APSA is pleased to include here the names of individuals who have completed their doctoral dissertations at political science departments during the 2020 calendar year. In order to provide the most accurate information possible, this list is based on data reported directly from departments.

Catherine Mathie, Baylor University: Aristotle's Engagement with the Problem of Greed

Seo-young (Silvia) Kim, California Institute of Technology: Three Essays in the Dynamics of Political Behavior

Edwin Atilano Robles, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE): The Political Economy Of Autocracies: Risk and Human Development Under Authoritarian Rule

Noemi Hernandez Alexander, Claremont Graduate University: Latino Evangelicals: How their Multiple Identity Influences their Political Preferences

John William Boswell, Claremont Graduate University: A Nondelegation Doctrine for the Twenty-first Century: Restoring Constitutional Order to Congress's Regulatory Oversight

Kyu-Been Chun, Claremont Graduate University: Aristotle on Practical Reasoning: Perception, Reason and Action in Aristotle's Thought

Zhijun Gao, Claremont Graduate University: Three Essays on International Political Economy

Savannah Eccles Johnston, Claremont Graduate University: What Enemy Hath Done This? The Death of the Fusion Movement and the Rise of Illiberal Conservatism

Kristina Khederlarian, Claremont Graduate University: The Consequences of Annexation on Financial Markets

Lucas James Mather, Claremont Graduate University: Individual Liberty and Separation of Powers in the Constitutional Statesmanship of Judge Brett Kavanaugh

Angus Kirk McClellan, Claremont Graduate University: The Jurisprudence of Thomas M. Cooley: Why One of the Most Important Jurists of the Nineteenth Century Still Matter

Jerry Taylor Sink, Claremont Graduate University: Mao With Smart Phones and Internet? A Comparison of Classic Guerrilla Warfare with Fourth and Fifth Generation Warfare Using an Agent-Based Model for Simulation

Norvell Eugene Thomas, Jr., Claremont Graduate University: Africa’s March Towards Prosperity: Understanding the Role of Gender Equality, Human Capital and Fertility in Securing Africa’s Promising Future

Giti Zahedzadeh, Claremont Graduate University: Is Talk Cheap in High Stake Trust Games? An Experimental Analysis of Decentralized Cooperation

Abhit Bhandari, Columbia University: Political Property Rights: Essays on Economic Opportunity Under Selective Rule of Law

Alexander de la Paz, Columbia University: The Problem of Human Shields in War

Renanah Joyce, Columbia University: Exporting Might and Right: Great Power Security Assistance and Developing Militaries

Jorge Mangonnet, Columbia University: Property Formation, Labor Repression, and State Capacity in Imperial Brazil

Richard McAlexander, Columbia University: The Politics of Anticolonial Resistance: Violence, Nonviolence, and the Erosion of Empire

Benjamin McClelland, Columbia University: Identity and Agency: Majority and Minority Ethnic Voting in New Democracies

Benjamin Mueser, Columbia University: Negotiating Territorial Sovereignty: Pufendorf to Vattel

Luise Papcke, Columbia University: Individuality and Social Cohesion: Humboldt and Schleiermacher at the Origin of Modern Liberalism

Viviana Rivera-Burgos, Columbia University: Essays in Minority Politics and Representation in the US

Tara Slough, Columbia University: Essays on the Distributive Politics of Bureaucracy

Irina Soboleva, Columbia University: Efficacy, Openness, Ingenuousness: Micro-Foundations of Democratic Engagement

Joseph Sutherland, Columbia University: Three Essays on the Study of Nationalization with Automated Content Analysis

Erin York, Columbia University: Democratic Institutions under Autocracy

Patricia Ackerman, CUNY Graduate Center: In Search of Trojan Horses—The United Nations Culture War

Angela Borozna, CUNY Graduate Center: Threat Perceptions & Russian Foreign Policy—From Cooperation to Assertiveness

Paul Celentano, CUNY Graduate Center: Burden-Sharing, Security, and the International Protection of Displaced Persons

Humayan Kabir, CUNY Graduate Center: Thoughts of Becoming: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in Bangladesh

Drake Logan, CUNY Graduate Center: Searching for Pōhakuloa: A Citizen Scientist’s Journey in Aloha ‘Āina

Jessica Mahlbacher, CUNY Graduate Center: In the Shadow of China: Autonomy Movements and Local Government Responses in Hong Kong

Sari Rivera, CUNY Graduate Center: Incentivizing Injustice: Why No High-Level Executive Prosecutions from the Financial Crisis?

Nader Sadre, CUNY Graduate Center: Beast-Gods, Bandits, and Beggar-Kings: The Traveler in Political Thought

David Macdonald, Florida State University: Income Inequality and Mass Support for Redistribution

Jessica Parsons, Florida State University: Political Bias in America’s Universities

Randy Propper, Florida State University: Regulating the Middleman: State Legislation on Pharmacy Benefit Managers

William Schultz, Florida State University: Local Participation in Sustainable Development Efforts

Jatia Wrighten, George Mason University: Who Runs the World? An Examination of Black Women and Leadership in State Legislatures

Miles Evers, George Washington University: Defending the Private Interest: Corporate Power and US National Security

Lillian Frost, George Washington University: Ambiguous Citizenship: Protracted Refugees and the State in Jordan

Danielle Gilbert, George Washington University: The Logic of Coercive Kidnapping

Elizabeth Grasmeder, George Washington University: Brothers in Arms: Foreign Legions, National Armies, and Reexamining Citizenship and Military Service

Jack Hasler, George Washington University: Explaining the International Infrastructure of Global Telecommunications: Why Government Ownership Determines Position in Interstate Communications Networks

Cory Maks-Solomon, George Washington University: Corporate Social Justice Warriors? The Origins of Corporate Political Activity on Social Issues

Kevin Petit, George Washington University: The Crying Game: The Logic of Armed Group Alliance in Civil War

Brian Radzinsky, George Washington University: Powers to Hurt: Nuclear Risks, Domestic Politics, and Nuclear Command and Control

Aparna Ravi, George Washington University: Rising Multinationals: The Political Economy of South-North Investment Flows

Thomas Renard, Ghent University: 20 Years of Counter-Terrorism in Belgium: Explaining Change in CT Policy-Making through the Evolution of the Belgian CT Doctrine and Practice since 2001

Jared Abbott, Harvard University: The Paradox of Participatory Institutions: Explaining the Limits and Potential of Large-Scale Experiments in Participatory Democracy

Alla Baranovsky, Harvard University: A Theory of Target State Side Determinants of Information Attacks: Russia's Information Wars in its Neighborhood and Afar

Angie Bautista-Chavez, Harvard University: The Domestic and International Politics of US Immigration Policy

Max Goplerud, Harvard University: Essays on Bayesian Methods and Machine Learning for Political Science

Jonathan Gould, Harvard University: Essays on Lawmaking

David Jud, Harvard University: Essays on Political Socialization and Polarization

Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Harvard University: District Attentiveness and Representation in the Modern Congress

Jeehye Kim, Harvard University: Elite Consensus and Rising Power Foreign Policy; China's Active Management of Security Disputes with Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines

Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Harvard University: The Colonial Origins of Local Inequality

Boram Lee, Harvard University: Issue Linkage and the Logic of Hybrid Coalitions: Linking Trade and Environmental Protection

Yoon Jin Lee, Harvard University: Thinking Fast and Slow in Alliance Politics

Shelley Liu, Harvard University: Resistance and Control: Statebuilding Through Rebel-Civilian Relations

Soumyajit Mazumder, Harvard University: Race, Coercion, Liberation in American Political Development

Brendan McElroy, Harvard University: Peasants and Parliaments: Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth Century Europe

Michael Olson, Harvard University: Legislative Politics in the Solid South

Lowry Pressly, Harvard University: Being Accountable: Privacy, Self, and Society

David Romney, Harvard University: Essays on Intragroup Processes in Intergroup Relations

Austin Strange, Harvard University: Domestic Authority and Foreign Economic Policies in Chinese History

Julie Weaver, Harvard University: Electoral (Dis)-Connection: The Limits of Accountability in Weak Institutional Environments

Sean Byrne, Indiana University, Bloomington: Reconsidering Neustadt: As Neustadt’s Presidential Power Approaches Sixty, Is It Time for Another Political Revolution?

Stefan Carpenter, Indiana University, Bloomington: Unpacking the Efficacy of Community-Based Wildlife Governance: The Influence of Economic Benefit Types, Risk, and Heterogeneity on Collective Action

Janice Clark, Indiana University, Bloomington: Charting the Direction of Immigration Policy at the Local and State Levels

Anthony DeMattee, Indiana University, Bloomington: Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws To Regulate CSOS

Cathryn Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington: Women’s Participation in Community Life and Politics in Mali and Burkina Faso: French Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Associational Life

Yehuda Magid, Indiana University, Bloomington: Uncertainty and Threat in the West Bank: Explaining the Occurrence and Dynamics of Dominant Group Violence

Chris Miller, Indiana University, Bloomington: Climate Policy and Political Viability: Polarization, Inequality, and the Prospects for Geoengineering

Luke Shimek, Indiana University, Bloomington: ‘Escape From Patronage’: A Multi-Method Exploration of the Causes and Consequences of Bureaucratic Insulation

Charles Kevin Taber, Indiana University, Bloomington: Collective Democratic Remittances: African Migrant Associations and Economic and Political Development in their Homelands

Qun Wang, Indiana University, Bloomington: Differentiated Government Control: Political Connections and Revenues to NGOs in China

Edwin Way, Indiana University, Bloomington: Policy-induced Deindustrialization: The Contrasting Economic Trajectories of England and the Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century

Maria Waqar, Indiana University, Bloomington: Gender Quotas and Political Dynasties: Explaining Women's Substantive Representation in Pakistan's National Assembly

Thomas Keith Wilson, Indiana University, Bloomington: Rethinking Rivalry Fluctuation: Iranian Rivalry Behavior and the Domestic Level of Analysis

Nnamdi Igbokwe, Johns Hopkins University: The Making of the Capitalist Militician: A Study of the Political Economy of Corruption in Nigeria, 1970–2015

Stephen Wolfe, Louisiana State University: Protestant Experience and Continuity of Political Thought in Early America, 1630–1789

Alex Cole, Louisiana State University: Günter Grass: Class, Politics, and Memory

Johnathan Nickens, Louisiana State University: Civil War Interventions: An Examination of the Roles of the Media, Political Executives, and the Domestic Opposition

Fevzi Saraç, Louisiana State University: The Differences between Political Islam and the Hizmet Movement in Turkey

Marsin Alshamary, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Prophets and Priests: Leaders and Protests in Iraq

Olivia Bergman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Designing Policy Feedback: Experimental Evidence on the Everyday Politics of the Social Contract

Tugba Bozcaga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Enforcement and Process Tracing: Forbearance and Dilution in Urban Colombia and Turkey

Nicholas Dumas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Protest Without Repression: Protest Policing and Nonviolent Resistance in the US

Mayumi Fukushima, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Japan's National Security Council: Filling the Whole of Government?

Nicholas Intscher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The Fragmentation of Political Risk and MNCs' Supply Chain Linkages

Nina McMurry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: From Recognition to Representation: Collective Rights and Democratic Citizenship in the Philippines

Andrew Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The Information Game: Police-Citizen Cooperation in Communities with Criminal Groups

Kacie Miura, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Commerce and Coercion in Contemporary China: Local Leader Responses to Foreign Policy Crises

Rachel Odell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Mare Interpretatum: Continuity and Evolution in States' Interpretations of the Law of the Sea

Ignacio Puente, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Incubating Financial Development: Private Equity and the State

Tesalia Rizzo Reyes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Intermediaries of the State: Bureaucratic Transaction Costs of Claiming Welfare in Mexico

Guillermo Toral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: The Political Logics of Patronage: Uses and Abuses of Government Jobs in Brazil

Clara Vandeweerdt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Identities and Issue Opinions: Learning from Climate Change

Andrea Cameron, Naval Postgraduate School: Civil-Military Cooperation in Humanitarian Response: An International Practices Approach

Robert Grant, Naval Postgraduate School: Military Innovation in the Third Age of US Unmanned Aviation, 1991–2015

Stephen Kelley, Naval Postgraduate School: Getting to War: American Security Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1969– 1991

Miguel Garza Casado, The Ohio State University: The Political Economy of Pre-Electoral Coalitions

Jon Green, The Ohio State University: Belief Systems in American Politics: Three Papers on the Study of Ideas

Daniel Kent, The Ohio State University: Essays on Machine Learning in International Conflict and Social Networks

Andrew Podob, The Ohio State University: The Divergent Effects of Anxiety on Political Participation: Anxiety Inhibits Participation Among the Socio-Economic and Racially Marginalized

Sowdamini (Mini) Saraswati, The Ohio State University: Climate Volatility and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gregory Smith, The Ohio State University: Attenuation, Stasis, or Amplification: A Framework for Change in the Causal Effect of Coercive Policies

Leyla Tosun, The Ohio State University: Strengthening the Nation: The Success and Failure of Cultural Assimilation Policies

Nicholas Dietrich, Penn State University: Getting Away With Murder: Information & Accountability in Human Rights

Mitchell Goist, Penn State University: The Radical Right in Parliament: A New Method and Application for Studying Political Text in Multiple Languages

Steven Morgan, Penn State University: Rights Talk at the Intersection of Religious Conservatism and US Politics

Markus Neumann, Penn State University: Nonverbal Political Communication in the US

Michael R. Brownstein, Purdue University: The Quality of Internet Access and Political Engagement

Kate Haapala, Purdue University: Justice, Community, and Enclosing the Commons: The Western Alaska Community Development Quota Program

Philip Husom, Purdue University: Political Shocks and Economic Reform in the Post-Soviet World

Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, Purdue University: There is Power in a Plaza: Social Movements, Democracy, and Spatial Politics

Mintao Nie, Purdue University: Agents of Recalcitrance: Governmental Decentralization and State Compliance with International Human Rights Treaties

Anthony Pierucci, Purdue University: Signaling or Safeguarding: The Logic of Mobilization in Crisis Bargaining

Bi Zhao, Purdue University: Better Together: Internal Politics among Civil Society Actors at the UN Climate Summits

Jessica Edry, Rice University: Domestic Politics, NGO Activism, and Global Cooperation

Matt Lamb, Rice University: Disparities in Democracy: The Causes and Consequences of Polling Place Practices and Conditions

Carly Mayes, Rice University: Gender Stereotypes and Candidate Evaluation

Mary C. Imparato, Rutgers University: On Religious Toleration: Prudence and Charity in Augustine, Aquinas, and Tocqueville

Jessica Venita Nevin, Rutgers University: One Size Does Not Fit All: Gender, Audience, and Problematizing the Notion of ‘Candidate Self-Presentation’ Online

Kyle J. Morgan, Rutgers University: ‘Is Anyone Worried About Judicial Review?’ Attitudes Towards Judicial Review in an Era of Political Turmoil

Anja Vojvodić, Rutgers University: Lingering Legacies and Emerging Progress: Explaining Gender Quota Adoption in Central and Eastern Europe

Talbot Andrews, Stony Brook University: Mobilizing Mitigation: Overcoming the Social Dilemma of Climate Change

James Cragun, Stony Brook University: Individual Differences in Selective Exposure to Attitude-Congruent Political Information: Intuition, Faith, and Social Environment

Caitlin Davies, Stony Brook University: From Group Identity to Partisan Identity: Experiments on the Role of Status Signaling

Brandon Marshall, Stony Brook University: Affective Polarization in a Group-Competition Framework

Colleen Dougherty Burton, Syracuse University: Gendered Civil Society Context, Local Party Strength, and Candidate Emergence: Explaining Female Representation across the US State Legislatures

James Bassett, Texas Tech University: Signaling Influence in the US Congress

James Ruhland, Texas Tech University: Dynamics of Trade Openness and Domestic Economic Regulation

Maria Seredina, Texas Tech University: Party System Institutionalization and Nationalization in Dominant Party Systems

Nakissa Jahanbani, University at Albany, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy: Patrons of Violence: Drivers and Dimensions of State Support for Rebel Groups

Katherine Slye-Hernandez, University at Albany, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy: NARAL and the Art of Playing Defense: How Interest Groups Act When They Seek to Protect the Status Quo of Public Policy

Nathaniel Williams, University at Albany, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy: Aesthetic Education in the Anthropocene

Sara Norrevik, University at Buffalo: Foreign Economic Policies in the European Parliament

Matt York, University College, Cork, Ireland: Imagining New Worlds: (R)evolutionary Love and Radical Social Transformation in the 21st Century.

Tumlison Creed, University of Arkansas: Decision-Making and Hydraulic Fracturing: The Case of Local Policy Elites and the General Public in Arkansas and Oregon

Aaron John Spitzer, University of Bergen: The Metapolitics of Settler Colonialism: Individual Rights, Collective Boundaries, and Indigenous (De)colonization

Daniel Simmons, University of California, Davis: Policing and Politics: An Experimental Examination of the Political Effects of Officer-involved Shootings

Hallee Caron, University of California, Irvine: Persuasion without Protection: Readmission Agreements, Informal Arrangements, and the International Refugee Regime

Jonathan Cervas, University of California, Irvine: A Quantitative Assessment of the Electoral College, 1790– 2020

Stacey Liou, University of California, Irvine: Political Intelligibility and the Performative Force of Assembly

Mary Anne Mendoza, University of California, Irvine: Educated into Violence: The Colonial Origins of Separatist Rebellion

Brett Savage, University of California, Irvine: California Special Districts – Accountability, Composition, and Trends

Christopher Stoughton, University of California, Irvine: The Tragedy of Climate Change

Lee Dionne, University of California, San Diego: Battleground States and Sectional Politics: How Parties Transform in Response to Electoral College Incentives, 1832–2016

Charles McClean, University of California, San Diego: Silver Democracy: Youth Representation in an Aging Japan

Kristy Pathakis, University of California, San Diego: Who Belongs in American Democracy? The Importance of Belonging to Political Engagement for Underrepresented Groups

Cameron Sells, University of California, San Diego: The Life of the Party: Grassroots Activists and Mass Partisanship in Latin America

Liesel Spangler, University of California, San Diego: Plural Governance: Race, Ethnicity, and Within-District Representation in the United States

Adam Lerner, University of Cambridge: From the Ashes of History: Trauma, National Identity and State-Building in India and Israel

Sandor Fabian, University of Central Florida: Improving Foreign Militaries—The Effects of US Military Aid in the Form of International Military Education and Training Programs

Joshua Lambert, University of Central Florida: Food, Familiarity, and Forecasting: Modeling Coups With Computational Methods

Xiongwei Cao, University of Central Florida: Cute Panda or Evil Dragon? Market Economy, Conflict Behavior and China's Peaceful Rise

Naji Bsisu, University of Georgia: Refugees and Host State Suppression

William Dory, University of Georgia: Satisfaction and State (Mis)Behavior: The Relationship between State Behaviors Toward International Organizations and Status Quo Evaluations

Joshua Jackson, University of Georgia: An Issues Approach to Civil Conflict Processes

Alice Kisaalita, University of Georgia: Pick Your Poison: On Selecting Roll Calls to Say Whatever You Want

Matthew Kopp, University of Georgia: Networks, Institutions and Human Security in Africa

Annie Watson, University of Georgia: Interests to Rights: Using CEDAW to Understand the Substantive Representation of Women

Devon Jones, University of Houston: What’s the Public Got To Do With It? The Impact of Public Opinion on Judicial Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of Abortion Case Outcomes

Aubree Herrin, University of Iowa: Understanding Status of Forces Agreements: What Shapes Jurisdictional Control

Courtney Juelich, University of Iowa: Millennials Rising: A New Resource Model for Youth Political Participation

Scott LaCombe, University of Iowa: Institutional Design and the Politics of US States

Ki Eun Ryu, University of Iowa: Dynamics of International Treaty Diffusion

Jungmin Song, University of Iowa: The Imagined Connection: The Role of Radical Right Parties in Connecting Crime and Immigration

Josh Tschantret, University of Iowa: Essays on Categorical Violence

Jielu Yao, University of Iowa: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Crime Rhetoric

Luke Herrington, University of Kansas: Unpacking the “Religious Freedom Peace”: Religious Freedom as a Multivalent Determinant of Political Violence

Yeon Joo Kim, University of Kansas: The Impacts of Hostile Events on Partisan Evaluation in East Asia

Steven Mutz, University of Kansas: Mythscaping Novorossiya: Nationalism in the Donbass, 2014–15

Taylor Tidwell, University of Kansas: Does Aid Delivery Matter? The Role of Aid Delivery Mechanisms in Punishing Recipients, Credibly Signaling to Recipients, and Influencing Public Opinion

Lala Muradova, University of Leuven, Belgium: Reasoning Across the Divide: Interpersonal Deliberation, Emotions and Reflective Political Thinking

Nicole Yadon, University of Michigan: The Politics of Skin Color

Katherine Becerra Valdivia, University of Missouri: The Non-Sequential Path between Indigenous Social Movements and Collective Rights in Latin America: Looking for New Answers to Tell the Story

Hanna Brant, University of Missouri: Determinants of Legislative Staff Turnover

Cody Drolc, University of Missouri: The Structures of Oversight: Problem Identification, Attention Allocation, and Bureaucratic Accountability

Ed Goldring, University of Missouri: Purges and Authoritarian Survival Politics

Myunghee Lee, University of Missouri: Contentious Politics in Asia: Institutions, Civil Society, and Protest

Alec Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Globalization: A Veto Player Perspective

Jonathan Mehanna, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Stirring the Pot: The Application of Electoral Gender Quotas in Africa

Gina Holland, University of New Orleans: Just a Girl in a Man’s World: Factors Affecting Women’s Leadership in Law Enforcement

Anthony Licciardi, University of New Orleans: Early Voting Versus Election Day Voting: Identifying Individual Indicators of Election Stage Participation in Louisiana Elections, 2015–2016

Michael Pickering, University of New Orleans: Moving Forward, Not Back: The Rule of Law and Equitable Growth Save Democracy

Amanda Bennett, University of North Texas: Risky Business: A Sub National, Analysis of Violent Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico

Amy Friesenhahn, University of North Texas: Does Gender Representation Matter? Gender, Descriptive and Substantive Representation, and Women-Friendly Districts

Elliot Montagano, University of North Texas: Rousseau and the Problem of Censorship: Freedom, Virtue, and the Education of the Citizen

Michael Widmeier, University of North Texas: Rebels, from the Beginning to the End: Rebel Origins and the Dynamics of Civil Conflicts

Meredith Winn, University of North Texas: This Land Is My Land: The Dynamic Relationship Between Migration and the Far-Right

Brandon Zitar, University of North Texas: Political Stability in Xenophon's "Cyropaedia"

Justin Brophy, University of Notre Dame: Perilous Ascent: The Education of Erōs in Plato’s Symposium

Robert Burton, University of Notre Dame: A Conscience Safe for Politics: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau and the Formation of the Modern Conscience

Garrett FitzGerald, University of Notre Dame: Pluriversal Peacebuilding: Decolonial Democracy, Religion, and the Epistemic Politics of Peace

Jeremy Graham, University of Notre Dame: A Tale of Two Dilemmas: Military Coups and Interstate Conflict

Meyer Levy, University of Notre Dame: The American Upvoter: Political Engagement, Discussion, and the Internet

Camilo Nieto Matiz, University of Notre Dame: Integrating Subnational Peripheries: State Building and Violent Actors in Colombia

Elizabeth McCourt Noonan, University of Notre Dame: How Governors, State Legislators, and Philanthropists Built the Contemporary Charter School Movement

Roland Wood Olmstead, University of Notre Dame: Paths to Reconciliation

Raul Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame: The Foundations of Tocqueville's New Kind of Liberalism

Amir Sadeh, University of Notre Dame: Mobilization and Maria: Demographic Change in Florida and the Future of American Politics

Luis Schenoni, University of Notre Dame: Bringing War Back In: Victory and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Juan Valdez, University of Notre Dame: Democratizing the Lone Star State: How Mexican-Americans Challenge Texas Authoritarianism

Matthew Geras, University of Oklahoma: The Role of State Political Parties in Congressional Elections

Ellen LoCurto-Martinez, University of Tennessee: Civilian Oversight and Police Legitimacy in an Age of Conflict and Distrust

Yu Yan, University of Tennessee: Explaining Market Inequality in East and Southeast Asian Newly Industrializing Countries

Alexis Lerner, University of Toronto: Authoritarian Dissent Management: Repression of the Nonsystemic Political Opposition in the Post-Soviet Region

Vanessa van den Boogaard, University of Toronto: Informal Revenue Generation and the State: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Kevin Aslett, University of Washington: The Effect of Economic Policies/Behavior on Contemporary Threats to Democracy

Sean Butorac, University of Washington: States of Insurrection: Race, Resistance, and the Laws of Slavery

Kylie Clay, University of Washington: Farmers, Forests, and the State: Essays on the Political Economy of Illegal Forest Use in Tanzania

William Gochberg, University of Washington: Socially Embedded Property Rights in Africa

Tania Melo, University of Washington: "We're Not Breaking the Law. We are Exercising our Citizen's Right to Enforce it": Organizers, Litigation Strategies, and Movement Legal Remedies

Emma Rodman, University of Washington: The Idea of Equality in America

Eric Schwab, University of Washington: Offshoring Militarism: US Military Aid and the Limits of American Foreign Policy

Stephanie Stanley, University of Washington: Peaceful Protest vs. Political Violence: Why Some American Movements Want to Watch the World Burn

Rafeel Wasif, University of Washington: Terrorists or Philanthropists: Assessing the Effect of 9/11 on Nonprofits in the US and Pakistan

Stephen Winkler, University of Washington: Information's Effect on Public Opinion, Social Institutions, and Political Behavior

Anna Zelenz, University of Washington: Oppositional Lives: Sustaining, Skirting, and Subverting Systems of Oppression in Palestine

Michael DeCrescenzo, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Do Primaries Work? Bayesian Models of Constituent Ideology and Congressional Nominations

Micah Dillard, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Government under Siege: Three Essays on Economic Sanctions

Jack Edelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison: When Loyalty Creates Division: How Partisanship Promotes Split Tickets and Straight Ballots Lead to Divided Government

Anne Jamison, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Is Violence Bad for Business? Political Violence and Foreign Direct Investment

Dmitrii Kofanov, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Land Inequality, Industrialization, and Unrest: Evidence from the Late Russian Empire

Michael Masterson, University of Wisconsin-Madison: National Humiliation and International Conflict: Origins, Microfoundations, and Effects

Anna Oltman, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Protection Misdirection: Immigration Politics and Asylum Institutions in International Relations

Benjamin Power, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Seen by the State: Digitization & Privacy in the Information Age

Michael Promisel, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Paragons of Prudence: Political Leadership in Classical Political Thought

Delgerjargal Uvsh, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Reversal of the ‘Resource Curse’? Negative Revenue Shocks and Development in Russia and Beyond

Nadeem Javed, Wayne State University: Nuclearization: Stability and Behaviour Change 2nd Generation Nuclear States

Blake Roberts, Wayne State University: Situating Social Media in the Policy Pipeline: A New Pathway in Agenda Setting Research?

Jonathon Baron, Yale University: Mass Attitudes and the Relationship Between Nuclear Technologies

Anna Feuer, Yale University: The Frictionless Battlefield: Nature and Technology in Counterinsurgency Wars

Matthew Graham, Yale University: Misperceiving Misperceptions: How Surveys Distort the Nature of Partisan Belief Differences

Nathan Grubman, Yale University: Party Systems and Social Cleavages in New Democracies: Skipping Class in Postuprising Tunisia

Melis Laebens, Yale University: Incumbents Against Democracy: Leaders, Ruling Parties and Gradual Executive Takeover

Paul Merklinger, Yale University: Concrete Confidence: Assessing the Durability, Factual Base, and Political Implications of Military-Grade Trust

Stephen Moncrief, Yale University: The Long Commitment: UN Peacekeeping, Statebuilding, and Security Sector Reform

Tiago Peterlevitz, Yale University: Opportunistic Politicians and Clientelism: Explaining Patronage Jobs and Vote Buying in Brazil

Lauren Pinson, Yale University: Blood or Money? Why States Allow Illicit Economies

Matthew Shafer, Yale University: What Violence Was: On the Limits of a Political Concept

Alicia Steinmetz, Yale University: The Freedom of Unreason: Imagination, Skepticism, and Politics in Early Modern Thought

Baobao Zhang, Yale University: Three Essays on the Politics of Social Programs

Graedon Zorzi, Yale University: The Person and Authority: A New Perspective on Locke’s Liberalism ■