Ashley Jardina offers analysis of white college-educated voters in post-election analysis, for FiverThirtyEight, which was then cited in Business Insider
Alex Kirshner writes how legitimate political opposition makes the American system work, in an op-ed for The Hill
Alex Kirshner coauthors the context and pathways necessary to deter Trump from running in 2024, for The Guardian
Timur Kuran guides a journalist through a discussion on self-censorship in the podcast, NPR Hidden Brain
Michael Munger offers comments on the appointment of labor economist Cecilia Rouse for the Biden Administration, in NBC News
Jeremy Pineda, T’22 student, writes an opinion piece about the fragility of American democracy, for Duke University Medium
Austin Wang, Ph.D. '18, participates in a podcast panel discussing the Ma Ying-jeou presidency and the dynamics of democracy in Taiwan, for the Hoover Institute
November
John Aldrich writes op-ed about the place of third-party candidacy in Presidential elections, for The Hill
John Aldrich appears on television comparing the projected voter turnout to WWII records, for WRAL and NBC 12, and he offers extended commentary after the election alongside a panel of Duke faculty, on Sanford’s Facebook
John Aldrich discusses the possibility of bipartisanship in a Biden White House and Republican-controlled Senate, on VOA News video and in an article for VOA News
Peter Feaver comments on the success of civil-military relations during the tension over the President’s transition, for The Hill
Peter Feaver speaks with his colleague from Harvard, Joseph Nye, in 2017
Peter Feaver offers comments on how long it would take for the military to feel pressure to intervene if election results remain uncertain, for Task and Purpose, and he adds context about Presidential preferences of the National Security Council staff size and scope, in Politico
Kerry Haynie comments on the N.C. Senate race before the election, for The Hill, and after the election he is interviewed on the radio, discussing voter demographic shifts and the ‘blue wall’ on NPR’s The state of Things
Kerry Haynie, Sunshine Hillygus, and David Rohde offer pre-election analysis, for Duke Today
Sunshine Hillygus calls for better communication about the value of pre-election polls in an interview for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ashley Jardina offers reflection on levels of racial hostility latent in the election turnout results, for the Associated Press, and republished on PBS News Hour
Spencer Kaplan T’21 writes an op-ed about the way NASA will benefit from the new Israeli-Emirati outer space cooperation landmark called the Abraham Accords, for The Jerusalem Post
October
John Aldrich explains in an interview to an Irish readership what makes the 2020 U.S. election distinct, in TheJournal.ie
John Aldrich comments on the thin margins of some statewide elections, for The Wall Street Journal
John Aldrich and Paula McClain co-author a public letter by APSA presidents encouraging national media to change the format of their election night coverage, reports The Guardian
Paula McClain and John Aldrich at a conference together, in 2018
Peter Feaver and Spencer Kaplan (current student) write about the emerging global concerns of conscientious youth, in Foreign Policy
Peter Feaver comments on the relationship between civilian and military personnel when Trump recently featured campaign ads showing senior military advisors, in The Seattle Times
Peter Feaver comments on the distraction Trump’s health may be causing U.S. national security officials, in The Independent
Peter Feaver offers comments on Trump’s slide in poll numbers, for The Hill
Adriane Fresh, Sunshine Hillygus, Edmund Malesky, Timur Kuran, Alexander Kirshner, Bahar Leventoglu, Rachel Myrick, Livia Schubiger, David Siegel, Peter Feaver, and Tosha Marshall collaborate in a new video describing the undergraduate major, on YouTube
Kerry Haynie connects changing housing costs and demographic shifts with political party strategies, in analysis for CNN, and he discusses the potential of Black voter turnout on the radio podcast, The Takeaway
Kerry Haynie continues to be a touchstone for journalists interested in demographic change, cited in CNN
Sunshine Hillygus’s new book, Making Young Voters, is cited for context in the trends of Duke student voters, reports Duke Today
Ashley Jardina’s book, White Identity Politics, continues as a touchstone for journalists, with extensive coverage in Forbes
Chris Johnston coauthors a follow-up to the book Curbing the Court, that analyzes public support for court-curbing, for Monkey Cage
Timur Kuran’s book Private Truths, Public Lies inspires a journalist to ask to what extend does cancel culture relate to preference falsification, in The Hill
Paula McClain encourages students to check out mental health resources available to students, in Duke Today
Michael Munger is cited in an article about capitalism and government economic regulations, in The Kingston Whig Standard
Michael Munger’s campaign to win the N.C. House District 34 seat is receiving coverage, in Duke Chronicle
Trent Ollerenshaw’s research on changing racial resentment attitudes, with Ashley Jardina, is cited in The NYT Opinion
Viola Rothschild and Hongshen Zhu coauthor an article on information, technology, and censorship in China, for the Council on Foreign Relations
Weyman Cohen, T’21, is charting his job path through the Duke Career Center, reports Duke Today
September
John Aldrich cautions against overstating the longevity of any one particular poll on voters, in Spectrum News, he also participated alongside Deondra Rose in the panel, “North Carolina’s role in the 2020 election,” as part of the COVID-19 Media Briefings, for Duke Today
David Dow and Juan Tellez (Ph.D. ’19 alum) coauthor “The Human Impact of Deportation,” for Political Violence @ A Glance
Peter Feaver offers analysis of active-duty troops surveyed, in Military Times, and he offers comment on the erosion of relations between the military and President Trump, in USA Today
Peter Feaver comments on the continued slide away from the military’s nonpartisan history, for NPR
Peter Feaver remarks on the Democrats efforts to level the playing field on national security and garnering more military votes, on the WXXI News podcast
Adriane Fresh’s finding of no evidence for the claim that voter discrimination occurred in N.C. as a consequence of relocation of polling places, is highlighted in Duke Today
Xiaoshu Gui, Zeren Li, Peng Peng, Griffin Riddler, Viola Rothschild, and Hongshen Zhu interview a group of scholars at the Getting China Right Conference
Melanie Manion orchestrates proceedings at the 'Getting China Right' Conference in 2019
Kerry Haynie discusses the voter turnout levels necessary to carry North Carolina, in an interview for The Charlotte Observer
Kerry Haynie comments on voting trends in North Carolina, following new Biden Campaign TV ads targeting the Durham area, in Spectrum News
Kerry Haynie comments on the Biden Campaign’s mobilization efforts of Black voters, for News and Observer
Michael Munger’s newest article, “Plato v. Mises: Mises Wins,” is published on AIER, and he discusses a range of topics connected to capitalism on the Free Thoughts podcast, for Libertarianism.org
Rachel Myrick is profiled as part of Welcome the New Faculty, 2020, onDuke Today
Jill Karofsky, T’88 alum, is sworn in to office as a new Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice at the 35 mile marker of a 34 hour long, 100 mile ultramarathon, reports ABC News, NPR, WaPo, and ESPN
Shayla Nunnally, Ph.D. ’05 alum, joins the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and leads a Black Lives Matters webinar series for the League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge, reports the Oak Ridger
August
John Aldrich offers context to why Ocasio-Cortez nominated Bernie Sanders at the Democratic convention, for Politifact
Kerry Haynie writes a response essay to the question, “What does it take to get women elected?” for the Boston Review and he discusses Black representation in state legislatures on Weekend Edition, NPR
Sunshine Hillygus participates in a new Duke University Media Briefings series called “Tackling the misinformation polarizing America,” reports Duke Today and Triangle Business Journal and ABC News 11
Sunshine Hillygus prepares for her recording in early Spring 2020
Ian MacMullen offers comments on his first day of teaching back on campus, in Duke Today
Richard Salsman’s newest column, “Funding American Law Enforcement,” is published on AIER
Danielle French, T’18 alum, is named battalion commander for Duke’s ROTC program, notes Duke Law
July
Pablo Beramendi, Adriane Fresh, Mike Hawley, Ashley Jardina, and Michael Munger are featured in a new video series highlighting Fall 2020 undergraduate courses, on Duke Political Science Courses
Faculty participate in video series during the pandemic
Jared Clemons’s coauthored article “Set in Stone” and the corresponding writeup on Monkey Cage, and Peter Feaver’s commentary on Foreign Policy, are now featured in a collection of resources for understanding and confronting racism and its impact, for the Duke Office of Institutional Equity
Peter Feaver remarks on civil-military relations after General Mark Milley’s Keynote Address to the National Defense University’s graduating class, for NPR
Paula McClain’s reflection on the life and scholarship of renowned academic, Lucius J. Barker, is offered as tribute in The Washington Post, Stanford News, and PS Now
Richard Salsman writes, “Fiscal-monetary ‘stimulus’ is depressive,” for The Hill
Alexandra Gara, current polsci student, is profiled in an Office of Global Affairs story about finding purpose during recent travel restrictions, on Trinity College
Michael Rothenberg, current polsci student, earned 2020 Google Cloud Academic All-America accolades as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America, reports GoDuke
Ibrahim Butt, alum T’19, will serve a two-year term for Duke as a Young Trustee on the Board, announced on Duke Today
Cindy Cheng, alum Ph.D. ’17, collaborates on the public release of a large, hand-coded dataset of global policy responses to COVID-19, in Nature Human Behavior
Matthew Fehrs, alum Ph.D. ‘08, receives a distinguished professorship at St. Mary’s College, reports The Southern Maryland Chronicle
Candis Watts Smith, alum Ph.D. ’11, is named Brown-McCourtney Early Career Professor in Liberal Arts, reports Penn State News
Jared Clemons is interviewed on TV discussing George Floyd’s death, and the backdrop of COVID-19, as both a maelstrom and catalyst for protestors, on Arirang News
Peter Feaver coauthors analysis of tense civil-military relations in the context of their research, for War on the Rocks
Peter Feaver comments on Trump’s use of the military for partisan domestic intervention, for Foreign Policy
Ashley Jardina is interviewed about partisan sorting along lines of race, for CNN
Ashley Jardina’s emphasis that a significant percentage of white Americans do define themselves by race is cited in FiveThirtyEight
Edmund Malesky coauthors “Reopening Vietnam: How the country’s improving governance helped it weather the COVID-19 pandemic, for The Brookings Institute
Paula McClain signs a statement condemning systemic racism as President of APSA, reports Political Science Now
Paula McClain has directed the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute on behalf of the APSA for decades, seen here in 2016
Paula McClain writes reflections on the killing of Georg Floyd and a path forward, for Duke Graduate School
Michael Munger offers analysis for a news article on price gouging laws, for The Counter
Michael Munger is profiled in an interview about price gouging, for Reason
Michael Munger writes about the rise and fall of civilizations and reasons for optimism, for AIER
Viola Rothschild writes “Under a COVID-19 Cloud, China’s Gig Economy Comes of Age,” for The Jamestown Foundation
Gul Tuysuz, alumna T’07 and senior producer for CNN based in Istanbul, writes “Trump is reading out of the Middle East autocrats’ playbook,” for CNN
May
Joe Brown’s graduate student profile video is featured among the Class of 2020 Stories, on Duke University
Kerry Haynie is serving on Duke’s Team 2030, reports Duke Today
Ashley Jardina is interviewed in “Trump Reaches Back into His Old Bag of Populist Tricks,” for The NYTimes Opinion and she is interviewed about racial grievance and the overlap between George Wallace voters and Donald Trump voters, in The Atlantic
Ashley Jardina’s course, “Racial Attitudes and Prejudice,” is profiled in Duke Today
Edmund Malesky presents research in the official launch video for the 2019 Vietnam Provincial Competitiveness Index, for PCI Viet Nam
Edmund Malesky prepares for a broadcast interview
Elliot Mamet interviews Geoffrey Garrett about the transition from political science to business school, for a Duke Graduate School Alumni Profile
Paula McClain and Georg Vanberg are among 29 new Duke faculty who are receiving distinguished professorships, from Duke Today
Michael Munger is cited in an opinion piece about cycling, for Business Insider
Michael Munger writes, “Why Politicians Focus on Trivia in the Midst of Disaster,” for AIER
Eion Gronningsater, graduating senior, is described as “one of the most successful fencers in program history,” by Duke Athletics
Jill Karofsky, alumna T’88, wins seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court, reports the Duke Chronicle
Michael Munger discusses new cases of price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic, on Reason video and Reason podcast
Ismail White answers the question, “Why are black conservatives still Democrats?” in an interview for the Niskanen Center
Mackenzie Drazen, undergrad alum T’18, shares helpful mental health tips during the COVID-19 pandemic, on Duke Alumni YouTube
Justin Walker, undergrad alum T’04, is President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, reports The NYTimes and National Review
March
Geoffrey Brennan appears alongside Michael Munger in PPE video series, “Public Choice Economics,” for the Institute for Human Studies
Peter Feaver offers analysis on the reduction in size of the National Security Council, in an interview for the Christian Science Monitor
Geoffrey Garrett, PhD alum, presents alumni lecture at Duke and is quoted in Duke Today
Justin Sherman, poli sci major, is interviewed about Paul Singer’s investment in Twitter, (starting at the 48-minute mark) on BBC News radio
Justin Sherman, T'20 student, writes about cyber diplomacy and Beijing’s ‘digital authoritarianism’ in Lawfare, and discusses cybersecurity and surveillance, in a piece from the Atlantic Council
February
John Aldrich is interviewed about the Iowa caucuses, for WalletHub
Kyle Beardsley’s participation in the Research Policy Dialogue on ‘New Insights on Women, Peace and Security for the Next Decade,’ is noted in a writeup for The Peace Research Institue Oslo
Peter Feaver’s upcoming AGS guest speaker, former national security advisor John Bolton, receives more attention, from The News & Observer , INDY Weekly, and Duke Today
Peter Feaver’s talk at Wake Forest University, “Grading American Grand Strategy: What Trump Inherited and What He May Bequeath” was covered by The Wake Forest Review
Kerry Haynie is interviewed about the extent of party control over the nomination process, in the Charlotte Observer
Sunshine Hillygus coauthors op-ed, following her new book, Making Young Voters, for WRAL, and WUNC radio invites her on for an interview about youth voting, on The State of Things
Timur Kuran’s Private Truth, Public Lies is cited in an article about online cult communities in Spiked. Also, Kuran offered a journalist two ways to characterize American coalitions, for the Portland Press Herald
Paula McClain helped guide graduate student discussions about food insecurity, reports the Duke Chronicle
Michael Munger write, “How the Coase Theorem Solves the Problem of Wolves,” for AIER
Richard Salsman writes, “Say’s Law versus Keynesian Economics,” for AIER
Ismail White coauthors, “Why Black Voters Stick With Democrats,” for The Atlantic
Cassy Dorff, Max Gallop, and Shahryar Minhas, three PhD alumni, coauthored "Networks of Violence: Predicting Conflict in Nigeria," in The Journal of Politics
Matthew Griffin, political science major, was elected editor-in-chief of The Duke Chronicle
Julia Nasco, undergrad, is helping build an open-source archive of images of the Medieval Kingdom of Sicily, reports Duke Research Blog
Neelesh Pandey, undergrad, is working on a research project to examine the ethics and economics of sports betting, reports Duke Bass Connections
Matthew King, recent undergrad alum, was embedded in the Amy Klobuchar campaign, writing for the WSJ
Candis Watts Smith, Duke polisci PhD alumna, visited campus and is quoted in Said@Duke
January
Jared Clemons forthcoming co-authored article, ‘Set in Stone?’ about Confederate monuments, is previewed in his new co-authored writeup for Monkey Cage
Peter Feaver argues that there is skepticism among Republicans about Trump’s policy in Russia, in The Atlantic; he argues that Trump interfered with the chain of command in the recent SEALs case, reports AXIOS; he appraises Trump’s foreign policy strategy in the wake of Soleimani's death, for CNN; he coauthors an article for Defense One; his campus interview with Samantha Power is covered by Duke Today
Peter Feaver’s AGS guest speaker, former national security advisor John Bolton, draws student interest, in The Chronicle
Peter Feaver is asked about veterans’ political attitudes in the wake of Soleimani’s death, in the New York Times
Kerry Haynie’s service on Academic Council continues to be covered by Duke Chronicle; he appeared as a roundtable radio guest discussing the upcoming election season on WUNC The State of Things
Ashley Jardina’s book, White Identity Politics, helps frame an op-ed commentary on CivilBeat.org
Melanie Manion steered a conference, Getting China Right, that is now highlighted on the Henry Luce Foundation
Michael Munger is giving many of his published articles new life by recasting them on his new YouTube Channel
Michael Munger’s decision to run for a N.C. House seat, draws student interest, in The Chronicle
Jordan Roberts has accepted a tenure track position at Coastal Carolina University; more updated 2019-2020 placements can be found on our PhD Alumni Placement page
Viola Rothschild’s writeup about the global conference ‘Getting China Right’ is featured in our Department News
Georg Vanberg is interviewed about the large victory for Britain’s Conservative Party, in Duke Today
Spencer Kaplan, T'21 polisci major, is profiled, discussing concerns of anti-Semitism on college campuses, in the NYTimes
Spencer Kaplan alongside friends Amy Kramer and Sabriyya Pate, in his Sophmore year of 2018
Donald Moratz, recent MAPE program alum, answers “I knew I belonged at Duke when…” in a video for the Duke Graduate School
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