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Faculty Research
Our faculty employ many approaches to knowledge—data collection, statistical analysis, experiments, surveys, field research, interviews, historical analysis, and other approaches to evidence—to understand American and international politics.
SELECTED ARTICLES
Brent Boyea, “Individual Contributions to State Supreme Court Campaigns: Context and the Impact of Institutional Design” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 2017
Brent Boyea, “State Public Opinion, the Death Penalty and the Practice of Electing Judges” American Journal of Political Science 2008 (with Paul Brace)
Brent Sasley, “A Nation That Dwells Alone? Israel in the Discipline of International Relations” Israel Studies 2020
Brent Sasley, “Blogging Identities on Israel/Palestine: Public Intellectuals and Their Audiences” PS: Political Science and Politics 2014 (with Mira Sucharov)
Bai-Linh Hoang, “Does Race Affect Public Evaluations of Constituent Messages in Local Government Meetings? Results From an Experiment” Political Studies Review 2023
Bai-Linh Hoang, “Race and Legislative Responsiveness in City Council Meetings” Urban Affairs Review 2019
Christopher Chambers-Ju, “Adjustment Policies, Union Struggles, and Strategies of Mobilization: Teacher Politics in Mexico and Argentina” Comparative Politics 2021
Christopher Chambers-Ju, “Data Collection, Opportunity Costs, and Problem Solving: Lessons From Field Research on Teachers’ Unions in Latin America” PS: Political Science & Politics 2014
Kayla Canelo, “Citations to Interest Groups and Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2022
Kayla Canelo, “The Supreme Court, Ideology, and the Decisions to Cite or Borrow From Amicus Briefs” American Politics Research 2022
Mark Hand, “The Research Gap in Social Entrepreneurship” Stanford Social Innovation Review 2016
Mark Hand, “The Role of Policy Narrators During Crisis: A Micro-Level Analysis of the Sourcing, Synthesizing, and Sharing of Policy Narratives in Rural Texas” Policy Studies Journal 2023
Xavier Medina-Vidal, “Partisan Attachment and Democracy in Mexico: Some Cautionary Observations” Latin American Politics and Society 2010 (with A. Agues, S. Bowler, and J. Hiskey)
Xavier Medina-Vidal, “Fiscal Policy and Economic Inequality in the U.S. States: Taxing and Spending from 1976 to 2006” Political Research Quarterly 2015 (with TJ Hayes)