Accomplishments: Department of Political Science
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) coauthored an article, "Extreme Candidates as the Beneficent Spoiler? Range Effect in the Plurality Voting System," which recently published in Political Research Quarterly. This article provides evidence showing that the entrance of an extreme candidate may impact how voters perceive other moderate…
Rebecca Gill (Women's Research Institute of Nevada and Political Science) and a team of political scientists from around the country, Nadia Brown (Purdue), Jennifer Merolla (University of California, Riverside), Melissa Michelson (Menlo College), Elizabeth Sharrow (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Patricia Stapleton (Worcester Polytechnic…
Steven Landis (Political Science) is the author of a paper that has been accepted for publication in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Scientific Visualization, Information Visualization and Visual Analytics.
Rebecca Gill (Women's Research Institute of Nevada and Political Science) delivered the keynote address at the 13th annual Nevada Women's Hall of Fame reunion earlier this month. The event honored the 2018 inductees, as well as the 2018 Pioneer Award Honoree, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman. In her speech, Gill discussed the progress of women in…
Christian Jensen (Political Science) and Rebecca Gill (Political Science, WRIN) recently published "Where are the women? Legal traditions and descriptive representation on the European Court of Justice" in Politics, Groups, and Identities. This article demonstrates the importance of informal job requirements and institutional…
The UNLV Debate Team (Communication Studies) of Matthew Gomez (Political Science) and Jeffrey Horn (Economics) won the Las Vegas Classic Debate Tournament, held at UNLV in October.
Gomez and Horn finished the preliminary debates with a perfect 7-0 record, defeating teams from Gonzaga, Arizona State University,…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science and the Women's Research Institute of Nevada) and Michael Kagan (Law), along with Fatma Marouf of Texas A&M University School of Law, recently published an article, "The Impact of Maleness on Judicial Decision Making: Masculinity, Chivalry, and Immigration Appeals," in the journal Politics, Groups,…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science and the Women's Research Institute of Nevada) and her colleagues (PI Nuno Garoupa from Texas A&M and Co-PI Lydia Tiede from the University of Houston) have been awarded grant funding in the amount of $86,000 from the Law and Social Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation. …
Nerses Kopalyan and Tiffiany Howard (both Political Science) co-authored the book Sex, Power, and Politics (Palgrave 2016). Additionally, Kopalyan is the author of World Political Systems After Polarity (Routledge 2017).
Forty undergraduates recently were awarded scholarships through the office of undergraduate research's summer undergraduate research funding (OUR SURF) program. These scholarships support undergraduate research, scholarship, entrepreneurial, performance, or visual art projects in the summer months. A total of $39,000 in funding was…
David F. Damore, Robert E. Lang, Fatma Nasoz, William E. Brown, Jr., and Caitlin J. Saladino (The Lincy Institute) are the authors of a new policy brief, "Rethinking Cooperative Extension in Southern Nevada."
Abstract: This brief examines the definition and allocation of land-grant status to higher education institutions in Nevada.…
Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West) and David Damore (Political Science) are the authors of an analysis of the the 2016 U.S. presidential election, "The End of the Democratic Blue Wall?," which recently was published by Brookings Mountain West.
On Nov. 8, 2016, the Republicans breached a key portion of the Blue Wall as presidential candidate…