Scholarship and Milestones, 2021

September 

• Curtis Bram, Elliot Mamet, Harunobu Saijo, and Jasmine Smith are awarded competitive fellowships for their research from the Duke Graduate School
• Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto (Ph.D. '07) will be the next dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas
• Edmund Malesky and Phan Ngoc Tuan were awarded the $250,000 Laser Pulse Grant from USAID for experimental research on the relationship between business productivity and corruption in Vietnam 
• Leann McLaren and Zoe Walker have been awarded an APSA Centennial Center Grant for their Summer 2021 project, "Effects of Protest Activity on Support for Social Movements"
• Michael Munger. 2021. The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises. Institute for Economic Affairs
• Quynh Nguyen and Edmund Malesky. 2021. "Fish or steel? New evidence on the environment-economy trade-off in developing Vietnam." World Development.

August

• Michael Hawley. 2021. "Beyond Persuasion: Rhetoric as a Tool for Political Motivation." Journal of Politics.
• Edmund Malesky and Jason Douglas Todd. 2021. "Experimentally Estimating Safety in Numbers in a Single-Party Legislature." Journal of Politics.
• Michael Munger. 2021. "Populism, Self Government, and Liberty." Independent Review.
• Jasmine Smith has received a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
• Jason Douglas Todd, Edmund Malesky, Anh Tran, and Anh Le. 2021. "Testing Legislator Responsiveness to Citizens and Firms in Single-Party Regimes: A Field Experiment in the Vietnamese National Assembly." Journal of Politics.

July

• Ben Broman and Georg Vanberg. 2021. "Feuding, arbitration, and the emergence of an independent judiciary." Constitutional Political Economy.
• Zeren Li has accepted a postdoc at Yale University
• Antong Liu has accepted a position as Lecturer in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program in the Department of Philosophy at University of Maryland, College Park
• Elliot Mamet. 2021. "Representation on the Periphery: The Past and Future of Nonvoting Members of Congress." American Political Thought.
• Richard Salsman. 2021. Where have all the Capitalists Gone? Essays in Moral Political Economy. AIER.
• Candis Watts Smith is selected for the Duke University Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, 2021-22
• Jan Vogler (Ph.D. '19) received honorable mention for the 2021 Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award for his dissertation from the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics

June

• Pablo Beramendi and coauthor Francesc Amat receive an honorable mention for the Michael Wallerstein Prize, a prize for the best article published in the previous year in Political Economy (Section 25)
• Janina Dill and Livia Schubiger. 2021.  “Attitudes Toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles and International Law.” American Journal of Political Science.
• Kerry Haynie is the winner of the 2021 Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for best book in Legislative Studies (Section 3)
• Livia Schubiger. 2021. "State Violence and Wartime Civilian Agency: Evidence from Peru." The Journal of Politics.
• Jan Vogler (Ph.D. '19) received honorable mention for the Ernst B. Haas Dissertation Award for best dissertation in European Politics and Society (Section 21)

May

• Anisha Datta and David Siegel. 2021. "Inclusive and Non-Inclusive Networks." PS: Political Science & Politics.
• Pawel Charasz and Jan Vogler. 2021. "Does EU funding improve local state capacity? Evidence from Polish municipalities." European Union Politics.
• Brendan Daly (T '84) was named Vice President of Communications for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, reports Radio Online

April

• Carlee Golberg (T '22) is selected as a 2021 Truman Scholar, with an announcement by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and commendation by Duke President Vincent Price
• So Jin Lee has accepted a postdoc at MIT and Harvard as a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow
• Zeren LI has been offered a tenure-track position at University College London and won a Leitner Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University
• Devin McCarthy has accepted a position as a Redistricting Fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union
• Marco Morucci has accepted a postdoc as a Moore-Sloan Faculty Fellow at the NYC Center for Data Science
• Eric Mvukiyehe joins the department as an Assistant Professor and will contribute new research dimensions across multiple fields, in an announcement by Trinity College
• Rachel Myrick was selected among 30 young professionals as part of the Aspen Strategy Group's Rising Leaders Program
• Hannah Ridge will be joining the University of Chicago Pozen Center for Human Rights as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Geneviève Rousselière. 2021. "Can Popular Sovereignty Be Represented? Jacobinism from Radical Democracy to Populism."American Journal of Political Science.
• Nura Sediqe (Ph.D. '19) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Michigan State University

March

• Serkant Adiguzel received a pre-doctoral fellowship from Harvard’s Belfer Center
• Caitlin Ainsley, Cliff Carrubba, and Georg Vanberg. 2021. “The Future Matters: Judicial Preferences over Legal Rules and Decision-Making on Collegial Courts.” Journal of Law and Courts.
• Chong Chen and Kyle Beardsley. 2021. "Once and Future Peacemakers: Continuity of Third-Party Involvement in Civil War Peace Processes." International Peacekeeping.
• Ruth Grant. 2021. “Reflections on a Career.” Perspectives on Political Science. 
• Edmund Malesky and Helen Milner. 2021. “Fostering global value chains through international agreements: Evidence from Vietnam.” Economics & Politics.
• Michael Munger and Georg Vanberg. 2021. “Contractarianism, constitutionalism, and the status quo.”Public Choice.
• Emily Myers received a 2021 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
• Thomas Spragens. 2021. Capitalism and Democracy: Prosperity, Justice, and the Good Society. Notre Dame UP.
• Jan Vogler (Ph.D. '19) has accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Konstanz

February

• Haohan Chen has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Hong Kong
• Moohyung Cho has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Ewha Womans University
• M. Taylor Fravel and Melanie Manion and Yuhua Wang. 2021. “A ‘China in the World’ Paradigm for Scholarship.” Studies in Comparative International Development.
• Edmund Malesky and Layna Mosley. 2021.  “Labor upgrading and export Market opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam.” Economics & Politics.
• Javier Osorio, Livia Schubiger, and Michael Weintraub. 2021. “Legacies of Resistance: Mobilization Against Organized Crime in Mexico.” Comparative Political Studies. 
• David Price. 2020. The Congressional Experience: An Institution Transformed. Fourth Edition. Routledge.

January

• Joe Brown and Dean Dulay. 2020. “Barracks and barricades: how internal security threats affect foreign basing access in the Philippines.” Asian Security. 
• Asli Cansunar (PhD ’18) has accepted an offer as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Washington
• DevLab@Duke 2020 Summary: 11 published/forthcoming papers, dozens of policy reports/presentations, research with 21 undergrads, 31 M.A., 22 Ph.D., and 28 external policy partners, 39 workshops, 15 paid internships, and $1.4m in new funding
• Ashley Jardina’s White Identity Politics is chosen by Political Violence @ A Glance as one of the best books of 2020
• Libby Jenke, et al. 2021. “Using Eye-Tracking to Understand Decision-Making in Conjoint Experiments.” Political Analysis.
• Melanie Manion. 2020. “The Information Politics of COVID-19 in China,” in The Coronavirus: Human, Social, and Political Implications. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Devin McCarthy and Jack Santucci. 2021. “Ranked Choice Voting as a Generational Issue in Modern American Politics.” Politics & Policy.
• Emily Rains has accepted a job as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University
• Hannah Ridge. 2020. “Just like the Others: Party Differences, Perception, and Satisfaction with Democracy.”Party Politics.
• Juan Tellez has accepted a job as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis
• Nicholas Valentino, Kirill Zhirkov, Sunshine Hillygus, and Brian Guay. 2020. “The Consequences of Personality Biases in Online Panels for Measuring Public Opinion.” Public Opinion Quarterly.