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Matthew Bergman
Party-Voter Linkages; Comparative Political Economy; Issue Competition; Western Europe; Electoral Systems
Dissertation Title: No More Mr. Niche Guy: Multidimensional Voting in Proportional Systems
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Garrett Bredell
Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, East Asia
Dissertation Title: The Costs of Party Switching
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Taylor Carlson
American Politics, Political Communication, Political Psychology, Race/Ethnicity, Research Design
Dissertation Title: Through the Grapevine: The Hidden Consequences of Interpersonal Political Communication
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Aaron Cotkin
History of Political Thought (Renaissance and Early Modern), Machiavelli, Hobbes, Republicanism, Leadership, Virtue, Approaches to Textual Interpretation.
Dissertation Title: The Recovery of Virtù: Imitation and Political Practices in the Works of Niccolò Machiavelli
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Lauren Ferry
International Relations, International Political Economy, Sovereign Debt
Dissertation Title: Who Wins? The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations
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Scott M. Guenther
American Politics: Congress, Presidency, Voting Behavior, Electoral Rules, Political Psychology
Dissertation Title: Voting Alone: Institutional Mediation of Social Influence on Political Decision Making
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Dotan Haim
Insurgency, Counterterrorism, Social Networks, International Relations, Comparative Politics
Dissertation Title: Civilian Social Networks, Word of Mouth, and Credible Counterinsurgency
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Kyle Haines, Ph.D.
Political Theory, Comparative Politics, Environmental Politics.
Dissertation Title: Critical Political Ecology and Environmental Crisis: Rhetoric, Development, and Decentralization in the US and Latin America
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, UCSD Cross-Border Initiative
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D. Alex Hughes
American Politics / Political Methodology
Dissertation Title: Political Actors Use Social Networks to Coordinate Behavior
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Andrew Janusz
Comparative Politics, Political Methodology, Latin America
Dissertation Title: Race and Representation in Brazil
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John Kuk
American Politics, Politics of Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, Political Behavior, Computational Social Science, Urban Segregation, Political Communication, Political Methodology, Causal Inference
Dissertation Title: An Unequal and Polarized Democracy: Why Has Unequal Growth Caused Party Polarization in the American Public
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Jonghyuk Lee
Chinese Politics; Elite Politics; Comparative Political Economy; Authoritarian Distribution
Dissertation Title: Collective Career Incentives and Resource Allocation in China
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Heidi McNamara
International organizations, international political economy, nonstate actors, private sector influence, institutional design, global governance
Dissertation title: Who Gets In? Nonstate Actor Access at International Organizations -
Brandon Merrell
International Relations, Domestic Influences on Foreign Policy, the Political Economy of Interstate and Civil Violence, Accountability and the Media, Military Secrecy and Diplomacy
Dissertation Title: “Wars for the People: Leaders, Audiences, and the Use of Force”
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Michael Nicholson
Immigration and immigrant integration, political behavior, the politics of race and ethnicity, representation, European politics, survey methodology, causal inference.
Dissertation Title: Weaving the Invisible Thread: Immigrants’ Identities, Interests, and Host Country Political Participation
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Nick Obradovich
Climate Change Politics; Environmental Politics; Political Behavior; African Politics; Computational Social Science; Survey and Experimental Methods
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Politics and Political Effects of Climate Change
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Stan Oklobdzija
American Politics, Campaign Finance, State Politics, Political Parties, Interest Groups.
Dissertation Title: Dark Parties: Citizens United, Dark Money Networks and the Evolution of Political Parties -
Liesel Spangler
American Politics, Racial/Ethnic Politics, Latino Politics, Political Institutions, Political Behavior, Immigration
Dissertation Title: Plural Governance: Race and Ethnicity in the United States
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Clara H. Suong
Security Politics, Domestic-International Nexus, Politics of Information, Political Authority, Text Analysis, Formal Modeling, Survey Experiments
Dissertation Title: In the Name of National Interest: Persuasion by Democratic Coercion and Delegation in Security Politics
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Jiakun Jack Zhang
International Relations/International Political Economy/Chinese Politics
Dissertation Title: Is China an Exception to the Commercial Peace?