Political Science Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Human Trafficking Indentification and Service Provision in the Medical and Social Service Sectors
(Harvard School of Public Health, 2016-06)The medical sector presents a unique opportunity for identification and service to victims of human trafficking. In this article, we describe local and site-specific efforts to develop an intervention tool to be used in ... -
“I Need to Hurt You More”: Namibia’s Fight to End Gender-Based Violence
(University of Chicago Press, 2014-03)The article discusses efforts to combat gender-based violence in Namibia. Particular focus is given to the relationship between legislation and social transformation. Details on parliamentary debates surrounding the Namibian ... -
Thinking about my Generation: The Impact of Large Congressional Cohorts
(Walter de Gruyter, 2014)Large partisan congressional “classes,” once common, have become more the exception than the rule over the past 60 years. Thus, when they come along, as in 1974 and 1994 (and perhaps 2010), they receive a lot of attention. ... -
Fiction, Facts, and Truth: The Personal Lives of Political Figures
(Walter de Gruyter, 2010)In the wealth of research on politics and politicians over the past fifty or so years, little attention has been accorded the relationships between the personal and the public sides of politicians' lives. Given the ... -
On the Importance of Frailty in Social Science Theory (and other lessons of agent-based modeling)
(University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science, 2013-01)This paper is about the theoretical implications of agent-based modeling exercises. Construction of an agent-based model challenges a social scientist to formalize many concepts and relationships that would have remained ... -
Enfranchising Displaced Voters: Lessons from Bosnia-Herzegovina
(Mary ann Liebert, 2007)How can the designers and administrators of election rules balance the need to enfranchise voters with the need to ensure the integrity of the vote? This tension is particularly acute when large numbers of voting-age ... -
The Face of "Grassroots Democracy" in Rural China
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Queering the Support for Trafficked Persons: LGBTQ Communities and Human Trafficking in the Heartland
(Cogitatio, 2015-02-23)Human trafficking justice centers on the “Three Ps” model of prevention, protection, and prosecution. While protection and prosecution efforts have been moderately successful, prevention remains elusive, as “upstream” ... -
The Power of Commitment in Cooperative Social Action (abstract only)
(SimSoc Consortium, 2002-06-30)This paper presents an agent-based simulation model of protest activity. Agents are located in a two dimensional grid and have limited ability to observe the behavior of other agents in the grid. The model is used to explore ... -
Fab! or Drab?: Increasing the Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning in Summer Classes
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-08-08)This article reviews the pitfalls and benefits of teaching and learning in summer school and identifies the lack of student interest as the key factor affecting the effectiveness of learning in the summer. The primary goal ... -
Competing perspectives on democracy and democratization: assessing alternative models of democracy promoted in Central Asian states
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-08-12)This study examines alternative understandings of democracy and democracy promotion advanced by the US, EU, Russia and China in Central Asia using frame analysis. In the context of this study, ‘frames’ refer to the relatively ... -
On the Importance of Frailty in Social Science Theory (and other lessons of agent-based modeling)
(European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities, 2013-01-26)This paper is about the theoretical implications of agent-based modeling exercises. Construction of an agent-based model challenges a social scientist to formalize many concepts and relationships that would have remained ... -
Group Involvements in City Politics and Pluralist Theory
(SAGE Publications, 2013-03)The assessments of 75 councilors and mayors in eight cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area provide global measures of group organization, activity, and influence in community politics and measures of their specific ... -
The Public Assistance Policies of Cities and the Justice Concerns of Elected Officials: The Centrality of the Floors Principle in Addressing Urban Poverty
(Wiley, 2013-02-23)City councils are significant, though seldom central, actors in local policy networks providing public assistance to disadvantaged residents. Mayors and council members in 12 American cities more often support than oppose ... -
The Politics of Gay and Lesbian Rights: Expanding the Scope of the Conflict
(Cambridge University Press, 1996-05)Morality politics theory predicts that gay rights policy will reflect the influence of religious groups, party competition, and partisanship while interest group theory suggests that these policies will correspond with ... -
Policy Responses to Human Trafficking in Southern Africa: Domesticating International Norms
(Springer Verlag, 2014)Human trafficking is increasingly recognized as an outcome of economic insecurity, gender inequality, and conflict, all significant factors in the region of southern Africa. This paper examines policy responses to human ... -
Gun Policy, Opinion, Tragedy, and Blame Attribution: The Conditional Influence of Issue of Frames
(Cambridge University Press, 2001)Political events and policy discussion set parameters for debate and help to determine how an issue comes to be defined. Though existing research has examined the effects of alternative representations of political issues ... -
The Role of Intersectional Stereotypes on Evaluations of Gay and Lesbian Political Candidates
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)Social scientists are increasingly taking a more complex theoretical approach to the role of stereotyping in the electorate’s evaluation of political candidates.Within this literature, most studies investigate the impact ... -
Minority Group Interests and Political Representation: Gay Elected Officials in the Policy Process
(Cambridge University Press, 2000)Of key importance to groups in a democracy is the political representation of their interests in the policy process. The most obvious strategy of groups to achieve representation is to elect officials that identify with ... -
Ethics Matter: The Morality and Justice Principles of Elected City Officials and their Impact of Urban Issues
(Wiley Blackwell, 2012-08)This article pursues the thesis that ethics matter in urban policymaking. Interviews with 95 elected officials in 12 cities revealed the officials' support for—and opposition to—many principles of political morality and ...