Recent Scholarship and Milestones

October

• Edmund Malesky and Quynh Nguyen. 2023. “Testing the Drivers of Corporate Environmentalism in Vietnam.” Studies in Comparative International Development.
• Kyle Beardsley and Jessica Beardsley. 2023. "Can peace operations mitigate the effect of armed conflict on malnutrition? Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire." Environment and Security.
• Zeren Li (Ph.D. '21). 2023. "Subsidies for Sale: Post-government Career Concerns, Revolving-door Channels, and Public Resource Misallocation in China." Journal of Politics. 

   

September

• Jules Gazeaud, Nausheen Khan, Eric Mvukieyehe and Oliver Sterck. 2023. "With or without him? Experimental evidence on cash grants and gender-sensitive trainings in Tunisia." Journal of Development Economics.
• Oriana Skylar Mastro and David A Siegel. 2023. “Talking to the Enemy: Explaining the Emergence of Peace Talks in Interstate War.” Journal of Theoretical Politics.
• Manion, Melanie. 2023. "Political Selection in China: Rethinking Foundations and Findings. Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia." Cambridge University Press.
• Axelle Miel (T '24) has been awarded a 2023 Ole R. Holsti Prize from the Duke University Libraries
• Emerson Niou and Sean Zeigler. 2023. "Entente versus Alliance: When Should States Be Friends but Not Allies?" Defence and Peace Economics.
• Trexler, Andrew. 2023. “Aimed Emotions in American Presidential Politics.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics.

August

• Jared Clemons (Ph.D. '22) has received the best paper award from the APSA Education and Education Policy Section for his paper, “Education as Human Capital: The Racial Implications of the State-Driven Commodification of Public Education” 
• Aidan Combs, Graham Tierney, Brian Guay, Friedolin Merhout, Christopher A. Bail, D. Sunshine Hillygus & Alexander Volfovsky. 2023. "Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform." Nature Human Behavior. 
• Andrew Delios, Edmund Malesky, Shu Yu, and Griffin Riddler. 2023. “Methodological errors in corruption research: Recommendations for future research.” Journal of International Business Studies.  
• Elaine Denny, David Dow, Gabriella Levy, and Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro. 2023. “Extortion, Civic Action, and Political Participation among Guatemalan Deportees.” British Journal of Political Science.
• Dean Dulay and Edmund Malesky. 2023.  “Facilitating Development: Evidence from a National-Level Experiment on Improving Bureaucratic Performance in Myanmar.” Journal of Politics.
• Ruth Grant, Suzanne Katzenstein, and Christopher Kennedy. 2023. "How Could They Let This Happen? Cover Ups, Complicity, and the Problem of Accountability." Res Publica. 
• Jiurui Tang, Sunshine Hillygus, and Jerome P Reiter. 2023. "Using Auxiliary Marginal Distributions in Imputations for Nonresponse while Accounting for Survey Weights, with Application to Estimating Voter Turnout, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology." Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
• Rachel Myrick and Chen Wang. 2023. "Domestic Polarization and International Rivalry: How Adversaries Respond to America's Partisan Politics." The Journal of Politics.
• Eric Mvukiyehe has accepted an invitation to be a Faculty Affiliate at The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
• Trent Ollerenshaw. 2023. "Authoritarianism and support for Trump and Clinton in the 2016 primaries." Research & Politics.
• Trent Ollerenshaw. 2023. “Affective Polarization and the Destabilization of Core Political Values.” Political Science Research and Methods.
• Trent Ollerenshaw has been awarded a Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Program Fellowship

July

• Peter Feaver. 2023. Thank for Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military. Oxford University Press.
• Timur Kuran. 2023. Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East. Cambridge University Press.
• Gabriella Levy has accepted a postdoc at the Brown University Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
• Edmund Malesky has received a top 5% rating for his fall 2022 semester course evaluations for undergraduate instruction
• Emily Myers has been awarded a 2023-24 Peace Scholar Fellowship for the research project, "Rethinking Rebel-Civilian Ties in Civil War”
• Trent Ollerenshaw has received an award from the Social Sciences Research Council for the research topic, "Politics and Polarization in the Methodist Church: A Text Analysis of Sermons"
• Jasmine Smith (Ph.D. '23) has been award the 2023 Best Dissertation Award for the dissertation, "Electability Politics: How and Why Black Americans Vote in Primary Elections," in the APSA Section of Race, Ethnicity and Politics

June

• Michael Becher, Sylvian Brouard and Daniel Stegmueller. 2023. "Endogenous Benchmarking and Government Accountability: Experimental Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic." British Journal of Political Science.
• Zeren Li (Ph.D. '21) has accepted a tenure-track position at National University of Singapore
• Joseph Rodriguez is a recipient of the APSA Spring Diversity Fellowship 

May

• Gary Cox, Adriane Fresh, and Sebastian Saiegh. 2023. "The Political Economy of Suffrage Reform: The Great Reform Act of 1832." Journal of Historical Political Economy.
• Paula McClain. 2023. American Government in Black and White: Diversity and Democracy. 6th edition. Oxford University Press.  
• Leann McLaren has been awarded a dissertation research grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for the research topic of how candidates with “Invisible Identities" navigate identity in political campaigns
• Rachel Myrick. 2023. "Searching for Progressive Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice." Security Studies.
• Rachel Myrick. 2023. "Public Reactions to Secret Negotiations in International Politics." Journal of Conflict Resolution.

April

• Elliot Mamet (Ph.D. '22) and Cameron DeHart. 2023. "Do Reserved Seats Work? Evidence from Tribal Representatives in Maine." State Politics & Policy Quarterly.
• Trent Ollerenshaw has been awarded a grant for the research project, "Politics and Polarization in the United Methodist Church: A Text Analysis of Sermons," from the Institute for Humane Studies

March

• Michael Munger is named an Institute for Humane Studies 2023 Distinguished Fellow
• David Paletz has edited more than fifteen books as the series editor for Routledge “Media and Power”
• Candis Watts Smith, as lead, and Paula McClain, as core member, have been awarded an Intellectual Community Planning Grant from Duke Interdisciplinary Studies 

February

• Lisa H. Kinspherger has been awarded the Vernon Smith Prize 2022
• Michael Becher, Irene Menéndez González and Daniel Stegmueller. 2023. "Proportional Representation and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from Electoral System Change in Europe." British Journal of Political Science.

January

• Rebecca Dudley has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University
• Bahar Leventoglu. 2023. "Bargaining Power in Crisis Bargaining." Review of Economic Design 
• Brian Guay (Ph.D. ’21) has accepted a tenure-track position at Stony Brook University
• Diego Romero (Ph.D.’22) has accepted a tenure-track position at Utah State
• Leo Yuan Tien has been awarded a Dean’s Research Award for Master’s Students  
• Candis Watts Smith has been appointed as interim vice provost for undergraduate education