Student Publications & Awards

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

• Amanda Griffiths

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

• Kennia Coronado

University of Wisconsin-Madison Capstone Teaching Award

• Molly Minden

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

• Monica Komer

Mildred Potter Hovland Journal Article Prize

• Andrew McWard and Hohyun Yoon

APSA Dissertation Improvement Grant

• Jiaqi Lu

UW-Madison Department of Political Science Best Dissertation Prize

• Pete Erickson, International Relations
• Anton Shirikov, Comparative Politics
• Chagai Weiss, Comparative Politics

Sabbatical Award, Institute for Humane Studies

• Tim Tennyson

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS)

• Marika Olijar

College of Letters & Science Teaching Mentor

• Xinzhi Zhao

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

• Kennia Coronado

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

• Natalie Jones-Kerwin

Crawford Young Research Award

• Irène Tombo

Bouchet Society Inductee

• Kennia Coronado

UW-Madison Department of Political Science 2022 TA Awards

• Rebecca Anderson
• Valeriia Umanets
• Khasan Redjaboev

George L. Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship

• Khasan Redjaboev
• Marko Kljajic

Bourse and Bazaar Foundation Visiting Fellowship

• Khasan Redjaboev

Humane Studies Fellowship

• Hamni Park

Mary Washburn Willetts Award

• Valeriia Umanets

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

• Ned Littlefield

IRIS Fieldwork Award

• Saloni Bhogale

Scott Kloeck-Jenson Fellowship

• Saloni Bhogale

Ronald Rapoport Summer Research Collaborative Program

• Oliver Lang

APSA Dissertation Improvement Grant

• Devin Judge-Lord
• Juan Qian

APSA Summer Centennial Grant

• Juan Qian

L&S Teaching Fellows Award

• Yumi Park

University of Wisconsin-Madison Capstone Teaching Award

• Sujeong Shim

University of Wisconsin-Madison Early Excellence in Teaching Award

• Kennia Coronado

University of Wisconsin-Madison Continuity of Instruction Award

• Kaden Paulson-Smith

UW-Madison Department of Political Science 2021 TA Awards

• Yumi Park
• Caileigh Glenn
• Camila Angulo

Humane Studies Fellowship

• Hamni Park

Jordan Prize, African Studies Program

• Irène Tombo

Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in the Social Sciences

• Anna Meier
• Chagai Weiss (honorable mention)

Mildred Potter Hovland Journal Article Prize

• Lotem Bassan-Nygate and Chagai Weiss

Leon Esptein Prize in American and British Politics

• Rochelle Snyder

Adam Smith Fellowship, Mercatus Center

• Philip Bunn

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

• David Greenwood-Sanchez

Hsueh International Fellowship Fund, American Political Science Association

• Juan Qian

Oskar Morgenstern Fellowship, George Mason University

• Juan Qian

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

• Marika Olijar

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

• Chagai Weiss

Ronald Rapoport Summer Research Collaborative Program

• Clint Rooker
• Valeriia Umanets
• Lotem Bassan-Nygate

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

• Lotem Bassan-Nygate

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

• Philip Bunn

Teaching Assistant Award, Integrated Liberal Studies Program

• Philip Bunn

UW-Madison Department of Political Science TA Award

• Caileigh Glenn
• Andrew McWard

Don Lavoie Fellowship, Mercatus Center

• Philip Bunn

Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Freddy Chen

David A. Lake Award, International Political Economy Society

• Freddy Chen

Holtz Center Travel Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• David Greenwood-Sanchez

Future Faculty Partner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Teaching Academy

• Andrew McWard

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

• Anton Shirikov

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

• Ned Littlefield

Brazil Initiative’s Joaquim Nabuco Award for Graduate Students

• Ned Littlefield

NSF GRFP Award

• Shaan Amin

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

• Shaan Amin

University of Wisconsin-Madison Early Excellence in Teaching Award

• Andrew McWard

IHS Fellowship

• Tim Tennyson

Mildred Potter Hovland Award, Department of Political Science

• Freddy Chen

IRIS Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award

• Chagai Weiss

The Morris Abrams Award in International Relations

• Chagai Weiss

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Award

• Molly Minden
• David Greenwood-Sanchez

Fulbright Research Award

• Kyler Hudson

Bradley Fellowship UW-Madison

• Marcy Shieh

International Relations Research Group Award

• X. Zhang

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

• Chagai M. Weiss

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

• Chagai M. Weiss
• Lotem Bassan-Nygate

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

• Chagai M. Weiss

Jordan Prize (African Studies Program)

• Kaden Paulson-Smith

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

• Kate Carter