Scholarship & Milestones, in 2020

December

• Jeremy Spater. 2020. "Exposure and Preferences: Evidence from Indian Slums." American Journal of Political Science.
• Amelia Steinbach, T’21 student, who wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post last year, has been awarded the George J. Mitchell Scholarship for a year of graduate study in Ireland, reports Duke Today

November

• Daniel Kselman, Emerson Niou, and Austin Wang. 2020. “Measuring ‘closeness’ in 3-candidate elections: Methodology and an application to strategic voting.” Electoral Studies. 
• Richard Salsman. 2020. “The Golden Rule of Public Finance and Prospects for It’s Revival,” in A Fiscal Cliff: New Perspectives on the U.S. Federal Debt Crisis. Cato Institute.

October

• Gent Carrabregu. 2020. “Arendt’s Idea of the University.” History of European Ideas.
• Jared Clemons, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Gabriella Levy, Jasmine Smith, and Somia Youssef are announced as members of the 2020-21 Kenan Graduate Fellows
• Ala’ Alrababa’h, Rachel Myrick, Isaac Webb. 2020. “Do Donor Motives Matter? Investigating Perceptions of Foreign Aid in the Conflict in Donbas.” International Studies Quarterly.
• Rachel Myrick’s paper “Do External Threats Unite or Divide?” receives an honorable mention for the 2021 Patricia Weitsman Award for the best graduate student paper on any aspect of security studies from the International Studies Association
• Rachel Myrick. 2020. “Why So Secretive? Unpacking Public Attitudes toward Secrecy and Success in US Foreign Policy.” The Journal of Politics and runner-up for the 2020 Best Research Article on U.S. Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy from America in the World Consortium
• Charles Chang and Melanie Manion. 2020.  "Political Self-Censorship in Authoritarian States: The Spatial-Temporal Dimension of Trouble." Comparative Political Studies.
• Sunshine Hillygus presents the annual Henry and Bryna David Lecture for The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

September

• Pablo Beramendi and Daniel Stegmueller. 2020. “The Political Geography of the Eurocrisis.” World Politics.
• Pablo Beramendi has received a NSF grant for “RAPID: Understanding the Disparate Impact of COVID-19.” He is CoPi alongside William Darity Jr.
• Zeren Li is awarded a 2020 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
• Edmund Malesky and Quynh Nguyen have received an honorable mention for best paper in the APSA in the Southeast Asian Politics Section
• Michael E. Shepherd, Adriane Fresh, Nick Eubank, and Joshua D. Clinton. (2020). “The Politics of Locating Polling Places: Race and Partisanship in North Carolina Election Administration, 2008–2016.” Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy.

August

• Kerry Haynie, Kirsten Widner and Beth Reingold. 2020. Race, Gender, and Political Representation: Toward a More Intersectional Approach. Oxford University Press.
• Sunshine Hillygus and Jesse Lopez. 2020. "Easy as 1, 2, 3? Challenges of the 2020 Census and Implications for Political Science," Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.
• Brandon Bartels and Christopher Johnston. 2020. Curbing the Court: Why the Public Constrains Judicial Independence. Cambridge University Press.
• Duong Trung Le, Edmund Malesky, and Anh Pham. 2020. “The impact of local corruption on business tax registration and compliance: Evidence from Vietnam,” Journal of Economics Behavior and Organization.

July

• Becher, Michael, and Daniel Stegmueller. “Reducing Unequal Representation: The Impact of Labor Unions on Legislative Responsiveness in the U.S. Congress.” Perspectives on Politics, 2020.
• Eddy Malesky is named the new Director for the Duke Center for International Development (DCID)

June

• Chong Chen received the 2019 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad
• Mateo Villamizar Chaparro received a 2020 Bass Connections Student Research Award
• Ana Montoya is awarded the USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship

May

• Francesc Amat and Pablo Beramendi. 2020. “Democracy under High Inequality: Capacity, Spending, and Participation,” The Journal of Politics.
• Kyle Beardsley’s Annual Report to the Graduate School showcases a collection of scholarship over the past year
• Chong Chen and Kyle Beardsley, "Once and Future Peacemakers: Continuity of Third-Party Involvement in Civil War Peace Processes," International Peacekeeping, Forthcoming.
• Haohan Chen’s master’s thesis is awarded the 2020 BEST Award for Master’s Research, from the Duke Dept. of Statistical Science
• Chengyu Fu awarded the department’s Outstanding MA Thesis Award
• Harunobu Saijo. 2020. “The Effects of Electoral Anticipation on Portfolio Allocation.” Party Politics.
• David Soskice is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Fourteen political science majors submitted their honors thesis as part of the department’s honors program
• Jeremy Spater awarded the department’s Outstanding Dissertation Award
• Ten political science seniors receive Department Awards, reports Duke Today
• Pei-Yu Wei and Charlie Nathan awarded the department’s Outstanding Preliminary Exam Award
• Kaitlyn Webster, Priscilla Torres, Chong Chen and Kyle Beardsley. 2019. "Ethnic and Gender Hierarchies in the Crucible of War," International Studies Quarterly. 

April

• Kyle Beardsley receives the GPSC Inclusivity Award from the Duke Graduate & Professional Student Council. Students and alumni reflect on Kyle’s leadership in Duke Political Science News
• Spencer Dorsey, Scott de Marchi, and Michael Ensley. 2020. “Policy and the Structure of Roll Call Voting in the US House.” Journal of Public Policy.
• Edmund Malesky, Thang V. Nguyen, Thang N. Bach, Bao D. Ho. 2020. “The effect of market competition on bribery in emerging economies: An empirical analysis of Vietnamese firms.” World Development 131.
• Richard Salsman. “Incarceration, Monetization, and Nationalization Can’t Preserve Our Health or Wealth,” in Coronavirus and Economic Crisis. American Institute for Economic Research, 2020.

March

• Spencer Dorsey and Juan Tellez received the ENMISA Outstanding Paper Award (coauthored with former Duke faculty, Laia Balcells) for their paper, “Repression and Dissent in Contemporary Catalonia”
• Kerry Haynie. (2019). “CONTAINING THE RAINBOW COALITION: Political Consequences of Mass Racialized Incarceration.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 16(1), 243-251.
• Richard Salsman. (2020). “Real and Pseudo Gold Price Rules.” Cato Journal. Vol. 40. No. 1.
• Layna Mosley, Victoria Paniagua, and Erik Wibbels. “Moving markets? Government bond investors and microeconomic policy changes.” Econ Polit. 2020; 00: 1– 53.
• Ricardo Guzman and Michael Munger. "A Theory of Just Market Exchange." Journal of Value Inquiry. vol 54: 91–118.
• Michael Munger. "A Stream That Rises above Its Source: Judicial Review from a Public Choice Perspective." Supreme Court Economic Review. vol 27: 25-59.

February

• Andrea Benjamin, Ray Block, Jared Clemons, Chryl Laird, and Julian Wamble. (2020). “Set in Stone?: Predicting Confederate Monument Removal.” PS: Political Science & Politics, 1-6.
• Kuran, Timur. (2020).  “Zakat: Islam’s missed opportunity to limit predatory taxation.” Public Choice. 182: 395.
• John Holbein and Sunshine Hillygus (2020). Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Stefanie Pousoulides has been awarded the 2019 Best Undergraduate Paper Award, from the NCPSA
• Kyle Beardsley was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at The Australian National University, and will be in residence in Australia during spring 2021
• Ashley Jardina’s book, White Identity Politics, has been selected as a finalist for the Prose Award from the Association of American Publishers
• Christopher Johnston and Trent Ollerenshaw. 2020. “How Different Are Cultural and Economic Ideology?” Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences34: 94 – 101.
• Ian MacMullen. 2020. “What is ‘Post-Factual’ Politics?” Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 28, no. 1
• Malesky, Edmund and Paul Schuler. 2020. “Single-Party Incumbency Advantage in Vietnam: A Conjoint Survey Analysis of Public Support,” Journal of East Asian Studies

January

• Karen Remmer (2019). “Investment Treaty Arbitration in Latin America.” Latin American Research Review, 54(4), 795–811.
• Rachel Myrick is awarded the 2019 Stuart A. Bremer Award for her paper, “Do Security Threats Unite or Divide? Partisan Polarization and Attitudes Towards America’s Adversaries”