Accomplishments: Department of Political Science
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored op-ed, "What Do People in Taiwan Think Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Their Military?" in The Diplomat. This article traces and analyzes recent polls in Taiwan regarding public opinion on military spending and training. The results suggest that the increasing cross-strait tension had shifted the public…
Olivia Cheche (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) recently had her OpEd, "Vaccine gaps have a prominent effect on Black Nevadans" published in the Nevada Independent.
Cheche discusses data which shows Nevada as reporting one of the lowest vaccination rates for its Black population when compared to 45…
Rebecca Gill (Political Science), with co-editors Nuno Garoupa and Lydia Tiede, have published High Courts in Global Perspective: Evidence, Methodologies, and Findings in the University of Virginia Press "Constitutionalism and Democracy" series.
High Courts in Global Perspective pulls back the curtain on the interlocutors of…
Jeremy Bowling (Political Science) recently published, "Signaling Woman and Leader: Navigating the Double Bind as a Foreign Policy Decisionmaker" in The Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy along with co-author Courtney Burns of Bucknell University.
Bowling and Bucknell examine the role that women chief executives, defense…
Nadia Eldemerdash (Political Science), a doctoral student, was awarded the American Political Science Association's Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored op-ed, "Lee Tung-hui's leadership legacy", on East Asian Forum, a peer-reviewed foreign policy discussion forum. This article analyzes representative surveys ranking all four elected presidents in Taiwan since the democratization in 1996. The result shows that the…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published "#MilkTeaAlliance No More?" on Asia Dispatches under The Wilson Center. This article analyzes 62000 #MilkTeaAlliance tweets posted during the protests in Thailand and Myanmar on July 18, and showed the change in both the number and composition of the hashtags. Data also reveals that most #…
Kenneth Miller (Political Science) and co-author Brandice Canes-Wrone of Princeton University were featured in the Washington Post Magazine article "America's Hidden Crisis of Power and Place." The article by David Fontana describes how the political elite in both parties are disproportionately connected to a few neighborhoods in a few…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited to talk in the roundtable titled "The future of Asia-Pacific Order after the US-EU and US-Russia summits" hosted by the Association for Asian Political Economy and Peace. His talk discusses the recent polls in many countries about people's perception of China and the competition between the…
Olivia Cheche (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) recently had a paper published in the Governance: The Political Science Journal at UNLV. Her paper, "Calls for Accountability: Redefining the Culture of Policing in Las Vegas" explores the culture of policing in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, specifically…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored op-ed, "Celebrity, Social Media and Disputes Over Taiwan's Sovereignty," in the E-International Relations. This article crawled and analyzed 15,000 #TaiwanIsACountry tweets which were trending after May 25 as a response to WWE wrestler John Cena's apology. The result shows…
David Fott (Political Science) has received a research grant of $5,000 from the Institute for Humane Studies. He is writing a book on Cicero, Hume, and the future of liberal democracy.