Department of Political Science
College of Letters and Science

Student Publications & Awards

Recent Student & Faculty Collaboration

PhD Candidate Chagai Weiss and Professor Jonathan Renshon's article forthcoming in The American Journal of Political Science

Chagai Weiss co-authored "Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design" with Ryan Brutger (UC-Berkley), Joshua D. Kertzer (Harvard), Jonathan Renshon (UW-Madison), and Dustin Tingley (Harvard).

PhD Candidate Rochelle Snyder Publishes Paper with Professor Barry Burden in the American Politics Research Journal

Rochelle Snyder co-authored “Explaining Uncontested Seats in Congress and State" with Professor Barry Burden.

Ph.D. Candidate Marcy Shieh publishes book chapter with Professor Ryan Owens

Shieh co-authored “Judicial Audiences" with Ryan Owens (UW-Madison) in Research Handbook of Judicial Politics, ed. Michael P. Fix and Matthew D. Montgomery, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Ph.D. Candidate Tim Tennyson publishes paper with Professor Michelle Schwarze in the European Journal of Political Theory

Tennyson co-authored "An honest man?: Rousseau’s critique of Locke’s character education" with Michelle Schwarze (UW-Madison) in the European Journal of Political Theory.

Ph.D. Candidate Lotem Bassan-Nygate's Paper with Professors Adeline Lo and Jonathan Renshon conditionally accepted at the Journal of Experimental Political Science

Bassan-Nygate co-authored “A Practical Guide to Dealing with Attrition in Experiments" with Adeline Lo (UW-Madison) and Jonathan Renshon (UW-Madison).

Recent Publications from our Graduate Students

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2023 and Forthcoming

Ned Littlefield. “Examining the Crime-Conflict Distinction: Victimization and Political System Support in Colombia”. 2023. Journal of Politics in Latin America. 1-29. w/ Maria Camila Angulo Amaya. https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X231214276.

Jones-Kerwin, N., Peterson, D.A. Group Consciousness and the Politics of American Indians. Political Behavior (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-023-09903-9.

Zhao, Xinzhi. 2024. “Monopoly and the Dysfunction of the Social Mechanism of Equal Respect: a new reading of Adam Smith’s critique of monopoly,” Adam Smith Review.

Ned Littlefield and Douglas Block. 2023. “Identity, Conflict and Discourse: Understanding Military Contestation in Brazil”. Journal of Latin American Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X23000664.

Ned Littlefield. 2023. “After racial democracy? The state’s rhetorical reconstruction of national identity in Brazil (1990-2019)”. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2023.2242226.

Chagai Weiss and Anna Getmansky. War Time Military Service Can Affect Partisan Preferences. Comparative Political Studies. Forthcoming.

Chagai Weiss and Anna Getmansky. Interstate Conflict Can Reduce Support for Incumbents: Evidence from the Israeli Electorate and the Yom Kippur War. Journal of Conflict Resolution. Forthcoming.

Chagai Weiss, Eugene Finkel, Yon Lupu, Dan Miodownik, and Neal Tsur. Atypical Violence and Conflict Dynamics: Evidence from Jerusalem. Political Science Research and Methods. Forthcoming.

Chagai Weiss, Kyle Peyton, and Paige Vaughn. Beliefs about Minority Representation in Policing and Support for Diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Forthcoming.

Chagai Weiss, Ryan Brutger, Joshua Kertzer and Jonathan Renshon. Abstraction in Experimental Design: Testing the Tradeoffs. Cambridge University Press, Elements in Experimental Political Science series. Forthcoming.

Chagai Weiss, Ryan Brutger, Joshua Kertzer, Jonathan Renshon, and Dustin Tingley. Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design. American Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming.

Dillon Laaker. “Economic Shocks and the Development of Immigration Attitudes.” Forthcoming at the British Journal of Political Science.

Lo, Adeline, Devin Judge-Lord, Kyler Hudson, and Kenneth R. Mayer. “Mapping Literature with Networks: An Application to Redistricting.” Forthcoming. Political Analysis. DOI: 10.1017/pan.2023.4

Marika Olijar & Junda Li (2023) Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan, Central Asian Survey, DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2023.2187759

Ned Littlefield. Forthcoming. “After racial democracy? The state’s rhetorical construction of national identity in Brazil”. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.

Ned Littlefield and Douglas Block. Forthcoming. “Identity, Conflict & Discourse: Understanding Military Contestation in Brazil”. Journal of Latin American Studies.

Ned Littlefield, Omar O. Dumdum, and Oliver Lang. 2023. “Why do populists flip-flop on soldiers? The drug war’s civil-military commitment problem”. In Handbook on Democracy and Security. Eds. Nicholas A. Seltzer and Steven Lloyd Wilson. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 211-230. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/handbook-on-democracy-and-security-9781839100192.html.

Timothy Tennyson and Michelle Schwarze. (2023). “An honest man?: Rousseau’s critique of Locke’s character education.” European Journal of Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851231153567

2022

Aili Mari Tripp and Thomas S. Worth. 2022. “War, Peace, and Security.” The Routledge Global History of Feminism. Eds. Bonnie G. Smith and Nova Robinson.

Bassan-Nygate, Lotem & Gadi Heimann. “Dealing with Guilt and Shame in International Politics” (International Relations, 2022).

Brutger, Ryan, Joshua D. Kertzer, Jonathan Renshon, Dustin Tingley and Chagai M. Weiss. “Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design.” The American Journal of Political Science. 2022.

Hyo Won Lee, Yena Kim, and Whasun Jho, “Domestic Politics and Requests for UNESCO’s International Assistance Program”, 2022, International Interactions.

Jensen, Katherine and Lisa M. Sousa Dias. “Varied Racialization and Legal Inclusion: Haitian, Syrian, and Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Brazil.” American Behavioral Scientist (2022).

Jérémie Langlois (2022). “When Reorganizing Coercion Backfires: Explaining the Mechanisms of Revolt in Sudan and Algeria.” Democratization, 29:7, 1310-1331, doi: 10.1080/13510347.2022.2049765.

Lorimer, Marta & Ethan vanderWilden. (2022) “France: Balancing respectability and radicalization in a pandemic.” In Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Respond to COVID-19, eds. N. Ringe and L. Renno. London: Routledge.

Ned Littlefield and Joe Peterangelo. 2022. “Hitting Home: Milwaukee’s homeownership inequities and how we compare to peer cities”. Wisconsin Policy Forum.

Peter Erikson, Marko Kljajic, and Nadav Shelef. “Domestic military deployments in response to COVID-19.” Armed Forces & Society. 2022.

Philip D. Bunn (2022) “Silicon Valley Stoics?: Life-Hacking, Transhumanism, and Stoic Therapy”, Political Science Reviewer.

Rikhil R. Bhavnani and Saloni Bhogale. 2022. “India in 2021: At the Crossroads.” Asian Survey 62(1): 161–172.

Saloni Bhogale & Pavithra Suryanarayan. (2022) “India: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly Consequences of India’s Pandemic Response.” In Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Respond to COVID-19, eds. N. Ringe and L. Renno. London: Routledge

Shirikov, Anton. “The Oligarch Vanishes: Defensive Ownership, Property Rights, and Political Connections.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science. (With John Earle, Scott Gehlbach, and Solomiya Shpak.) 2022.

Shirikov, Anton. “Russia: Muddling Through Populism and the Pandemic.” Renno, Lucio, and Nils Ringe (eds.). Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Respond to COVID-19. Routledge. With Yoshiko M. Herrera and Valeriia Umanets.

Sujin Cha, Yehzee Ryoo, and Sung Eun Kim. “Losing Hearts and Minds? Unpacking the Effects of Chinese Soft Power Initiatives in Africa.” Asian Survey (2022): 1-30

Tennyson, Timothy T. 2022. “Cicero’s Romulus and the Crafting of Historical Exempla.” History of Political Thought, Vol. 43, No.1. (2022).

Weiss, Chagai M., Alexandra Siegel, and David Romney “How Threats of Exclusion Mobilize Palestinian Political Participation.” The American Journal of Political Science. 2022.

Xinzhi Zhao, “Ideological Context and the Study of Political Theory,” Hobbes Studies, Vol. 35, Issue 1, 2022.

2021

Azzi, Veronica Fenocchio and Ned Littlefield. 2021. “Continuidade ou mudança? As relações civis-militares após a Intervenção Federal no Rio de Janeiro”. Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Política 12(1): 29-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/recp.v12i1.77716.

Bassan-Nygate, Lotem & Chagai M. Weiss. “Party Competition and Cooperation Shape Affective Polarization: Evidence from Natural and Survey Experiments in Israel“. Comparative Political Studies. July 2021. doi:10.1177/00104140211024283

Bassan-Nygate, Lotem. “My Heart is in the West: Formation of Western Identity in Israel around the Korean War“. Politika, 30 (2021): 40-61.

Philip D. Bunn (2021) “Transcendent Rebellion: The Influence of Simone Weil on Albert Camus’ Esthetics”, Perspectives on Political Science, DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2021.1997529

Burden, Barry C. and Rochelle Snyder. 2021. “Explaining Uncontested Seats in Congress and State Legislatures.” American Politics Research. 

Carter, Kate M. “Internet Access and Control in Uganda”. In Examining Internet and Technology around the World, ed. Laura M. Steckman (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2021).

Frederick R. Chen. 2021. “Extended Dependence: Trade, Alliances, and Peace.” Journal of Politics  83(1): 246–259.

Haftel, Yoram Z., Soo Yeon Kim, & Lotem Bassan-Nygate. “High-Income Developing Countries, FDI Outflows and the International Investment Agreement Regime“, World Trade Review, August 2021, 1-17. doi:10.1017/S1474745621000434

Kustov, Alexander, Dillon Laaker, and Cassidy Reller. 2021. “The Stability of Immigration Attitudes: Evidence and Implications.” Journal of Politics. 83 (4): 1478-1494.

Levi Bankston & Barry C. Burden (2021) “Voter mobilization efforts can depress turnout”, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

Lu, Jiaqi. “The Politics of Coal in the United States.” Book chapter, Political Determinants of Energy and Climate Policy, Routledge Press, 2021, with Gregory Nemet.

Lu, Jiaqi. “Investigation of a coupling coordination degree model between low-carbon development and air quality in China.” Advances in Climate Change Research (2021) (with T. Liu and Q. Song, and Y. Qi).

Omar O. Dumdum & Levi Bankston (2021) “The Interplay of Actors in Political Communication: The State of the Subfield“, Political Communication, DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2021.1966597.

Qian, Juan. “Historical Ethnic Conflicts and the Rise of Islamophobia in Modern China.” 2021. Ethnopolitics.

Rochlitz, M., Mitrokhina, E., & Nizovkina, I. (2021). Bureaucratic discrimination in electoral authoritarian regimes: Experimental evidence from Russia. European Journal of Political Economy.

Shirikov, Anton. “Who Gets Ahead in Authoritarian Parliaments? The Case of the Russian State Duma.” (2021). The Journal of Legislative Studies.

Weiss, Chagai M. “Diversity in Israeli Healthcare Institutions Reduces Prejudice towards Arabs.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118.14 (2021).

Zhao, Xinzhi. “A Ciceronian Defense of Democratic Participation.” Política & Sociedade, vol. 20, no. 47, 2021, pp. 103–129., doi:10.5007/2175-7984.2021.e78929.

2020

Angulo Amaya, M.C., Anthony Bertelli, and Eleanor Woodhouse. 2020. “The Political Cost of Public-Private Partnerships: Theory and Evidence from Colombian Infrastructure Development.” Governance, 1-18.

Jessica H. Darrow & Jess Howsam Scholl (2020) “Chaos and Confusion: Impacts of the Trump Administration Executive Orders on the US Refugee Resettlement System”, Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 44:4, 362-380, DOI: 1080.23303131.2020.1767745.

Judge-Lord, Devin. “Data and Methods for Analyzing Interest Group Influence in Rulemaking” with Daniel Carpenter, Brian Libgober, Steven Rashin. Interest Groups & Advocacy (2020).

Judge-Lord, Devin. “Do Private Regulations Ratchet Up? How to Distinguish Types of Regulatory Stringency and Patterns of Change” with Benjamin Cashore and Constance McDermott in Organization & Environment 33:1 (2020).

Lu, Jiaqi. “Evidence Map: Policy Implications of the Energy Transitions Literature.” Environmental Research Letters (2020). (with Gregory Nemet).

Lu, Jiaqi. “Knowledge spillovers between PV installers can reduce the cost of installing solar PV.” Energy Policy 144 (2020): 111600. (with G. Nemet, V. Rai, and R. Rao).

Lu, Jiaqi. “The Policy-Driven Peak and Reduction of China’s Carbon Emissions.” Advances in Climate Change Research (2020). (with Qi, Y., N. Stern, D. King, T. Wu, & T. Liu).

Meier, Anna. “The Idea of Terror: Institutional Reproduction in Government Responses to Political Violence”. International Studies Quarterly 64 (3): 499–509 (2020).Shirikov, Anton. “Eurasia and Post-Communism: Weasel Words?” (2020). East European Politics and Societies, Vol.34, No.2. With Yoshiko M. Herrera and Dmitrii Kofanov.

Recent Student Awards

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2023

APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Indigenous Politics

Travel, Research, and Engagement Grant from the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

Mildred Potter Hovland Prize

  • Xinzhi Zhao, “Monopoly and the Dysfunction of the Social Mechanism of Equal Respect,” forthcoming in the Adam Smith Review

Leon Epstein Prize

  • Dillon Laaker, “Economic Shocks and the Development of Immigration Attitudes,” forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science

APSA Centennial Center Summer Research Grant

ASEEES Dissertation Improvement Grant

Visiting fellowship at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Carnegie/Harriman Research Grant

Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship (FLAS)

UW-Madison Department of Political Science Best Dissertation Prize

URS Exceptional Mentorship Award for 2022-2023

UW-Madison Department of Political Science 2023 TA Awards

Crawford Young Research Award

APSA’s 2023-2024 Spring Diversity Fellowship

Frank Cass 2023 Award for Best Article by a Young Scholar published in Democratization in 2022 (“When reorganizing coercion backfires: explaining the mechanisms of revolt in Sudan and Algeria”)

Review of Politics Award (MPSA) for her paper: “Machiavelli’s Ecstatic Politics: An Invitation to an Inquiry”

Best Graduate Student Paper for the MPSA Latina/o Caucus Best Graduate Student Paper for “The Construction of Latino Identity in Presidential Elections”

2022

University of Wisconsin-Madison Capstone Teaching Award

UW-Madison Middle East Studies Program Award for Excellence in Graduate Research

Mildred Potter Hovland Journal Article Prize

APSA Dissertation Improvement Grant

UW-Madison Department of Political Science Best Dissertation Prize

Sabbatical Award, Institute for Humane Studies

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS)

College of Letters & Science Teaching Mentor

Fellow, ASPA’s Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER)

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)

Crawford Young Research Award

Bouchet Society Inductee

UW-Madison Department of Political Science 2022 TA Awards

George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship

Bourse and Bazaar Foundation Visiting Fellowship

Humane Studies Fellowship

Mary Washburn Willetts Award

U.S. Department of State, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

IRIS Fieldwork Award

Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship

Ronald Rapoport Summer Research Collaborative Program

2021

APSA Dissertation Improvement Grant

APSA Summer Centennial Grant

L&S Teaching Fellows Award

University of Wisconsin-Madison Capstone Teaching Award

University of Wisconsin-Madison Early Excellence in Teaching Award

University of Wisconsin-Madison Continuity of Instruction Award

UW-Madison Department of Political Science 2021 TA Awards

Humane Studies Fellowship

Jordan Prize, African Studies Program

Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in the Social Sciences

Mildred Potter Hovland Journal Article Prize

Leon Esptein Prize in American and British Politics

Adam Smith Fellowship, Mercatus Center

Research Group Funding Award (Survey of attitudes toward GMOs in Mexico), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hsueh International Fellowship Fund, American Political Science Association

Oskar Morgenstern Fellowship, George Mason University

CREECA FLAS Fellow (Kazakh language and Central Asian area studies)

Charles and Gayle Mazursky Student Support Fund, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ronald Rapoport Summer Research Collaborative Program

2020

George and Sylvia Laikin Prize, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching Fellow Award, UW-Madison College of Letters & Sciences

Teaching Assistant Award, Integrated Liberal Studies Program

UW-Madison Department of Political Science TA Award

Don Lavoie Fellowship, Mercatus Center

Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison

David A. Lake Award, International Political Economy Society

Holtz Center Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Future Faculty Partner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Academy

Graduate student research award from the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

UW-Madison Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies (LACIS)

Brazil Initiative’s Joaquim Nabuco Award for Graduate Students

2019

NSF GRFP Award

Hawai’i/Wisconsin LUCE Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Fellowship

University of Wisconsin-Madison Early Excellence in Teaching Award

IHS Fellowship

Mildred Potter Hovland Award, Department of Political Science

IRIS Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award

The Morris Abrams Award in International Relations

2018

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Award

Fulbright Research Award

Bradley Fellowship UW-Madison

International Relations Research Group Award

Devorah Manekin and Dr. Noga Ofek-Shlomai Research Award from Israel Institute

Charles and Gayle Mazursky Student Support Fund Award, Center for Jewish Studies

Research award, Minerva Center for Human Rights at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jordan Prize (African Studies Program)

Robert F. and Jane E. Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies