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Subnational democracy and journalist repression: Increased violence against journalists in democratic Mexico
(2023-05)
Existing theories of democracy and repression expect higher repression in unconsolidated democracies like Mexico. This project examines whether executive constraint, executive competition, or both, or neither matters in ...
American foreign aid and trade: Who really benefits?
(2021-05)
This research looks at American foreign aid to least developed countries and looks at the effects that the aid has on trade between the two countries and economic growth in the least developed country. The research finds ...
Surprising effects of drug policy
(2022-12)
Overdose death rates have been increasing exponentially since 1979, leading me to ask how state-level drug access policy is affecting this trend. Previous research identifies three main approaches states take: restricting ...
Effective or Evicted: Landlord Lobbying and Housing Policy Outcomes in the Midwest
(2019-05-01)
Cycles of evictions and weakened policy responses to tenants in need are undesirable social policy outcomes in the housing policy environment. While previous research shows that the mobilization of bias can affect social ...
Study of terrorist longevity: The case of Nigeria
(2023-05)
Why do some terrorist organizations survive longer than others? This paper investigates the longevity of domestic terrorist groups in Nigeria and seeks to uncover the determinants of longevity. The sample, drawn from the ...
Private military companies in Africa: A study on the effects of conflict duration
(2020-05)
Since the 1990s, the use of private military companies (PMCs) has increased in both interstate and intrastate conflict. Despite this, relatively little research describes the relationship between PMCs and the duration of ...
Effect of candidate experience on split-ticket outcomes in gubernatorial elections
(2023-05)
The phenomenon of split-ticket outcomes in gubernatorial elections is essentially unexplored in political science. By analyzing the impact of candidate experience on split-ticket results in gubernatorial elections, this ...
Influence of country of origin on naturalized citizen voting behavior
(2019-12)
How does the regime type of their country of origin influence the likelihood of naturalized citizens' participating in voting? Voting behavior of different demographics is a long studied topic within Political Science ...
Emotions and advocacy coalitions: An analysis of amicus curiae briefs in Mcgirt v. Oklahoma
(2023-05)
The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) integrated with emotional expression analysis gives researchers the opportunity to study policy signaling and coalitions’ policy beliefs in a novel way. Using the 13 amicus curiae ...
Do Women Count? Women Negotiators and the Content of Peace Agreements
(2019-05-01)
International organizations, including the United Nations, have worked hard to brand gender equality as a tool for attaining long lasting peace (Bell and Rourke 2010). These efforts have persisted for decades, notably ...