Political Science
Our political science faculty research a wide range of topics that are both local and global, including political behavior, campaigns and elections, international security, global terrorism, U.S. constitutional law, judicial politics, environmental politics, social movements, immigration, women and politics, South Asian security, Russian politics, globalization, and national security.
Submissions from 2024
Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked-choice general elections affect political spending?, Zachary Albert, Robert G. Boatright, Lane Cuthbert, Adam Eichen, Wouter van Erve, Raymond J. La Raja, and Meredith Rolfe
Africa's long fight for humanitarian self-sufficiency, Oheneba A. Boateng
Public opinion on reforming U.S. primaries, Robert G. Boatright, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Nathan K. Micatka
Beyond ‘Saving Strangers’: Revisiting R2P as an Accountability Mechanism, Michael J. Butler
Reconstructing the responsibility to protect: From humanitarian intervention to human security, Michael J. Butler
Ripeness obscured: inductive lessons from Türkiye’s (transactional) mediation in the Russia–Ukraine war, Michael J. Butler
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa, Yasmin Chilmeran, Summer Forester, Valentine Moghadam, and Ora Szekely
Dancing around gender expression and sex talk: LGBTQ+ asylum policy in the United States, Cyril Ghosh
Russia in a changing climate, Debra Javeline, Robert Orttung, Graeme Robertson, Richard Arnold, Andrew Barnes, Laura Henry, Edward Holland, Mariya Omelicheva, Peter Rutland, Edward Schatz, Caress Schenk, Andrei Semenov, Valerie Sperling, Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Mikhail Troitskiy, Judith Twigg, and Susanne Wengle
All Candidate Primaries, Open Primaries, and Voter Turnout, Nathan Micatka, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Robert G. Boatright
Unpacking ‘Traditional Values’ in Russia’s Conservative Turn: Gender, Sexuality and the Soviet Legacy, Alexandra Novitskaya, Valerie Sperling, Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, and Janet Elise Johnson
CRISES: COVID- 19 and Russia’s war on Ukraine, Ella Rossman, Valerie Sperling, and Paula M. Pickering
White Racial Resentment and Gender Attitudes: An Enduring Connection or an Artifact of the 2016 Election?, Michael G. Strawbridge, Heather Silber Mohamed, and Jennifer Lucas
Women’s engagement with the Syrian opposition: Pathways, perspectives, and participation, Ora Szekely
Submissions from 2023
The Political Consequences of Racialized Ethnic Identities, Kimberly Cardenas, Heather Silber Mohamed, and Melissa R. Michelson
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness, Danielle Hanley and John McMahon
Social Welfare Policy in Post-Transition Chile: Social Democratic or Neoliberal?, Paul W. Posner
Submissions from 2022
Buen Vivir under Correa: The Rhetoric of Participatory Democracy, the Reality of Rentier Populism, Paul W. Posner
Politics, law, and policing in reform era China, Suzanne E. Scoggins
Submissions from 2021
Reevaluating the Chávez Regime: Participatory Democracy or Rentier Populism?, Paul W. Posner
Submissions from 2013
Every Picture Tells a Story: The 2010 Round of Congressional Redistricting in New England, Robert G. Boatright, James R. Gomes, Diana Evans, John Baughman, Nicholas M. Giner, Dante J. Scala, Amelia Najjar, and Nicholas Rossi
