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.

Recent Publications from our Current Graduate Students
2022 & Forthcoming
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. March 2022.
Brutger, Ryan, Joshua D. Kertzer, Jonathan Renshon, & Chagai M. Weiss. “Abstraction and Concreteness in Experimental Designs.” Accepted for Publication with Cambridge University Press, Elements in Experimental Political Science series (edited by James Druckman).
Brutger, Ryan, Joshua D. Kertzer, Jonathan Renshon, Dustin Tingley and Chagai M. Weiss. “Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design.” Forthcoming at The American Journal of Political Science.
Philip D. Bunn (forthcoming 2022) “Silicon Valley Stoics?: Life-Hacking, Transhumanism, and Stoic Therapy”, Political Science Reviewer.
Hyo Won Lee, Yena Kim, and Whasun Jho, “Domestic Politics and Requests for UNESCO’s International Assistance Program”, Forthcoming, 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, (March 2022).
Langlois, Jérémie. “When reorganizing coercion backfires: explaining the mechanisms of revolt in Sudan and Algeria,” Democratization, (April 2022).
Lorimer, Marta & Ethan vanderWilden. (forthcoming) “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.
Peter Erikson, Marko Kljajic, and Nadav Shelef. Forthcoming. “Domestic military deployments in response to COVID-19.” Armed Forces & Society.
Qian, Juan. “Historical Ethnic Conflicts and the Rise of Islamophobia in Modern China.” 2021. Forthcoming in Ethnopolitics.
Shirikov, Anton. “The Oligarch Vanishes: Defensive Ownership, Property Rights, and Political Connections.” Forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Political Science. (With John Earle, Scott Gehlbach, and Solomiya Shpak.)
Shirikov, Anton. “Russia: Muddling Through Populism and the Pandemic.” Forthcoming in: 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.
Tennyson, Timothy T. 2022. “Cicero’s Romulus and the Crafting of Historical Exempla.” History of Political Thought, Vol. 43, No.1. (Forthcoming).
Weiss, Chagai M., Alexandra Siegel, and David Romney “How Threats of Exclusion Mobilize Palestinian Political Participation.” Forthcoming at The American Journal of Political Science.
Xinzhi Zhao, “Ideological Context and the Study of Political Theory,” Hobbes Studies, Vol. 35, Issue 1, 2022, forthcoming.
2021
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, forthcoming 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.
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
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
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
APSA Dissertation Improvement Grant
APSA Summer Centennial Grant
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
- Anna Meier
- Chagai Weiss (honorable mention)
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
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
NSF GRFP Award (2019-2022)
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
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