University of Michigan.

Jung, Joo-Youn: 2006; “When Noliberal Economies Meet Globalization: The Transformation of Interventionist States in East Asia”; Stanford University.

Jusko, Karen Long: 2007; “The Political Representation of the Poor”; University of Michigan.

Kapiszewski, Diana: 2007; “Challenging Decisions: High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil”; University of California, Berkeley.

Kariuki, Peter Kiiru: 2006; “The Challenges of Implementing Privatization Reform Program of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Kenya 1979 to 2002”; Western Michigan University.

Kellam, Marisa: 2007; “Parties For Hire: The Instability of Presidential Coalitions in Latin America”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Kemahlioglu, Ozge: 2006; “When the Agent Becomes the Boss: The Politics of Public Employment in Argentina and Turkey”; Columbia University.

Kenyon, Tom: 2006; “Three Papers on States, enterprises, and Equity Markets”; Columbia University.

Khoo, Nicholas: 2006; “Collateral Damage: Sino-Soviet Rivalry and the Termination of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance (1964–1979)”; Columbia University.

Kim, Abraham: 2007; “Healing Divided Nations: What Makes State Reunify Peacefully?”; Columbia University.

Kim, Bumsoo: 2006; “Bringing Class Back In: Ethnicity, Class, and the Korean Minority in Contemporary Japan”; University of Chicago.

Kim, Dong-hun: 2006; “Why Subject Public Procurement to International Competition? Political Economy of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement”; University of Iowa.

Kim, James Je: 2007; “Constrained Unilateralism: Comparing Institutional Foundations of Executive Decrees in Presidential Democracies”; Columbia University.

Kim, Jung: 2007; “The Choice Transformed: Nationalizing and Rationalizing Party Politics in Japan and South Korea”; Yale University.

Kim, Junghyoun: 2006; “Religion and Political Attitudes in South Korea”; University of Tennessee.

Kosebalaban, Hasan T.: 2007; “Contested National Identity and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey and Japan”; University of Utah.

Kotchikian, Asbed: 2006; “The Dialectics of Small States: Foreign Policy Making in Armeand nia and Georgia”; Boston University.

Kourtikakis, Konstantinos: 2007; “Bureaucratic Accountability in the EU”; University of Pittsburgh.

Kroft, Allison L. Kessler: 2006; “Democratization and Foreign Aid towards Africa (1960–2000): Realism/Neorealism (Self-Interest) vs. Idealism/Neoidealism (Normative Interests)”; Loyola University Chicago.

Kumar, Amit: 2006; “The Development of Homeland Security Partnerships: A Comparative Analysis from the Financial Security Arena”; American University.

Lai, Wenyi: 2006; “The Economic and Political Sources of Hostility: Taiwanese and Chinese Relations, 1975 to 2004”; SUNY, University at Albany.

Larsson, Tomas: 2007; “Capitalizing Thailand: Colonialism, Communism, and the Political Economy of Rural Land Rights”; Cornell University.

Leavitt, Sandra R.: 2007; “Persuasion, Coercion, Neglect: Understanding State Policy and the Mobilization of Muslim Minorities in Asia”; Georgetown University.

LeBas, Adrienne: 2006; “From Protest to Parties: Explaining Effective Opposition in Democratizing Africa”; Columbia University.

Lee, Feng-yu: 2007; “Political Institutions, Contexts, and Ethnic Conflict in Comparative Perspectives”; University of Texas, Austin.

Lee, Yoonkyung: 2006; “Varieties of Labor Politics in Asian Democracies: Political Institutions and Union Activism in Korea and Taiwan”; Duke University.

Lehrer, David: 2007; “Postcommunist Financial Sector Reform, 1989–2004”; University of Helsinki.

Li, Mingjiang: 2007; “Turbulent Years: Mao's China and Sino-Soviet Split”; Boston University.

Lin, Chao-Chi: 2007; “Prime Ministerial Power and Party Politics in Japan”; Stanford University.

Linos, Katerina: 2007; “Social Policy Diffusion Across OECD countries”; Harvard University.

Liu, Junfeng: 2006; “Evaluating Inter-Continental Transport of Air Pollution and its Impacts on Global Health: Implications for Regional and Global Cooperation to Mitigate Long-Range Trans-Boundary Transport of Air Pollution”; Princeton University.

Liu, Yu: 2006; “From the Mass Line to the Mao Cult: The Production of Legitimate Dictatorship in Revolutionary China”; Columbia University.

Liu, Zihua: 2007; “Understanding Corruption”; SUNY, University at Buffalo.

Lluch, Jaime Gerardo: 2007; “Shades of Stateless Nationhood: Explaining Internal Variation in the National Movements of Québec and Catalunya (1976–2005)”; Yale University.

Luna, Juan Pablo: 2006; “Programmatic and Non-Programmatic Party-Voter Linkages in Two Institutionalized Party Systems: Chile and Uruguay in Comparative Perspective”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Mabry, Tristan James: 2007; “Nationalism, Language, and Islam: A Cross-Regional Comparative Study of Muslim Minority Conflict”; University of Pennsylvania.

Maeshima, Kazuhiro: 2007; “Japanese and U.S. Media Coverage of the Iraq War: A Comparative Analysis”; University of Maryland.

Mahoney, Christine: 2006; “Advocacy in the United States and the European Union”; Pennsylvania State University.

Maimone, Christina R.: 2007; “Voter Decision-Making from a Comparative Perspective”; Stanford University.

Matsumoto, Shunta: 2006; “Ideas, Interests, and American Economic Competitiveness: How were the ‘Peddling Prosperity’ Attempts Successful and Unsuccessful in the Polarized Legislature?”; Florida State University.

Mazzei, Julie M.: 2006; “Death Squads, Security Forces, and Private Justice Organizations: Paramilitaries in Contemporary Latin America”; American University.

McCarthy, Mary M.: 2007; “The Use of Carrots and Sticks in Japanese Aid Policy Towards China 1989–2001: How Electoral Politics Shape Foreign Economic Policy”; Columbia University.

Mednicoff, David: 2007; “The King's Dilemma Resolved? The Politics of Symbols and Pluralism in Contemporary Arab Monarchy”; Harvard University.

Metelits, Claire M.: 2007; “Changing Insurgent Behavior”; Northwestern University.

Mihailescu, Mihaela: 2006; “Dampening the Powder Keg: The Role of Democratic Oppositions in Fostering Ethnic Peace in Post-Communist Romania and Slovakia”; University of Minnesota.

Morier-Genoud, Eric: 2006; “The Catholic Church, Religious Orders, and the Making of Politics in Colonial Mozambique: The Case of the Diocese of Beira, 1940–1974”; SUNY, Binghamton University.

Moser, Scott: 2007; “Voting in the Public and in Legislatures: A Comparison of Political Institutions”; Carnegie Mellon University.

Munemo, Ngonidzashe: 2007; “Politics During Dry Times: Incumbent Insecurity and the Provision of Drought Relief in Contemporary Africa”; Columbia University.

Mustapha, Marda: 2006; “International Political Economy of HIV/AIDS Prevention: Lessons from Sierra Leone and Uganda”; Northern Arizona University.

Mustillo, Thomas: 2007; “Entrants in the Political Arena: New Party Trajectories During the Third Wave of Democracy in Latin American”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Naoi, Megumi: 2006; “Contested Frces? Economic Oenness and Political Responses to Regional Inequality in East Asia”; Columbia University.

Nettelfield, Lara J.: 2006; “Courting Democracy: The Hague Tribunal's Impact in Bosnia-Herzegovina”; Columbia University.

Neumiller, Joan Hillebrand: 2006; “Identity Politics or Politics of Maturation? New Extreme Right Parties in Italy”; University of Minnesota.

Nicholls, Kate: 2007; “Europeanizing Responses to Labor Market Challenges in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal: The Importance of Consultative and Incorporative Policy-Making”; University of Notre Dame.

Nicolet, Sarah: 2006; “In Search of the European Voter: A Study of the Conditional Impact of European Political Preferences on Party Choice in Elections to the European Parliament”; University of Michigan.

Oakes, Amy: 2006; “States in Crisis: How Governments Respond to Domestic Unrest”; Ohio State University.

Oliver, Rebecca J.: 2006; “Negotiating Differences: Developments in Wage Inequality in Italy, Sweden, and Across Advanced Industrial Democracies”; Northwestern University.

O'Meara, Robert John: 2006; “Myths and Realities of the Role of Officialdom in Economic Development in Ukraine: Two Case Studies in Small Business Creation, Kharkiv, and Transcarpathia”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

O'Neil, Shannon: 2006; “Political Participation after Reform: Pensions Politics in Latin America”; Harvard University.

Ozdemir, Yonca: 2007; “Politics of Price Stabilization: A Comparative Study of Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, and Turkey”; University of Pittsburgh.

Palazzolo, Christopher A.: 2007; “All Politics National? Second-Order Behavior in Subnational Elections in Western Europe, Canada, and Australia”; Emory University.

Pandya, Sonal S.: 2007; “Trading Spaces: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation”; Harvard University.

Papkova, Irina A.: 2007; “Orthodoxy and Democracy in Russia: New Interpretations”; Georgetown University.

Pate, Amy: 2007; “Ethnic Rebellion in Democratic Experiments”; University of Maryland.

Peralta, J. Salvador: 2006; “Legislative Institutionalization in Latin America: Nicaragua (1979–2005) and Costa Rica (1871–2005)”; University of Arizona.

Phelan, William: 2006; “Europe's Constitution: Encompassing Institutions and International Public Goods”; Harvard University.

Pinnell, Sabrina Lyne: 2007; “The Russian Constitutional Court: An Analysis of Its Evolution Within a Developing Federal System”; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ponet, David Lev: 2006; “Multiculturalism and the Challenges of Political Representation”; Columbia University.

Powell, Emilia Justyna: 2006; “Conflict, Cooperation, and the World's Legal Systems”; Florida State University.

Radnitz, Scott B.: 2007; “It Takes More than a Village: Mobilization, Networks, and the State in Central Asia”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Radziszewski, Elizabeth: 2007; “Social Networks, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Richardt, Nicole: 2007; “Transforming Europe's Welfare Regimes—Policy Innovation through European Gender Equality Laws in the United Kingdom and in Germany”; Northwestern University.

Rios-Figueroa, Julio: 2006; “Judicial Independence: What is It? How Can We Tell it When We See It? What Difference Does it Make?”; New York University.

Root, Rebecca: 2007; “Negotiating Truth: Transitional Justice in Peru”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Rosato, Sebastian: 2006; “The Strategic Logic of European Integration”; University of Chicago.

Russell, Timothy A.: 2006; “Compliance with International Commitments and Domestic Political Institutions”; University of Mississippi.

Salmond, Rob: 2007; “Parliamentary Question Times: Legislative and Public Accountability in Advanced Democracies”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Sandoval, Rosa E.: 2006; “Explaining the Commercial Peace: Costs, Information, and Signaling”; Rice University.

Sarigil, Zeki: 2007; “Endogenizing Institutions”; University of Pittsburgh.

Sarkissian, Ani: 2006; “An Unholy Alliance? Religion and Democratization in Christian and Islamic Societies”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Schemenauer, Ellie: 2006; “Gender, Identity, and the Security State: The Politics of International Drug Trafficking”; Florida International University.

Schnyder, Melissa: 2006; “Interest Group Politics in the European Union: Migrant Inclusion Organizations and Political Behavior Across Levels of Governance”; Indiana University, Bloomington.

Schrad, Mark L.: 2007; “The Prohibition Option: Transnational Temperance and National Policymaking in Russia, Sweden, and the United States”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Seawright, Jason: 2006; “Party System Collapse in South America: Voters, Party Organization, and Adaptation”; University of California, Berkeley.

Segura, Renata: 2007; “Inclusion and the Politics of Constitution Making: Colombia and Ecuador (1991 and 1998)”; New School University.

Serra, Gilles: 2007; “Why and When Do Political Parties Adopt Primary Elections? A Theoretical and Comparative Study”; Harvard University.

Shaykhutdinov, Renat: 2007; “Formation and Preservation of Territorial Autonomy Arrangements in Multiethnic States”; Texas A&M University.

Shimizu, Kay: 2007; “Political Dynamics of Capitalism: Barriers to Reform in Japan and China”; Stanford University.

Shin, Ki-Young: 2006; “Legal Mobilization in Strong States: Family Law Reform Movement in Contemporary Japan and South Korea”; University of Washington.

Simmons, Joel: 2007; “Parties, Time Horizons, and the Pursuit of Economic Growth through Technological Development”; University of Michigan.

Slagter, Tracy H.: 2006; “Legislative Responses to Supranational Courts: The German Bundestag and the European Court of Justice”; University of Iowa.

Slapin, Jonathan Benjamin: 2007; “Institutional Design in the European Union: How Governments Negotiated the Treaty of Amsterdam”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Small, James: 2007; “The Impact of Governmental Institutions on the Venezuelan Cacao-Chocolate Agro-Chain of Production”; University of Virginia.

Smith, Clinton R.: 2007; “Online Contentious Politics: Internet Use in the Dynamics of Political Change in Singapore”; University of Oregon.

Smith, Jennifer K.: 2006; “Campaign Professionalization and the Transformation of Party Organization in Britain and Germany”; Yale University.

Smith, Michael L.: 2007; “Making Direct Democracy Work: The Politics of Local Referendums in the Czech Republic”; New School University.

Smuthkalin, Mee: 2006; “Political Regimes and Welfare State Development in East Asia: How State Leaders Matter to Social Policy Expansion in Taiwan, Thailand, and China”; Stanford University.

Soifer, Hillel David: 2006; “Authority over distance: Explaining Variation in State Infrastructural Power in Latin America”; Harvard University.

Stockmann, Daniela: 2007; “Propaganda for Sale: The Impact of Newspaper Commercialization on News Content and Public Opinion in China”; University of Michigan.

Strozeski, Joshua A.: 2006; “The Role of Land Ownership in Localized Conflicts between Bete and Burkinabe Households in the Central Western Forest Regions of Cote d'Ivoire”; Howard University.

Svolik, Milan: 2006; “Incentives and Institutions in Comparative and International Politics”; University of Chicago.

Sweeney, Shawna E.: 2006; “Women's Human Rights: A Global, Comparative Analysis”; SUNY, Binghamton University.

Sznajder, Aleksandra: 2006; “From Behemoths to Subsidiaries: The Politics of Steel Sector Restructuring and Privatization in Central and Eastern Europe”; Yale University.

Tan, Lena: 2007; “Giving Up Territory: Identity, the Politics of Contestation, and Domestic Poltiical Structures—Britain and India (1929–1935) & Indonesia and East Timor (1975–1999)”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Teitelbaum, Emmanuel John: 2006; “Mobilizing Restraint: Unions and the Politics of Economic Development in South Asia”; Cornell University.

Tennant, Evalyn W.: 2007; “Transnational and the Grassroots in the Making of a ‘National’ Social Movement: Scale, Structure, and Strategy in U.S.-based Anti-Apartheid Activism”; University of Chicago.

Thompson, Marshall W.: 2007; “Pillars of State Strength in Africa: Party Systems and Interbranch Relations”; Washington University, St. Louis.

Toloudis, Nicholas: 2006; “From Mobilization to Resistance: Transgressive Teachers in France and the United States, 1830–1960”; Columbia University.

Tompihe, Jean G.: 2007; “Ethnicity and Institution-Building in Africa”; Univerrsity of California, Los Angeles.

Towner, Terri L.: 2007; “A Political Economy of War: Britain and the United States”; Purdue University.

Unlu, Tuba: 2007; “The European Union and the Turkish Military: Europeanization between Two Interventions (1997–2007)”; Georgetown University.

Urlacher, Brian R.: 2007; “Third Parties and the Tacit Mediation of Intra-State Conflict: Negotiating with an Elephant in the Next Room”; University of Connecticut.

Valdini, Melody Ellis: 2006; “The Signal of Gender: The Effects of Electoral and Social Variables on the Use of Gender-Based Stereotypes”; University of California, San Diego.

Vargova, Mariela M.: 2007; “Democratic Constitution in Process: Toward an Egalitarian Constitutional Order”; New School University.

Velasco, Marcela: 2007; “Manifesting the People's Wll: Institutional Change and Protests in Colombia, 1958–2002”; Boston University.

Von Bulow, Marisa: 2006; “Pathways to Transnationality: Networks, Collective Action and Trade Debates in the Americas”; Johns Hopkins University.

Walker, Gloria C.: 2006; “Connections Matter: Regional Ties and the Level of Democratic Consolidation”; University of California Davis.

Walsh, Denise: 2006; “Just Debate: Culture and Gender Justice in the New South Africa”; New School University.

Wang, Qinghua: 2007; “Higher Education Reform in Post-Mao China: Market Forces vs. Political Control”; University of Oregon.

Watson, Sara: 2006; “The Left Divided: Parties, Unions, and the Emergence of Welfare Capitalism in Post-Authoritarian Southern Europe”; University of California, Berkeley.

Webb, Ed: 2007; “Civilizing Religion: Jacobin Projects of Secularization in Turkey, France, Tunisia, and Syria”; University of Pennsylvania.

Weisiger, Alex: 2007; “The Origins of Armageddon: Information, Leaders, and Commitment in Wars Little and Large”; Columbia University.

Westrup, Jonathan: 2007; “The Politics of Financial Regulatory Reform and the Privatization of Risk”; Boston University.

Winzer, Jane Ann: 2006; “New Issues in Trade: Expanding the Scope of the Multilateral Trade Regime”; Emory University.

Wisnu, Dinna: 2007; “Governing Social Security: Economic Crisis and Reform in Indonesia, the Phillippines, and Singapore”; Ohio State University.

Witte, Jan Martin: 2007; “National Varieties of Standardization: A Comparative Study of Emergence, Development, and Change in National Standardization Systems”; Johns Hopkins University.

Woo, Jongseok: 2007; “Security Threats and the Military's Domestic Political Role: A Comparative Study of South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia”; University of Texas, Austin.

Wright, Joseph: 2007; “Political Regimes and Foreign Aid: How Aid Affects Growth and Democratization”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Yadav, Vineeta: 2007; “An Information Model of Interest Group Dynamics in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Brazil, China, and India”; Yale University.

Yang, David Dahua: 2007; “The Social Bases of the Third Wave: Class, Ethnicity, and the Developmental State in the Transition to Democracy”; Princeton University.

Yasar, Gamze Cavdar: 2006; “A Comparison Between State Strategies Toward Islamism in Turkey and Egypt”; University of Utah.

Ye, Min: 2007; “Contested Openness: External Networks and Domestic Resistance to Foreign Direct Investment in China and India”; Princeton University.

Yeo, Yukyung: 2007; “Regulating China's Industrial Economy: A Comparative Case Study of Auto and Telecom Service Sectors”; University of Maryland.

Yetim, Muserref: 2006; “Water Conflict, Water Negotiations”; University of Texas, Austin.

You, Jong-sung: 2006; “A Comparative Study of Corruption, Inequality, and Social Trust”; Harvard University.

Yuen, Amy: 2007; “Strategic Choices and Third-Party Intervention in Interstate Conflict”; Emory University.

Zhang, Ning: 2007; “Politics Personalized: Humanistic Connections between the State and Society in Contemporary China”; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Zheng, Yu: 2007; “Credibility and Flexibility: Political Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment”; University of California, San Diego.

Zubida, Hani: 2006; “A Comparative Framework of Split-Voting. Testing the Cases of U.S. and French National Elections”; New York University.

International Politics

Abebe, Tehitna: 2007; “Expectations of Institutionalizing Democracy in Ethiopia”; Claremont Graduate University.

Adamian, Martin J.: 2006; “International Environmental (In)Justice: Critical Legal Studies and Justice in Climate Change”; Colorado State University.

Akbaba, Yasemin: 2006; “Understanding Ethnoreligious Conflict: The State, Discrimination, and International Politics”; University of Missouri, Columbia.

Akopian, Marat R.: 2006; “Choosing Electoral System: Electoral Reform in Post-Soviet Russia”; Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Albert, David J.: 2007; “The Role of American Political Culture in U.S.-Israel ‘Special Relationship’ and the Lost Opportunities for Achieving Middle East Peace”; University of Texas, Austin.

Al-Busaidi, Iman Said: 2006; “The Role of Institutions and Rhetoric in Democratization”; Claremont Graduate University.

Alsaleh, Shakir Bin Ahmed: 2006; “Diversification as the Nucleus of Economic Reform Policies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Tripartite Study”; Howard University.

Anac, Sezi: 2007; “An Analysis of the Broader-Deeper Trade off in Regional Trade Agreements”; Rice University.

Aragon, Jorge: 2006; “Popular Support for Democracy in Newly Established Democracies: The Case of Peru and the Development of an Alternative Theoretical and Methodological Approach”; University of Florida.

Argueta, Jose Rene: 2007; “The Pervasiveness of Partisanship in Latin America”; University of Pittsburgh.

Attar, Riad A.: 2006; “The Political Economy of Military Spending, Freedom, Conflicts, and Economic Growth in Developing Countries”; Texas A&M University.

Atzili, Boaz: 2006; “Border Fixity: When Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Autesserre, Severine: 2006; “Local Violence, International Indifference? Post-Conflict ‘Settlement’ in the Eastern D.R. Congo (2003–2005)”; New York University.

Avdeyeva, Olga A.: 2006; “International Pressures and Government Compliance: Policies of Gender Equality in the Workplace in the EU Enlargement Countries”; Purdue University.

Aydin, Aysegul: 2006; “A Theory of Conflict Expansion in Interstate Disputes”; SUNY, University at Binghamton.

Aydin, Umut: 2007; “From Competition to Cooperation: Subsidies in the United States, Canada and the European Union”; University of Washington.

Ayyangar, Srikrishna: 2007; “Welfare Populism for the Rural Poor: Comparing Microcredit Provision in India”; Syracuse University.

Bahaji, Kassem: 2007; “Islamism in Morocco: Appeal, Impact, and Implications”; Northern Illinois University.

Bakich, Spencer D.: 2006; “Information, Diplomacy, and Strategy: Balancing Avoidance in Limited Warfare”; University of Virginia.

Bas, Muhammet Ali: 2007; “Three Essays on International Conflict”; University of Rochester.

Baswedan, Anies: 2007; “Regional Autonomy and Patterns of Democracy in Indonesia”; Northern Illinois University.

Batto, Nathan F.: 2007; “Meshing Motivations: Individual and Collective Action in the Taiwanese Legislature”; University of California, San Diego.

Bauer, Paloma: 2006; “Decentralization, Economic Voting, and Accountability in a New Democracy: The Case of Mexico”; Michigan State University.

Beardsley, Kyle: 2006; “Politics by Means Other Than War: Understanding International Mediation”; University of California, San Diego.

Becker, Traci Swanson: 2006; “Managing the Challenges of Openness: Domestic Institutional Responses to Internationalization in the PRC”; George Washington University.

Bell, Jennifer A.: 2006; “Power, Politics and Pollution: The Political Economy of Environmentalism in Egypt”; New York University.

Belvedere, Maria Florencia: 2006; “Beyond Xenophobia: Contested Identities and the Politics of Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa”; University of Minnesota.

Benson, Brett: 2006; “Theory of Strategic Ambiguity: Credibility, Transparency, and Dual Deterrence”; Duke University.

Berenson, Marc P.: 2006; “Re-Creating the State: Governance and Power in Poland and Russia”; Princeton University.

Biswas, Bidisha: 2006; “Managing Discontent: Institutions, Intervention and Ethnic Conflict”; Univeristy of Maryland, College Park.

Blanken, Leo: 2006; “Rational Empires: An Institutional Theory of Imperial Expansion”; University of California, Davis.

Bloch, Jonathan: 2007; “Interests Great and Petty: Japan's Nonperforming Loans Debates, 1991–1998”; University of Texas, Austin.

Bosire, Richard: 2006; “Compliance with International Human Rights Standards: Treatment of African Migrants and Asylum Seekers Coaliin Britain”; University of Delaware.

Boulding, Carew: 2007; “Foreign Aid, NGOs, and Accountabilit”; University of California, San Diego.

Brachman, Jarret M.: 2006; “Terrorism and the American Experience: Defining, Contesting and Countering Terrorism Since the American Founding”; University of Delaware.

Braden, Catharina Wrede: 2007; “A Reputation for Retreat? Casualty, Intolerance, and the Credibility of Democracies' Threats”; Harvard University.

Brahm, Eric: 2006; “Truth and consequences: The Impact of Truth Commissions in Transitional Societies”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Braithwaite, Alex: 2006; “There Goes the Neighborhood. Hot Spots and the Diffusion of International Conflict”; Pennsylvania State University.

Brannon, Bob: 2006; “Who Was Calling the Shots? Civil-Military Relations in Russia, 1996–2001”; Catholic University of America.

Bromley, Pamela: 2007; “Shaping the Charter: The Institutionalization of Ideas in Multilateral Development Organizations”; Princeton University.

Brule, David: 2006; “Public Attitudes Toward the Use of Force and Presidential Crisis Responses”; Texas A&M University.

Carlson, Barak: 2006; “Examining the Process of Regime Change in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: The Divide Between Rhetoric and Reality”; Florida International University.

Carneiro, Cristiane: 2006; “Dispute Settlement Within the World Trade Organization: What Role for Alternative Dispute Resolution?”; New York University.

Castro, Eduardo C.: 2006; “Escape Clauses and Self Enforcement in International Trade Agreements”; Princeton University.

Chanrochanakit, Pandit: 2006; “The Siamese Diorama and the Thai National Imaginary in Contemporary Thai Art”; University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Chen, Dingding: 2006; “Transformation from Within: Chinese Agency and International Human Rights Norms”; University of Chicago.

Cheng, Xiaohe: 2006; “Can Asymmetry Stand for Long? The Rise and Fall of China's Alliances”; Boston University

Chenoweth, Erica: 2007; “The Inadvertent Effects of Democracy on Terrorist Group Proliferation”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Chernov Hwang, Julie: 2007; “What Went Right: Political Participation, State Capacity, and Peaceful Islamist Mobilization”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Choi, Eun Kyong: 2006; “Building the Tax State in China: Center and Region in the Politics of Revenue Extraction, 1994–2003”; Princeton University.

Choi, Jong kun: 2006; “A Region of Their Making: Visions of Regional Orders and Paths to Peace Making in Northeast Asia”; Ohio State University.

Chong, Daniel P. L.: 2006; “Reconstructing Rights: What Emerging Practice on Subsistence Rights Implies for Human Rights Politics”; American University.

Clare, Joe: 2006; “Domestic Institutions, Strategic Interests, and International Conflict”; Texas A&M University.

Clarke, Paul: 2006; “Interdependence Theory, China, and American Security Interests”; Auburn University.

Cocozzelli, Fred P.: 2007; “The Development of Social Citizenship in Post-Conflict Kosovo”; New School University.

Coggins, Bridget: 2006; “Secession, Recognition, and the International Politics of Statehood”; Ohio State University.

Connelly, Marisela: 2007; “The Letters and European Travel Journal of James A. Bayard, 1812–1815”; Boston University.

Constance, Joseph W.: 2006; “The Great American Missile Defense Debates Since the Nineteen Sixties”; Boston University.

Cox, Eric W.: 2006; “The Termination and Continuation of Enduring Rivalries”; University of Virginia.

Cunningham, David E.: 2006; “Veto Players and Civil War Duration”; University of California, San Diego.

D'Agati, Philip A.: 2006; “Nationalism on the World Stage: Cultural Performances at the Modern Olympic Games”; Northeastern University.

Dahl, Elizabeth Susan: 2006; “Navigating Crises in Sino-American Relations: Apology, Nationalism, and Historical Memory”; American University.

Dalzell, Stephen R.: 2006; “Building Coaliin tions and Cementing Deals: Housing Policy Reform in Mubarak's Egypt”; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Danzer, Erick M.: 2007; “From Farmers to Global Markets: The Politics of Commodity Supply Chains in Indonesia”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

De Carvalho, Andre Regis: 2007; “Unbalancing Powers: The Strengthening of the Federal Government and the Unexpected Emergence of the New Federalism in Brazil after Cardoso”; New School University.

de Castro, Eduardo Carvalho: 2006; “Escape Clauses and Self-Enforcement in International Trade Agreements”; Princeton University.

Devlen, Balkan: 2007; “Games Leaders Play: Renegade Regimes and International Crises”; University of Missouri, Columbia.

Ding, Sheng: 2006; “Soft Power and the Rise of China: An Assessment of China's Soft Power in its Modernization Process”; Rutgers University.

Diwan, Kristin Smith: 2006; “From Petrodollars to Islamic Dollars: The Strategic Construction of Islamic Banking in the Arab Gulf”; Harvard University.

Dixon, Gregory C.: 2007; “Trading for Votes: Domestic and International Institutions and their Influence on Trade Disputs Under the GATT and WTO”; University of Arizona.

Dobek, Mark: 2006; “Securities Exchange Demutualization and Organizational Change Management: Impact and Implications for the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX)”; University of Texas, Dallas.

Douglas, Frank Scott: 2006; “Hitting Home: Coercive Theory, Air Power, and Authoritarian Regimes”; Columbia University.

Dutka, Diane L.: 2006; “Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics: Their Formation, Actions, and Effects”; Pennsylvania State University.

Eastvold, Jonathan C.: 2006; “God, the State, and War: Toward a Containment Strategy for Religious Militancy”; Princeton University.

Edwards, Scott: 2007; “A Composite Theory and Practical Model of Forced Displacement”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Eglene, Ophelia: 2006; “British Business, the London Financial Sector, and the Euro”; University at Albany, SUNY.

Eleftheriou, Eleftherios: 2006; “Interna tional Law and State Practice: A Quantitative Analysis of Territorial Disputes, 1945–2000”; Vanderbilt University.

El-Ghobashy, Mona: 2006; “Taming Leviathan: Constitutional Contention in Contemporary Egypt”; Columbia University.

Eligur, Banu: 2006; “The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey”; Brandeis University.

Ellis, Glynn T.: 2007; “Cultures and Conflict: Players, Issues, and Options”; Florida State University.

Else, Daniel H.: 2007; “Bias in Weapon Development”; George Washington University.

Emens, John D.: 2006; “A Functional Approach to Understanding Panel Dynamics in the W.T.O. Dispute Settlement Process”; Miami University.

Erickson, Andrew S.: 2006; “Great Power Aerospace Development: China's Quest for the Highest High Ground”; Princeton University.

Esarey, Ashley: 2006; “Caught Between State and Society: The Commercial News Media in China”; Columbia University.

Fahrenkrug, David: 2006; “Enduring Empires: Strategies of Imperial persistence”; University of Chicago.

Fang, Songying: 2006; “Information, Domestic Politics, and the Influence of International Institutions in World Politics”; University of Rochester.

Fattore, Christina: 2007; “Do Levels of Governance Make a Difference? Investigating the Effects of the Structural Funds on Convergence within the European Union”; Florida State University.

Felbab-Brown, Vanda: 2007; “Shooting Up: The Impact of Illicit Economies on Military Conflict”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ferchen, Matthew Glen: 2007; “Regulating Market Order in China: Economic Ideas, Marginal Markets, and the State”; Cornell University.

Figueiredo, Claudia Cunha Malafaia de: 2007; “From Paper Parks to Real Conservation: Case Studies of National Park Management Effectiveness in Brazil”; Ohio State University.

Fillmore, Robin: 2006; “Transforming the ‘Enemy’: A Discursive Analysis of the United States Images of the Soviet Union”; Kent State University.

Findley, Michael: 2007; “Spoiling the Peace or Seeking the Spoils? Civil War Outcomes and the Role of Spoilers”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Forsberg, Ole J.: 2006; “The Pressure Model of Terrorism: A Behavioralist Model for Ethnonational Terrorism in Western Europe, 1945–2000”; University of Tennessee.

Fridl, Dragica: 2006; “Recognition and Politics”; Johns Hopkins University.

Fridy, Kevin S.: 2007; “We Only Vote but Do Not Know”: The Social Foundations of Partisanship in Ghana”; University of Florida.

Fujii, Lee Ann: 2006; “Killing Neighbors: Social Dimensions of Genocide in Rwanda”; George Washington University.

Gilady, Lilach: 2006; “Conspicuous Waste in International Relations”; Yale University.

Gilman-Opalsky, Richard Peter: 2006; “Transgressing the Boundaries between National and Transnational: From Habermas to the Zapatista Public Sphere”; New School University.

Gingrich, Jane R.: 2007; “Whose Market is it Anyways: Making Multiple Markets in the Welfare State”; University of California, Berkeley.

Gomez, Maria Mercedes: 2006; “Discrimination and Exclusion: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Hate Crime Politics”; New School University.

Griesdorf, Michael: 2006; “The Hypertext Solution: Digital Media and Contemporary International Organization”; Harvard University.

Grodsky, Brian K.: 2006; “Human Rights Accountability: Exploring Determinants of Transitional Justice”; University of Michigan.

Grzelczyk, Virginie: 2006; “Ten Years of Dealing with Kim Jong Il: Can Negotiations Ensure Conflict Resolution?”; University of Maryland, College Park.

Haddal, Chad: 2006; “Domestic Assets, Political Parties and Social Policy: Educational Choices in an Era of Globalization”; Washington University in St. Louis.

Hallward, Maia: 2006; “Building Space for Peace: Challenging the Boundaries of Israel/Palestine”; American University.

Hansen, Sally: 2006; “International and Domestic Roots of American Intervention”; University of South Carolina.

Harold, Scott W.: 2007; “Freeing Trade: Negotiating Domestic and International Obstacles in China's Long Road to the GATT/WTO, 1971–2001”; Columbia University.

Hartwig, Jason: 2007; “Flexibility, Fluidity, and Flux: Towards a Complex Theory of International Politics”; University of Oregon.

Hashim, Nadra Osman: 2006; “Language and Resistance in Zanzibar”; University of Virginia.

Hassan, Aref N.: 2006; “Ethnopolitical Conflict in Lebanon: An Institutional and Economic Analysis”; SUNY, University at Buffalo.

Hauser, David: 2006; “A little bit louder now: Signaling, Interests, and the Liberal Peace”; University of Pittsburgh.

He, Kai: 2007; “Institutionalizing Security: Institutional Realism in Southeast Asia”; Arizona State University.

Hinckley, Robert A.: 2006; “Education and the Limits of Political Tolerance: Exploring the Paradoxical Legacy of Soviet Mass Education”; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Hoffman, Barak: 2006; “Political Accountability at the Local Level in Tanzania”; University of California, San Diego.

Horowitz, Michael: 2007; “The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics”; Harvard University.

Hosman, Laura: 2006; “Dividing the Oils: An Application of the Theory of Dynamic Bargaining to Three Cases Involving Resource-Rich Developing Countries and Multinational Oil Corporations”; University of Southern California.

Howard, Tiffiany O.: 2006; “State Pressures and the Forced Migrant: Evaluating Global State Failure in an Effort to Ameliorate the Consequences of Forced Migration in the Developing World”; University of Michigan.

Hyde, Susan Dayton: 2006; “Observing Norms: Explaining the Causes and Consequences of Internationally Monitored Elections”; University of California, San Diego.

Iida, Takeshi: 2007; “The Roots of Partisan Effect: Party Support and Cabinet Support Under the Coalition Governments of Japan in the 1990s”; University of Texas, Austin.

Ismail, Ashraf: 2006; “A Theory of Financial Authority: Contract Theory, Distributional Conflict, and Banking Crisis”; Cornell University.

Ivanova, Kate: 2006; “Corruption, Rule of Law, and International Interaction in Environmental Pollution and CBRN Terrorism”; University of Southern California.

Jenkins, Bonnie: 2006; “Why International Instruments to Combat Nuclear Proliferation Cucceed or Fail: A Study of the Interaction of International and Domestic Level Factors”; University of Virginia.

Jepsen, Eric M.: 2006; “The Political Economy of Subnational Industrial Promotion in India and Mexico”; University of New Mexico.

Ji, Mi: 2006; “Neoliberal Developmentalism: State-led Economic Liberalization in China”; Cornell University.

Jo, Hyeran: 2007; “The Design of Monitoring Institutions in International Cooperation”; University of Michigan.

Johnson, Kristin: 2007; “Sub-National Capabilities and Internal Conflict”; Claremont Graduate University.

Jolivet, Jean-Gabriel: 2006; “Generational Changes in the Role of Party Identification in French Political Behavior Since 1958”; Purdue University.

Jolly, Seth Kincaid: 2006; “A Europe of Regions? Regional Integration, Sub-National Mobilization, and the Optimal Size of Nations”; Duke University.

Jurek, Steve J.: 2006; “Poland and the Postmodern Military”; SUNY, University at Buffalo.

Kasara, Kimuli: 2006; “Essays on Ethnic Politics in Africa”; Stanford University.

Keida, Mark: 2006; “Globalizing Solidarity: Explaining Differences in United States Labor Union Transnationalism”; Miami University.

Kennedy, Andrew Bingham: 2007; “Dreams Undeferred: Mao, Nehru, and the Strategic Choices of Rising Powers”; Harvard University.

Khoury, Amal I.: 2006; “Castles in the Sand? An Integrative Approach to Peacebuilding and Development to Repatriate Lebanon's Internally Displaced”; American University.

Kim, Do-Kyung: 2006; “Political Sophistication and Partisan Cues: Insight from South Korea's 2002 Presidential Election”; University of Tennessee.

Kim, Duk H.: 2007; “Nurturing Peace: United Nations Peacebuilding Operations in the Aftermath of Intrastate Conflicts, 1945–2002”; University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Kim, Hyun-Wook: 2007; “Critical Junctures and Alliance Cohesion: The Post-Cold War U.S.-South Korea and U.S.-Japan Alliances”; Brown University.

Kim, Ji-Young: 2007; “State-led Globalization in South Korea”; University of California, Irvine.

Kim, Kwang-Jin: 2007; “The Logic of Decisions in Militarized Disputes: The Effect of Regime, Power, Arms Control, and Airpower on Decision-Making in Militarized Disputes.”; University of Missouri, Columbia.

Kimball, Anessa L.: 2006; “Alliances from the Inside Out: A Theory of Domestic Politics and Alliance Behavior”; SUNY, Binghamton University.

Kimura, Ehito: 2006; “Provincial Proliferation: Vertical Coalitions and the Politics of Territoriality in Post-authoritarian Indonesia”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Kistner, Natalie A.: 2007; “Legislative party Institutionalization in New Decomcracies: The Case of Poland”; Ohio State University.

Kitchen, Veronica: 2006; “Arguing Identity and Security: Out-of-area Intervention and Change in the Atlantic Community”; Brown University.

Kreps, Sarah E.: 2007; “When Does the Coalition Determine the Mission? The Logic of Multilateral Interventions under Unipolarity”; Georgetown University.

Kroenig, Matthew: 2007; “The Enemy of my Enemy is my Customer: Why States Provide Sensative Nuclear Assistance”; University of California, Berkeley.

Kunov, Andrey: 2006; “Constitutional Aspects of Macroeconomic Policies in Russia”; Stanford University.

Kwak, Kwang sub: 2006; “The United States-ROK alliance, 1953–2004: Alliance Institutionalization”; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Labonte, Melissa T.: 2006; “Bringing Influence to Bear: Humanitarian Actors and the Politics of Intervention”; Brown University.

LaMure, Lane Todd: 2006; “Three Essays in International Relations”; Harvard University.

Laurienti, Jerry M.: 2006; “On the Front Line of Hearts and Minds: The Evolution and Impact of United States Military Human Rights Promotion in Latin America”; University of Denver.

Lawrence, Adria: 2007; “Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism”; University of Chicago.

Leblond, Patrick: 2006; “The Political Economy of International Monetary Entegration in the Post-World War II Period”; Columbia University.

Lee, Charles: 2006; “Deviant Cosmopolitanism: Transgressive Globalization and Traveling Citizenship”; University of Southern California.

Lee, Hak-Seon: 2007; “Inter-Sectoral Goods and Labor Market Relationships, Incoming FDI, and U.S. Trade Politics”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Lee, Michelle: 2006; “Constructing National Identity Through Policy: Discourses of Multiculturalism and Reconciliation in Australia”; Northeastern University.

Lee, Terence C.: 2006; “The Causes of Military Insubordination: Explaining Military Organizational Behavior in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines”; University of Washington.

Lennon, Alexander T.J.: 2006; “Why do we do Track Two? Transnational Security Policy Networks and United States Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy”; University of Maryland, College Park.

Lerner, Hanna: 2006; “Constitution Making in Deeply Divided Societies: The Incrementalist Option”; Columbia University.

Liczek, Irina: 2007; “The Struggle for Gender Equality in Central Asia: Democracy, International Norms, and Islamic Resurgence”; New School University.

Lieberman, Jessica Dumes: 2006; “Global Neans, Local Ends? A Case Study of Transnational Human Rights Networks in Jordan”; George Washington University.

Light, Matthew Aaron: 2006; “Regional Migration Policies in Post-Soviet Russia: From Pervasive Control to Insecure Freedom”; Yale University.

Lim, Jamus Jerome: 2006; “Essays on the Political Economy of International Financial Crises”; University of California, Santa Cruz.

Lim, Selina: 2007; “Rethinking Albert O. Hirschman's ‘Exit, Voice, and Loytalty’: The Case of Singapore”; Ohio State University.

Lin, Ying: 2007; “Governing Innovation: Industrial Policy, FDI, and the Development of Local Technological Capabilities”; University of Washington.

Lindeman, Kaori N.: 2007; “Normative Origins of Revisionism: The Impact of the International Normative System on State Identity Formation”; Johns Hopkins University.

Lopez-Santana, Mariely: 2006; “The Differential Influences of European Soft Law on Employment Policies, Processes, and Institutional Configurations in European Union Member States”; University of Michigan.

Lowther, Adam B.: 2006; “America's Experience with Asymmetric Warfare: Past, Present, and Future”; University of Alabama.

Luedtke, Adam: 2006; “One Market, 25 States, 20 Million Outsiders?: Supranational Integration and the Politics of Immigration”; University of Washington.

Lyon, Matthew D.: 2006; “Builders and Balancers: The Czechoslovak Decision to Join NATO”; University of Connecticut.

Magouirk, Justin H.: 2006; “Manufacturing Hate: Three Perspectives on Terrorist Motivations and Strategies”; University of Michigan.

Makdisi, Ismaeel Ibraheem: 2006; “Collective Action in Authoritarian States: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt”; University of Illinois at Chicago.

Mason, Chataquoa: 2006; “Beyond Political Neutrality: Towards a Complex Theory of Rights in the Modern Democratic State”; University of Maryland.

Matsunaga, Yasuyuki: 2006; “Struggles for Democratic Consolidation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979–2004”; New York University.

Mattes, Michaela: 2006; “Falling to Peaces: Conciliatory Agreements and the Durability of Peace”; Rice University.

McDougal, Brent: 2006; “The Divisive Role of Ideology in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide”; University of Alabama.

McElhinny, Vincent J.: 2006; “Inequality and Empowerment: The Political Foundations of Post-war Decentralization and Development in El Salvador, 1992–2000”; University of Pittsburgh.

McLaughlin, Eric S.: 2006; “Embracing Babel: Language, Democracy, and Entrepreneurship in the New South Africa”; Indiana University.

McLean, Elena V.: 2007; “International Organizations and Environmental Aid”; University of Rochester.

McNulty, Stephanie: 2006; “Empowering Civil Society: Decentralizing the State and Increasing Local Participation in Peru”; George Washington University.

Mecham, Quinn: 2006; “From the Sacred to the State: Institutional Origins of Islamist Political Mobilization”; Stanford University.

Mendelsohn, Barak: 2006; “Jihadism, International Society, and Interstate Cooperation”; Cornell University.

Meyer, David J.: 2007; “Ethnic Territorial Anatomy and Post-Souviet Ethnic Political Mobilization”; Columbia University.

Miller, Manjari Chatterjee: 2007; “Scars of Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology, Historical Memory, and Foreign Policy Decision-Making”; Harvard University.

Mitchell, Kristine: 2006; “Europeanizing Unions: Trade Union Adaptation to European Integration”; Princeton University.

Mobrand, Erik: 2006; “Internal Migration and State Retreat in Chinese and South Korean Industrialization”; Princeton University.

Montgomery, Alexander: 2006; “Social Action, Rogue Reaction: United States Post-Cold War Nuclear Counterproliferation Strategies”; Stanford University.

Morey, Daniel S.: 2006; “Shock-proof Structures? A Dynamic Model of the Construction, Maintenance, and Demolition of International Rivalries”; University of Iowa.

Murphy, Christopher Gaelan: 2007; “The Hegelian Compromise: Globalization, Justice, and the Modern State”; Georgetown University.

Mutwol, Julius: 2006; “Why Peace Agreements in Civil Wars Succeed or Fail: Insurgent Motivations, State Responses and Third Party Peacemaking in Liberia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone”; Johns Hopkins University.

Natalicchio, Marcela A.: 2006; “Beyond the Letter of the Law: Transforming Labor Institutions and Regulations in Argentina”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nelson, Travis: 2006; “From the Barrel of a Gun: A Regional and Normative Analysis of Regime Intervention, 1815–2001”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Nolan, Cynthia M.: 2006; “Keeping Spies on Course: Searching for Patterns in the Oversight of United States Intelligence”; American University.

Nuamah, Kwaku: 2007; “Sources of Leverage in Mediation: The Cases of Northern Ghana, Ethiopia-Eritrea, and the Peru-Ecuador Conflicts”; Johns Hopkins University.

Nunez, Joseph R.: 2006; “Challenges and Opportunities in the Americas: A Liberal Regime for Security and Defense Cooperation”; University of Virginia.

Onoma, Ato Kwamena: 2006; “Securing Property Rights: Politics on the Land Frontier in Postcolonial Africa”; Northwestern University.

Ouellet, Julian: 2006; “Old World Orders: The Many Faces of Sovereignty”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Oyerinde, Oyebade Kunle: 2006; “The Constitution of Order Among the Yoruba of Nigeria”; Indiana University.

Ozdamar, Ibrahim Ozgur: 2006; “The Great Game Redux: Energy Security and the Emergence of Tripolarity in Eurasia”; University of Missouri, Columbia.

Ozkaleli, Ferit Murat: 2006; “Talking Turkey: The Turkish Parliament in Two Iraq Wars”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Parhad, Rita: 2006; “Illegitimate Violence: The Creation and Development of the International Norm Against Terrorism”; University of California, Berkeley.

Park, Gene: 2007; “Financing the Japanese State: Spending Without Taxation”; University of Califorinia, Berkeley.

Park, Jong Hee: 2007; “Analyzing the Nexus: Bayesian Inference on the Domestic Sources of International Conflicts”; Washington University, St. Louis.

Parsi, Trita: 2006; “Israeli-Iranian Relations, 1970–2001: Ideological Calculus or Strategic Rivalry?”; Johns Hopkins University.

Pavel, Carmen: 2007; “From Moral Conflict to Institutional Pluralism: A New Institutional Approach to International Order”; Brown University.

Peltier, Jean-Philippe Noel: 2007; “State Legitimacy in Sub-Saharan Africa”; Michigan State University.

Pepinsky, Thomas: 2007; “Coalitions and Crises: Authoritarianism, Adjustment, and Transitions in Emerging Markets”; Yale University.

Perry, Luke: 2007; “Rethinking Theories of Transitions in the Former Soviet Union”; University of Masschusetts, Amherst.

Pezzola, Anthony A.: 2006; “The Deep Roots of Trade Policy: How Subnational Interests Determine National Trade Policy”; University of Washington.

Phillips, Andrew B.: 2007; “Soldiers of God: Religious Radicalism and International Systems Change from Calvin to Al Qaeda”; Cornell University.

Picarelli, John T.: 2007; “The Song Remains the Same: A Historical Comparison of the Trade in Human Beings”; American University.

Poblete, Yleem D. S.: 2006; “The Viability of Sanctions as Effective Foreign Policy Tools: The case of Iran and Syria”; Catholic University of America.

Popova, Maria: 2006; “Judicial Independence and Political Competition: Electoral and Defamation Disputes in Russia and Ukraine”; Harvard University.

Pusca, Anca M.: 2006; “Democratic Transition and Disillusionment: The Case of Romania”; American University.

Reitan, Ruth: 2006; “Transnational Activist Networks: Against Neoliberal Globalization and for Another Possible World”; American University.

Rice, Roberta L.: 2006; “From Peasants to Politicians: The Politicization of Ethnic Cleavages in Latin America”; University of New Mexico.

Riesen, Timothy John: 2006; “Terrorism: A Continuation of Politics by Other Means?”; Claremont Graduate University.

Rincker, Meg Eileen: 2006; “Women's Access to the Decentralized State: Engendering Regional-Level Government in Poland”; Washington University, St. Louis.

Roberts, Joseph W.: 2006; “Constructed Identities: New Social Movements and Computer-Mediated Communication in the Middle East”; University of Utah.

Rogers, Brooke Merrett: 2006; “Military Conflict: Substituting Levels of Force”; University of Mississippi.

Romaniuk, Peter: 2006; “Global and Local Wars on Terror: Policy Convergence and Counter-Terrorism in South and Southeast Asia”; Brown University.

Rosenthal, Justine A.: 2006; “Razing the Ter rorism Monolith: Group Typologies and State Strategies”; Columbia University.

Ruby, Tom: 2006; “Waging Moral War: The Importance of Principal-Agent Motivation Alignment and Constraining Doctrine on Moral U.S. Targeting Decisions”; University of Kentucky.

Rudloff, Peter: 2007; “Substituting Security: Economic Resources, Strategic Resources, and the Security Policy Choices of Minor Powers”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Rudolph, Matthew: 2006; “Diversity Amid Convergence”; Cornell University.

Russell, Jesse: 2006; “Domestic Political Factors and Currency Regime Choice”; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Sagar, Rahul: 2007; “Who Guards the Guardians?: Intelligence, Secrecy, and Misrule”; Harvard University.

Saito, Jun: 2006; “Pork Barrel Politics in Contemporary Japan”; Yale University.

Salehyan, Idean: 2006; “Transnational Rebels: State Boundaries, Transnational Opposition, and Civil Conflict”; University of California, San Diego.

Salem, Ahmed: 2006; “International Relations Theories and International Organizations: Realism, Constructivism, and Collective Security in the League of Arab States”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Satana, Nil Seda: 2006; “The Effect of Domestic Politics on Third Party Intervention in Civil Wars”; University at Buffalo, SUNY.

Saunders, Elizabeth Nathan: 2007; “Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions”; Yale University.

Savun, Burcu: 2006; “Information, Bias, and Mediation Success: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mediation of International Conflicts”; Rice University.

Sayej, Caroleen Marji: 2006; “Strategic Western Alliance Building and Authoritarianism in the Middle East”; New York University.

Schuessler, John: 2007; “Doing Good By Stealth? Democracy, Deception, and the Use of Force”; University of Chicago.

Sechser, Todd S.: 2007; “Winning Without a Fight: Power, Reputation, and Compellent Threats”; Stanford University.

Selee, Andrew Dan: 2006; “The Paradox of Local Empowerment: Decentralization and Democratic Governance in Mexico”; University of Maryland.

Shapiro, Jacob Norman: 2007; “The Terrorist's Challenge: Security, Efficiency, Control”; Stanford University.

Shevchenko, Alexei: 2006; “Party of Entrepreneurs: The Chinese Communist Party's Survival and Adaptation in the Age of Reform”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Shirkey, Zachary Coleman: 2006; “Unexpected Events and Military Intervention, 1816–1995”; Columbia University.

Siegel, David A.: 2006; “Essays in Collective Action”; Stanford University.

Siegel, Scott Nicholas: 2007; “Constructing Compliance”; Cornell University.

Simonelli, Nicole: 2007; “International Negotiations: An Empirical Analysis of the Creation of Multilateral Agreements”; New York University.

Sinanovic, Ermin: 2007; “The Role of Religious Ideas in Contemporary Islamic Revivalism: The Case of Malaysia”; Syracuse University.

Singer, Matthew: 2007; “Economic Vulnerability and Motivated Economic Voting”; Duke University.

Smith, Dennis A.: 2007; “Regime change: International Overthrow and Domestic Vulnerability”; University of Virginia.

Smith, Heather M.: 2007; “Explaining Ratification of Human Rights Treaties: Signaling for Aid during Regional Crises”; University of California, San Diego.

Smith, Shane: 2007; “Windows of Opportunity and Military Escalation”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Sogindolska, Klara: 2006; “Regime Change and Survival in the Post-Communist ‘Gray Zone’: The Rise of Electoral Revolutions”; Johns Hopkins University.

Sohn, Injoo: 2006; “Learning to Cooperate: Chinese Foreign Financial Policy and Asian Regional Cooperation, 1990–2005”; George Washington University.

Sondheimer, Rachel: 2006; “The Education-Participation Nexus: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom with Randomized and Natural Experiments”; Yale University.

Stalley, Phillip: 2006; “A Double-Edged Word: Foreign Firms and Environmental Governance in China”; George Washington University.

Stanislawski, Bartosz Hieronim: 2006; “Black Spots: Insecurity from Beyond the Horizon”; Syracuse University.

Stolfi, Francesco: 2006; “The Europeanization of Italy's Budget Institutions, 1960–2001: A Bottom-Up Approach”; University of Pittsburgh.

Strathman, Brent: 2006; “Who Advises? Power, Politics, & Persuasion in Foreign Policy”; Ohio State University.

Subotic, Jelena: 2007; “Hijacked Justice: Domestic Use of International Norms”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Sugiyama, Natasha Borges: 2007; “Ideology & Social Networks: The Politics of Social Policy Diffusion in Brazil”; University of Texas, Austin.

Taydas, Zeynep: 2006; “The Determinants of Civil Wars: A Quantitative Analysis”; University of Missouri, Columbia.

Tenney, Sarah: 2007; “Through the Lens of Surveillance: The IMF as a Public Institution”; University of Mississippi.

Toksoz, Itir: 2007; “Security Dilemmas and Threat Perceptions: Turkey at the Crossroads”; Northeastern University.

Trager, Robert F.: 2006; “The Tangled Web: Coercive Diplomacy in Context”; Columbia University.

Tucker, Andrew M.: 2006; “Reflexive Mistrust: Democratic Engagement in Post-Traditional Democracies”; Georgetown University.

Uate, Teodosio L.: 2006; “Using Law to Operate Social Changes and Overcome Poverty: The Case of Mozambique”; Boston University.

Ueki, Chikako Kawakatsu: 2006; “The Rise of ‘China Threat’ Arguments”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Uzer, Umut: 2006; “Turkish Foreign Policy Between Kemalist State Identity and State Interests: The Cyprus and Karabagh Cases”; University of Virginia.

von Stein, Jana: 2006; “When and Why Do Treaties Work? Commitment and Compliance in International Economic, Human Rights, and Environmental Law”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Watanabe, Shino: 2007; “Foreign Aid and Influence: Paradoxical Power Dynamics in Japan's Official Development Assistance to China”; University of Virginia.

Waterbury, Myra A.: 2006; “The State as Ethnic Activist: Explaining Continuity and Change in Hungarian Diaspora Policy”; New School University.

Watts, Stephen: 2007; “Constructing Order amid Violence: Comparative Military Interventions in the Era of Peacekeeping and Counter-Terrorism”; Cornell University.

Whang, Taehee: 2007; “Unifying Theory and Testing of Economic Sanctions Outcomes”; University of Rochester.

Whelan, Daniel J.: 2006; “Interdependent, Indivisible and Interrelated Human Rrights: A Political and Historical Investigation”; University of Denver.

Wilke, Christiane: 2006; “A Belated Vindication of Rights: Criminal Trials for Mass Human Rights Violations and the Tasks of Democratization”; New School University.

Williamson, Amy J.: 2007; “A Minimum Distance to War: Regime Change and International Conflict in a Regional Political Context”; Emory University.

Wolfe, Wojtek Mackiewicz: 2006; “Winning the War of Words: Framing United States Foreign Policy”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Wszolek, Unislawa: 2007; “Use of Mixed Signals in International Crisis Negotiations”; Ohio State University.

Xenias, Anastasia: 2007; “A Structural Theory of Currency Unions and Monetary Alliances”; Columbia University.

Yang, Karen: 2006; “Media Coverage of Establishment and Non-Establishment Candidates in Argentina's 2003 Presidential Election”; Ohio State University.

Ye, Min: 2007; “Bargaining in the Intermediate Zone between Peace and War: A Formal Study of International Crises”; University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Youatt, Rafi: 2007; “Nonhuman Agency and the Politics of Global Biodiversity”; University of Chicago.

Zarakol, Ayse: 2007; “Former Powers and Their Strategic Choices: How the Quest for Status Leads to Status Quo”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Zartner Falstrom, Dana: 2007; “Thought versus Action: An Historical Analysis of Legal Traditions to Explain Variations in State Inter Contractualpretation of International Law”; University of California, Davis.

Zhan, Jing Vivian: 2006; “The Logic of Fiscal Reforms: Analysis of Central Control Versus Local Discretion in China”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Zhang, Jian: 2007; “Urbanization and Ethnic Minority People's Political Identities in Contemporary China”; Columbia University.

Zinn, Annalisa: 2006; “If You Want Peace, Work for Justice: Revitalizing Grievance as a Risk Factor for Civil War”; Yale University.

Zwald, Zachary: 2007; “Solving an Imaginary Problem: Why ‘Should’ Determines ‘Can’ on U.S. National Missile Defense”; University of California, Berkeley.

Political Philosophy

Adcock, Robert Kaufman: 2007; “Liberalism, Progress, and Comparative Inquiry: Trans-Atlantic Exchanges and the Making of the American Science of Politics”; University of California, Berkeley.

Almeida, Manuel S.: 2006; “Reading the ‘Quaderni del Carcere’: The Political Project of Antonio Gramsci”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Armstrong, David A.: 2007; “Give me Liberty or Give me Death: Tranquility, Threats, and the Tenuousness of Civil Liberties”; University of Maryland.

Ascher, Ivan André: 2007; “Capitalism, Disechantment, and the Poetics of Freedom: Karl Marx, Max Weber, and the Linguistic Turn”; University of California, Berkeley.

Avila, Philip J.: 2006; “Between Totalitarianism and Freedom: The Relationship between the Political and the Biopolitical in the Thought of Hanna Arendt”; Temple University.

Baily, Alan I.: 2006; “Heroic Individualism: The Hero as Author in Democratic Culture”; Louisiana State University.

Bargu, Banu: 2007; “Martyrs of Hunger: Sovereignty in the Age of Sacrifice”; Cornell University.

Bearry, Brian A.: 2006; “Democratic Pantheism in the Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville”; University of North Texas.

Bedi, Sonu: 2006; “Rejecting Rights: The Turn to Justification”; Yale University.

Betancourt-Serrano, Alex: 2006; “Living Politics by Awakening History: A Critical Approach to Walter Benjamin through Sigmund Freud”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Breen, Sheryl D.: 2006; “Property, Agriculture, and Stewardship: Demands of an Economic Ethic”; University of Minnesota.

Brooks, Stefan: 2006; “The Webster-Hayne Debate: An Inquiry into the Nature of Union”; University of Houston.

Brust, Steven: 2006; “The Origin and Nature of Political and Spiritual Power: Natural Rights and Natural Law in the Thought of Francisco Suarez”; Catholic University of America.

Carty, Jarrett Adrian: 2006; “Machiavelli, Luther, and the Reformation of Politics”; University of Notre Dame.

Caspar, Timothy W.: 2006; “Recovering the Ancient View of Founding: A Ccommentary on Cicero's ‘De Legibus’;” Claremont Graduate University.

Chen, Zhiming: 2006; “A Theory of Power Parity”; Yale University.

Chiu, Yvonne: 2007; “Combat Contractualpretation ism—A Secular Theory of Just War”; University of California, Berkeley.

Clarke, Michelle Tolman: 2007; “Machiavelli's Political Pluralism”; Yale University.

Cobb, Rachael Vanessa: 2006; “Do Parties Still Matter? The Politics of Gubernatorial Nominations”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Colman, John: 2006; “Science, Politics, and Poetry: A Study of Lucretius' ‘On the Nature of Things’ ”; Boston College.

Corbin, C. David: 2006; “Whence and Whither Democratic Imperialism? A Study of Thucydides' ‘History of the Peloponnesian War’ ”; Boston University.

Curtis, William M.: 2006; “Liberal Commitments: Education, Virtue, and Pragmatic Modernity”; Duke University.

Cusick, Roger J.: 2006; “The ideas of Roscoe Pound: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Polylegalism”; State University of New York at Albany.

da Costa, Marta Nunes: 2006; “Redefining Individuality”; New School University.

Dale, Timothy: 2006; “Toward a Post-Subjectivist Politics: Reflections on Benhabib, Young, and Mouffe”; University of Notre Dame.

Davidson, Elisabeth Piper: 2007; “Instinctive Trust Among Aristotle's Political Animals: A Transdisciplinary Approach Identifying Why Political Science Should Incorporate Biological Markers into the Discipline.”; Claremont Graduate University.

Donahue, T.J.: 2007; “The Structure of Political Theories: Why Normative Theories of Politics and Economics Depend on Ethics”; Johns Hopkins University.

Driver, Darrell W.: 2006; “Sparta in Babylon: Case Studies in the Public Philosophy of Soldiers and Citizens”; Syracuse University.

Eichner, Maxine: 2006; “Family Matters: The Family-State Relationship and Our Liberal Democratic Ideals”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Erickson, Chris: 2006; “The Shield of Achilles and the War on Terror: Ekphrasis as Critique”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Evans, John C.: 2006; “The Relevance of John Adams: Combining Liberal, Republican, and Christian ideals in Early American Political Thought”; University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Ewasiuk, Craig R.: 2007; “The Tricycle: Notions of Recurrence in Modern Political Theory”; Cornell University.

Flanagan, Borden: 2007; “Thucydides On The Political Soul: Pericles, Love of Glory, and Freedom”; University of Chicago.

Fogarty, Edward A.: 2007; “E Pluribus Pluribum: Global Governance in an Era of Nonstate Actors”; University of California, Berkeley.

Godrej, Farah: 2006; “Toward a Cosmopolitan Political Theory: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Methodology of Comparative Political Theory”; Georgetown University.

Golub, Mark: 2006; “In the Eye of the Law: Racial Grammar and the Politics of Identity in American Constitutional Law”; University of California, San Diego.

Gomez Albarello, Juan Gabriel: 2006; “From Impartial Vantage Point: From Democratic Theory to Theory of Action and Vice Versa”; Washington University.

Goodfield, Eric: 2006; “Between Politics and Philosophy: The Contest of the One and the Many in the Thought of Plato and Hegel”; New School University.

Haddad, Samir: 2006; “Legacies of Democracy: Derrida and Arendt”; Northwestern University.

Hall, Lauren K.: 2007; “The Liberated Beast: Liberty and Human Nature”; Northern Illinois University.

Havercroft, Jonathan: 2006; “Beyond Sovereignty and Anarchy: Ontological Foundations of Political Order”; University of Minnesota.

Hendrickson, Randal R.: 2007; “Montesquieu and the Transformation of Republicanism”; Boston College.

Hilmer, Jeffrey D.: 2007; “The Restructuring of Democratic Theory”; SUNY, University at Albany.

Hoffman, Marcelo: 2006; “Foucault and Power, 1971–1984”; University of Denver.

Jungkunz, Vincent: 2007; “Insubordinate Silence”; University of Washington.

Kang, John: 2006; “In Defense of Insincerity and Hypocrisy in Liberalism”; University of Michigan.

Kaufman, Alison: 2007; “One Nation Among Many: Foreign Models in the Consitutional Thought of Liang Quicho”; University of California, Berkeley.

Kessel, Alisa: 2006; “Reclaiming Education: Conserving for a Radical Politics”; Duke University.

Knehans, Greg: 2007; “Against the Manufacture of Washing Machines: Maoist Materialist Dialectics, Poststructuralist Feminism, and the Liberation from Metaphysics”; University of Arizona.

Koyama, Hanako: 2007; “Mapping the Vita Activa: A Multiple Strands Approach to Hannah Arendt's Discussion of Action and Politics”; New School for Social Research.

Kurtz, Geoffrey A.: 2007; “The Political Thought of Jean Jaures: Liberal Socialism, Radical Reform, Consmopolitat Patriotism”; Rutgers University.

Lee, Byongtaek: 2007; “Hume's Legal Philosophy”; Rutgers University.

Leeb, Claudia: 2006; “Rethinking Class and Gender Justice with and against Marx, Adorno, and Lacan”; New School University.

Leibowitz, Lisa: 2006; “On Hedonism and Moral Longing: the Socratic Critique of Sophistic Education in Plato's Protagoras”; Michigan State University.

Leithner, Anika Cornelia: 2006; “Rhetoric of Responsibility: German War Rhetoric in the 21st Century”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Leung, Karey: 2007; “Suspension of Secular Seriousness: A Kirkegardian Revival of Metaphysical Humor in Ethico-Political Communication”; Rutgers University.

Levy, Jonathan H.: 2006; “Madison, Wilson, and East Central European Federalism”; University of Cincinnati.

Lokaneeta, Jinee: 2006; “Legal Discourses on Torture in Contemporary Democracies: United States and India”; University of Southern California.

Macaes, Bruno: 2006; “Adventure as a Theory of Politics”; Harvard University.

Marasco, Robyn: 2006; “Critique on the Heights of Despair: Politics, Philosophy, and the Persistence of Hope”; University of California, Berkeley.

Mariotti, Shannon: 2006; “The Political Value of Withdrawal: Henry David Thoreau, Theodor W. Adorno, and the Modern Alienated Self”; Cornell University.

Marquez, Xavier: 2006; “The Stranger's Knowledge: Political Knowledge in Plato's Statesman”; University of Notre Dame.

Maxwell, Lida E.: 2006; “Between Law and Lawlessness: Democratizing Law in Montesquieu, Burke, and Arendt”; Northwestern University.

McCallie, Kathy: 2006; “Liberation and Liberal Freedom: A Critique of Rawls's ‘Law of Peoples’ in Light of Positive Freedom”; University of Oklahoma.

McCalpin, Jermaine O.: 2006; “Justice under Constraints: The Nature of Transitional Justice in Deeply Divided Societies”; Brown University.

McThomas, Mary: 2007; “The Right to Privacy: Individual Liberty, Property Interests, and the Dual System of Privacy Rights in the United States”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Mhire, Jeremy John: 2006; “Socrates as Citizen? The Implications of Socratic Eros for Contemporary Models of Citizenship”; Louisiana State University.

Michelbach, Philip A.: 2006; “Finding Voice: The Presence of German Political Thought”; University of California, San Diego.

Miller, William G.: 2006; “Moral Legislation in Early American State Constitutions and Legislation;” University of Dallas.

Minch, Michael: 2007; “The Discursive Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott”; University of Utah.

Moots, Glenn A.: 2007; “Reforming Politics: The Covenant Device in Anglo-American Political Theory”; Louisiana State University.

Munro, Daniel: 2006; “Justice and the Demands of Realism”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Myers, Ella: 2006; “The Turn to Ethics and Its Democratic Costs”; Northwestern University.

Nacol, Emily: 2007; “From Danger to Risk: A Study of Early Modern British Political Thought”; University of Chicago.

Nakazato, Hiroshi: 2006; “Defensive Discourses: A Narrative Theory of Civil-Military Relations”; Boston College.

Nordlund, Carrie: 2006; “We'll All Have Shoes in Heaven: Church Context and Political Behavior”; Brown University.

O'Connor, Veronica: 2007; “Cosmopolitan ism and Abjection in Montesquieu's Persian Letters”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

O'Hara, Jonathan: 2006; “Orderly Liberty: Elite Republican Visions of American Executive Administration from Hamilton to the Gilded Age”; University of Southern California.

Oliver, Thaddeus: 2006; “Difference and Method in International Relations”; University of Hawaii.

Olson, Lawrence: 2006; “Because We Will It: The Possibilities and Limits of Democracy in Late Modernity”; University of Maryland.

Panfilio, Kenneth M.: 2007; “Inheriting the Legacy of Critique: Dreams of Freedom and Nightmares of Despair”; Rutgers University.

Parent, Joseph M.: 2006; “E Pluribus Unum: Political Unification and Political Realism”; Columbia University.

Popescu, Delia : 2007; “Vaclav Havel: The Art of the Impossible”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Prokopovych, Olena M.: 2007; “The Institutional Dynamics of Health Care Reform: Organizational and Class Dimensions of Policy-Making at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1911–1998“; Cornell University.

Reardon, Laurence B.: 2007; “The State as Parent: Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family”; Catholic University of America.

Roberts, Neil: 2007; “Freedom as Marronage: The Dialectic of Slavery and Freedom in Arendt, Pettit, Rousseau, Douglass, and the Haitian Revolution”; University of Chicago.

Rodriguez, Arcelia: 2006; “Cervantes' Don Quixote and the Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry”; University of Maryland.

Rogers, Melvin L.: 2006; “The Undiscovered Dewey: Identity, Democracy, and the Meaningfulness of Experience”; Yale University.

Rucki, Sheila M.: 2006; “The Limits of Cooperation: Communicative Action and Sovereignty in the International System”; University of Washington.

Saji, Motohide: 2006; “An Essay on Kantian Cosmopolitanism”; University of Chicago.

Samad, Joy: 2006; “Aristotle's Regime-Centered Political Science and Machiavelli's Objections (Niccolo Machiavelli)”; Boston College.

Sanfratello, Nirella J.: 2006; “Italian Feminism: From Emancipation Movements to Liberation Collectives”; University of Southern California.

Schut, Melvin L.: 2007; “Tocqueville on Liberty Rafi Youatt: Nonhuman Agency and the Politics of Global Biodiversity”; University of Chicago.

Schwartz, Eric: 2007; “The Passions and the Interests and the British Empiricist Tradition”; New School University.

Sessler, Tal: 2006; “Between Transcendent and Immanent Humanism: Levinas, Camus, and the Struggle Against Totalitarianism”; New School University.

Shanks, Torrey J.: 2006; “Political Imagination in the Thought of John Locke”; Northwestern University.

Shein, Avital: 2007; “Monuments and the Nation: Constructing a Liberal National Space”; University of Maryland.

Shomali, Alireza: 2006; “The Project of Political Epistemology, Politics, and the Criteria of Truth”; Syracuse University.

Somos, Mark: 2007; “The History and Implications of Secularisation: The Leiden Circle, 1575–1618”; Harvard University.

Storms, Minerva: 2007; “The Other Side of Authenticity: Authenticity, Liberalism, and Resistance”; University of Southern California.

Tellmann, Ute Astrid: 2007; “The Economy and the Foundation of the Modern Body Politic—Malthus and Keynes as Political Philosophers”; Cornell University.

Tetlow, Joanne E.: 2006; “The Theological Context of John Locke's Political Thought”; Catholic University of America.

Thunder, David: 2006; “Rethinking Modern Citizenship: Towards a Politics of Integrity and Virtue”; University of Notre Dame.

Tofias, Michael: 2006; “Destiny Unbound: Opportunity and Political Choices”; Duke University.

Tonder, Lars: 2006; “Experiences of Tolerance: Immanence, Transcendence, Hilaritas”; Johns Hopkins University.

Turner, Jack: 2006; “Reconstructing American Individualism: Race and the Ethics of Citizenship”; Princeton University.

Ueda, Michiko: 2006; “Essays on Political Representation”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Unger, Michael A: 2007; “After the Supreme Word: The Effect of U. S. Supreme Court Decisions on Public Opinion”; University of Texas, Austin.

Vidal, Troy Manuel: 2007; “The New American Civil Theology: Immantism by Another Name?”; Auburn University.

Weidenfeld, Matthew C.: 2007; “First-Things, First: Toward a Phenomenology of Political Theory”; University of Minnesota.

Zachman, John: 2006; “Autonomy, Authority, and Liberty: The Politics of John Stuart Mill”; Duke University.

Zavadil, Jeffery: 2006; “Anatomy of the Body Politic: Organic Metaphors in Ancient and Medieval Political Thought”; Arizona State University.

Public Administration

Amspaugh, Michael B.: 2006; “Results of Early Implementation of Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 34 in 15 Ohio Public School Districts”; Western Michigan University.

Benoit Griffin, Rita M.: 2006; “Light Rail Transit in Houston: An Ideological Perspective”; University of Houston.

Blankenship, Jeffrey M.: 2007; “An Analysis of Municipal Financial Behavior Using the National League of Cities' Typology”; Auburn University.

Boldin, Felita N.: 2006; “The Growth of Private Voluntary Organizations, 1968–2004”; Auburn University.

Boonyarak, Pitima: 2006; “Accountability in Multicultural Settings: The Impact of Culture on the Implementation of Accountability Verification Processes of International Nongovernmental Organizations”; University of Utah.

Breen, Riobart E.: 2006; “Determining the Level of Ecosystem Management within the Forest Plans of the United States Forest Service”; Northern Arizona University.

Commuri, Gitika: 2006; “National Identity Discourses and Foreign Policy: The Case of India”; University of Southern California.

Cornwell, Derekh: 2006; “Institutions, Policy Environments, and LDC Stock Market Development”; Indiana University.

Davis Jones, Michele: 2006; “The Rules of the Game and Who Governs: Municipal Reform and Re-Reform in Norfolk, Virginia”; University of Virginia.

Getha Taylor, Heather: 2007; “Specifying and Testing a Model of Collaborative Capacity: Identifying Complementary Competencies, Incentive Structures, and Leadership Lessons for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security”; Syracuse University.

Gregg, Anna: 2007; “Russian Civil Service Reform: A Step Toward Democratic Consolidation or Bureaucratic Authoritarianism?”; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Greitens, Thomas: 2007; “Bargaining of Beliefs: Agencies, Advocacy Groups, and the Evolution of Pesticide Regulatory Reform”; Northern Illinois University.

Griffin, Rebecca Brandy: 2006; “In the Line of Fire: Orange County Nonprofit Organizations Providing Services to Undocumented Immigrants”; University of California, Irvine.

Hacker, Anne Julie: 2006; “Unintended Consequences in Public Policy: Formulation and Implementation of Michigan's Safe Delivery of Newborns Law”; Western Michigan University.

Hicklin, Alisa: 2006; “The Politics of Diversity: Minority Student Enrollments at American Public Universities”; Texas A&M University.

Hill, Gregory C.: 2006; “On Managerial Succession”; Texas A&M University.

Hussey, Laura: 2006; “Social Policy and Social Services in Women's Pregnancy Decision-Making: Political and Programmatic Implications”; University of Maryland, College Park.

Johnson, Bonnie J.: 2006; “Civic Bureaucracy: An Affirmative Role for City Planners in Building Civic Capital and Representing Communities”; University of Kansas.

Joyce, Mary Ellen: 2006; “Developing 21st Century Public Leaders: Competency-Based Executive Development”; George Washington University.

Jung, Taehwa: 2006; “The Ethical Views of City Managers in the State of Michigan;” Wayne State University.

Kim, Dongryul: 2006; “Bureaucratic Institutions and Economic Reforms: The Effects of Disrupted Post-Retirement Incentive Structures on the Performance of Korean Officials”; University of Virginia.

Kim, Min Su: 2006; “Local Expenditure and Revenue Decisions: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Cities over 100,000 Population from 1972 to 2000”; Arizona State University.

Kim, Yoonho: 2007; “Differentiation of Bureaucracies and Their Responses to Reform: A Question for Max Weber and an Answer for Civil Service Reformers”; Cornell University.

Kim, Yushim: 2006; “Analysis for Adaptive Complex Public Enterprises”; Ohio State University.

Korpela, Craig: 2006; “The Cover-Up is More Damaging than the Sin: Sexual Scandals at the Cabinet and Sub-Cabinet Levels”; Western Michigan University.

Kravitz, Rhonda Rios: 2006; “Precepts for Success: Chicana/o and Latina/o Administrators Working in the California State University System”; University of Southern California.

Leavitt, Pitima Boonyarak: 2006; “Accountability in Multicultural Settings: The Impact of Culture on the Implementation of Accountability Verification Processes of International Nongovernmental Organizations”; University of Utah.

LeRoux, Kelly M.: 2006; “The Role of Structure, Function, and Networks in Explaining Interlocal Service Delivery: A Study of Institutional Cooperation in Michigan”; Wayne State University.

Lindgren, Eric: 2006; “Understanding the Effects of Progressive Era Electoral Reforms on City Elections: The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Races”; University of Oregon.

Mergner, Stephen: 2006; “The Implementation of the ‘Conciliated Model’ of Municipal Governance in Cincinnati, Ohio. Testing the Consequences of the ‘Hybrid Mayor’ Charter Reforms”; University of Cincinnati.

Montoya, Anthony Henry: 2006; “The Political Economy of Residential Electricity Pricing”; Arizona State University.

Muladore, Robert G.: 2006; “Implementing Community Policing Successfully: An Analysis of the Degree of Police Engagement with the Philosophy and Practice of Community Policing”; Western Michigan University.

Naccarato, Rose M.: 2006; “Options for Tennessee's Tax System: A Prospective Portfolio Analysis”; Vanderbilt University.

Peiro, Hector Robles: 2006; “Better Settings for Better Education: Does Decentralization Work?”; University of Texas, Austin.

Poppe, Jerry: 2006; “Rivalry between Michigan Counties: Integrating a Resource-Based Approach with Public Choice Theory and New Regionalism”; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Radin, Dagmar: 2006; “Too Ill to Find the Cure? Health Care Sector Success in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe”; University of North Texas.

Raines, Julie: 2006; “Ethics, Integrity, and Police Misconduct: Analyzing Ethical Awareness, Standards, and Action of Law Enforcement Officers in the United States”; North Carolina State University.

Rich, David L.: 2006; “A Heuristic Study of the Decision to Privatize Local Government Service”; Western Michigan University.

Rogers, Martha K.: 2006; “Explaining Performance Measurement Utilization and Benefits: An Examination of Performance Measurement Practices in Local Governments”; North Carolina State University.

Teodoro, Manuel P.: 2007; “Bureaucratic Ambition: Professional Careers, Personal Motives, and Policy Innovation”; University of Michigan.

Unter, Kevin A.: 2007; “The New Orleans Police Department: Melding Police and Policy to Dramatically Reduce Crime in the City of New Orleans”; University of New Orleans.

Urbatsch, Robert: 2006; “Borders of Magnitude: Politics Near Jurisdictional Boundaries”; Harvard University.

Wagner, Robert W.: 2007; “Academic Entrepreneurialism and New York State's Centers of Excellence Policy”; SUNY, University at Albany.

Williamson, Anne R.: 2007; “Public Organizations as Principals in an Era of New Governance: Evidence from the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program”; University of Georgia.

Zeemering, Eric: 2007; “Who Collaborates? Local Decisions about Intergovernmental Relations”; Indiana University.

Public Law

Boyne, Shawn M.: 2007; “Prosecutorial Discretion in Germany's Rechtsstaat: Varieties of Practice and the Pursuit of Truth”; University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Carlson, Kirsten M.: 2007; “Do Constitutional Provisions Matter?”; University of Michigan.

Covington, Jesse D.: 2007; “Taken on Faith: The Concept of Religion in First Amendment Jurisprudence”; University of Notre Dame.

Dawood, Yasmin: 2007; “Judicializing Democracy: Power, Politics, and Constitutional Design Dingding Chen: Transformation from Within: Chinese Agency and the International Human Rights Regime, 1978–2005”; University of Chicago.

DiPaolo, Amanda Joyce: 2007; “Executive and Congressional War Powers and the Role of the Judiciary in Protecting Civil Liberties: 1789–2005”; Syracuse University.

Erdos, David: 2006; “National Bill of Rights Institutionalization: A Study of ‘Westminster’ Democracies”; Princeton University.

Farganis, Dion: 2007; “False Alarm: Debunking the Myth of Supreme Court Vulnerability”; University of Minnesota.

Fisher, James Daniel: 2006; “The Supreme Court, the Fetus, and the Constitutional Person”; University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Gehring, Jacqueline S.: 2007; “Race, Politics, and the Law in the European Union: A Comparative Study”; University of California, Berkeley.

Harrigan, James: 2006; “The Legal Context for Revolution: Common, Constitutional, and Natural Law in the American Colonies, 1760–1776”; Claremont Graduate University.

Harris, Rebecca C.: 2006; “Gatekeeping and the Judicial Processing of Scientific Information”; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hendershot, Marcus E.: 2006; “Transition in the Lower Court Appointment Process: A Periodic Analysis of Executive-Senate Cooperation and Conflict”; Washington University in St. Louis.

Hendrickson, Scott A.: 2006; “Examining Judicial Independence: Article I v. Article III Courts”; Washington University.

Huneeus, Alexandra: 2006; “The Dynamics of Judicial Passivity: Chilean Court Deference in an Age of Judicial Power”; University of California, Berkeley.

Jorgensen, Nickolas: 2006; “Cleavages, Courts, and Credible Commitments: The Politics of Judicial Independence”; University of Michigan.

Manna, Sharon A.: 2006; “Crossing the Continental Divide: Hypotheses on the Influence of American Jurisprudence on Canadian Charter Litigation”; SUNY, University at Buffao.

Martens, Allison M.: 2007; “A Movement of One's Own? American Social Movements and Constitutional Development in the Twentieth Century”; University of Texas, Austin.

McKenzie, Mark J.: 2007; “Beyond Partisanship? Federal Courts, State Commissions, and Redistricting”; University of Texas, Austin.

Morrisroe, Darby: 2007; “First Lawyer: The Institutionalization of the Office of White House Counsel, 1943–1989”; University of Virginia.

Overland, Sean: 2006; “Re-thinking American Civil Justice: Jury Selection, Deliberations, and Verdicts”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Padhy, Sanghamitra: 2007; “Greening Human Rights: Socio Legal Analysis of Environmental Human Rights in India”; University of Southern California.

Paschal, Richard A.: 2006; “Between Chaos and Inflexibility: Congressional Power to Overturn Constitutional Decisions of the Supreme Court”; Johns Hopkins University.

Price, Melynda J.: 2006; “At the Cross: Race and Religion in the Politics of the Death Penalty Among African Americans”; University of Michigan.

Sala, Gemma: 2007; “The Judicialization of Federalism: The Impact of the Constitutional Court on Federal Conflict in Spain”; Yale University.

Scheurer, Kate: 2007; “Gender, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Emergence of a Feminine Perspective?”; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Shomade, Salmon A.: 2007; “Application of Network Effectiveness Theory to the Study of Drug Courts”; University of Arizona.

Simon, Stephen A: 2007; “Human Rights or American Privileges? The Supreme Court's Evolving Use of Universal Reasoning”; University of Maryland, College Park.

Sommer, Ehud (Udi) N.: 2007; “A Supreme Discretion and a Passivity Conundrum: Strategic Agenda-Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court”; SUNY, Stony Brook University.

Stanley, Sharon: 2006; “The Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism”; University of California, Berkeley.

Strickler, Vincent James: 2006; “Reconsidering Rosenberg: How His Challenge to Brown v. Board of Education may be Better Met”; Stanford University.

Stricko-Neubauer, Tara W.: 2006; “State High Courts: Independent or Constrained Actors?”; University of Pittsburgh.

Ura, Joseph Daniel: 2006; “The Effects of Judicial Review in American Politics”; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Weaver, Vesla Mae: 2007; “Dark Prison: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Punishment”; Harvard University.

Wedeking, Justin: 2007; “Supreme Court Decision Making and Elite Framing”; University of Minnesota.

Whitehead, Jason E.: 2007; “A Government of Words: Judicial Decision Making and the Rule of Law”; University of Southern California.

Public Policy

Ansell, Ben William: 2006; “From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Political Economy of Education”; Harvard University.

Argall, David G.: 2006; “A Policy Analysis of the First Six Years of Pennsylvania's Keystone Opportunity Zone program, 1998 to 2004: Enlightened Economic Development or Corporate Welfare?”; Pennsylvania State University.

Asare, Bossman: 2007; “Federalism, Multilevel Governance, and Tobacco Control: Comparative Public Policy in the United Kingdom and South Africa”; West Virginia University.

Basurto, Xavier: 2007; “Policy, Governance, and Institutions for Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica”; University of Arizona.

Berardo, Alfredo Ramiro: 2006; “Fragmentation and Collaboration in Urban Areas: Can Policy Networks Improve the Efficiency of Local Environmental”; Florida State University.

Boushey, Graeme: 2007; “Contagion in the Laboratories of Democracy: An Agenda Setting Model of Policy Diffusion in the American States”; University of Washington.

Brandon, Amy L.: 2006; “Is Competition a Rising Tide that Lifts all Boats? The Effect of School Competition on Those that are Left Behind”; University of Houston.

Bryan, Bradley : 2006; “Code Dependency: Biotechnology and the Embrace of Biopolitics”; University of California, Berkeley.

Butler, Yolanda J: 2006; “The Dilemma of Devolution and Decentralization in Federal Grants: A Case Study of the Social Services Block Grant Program”; Howard University.

Chhatre, Ashwini: 2006; “Democracy on the Commons: Political Competition and Local Cooperation for Natural Resource Management in India”; Duke University.

Cohn, Dana: 2006; “Explaining Varied Willingness to Pay for Elementary and Secondary Public Schools”; University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Cohn, Lindsay: 2007; “Who Will Serve? Education, Labor Markets, and Military Personnel Policy”; Duke University.

Collins, Michael P.: 2006; “Delivery of Public Information and Marketing Curriculum Based on Self Directed Readiness and Learning Style for Arizona's Rural Communication Managers”; Arizona State University.

Cook, Alethia H.: 2006; “The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing: Bureaucratic Response to Terrorism and a Method for Evaluation”; Kent State University.

Cousins, Ken: 2006; “Distant Markets and the Invisible Hand: Principal-Agent Dynamics of Non-State Market-Driven Environmental Policies”; University of Maryland.

Davis, Trenton J.: 2007; “Playing the External Market: Efficiency Wage as a Means for Strategic Compensation in the Public Sector”; Northern Illinois University.

De La O Torres, Ana Lorena: 2007; “Effects of Anti-Poverty Programs on Electoral Behavior, Evidence from the Mexican Education, Health, and Nutrition Program”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ericson, Kristina: 2006; “The Role of Influence in the Implementation of Public Policy. Pennsylvania HealthChoices: A Case Study”; Pennsylvania State University.

Fisher, Erik: 2006; “Midstream Modulation: Integrating Societal Considerations into and During Nanotechnology Research and Development: A Case Study in Implementing United States Federal Legislation”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Gilbert, Michele A.: 2006; “Race, Concentrated Poverty and Policy: Empowerment Zones in Distressed Urban Areas”; Kent State University.

Gilchrist, Alice N.: 2006; “Federal Devolution of Authority and the Head Start Program in Rural New England”; University of Iowa.

Goerdel, Holly T.: 2006; “Comparing Public Policies in Multilevel Governance Systems: Tobacco Control in the European Union”; Texas A&M University.

Goldberg, Arielle C.: 2006; “In Search of the Public Good: Agenda Setting and Policy Formulation for Post-9/11 New York City”; CUNY-Graduate Center.

Gonzales, Vanna: 2006; “The Social Economy of Welfare Reform: Institutional Innovation Within the Italian Third Sector”; University of California, Berkeley.

Gray, Margaret: 2006; “Harvesting Expectations: Farmworker Advocacy in New York”; CUNY-Graduate Center.

Gruebel, Marilyn: 2007; “International Environmental Agreements and State Cooperation: The Stratospheric Ozone Protection Treaty”; University of New Mexico.

Hart, Craig A.: 2007; “The Private Sector's Capacity to Manage Climate Risks and Finance Climate Neutral Energy Infrastructure”; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Higbea, Raymond J.: 2006; “Nongovernmental Program Replication and Implementation: What can Community-Based Programs to Support the Uninsured Learn from other Communities?”; Western Michigan University.

Hill, Sarah A.: 2007; “The Pursuit of Equality Through Education Finance Reform”; California Institute of Technology.

Horton, Joshua: 2006; “Controlling Wildlife Trade: CITES, Regime Effectiveness, and the Golbal Market for Wildlife Products”; Johns Hopkins University.

Howard, Joseph: 2006; “The Policy Innovation and Diffusion of Charter School Legislation”; University of Houston.

Ivanova, Maria: 2006; “Understanding UNEP: Myths and Realities in Global Environmental Governance”; Yale University.

Jackson, Stephen: 2006; “Changing the Bargain: The Stability and Change of Centralized Wage Bargaining in Open Liberal Economies”; Cornell University.

Jenkins, Eleanor Lynn: 2006; “Active Inaction—Symbolic Politics, Agenda Denial, or Incubation Period: Twenty years of U.S. Workplace Violence Research and Prevention Activity.”; West Virginia University.

Jordan, Stuart V: 2007; “Essays on Institutions and Policy Choices in the U.S. Executive Branch”; Princeton University.

Kang, Joohyun: 2006; “Institutions, Politics, and Regulatory Policy: Analyzing Childcare Regulation in States”; Florida State University.

Kim, G. Jiyun: 2006; “The Nature and the Timing of Political Stabilization”; University of Michigan.

Koski, Chris: 2007; “Requests and Reality: The Interplay of Environmental Regulatory Policy Design and Implementation”; University of Washington.

Lee, Joon-Hee: 2007; “Fossil fuel taxation for climate sustainability: Perspectives of Mainstream and Ecological Economics Applied to the Case of South Korea”; University of Delaware.

Lee, Soonja: 2006; “Decentralization and Local Challenges in Environmental Resources Policy: The Korean Cases”; Colorado State University.

Lowham, Elizabeth: 2007; “Too Many Cooks? Distributed Leadership in the Remediation and Redevelopment of State Brownfields”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

Lysak, Tetyana: 2006; “Collaborative Policymaking in Watersheds: Understanding Implementation Progress in Washington State”; Washington State University.

Marcoux, Christopher: 2007; “Theoretical Approaches to the Design of Multilateral Environmental Agreements”; University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Matthews, R. Eric: 2006; “Charitable Choice and Faith-Based Organizations: Welfare, Policy, and Religion in American Politics”; Kent State University.

McCollum Gooch, Lesli: 2006; “When Politics is Personal: The Role of Personal Policy Interests in Legislative Activity”; University of Oklahoma.

McGlynn, Adam: 2007; “Reforming Urban Schools through Systemic Policy Change: The Adoption, Efficiency, and Performance of Mayoral Control”; SUNY, Stony Brook University.

Moore, Kelli: 2006; “How do Organizations Matter? The Effects of Civic Organizations on Ethnic Relations, England, and Beyond”; University of Florida.

Mullen, Rani D.: 2007; “Does Local Governance Matter? The Relationship Between Village Government and Social Welfare in Indian States”; Princeton University.

Mungengova, Jolana: 2007; “The Impact of the European Union's ERDF Grants on Loans to Small and Medium-Size Enterprises in the Czech Republic”; Boston University.

Myers, Jami Lynn: 2006; “The War on Terror Begins at Home: The Impact of Domestic Violence Policy on Homicide Rates in the United States”; West Virginia University.

Nitta, Keith Akio: 2006; “Administrative Reform of United States and Japanese Education: Elite State Entrepreneurs Reorganize National Education Systems”; University of California, Berkeley.

Norman, Ruth: 2007; “Contest for the Meanings of Science in the Debate over Framing Cigarettes”; University of Delaware.

Ostermeier, Eric: 2006; “Crime Views without the Ballyhoo: Public Opinion on Crime in a New Era of Influential Media Elites and Unresponsive Policymakers”; University of Minnesota.

Poloni-Staudinger, Lori: 2006; “How to Act and Where to Act: The Dynamic Determinants of Environmental Social Movement Activity in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany”; Indiana University.

Reece, Bryan Scott: 2006; “E-Government Design and Equity”; University of Southern California.

Renegar, Renee L.A.: 2007; “Which Green Policy? An Analysis of the Relationship Between State Environmental Policy and Economic Growth”; Louisiana State University.

Ringe, Nils: 2006; “Policy Preference Formation in Legislative Politics: Structures, Actors, and Focal Points”; University of Pittsburgh.

Ryu, Jaesung: 2006; “A View From Information Processing Perspective: The Determinants and Consequences of Cognitive Engagement in Policy Judgments”; University of Texas, Austin.

Sabatello, Maya: 2006; “Children's Bioethics: The International Bio-Political Discourse on Harmful Traditional Practices and the Right of the Child to Cultural Identity”; University of Southern California.

Shah, Paru: 2006; “The Politics and Policy Implications of Latino Representation in Education”; Rice University.

Shim, Jae Hyun: 2007; “The Reform of Energy Subsidies for the Enhancement of Marine Sustainability: An Empirical Analysis of Energy Subsidies Worldwide and an In-Depth Case Study of South Korea's Energy Subsidy Policies”; University of Delaware.

Shober, Arnold F.: 2006; “Building government: Autonomy and Scope in State Departments of Education, 1981–2001”; University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Skillen, James R.: 2006; “The Bureau of Land Management, 1946–2001: From Livestock and Mines to Landscapes and Monuments?”; Cornell University.

Smith, Karen: 2007; “Ready or Not? An Assessment of the California SEMS Emergency Management Program”; CUNY-Graduate Center.

Smoak, Jo Ann: 2006; “The Policy Implications of Improving Minority Achievement in E-learning Programs in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area”; Howard University.

Stern, Howard A.: 2006; “A Reexamination of the Distributive Politics Model and the Allocation of Federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Dollars”; West Virginia University.

Takeuchi, Hiroki: 2006; “Rural Tax Reform and Authoritarian Rule in China”; University of California, Los Angeles.

Theobald, Nick: 2006; “¡Muéstreme el Dinero!: Assessing the Linkage between Latino School Superintendents and English Language Learner Program Resources”; Texas A&M University.

Tucker, Justin Abbott: 2007; “Signals, Structure, and Resources: State Influence and Environmental Management Systems”; University of Kansas.

Vogel, Jason M.: 2006; “Persistent Policy Problems”; University of Colorado, Boulder.

West, Martin: 2006; “Politics, Public-Sector Unionism, and Education Policy: Explanations and Evaluations”; Harvard University.

Yang, Shoua: 2006; “Hmong Social and Political Capital: The Formation and Maintenance of Hmong-American Organizations”; Northern Illinois University.