Research and Publications

Nature magazine cover, August 14, 2025, featuring a dark blue ocean wave crashing against a melting iceberg. Cover story title: Troubled Waters; Iceberg formation sparks wave-driven melting at glacier fronts.

Air pollution could be reduced by incentivizing local government officials to control crop burning

Gemma Dipoppa and Saad Gulzar

Nature, 2025

At last, the last (wo)man responds to (her) readers and critics

Eileen M. Hunt

History of European Ideas, 2025

Austerity and Aggression: Government Responses to IMF Conditionality

Richard Clark and Anna M. Meyerrose

World Politics, 2025

Political Analysis journal cover, Volume 52, Number 4, October 2023.

Balancing Precision and Retention in Experimental Design

Gustavo Diaz and Erin Rossiter

Political Analysis, 2025

CampaignView, a database of policy platforms and biographical narratives for congressional candidates

Rachel Porter, Colin Case and Sarah Treul

Nature-Scientific Data, 2025

Policy Studies Journal cover featuring gold gears on the left and the table of contents on the right.

Collaborative Diffusion: The Dynamics of Policy Output in COVID-19 Interstate Compacts

Isaac Pollert, Johabed Olvera, Bruce A. Desmarais, Frederick J. Boehmke, Jeffrey J. Harden

Policy Studies Journal, 2025

Cover of The Review of International Organizations, Volume 8, Number 3, September 2013. Editor-in-Chief Axel Dreher; Associate Editors Todd Sandler, Roland Vaubel, James Raymond Vreeland; Book Review Editor Christopher Kilby. Published by Springer.

Compliance with Decisions of Permanent Court of Arbitration

Emilia Justyna Powell and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

The Review of International Organizations, 2025

Political Science Research and Methods journal cover, Volume 10, Issue 4, October 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.

Conceptualizing and measuring early campaign fundraising in congressional elections

Colin Case and Rachel Porter

Political Science Research & Methods, 2025

Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere: A Comparative Inquiry

Christina R. Bambrick

Cambridge University Press, 2025

Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance

Richard Clark

Cambridge University Press, 2025

Corpus-based analysis of human values in blockchain and constitutions

Aditya Joshi, Eric Lease Morgan, Agnieszka Marczak-Czajka, Andrey Kuehlkamp, Ellen Joyce, Swapna Krishnakumar Radha, Emilia Justyna Powell, Jarek Nabrzyski

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery, 2025

Democracy, Inequality, and Antitrust

Michael O. Allen, Kenneth Scheve, and David Stasavage

The Journal of Politics, 2025

Democratic Trajectories in the Third Wave: Aligning Theory and Methods

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán and Scott Mainwaring

British Journal of Political Science, 2025

PNAS cover featuring a stylized phylogenetic tree of glowing blue animal silhouettes connected by circuit-like lines on a dark background. The tree emerges from a small, light gray globe covered in binary code.

Durably reducing partisan animosity through multiple scalable treatments

Matthew E.K. Hall, Brittany C. Solomonh, Jan G. Voelkel, Michael N. Stagnaro, James Y. Chu, and Robb Willer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025

Economic Balancing and China–United States Financial Ties

Jazmin Sierra

Security Studies, 2025

PNAS journal cover: A robotic arm, monitors showing a glowing green molecule and neural network. A red laser beam targets grey-and-white molecular models on a dark surface.

Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration

Rachel Porter, Jeff Harden, Mackenzie Dobson

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025

Executive-Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis

Nathaniel A. Birkhead, Jeffrey J. Harden and Jason H. Windett

The Journal of Politics, 2025

Expectations, authority and divergent market transitions

Susanne Wengle, Daniele Girardi, Roberto Veneziani

World Development, 2025

International Political Science Review journal cover. The cover is primarily dark green with a light green image of a globe. The title "INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW" is in dark green block letters on a white arrow shape. The website, ISSN, and publisher logos are also present.

Experts, Coders, and Crowds: An Analysis of Substitutability

Kyle Marquardt, Daniel Pemstein, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Brigitte Seim, Steven Wilson, Michael Bernhard, Michael Coppedge, Staffan Lindberg

International Political Science Review, 2025

Political Behavior, Volume 35, Number 3, September 2013. Published by Springer.

Fuel on the Fire: Has the Politics of COVID-19 Accelerated Secularization in America?

David E. Campbell, Geoffrey C. Layman and John C. Green

Political Behavior, 2025

Journal of Historical Political Economy cover, featuring a green and gray diamond pattern and edited by Jeffery A. Jenkins.

Governing the Gilded Age City: Local Institution Building in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s

Mirya Holman, Lakshmi Iyer, and Christina Wolbrecht

Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2025

Journal of Economics, Vol. 87, No. 2, 2006. SpringerWienNewYork.

Great expectations: a tale of two transitions—a survey of the evidence on expectations in transition economies

Daniele Girardi, Roberto Veneziani, Susanne Wengle

Journal of Economics, 2025

Incumbency Bias: Why Political Office is a Blessing and a Curse in Latin America

Luis Schiumerini

Cambridge University Press, 2025

Meeting of the Minds: Reshaping Citizens’ Rights and Duties

Christina R. Bambrick and Maureen Stobb

Journal of Law and Courts, 2025

Political Behavior journal cover, Volume 35, Number 1, September 2013.

Nevertheless, Role Models Persisted: Girls Exposed to Women Politicians More Likely to Vote as Adults

Christina Wolbrecht and David Campbell

Political Behavior, 2025

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Spring 2025, featuring an Eastern European church and a table of contents focused on covenantal pluralism.

Obstacles to Covenantal Pluralism in Contemporary Russia

Jekatyerina Dunajeva and Karrie J. Koesel

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2025

Power by Proxy: Participation as a Resource in Global Governance

Sabrina B. Arias, Richard Clark, and Ayse Kaya

Review of International Organizations, 2025

Race and the Capital Riot: How Racial Attitudes Relate to Anti-Democratic Beliefs Following the January 6th Insurrection

Matt Barreto, Lorrie Frasure, and Matthew E.K. Hall

Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 2025

Title page of a research article titled "Religion and the authoritarian toolkit: are carrots substitutes for sticks?" published in Democratization. Authored by Karrie J. Koesel of the University of Notre Dame and Ani Sarkissian of Michigan State University.

Religion & The Authoritarian Toolkit

Karrie J. Koesel and Ani Sarkissian

Democratization, 2025

See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People

Christina Wolbrecht and David E. Campbell

University of Chicago Press, 2025

Silent Voices or More than a Feeling? January 6th Insurrection and Racialized (Non)Attitudes

Conner Martinez and Ricardo Ramírez

The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 2025

National Affairs magazine, Number 64, Summer 2025, featuring articles by various authors on topics including populism, birthright citizenship, civil service reform, education, and the revolutions of 1776.

The American Revolutions of 1776

Vincent Phillip Muñoz

National Affairs, 2025

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cover featuring the Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight.

The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment

Orttung, Robert, Debra Javeline, Graeme Robertson, Richard Arnold, Andrew Barnes, Edward Holland, Mikhail Troitskiy, Judyth Twigg, and Susanne Wengle

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2025

Cover of British Journal of Political Science, Volume 49, Part 4, October 2019, by Cambridge University Press. Dark green background with five images: protesters, abstract colors, a tree, a globe, and a telescope.

The Consequences of Elite Action Against Elections

Rachel Porter, Jeff Harden, Emily Anderson, Géssica de Freitas, Mackenzie R. Dobson, Abigail Hemmen, Emma Schroeder

British Journal of Political Science, 2025

The Journal of Politics, July 2025, Volume 87, Number 3 cover, featuring the table of contents with articles on various political science topics.

The Development of an Issue Public: Evidence from The Eras Tour

Erin Rossiter, Jeff Harden

Journal of Politics, 2025

The January 6th Insurrection and the Triggering of African Americans’ Racial Resentment

Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson

The Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, 2025

The Judicialization of Politics and Judicial Review in Restricted Hybrid Models: Judicial Activism by Default in Paraguay

Andrea Castagnola and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2025

The National Network of US State Legislators on Twitter

Ishita Gopal, Taegyoon Kim, Nitheesha Nakka, Frederick J. Boehmke, Jeffrey J. Harden and Bruce A. Desmaris

Political Science Research and Methods, 2025

Global Constitutionalism journal cover. Features three vertical brushstrokes in orange, maroon, and yellow on a gray background. Text reads "Global Constitutionalism," "Human Rights," "Democracy," "Rule of Law," "10th Anniversary Volume," and "Cambridge University Press."

The Taliban, Afghan constitutionalism and modern Islamic law states: renegotiating the balance of religious and secular law

Emilia Justyna Powell and Joshua Paldino

Global Constitutionalism, 2025

Understanding American Legislatures: The Need for Interpretive-Qualitative Research

James M. Curry

Routledge, 2025

Climatic Change journal cover with blue wave design. Co-editors: Michael Oppenheimer and Gary Yohe.

Unspoken crisis: the absence of climate change communication in U.S. Catholic churches

Alexander A. Kaurov, Denys Cherhykalo, Debra Javeline, John H. Evans, Naomi Oreskes

Climatic Change, 2025

What Girls Do: The Effects of Exposure to Women Candidates on Adolescents' Attitudes toward Women Leaders

David Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht

Public Opinion Quarterly, 2025

What is an Establishment of Religion? And What Does Disestablishment Require?

Vincent Phillip Muñoz

Constitutional Commentary , 2025

What Rose and Fell in Imperial China? State Strength, the Civil Service Examination and Inventiveness

Victoria Tin-bor Hui

Political Science Quarterly , 2025

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Number 1, March 2025. The cover features a mauve background with a faint, chaotic texture and an abstract design incorporating a triangle and intersecting curved lines. The journal's abbreviated title, JSSR, is prominently displayed.

Will Americans Vote For an Atheist?

David E. Campbell, Geoffrey C. Layman, Wayde Marsh

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2025

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction cover featuring two people in yellow hard hats walking through earthquake rubble against an orange background.

Before and After Disaster: Homeowner Protective Actions in a Changing Climate

Rachel Hamburger, Tracy Kijewski-Correa, and Debra Javeline

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , 2024

Compliance Agreements: Emergent Flexibility in the Inter-American Human Rights System

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Mariana Brocca, and Isabel Anayanssi Orizaga Inzunza

International Studies Quarterly, 2024

Cross-Partisan Conversation Reduced Affective Polarization for Republicans and Democrats Even After the Contentious 2020 Election

Erin L. Rossiter and Taylor N. Carlson

The Journal of Politics, 2024

Illusory Interparty Disagreement: Partisans Agree on What Hate Speech to Censor but Don’t Know It

Brittany C. Solomon, Matthew E.K. Hall, Abigail Hemmen and James N. Druckman

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024

Interacting as Equals Reduces Partisan Polarization in Mexico

Kenneth F. Greene, Erin L. Rossiter, Enrique Seira, and Alberto Simpser

Nature Human Behavior, 2024

APSR, American Political Science Review, March 2015 cover: A uniformed officer labeled "LAFF" sprays insecticide labeled "Killer Bills" at a caterpillar-like creature labeled "Politics" emerging from under a tree labeled "Fruits of Civil Service."

Interpersonal Relationships, Bipartisanship, and January 6th

James M. Curry and Jason M. Roberts

American Political Science Review, 2024

Multilateralism Can Survive Trump

Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark

Foreign Affairs, 2024

Oversight Hearings, Stakeholder Engagement, and Compliance in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán and Angie Katherine García Atehortúa

International Organization, 2024

Perspectives on Politics journal cover, March 2025, featuring cargo cranes and people protesting with signs at a port.

Silencing the Press in Criminal Wars: Why the War on Drugs Turned Mexico into the World’s Most Dangerous Country for Journalists

Guillermo Trejo and Natán Skigin

Cambridge University Press, 2024

The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination

Eileen M. Hunt

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024

The Legislative Legacy of Voter Identification Laws

Alejandra Campos, Jeffrey J. Harden and Austin Bussing

The Journal of Politics, 2024

Book cover for "Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity," edited by Ran Hirschl and Yaniv Roznai. A large group of people, seen from above, are arranged in the shape of a double helix, resembling DNA.

The Past, Present, and Future of Constitutional Identity

Christina R. Bambrick and Connor Ewing

Cambridge University Press, 2024

The Secular Voter: Secularism and Political Attitudes in the United States

Geoffrey C. Layman, David E. Campbell, and Levi G. Allen

Advances in Political Psychology, 2024

After Violence: Russia's Beslan School Massacre and the Peace That Followed

Debra Javeline

Oxford University Press, 2023

American Democracy and Voter Suppression

Luis Ricardo Fraga, Ricardo Ramírez and Bernard L. Fraga

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2023

Comparative Political Studies, Volume 56, Number 5, April 2023 cover featuring a dark blue world map.

Containing Large-Scale Criminal Violence Through Internationalized Prosecution: How the Collaboration Between the CICIG and Guatemala’s Law Enforcement Contributed to a Sustained Reduction in the Murder Rate

Guillermo Trejo and Camilo Nieto-Matiz

Sage Journals, 2023

Climate Policy journal cover, Volume 23, Issue 5, featuring a deep blue sky with white clouds.

Indigenous Resistance to Criminal Governance: Why Regional Ethnic Autonomy Institutions Protect Communities from Narco Rule in Mexico

Sandra Ley, Shannan Mattiace and Guillermo Trejo

Cambridge University Press, 2019

A crowd of people celebrates amidst a shower of confetti. The cover image is for the book "Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective," edited by Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini.

Breaking state impunity in post-authoritarian regimes: Why transitional justice processes deter criminal violence in new democracies

Guillermo Trejo, Juan Albarracin and Lucia Tiscornia

Sage Journals, 2018

Confucian Pacifism or Confucian Confusion?

Victoria Tin-bor Hui

The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations, 2018

“Neither Precisely National nor Precisely Federal”: Governmental and Administrative Authority in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

Christina Bambrick

, 2018

Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence

Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley

Sage Journals, 2018

The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Volume 69, Number 4, April 2025. Articles include: China Lending and the Political Economy of Leader Survival; Understanding the Impact of Military Service on Support for Insurrection in the United States; The Warm War: The Effect of Ukrainian President's Communal Personality Traits on Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior towards the Ukrainians; Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance?; Exports, Employment and Conflict: Evidence From the Second Intifada; How Civilian Loyalties Shape Rebel-Led Victimization of Rebel Constituencies; and From Cooptation to Violence: Managing Competitive Authoritarian Elections.

Religious Competition and Ethnic Mobilization in Latin America: Why the Catholic Church Promotes Indigenous Movements in Mexico

Guillermo Trejo

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Teal book cover for "Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good" by Mary M. Keys, published by Cambridge University Press.

Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics: Insights from Comparing the Ancient Chinese and Early Modern European Systems

Victoria Tin-bor Hui

International Organization, 2004