Faculty Research

Recent faculty publications 

Margaret Hanson

• Chapman, H. S., Hanson, M. C., Dzutsati, V., & DeBell, P. 2023. Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy?. Perspectives on Politics, 1-19. 
• Webb Williams, N., & Hanson, M. 2022. Captured Courts and Legitimized Autocrats: Transforming Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court. Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming.

James Strickland

• Strickland, J. 2023. “The Contingent Value of Connections: Legislative Turnover and Revolving-Door Lobbyists.” Business and Politics 25(2): 152-72. 
• Strickland, J. and Jesse Crosson. 2023. “K Street on Main: Legislative Turnover and Multi-client Lobbying.” Political Science Research and Methods 11(4): 746-62.

Thorin Wright 

• Thorin Wright published an article titled “Dynamics of Deadly Loyalist Militia Violence in Northern Ireland,” in International Interactions.

• Thorin Wright presented "Bombs, Bullets, and Ballots: Impact of Election Participation on Paramilitary Violence in Northern Ireland from 1981 to 1998” (co-authored with Dale Pankhurst) at the European Political Science Society conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland in June 2026.
• Wright, Thorin, Kopp, Heather and Reeder, Bryce. 2023. “International Conflict Involvement, State Repression, and the Escalation of Civil Conflict.” Political Research Quarterly, 76 (4): 2004-2017. 
• Wright, Thorin, Cordell, Rebecca, Clay, K. Chad, Fariss, Christopher J. Fariss, and Wood, Reed M. 2022. “Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Annual Country Human Rights Reports.” International Studies Quarterly, 66 (2)

Thomas Just 

• Just, Thomas. 2024. Combating Antisemitism in Germany and Poland: Strategies Since 1990. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.  

Michael Hetcher 

• Hetcher, Michael. 2020. Paperback edition. 2023. The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance and Mutiny in the Age of Sail. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (with Steven Pfaff). (Co-winner, 2021 Allan Sharlin Award for the Best Book, Social Science History Association)

Henry Thompson

• Thompson, Henry. 2024. Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Thompson, Henry. 2024. “The Bureaucratic Politics of Authoritarian Repression: Intra-Agency Reform and Surveillance Capacity in Communist Poland.” Political Science Research and Methods.

Timothy M. Peterson

• Early, Bryan R. and Timothy M. Peterson. 2024. “The Enforcement of U.S. Economic Sanctions and Global De-Risking Behavior.” Accepted for publication in Journal of Conflict Resolution.
• Peksen, Dursun. and Timothy M. Peterson. 2023. “US Sanctions and Foreign Lobbying of the US Government.” Political Research Quarterly 76 (1): 444-459. 

Paul Lewis

• Paul G. Lewis & Nicholas J. Marantz. 2023. Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, in the series Political Lessons from American Cities.
• Nicholas J. Marantz & Paul G. Lewis. 2022. “Jurisdictional Size and Residential Development: Are Large-Scale Local Governments More Receptive to Multifamily Housing?” Urban Affairs Review 58:3, pp. 732-766.

Jonathan J. Kinkel

• Jonathan J. Kinkel. 2022. “Growth and Survival: An Ecological Analysis of Court Reform in Urban China.” Cambridge University Press.

Fabian Neuner

• Hiaeshutter-Rice, D., Neuner, F.G., & Soroka, S. 2023. "Cued by Culture: Political Imagery and Partisan Evaluations," Political Behavior, 45(2), 741-759.
• Neuner, F.G., and Wratil, C. 2022. "The Populist Marketplace: Unpacking the Role of "Thin" and "Thick" Ideology," Political Behavior, 44, 551-574.

Mark Ramirez

• Wood, Reed, Marie Juanchich, Mark D. Ramirez, and Shenghao Zhang. 2023. “Promoting COVID-19 vaccine confidence through public responses to misinformation: The joint influence of message source and message content." Social Science & Medicine, 324.
• Amanda McCubbins and Mark D. Ramirez. 2023. “The effects of dehumanizing language on public opinion toward federal and “for-profit" immigrant detention." Politics, Groups, and Identities, 11(2): 409-424.

José Kaire

• Kaire, José. 2024. "Can't Coalesce, Can't Constrain: Redefining elite influence in non-democracies." Political Science Research and Methods. 
• Kaire, José. 2024. "Get the word out: Monitoring human rights reduces abuse." Journal of Peace Research. 

Jennet Kirkpatrick

• Mrovlje, Maša and Kirkpatrick, Jennet. 2023. “Beauvoir and Lorde Confront the Honorary Man Trope: Toward a Feminist Theory of Political Resistance,” Women Studies International Forum.
• Kirkpatrick, Jennet and Warner, Carolyn. 2023. “Care or Justice: Care Ethics and the Restricted Reporting Sexual Assault Policy in the US Military,” American Journal of Political Science.

Anna Meyerrose

• Meyerrose, Anna M. 2023. "Building Strong Executives and Weak Institutions: How European Integration Contributes to Democratic Backsliding," Review of International Organizations (Online).
• Meyerrose, Anna M. and Sara Watson. 2024. "The Effects of Import Shocks, Electoral Institutions, and Radical Party Competition on Legislator Ideology: Evidence from France," British Journal of Political Science (Online).

Stella Rouse

• Stella Rouse coauthored a paper with Samantha Chapa and James C. Garand titled "Complicated Loyalties: Latino Attitudes about Immigration in an Era of Changing Identities and Demographics" in Political Research Quarterly.

• Rouse, Stella M., Jared McDonald, Richard N. Engstrom, Michael J. Hanmer, Roberto Gonzàlez, Siugmin Lay, and Daniel Miranda. 2022. Citizens of the World: Political Engagement and Policy Attitudes of Millennials across the Globe. New York: Oxford University Press. 
• Fisher, Dana R. and Stella M. Rouse. 2022. "Intersectionality within the Racial Justice Movement in the Summer of 2020." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (30).

Güneş Murat Tezcür

• Güneş Murat Tezcür presented a paper titled "The Future of Academic Freedom: Institutional Transformations and Erosion of Autonomy" at the Plenary Session of 3rd SOS4Democracy Conference at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul in June 2026 (co-authored with Craig Calhoun).

• Kenicia Wright and Güneş Murat Tezcür published an article titled "Black and Latino American support for cross-ethnic coalitions: evidence from two conjoint experiments” in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 
• Tezcür, Güneş Murat. 2024. Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 
• Magiya, Yusuf, Bogdan G. Popescu, and Güneş Murat Tezcür. 2023. "All the sultan’s men: Regime type, insecurity, and the shuffling of governors." Comparative Political Studies. 

Matthew Dempsey

• Matthew Dempsey published an article title "Judging Bias: How Sexual Orientation Cues Shape Perceptions of Judicial Impartiality Across Two Social Contexts" in Social Science Quarterly (co-authored with Thompson, J.R.).

• Matthew Dempsey won the Best Paper Award at the Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN in April 2026 for his paper titled: "Is This Candidate for Real? What Happens When Campaign Messages Come with an AI Disclosure."

Kenicia Wright

• Kenicia Wright and Güneş Murat Tezcür published an article titled "Black and Latino American support for cross-ethnic coalitions: evidence from two conjoint experiments” in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.