Below is a comprehensive list of all students who earned a Ph.D. in political science at Rice since 1990. While the most common path for our graduates is an academic career, we also have a number of alums who have pursued successful careers in the government, non-profit, and private sectors.
| Name | Year | Dissertation | Current Position |
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| Emily Elia | 2024 | Evading Electoral Accountability: How Elites Maintain Voter Support in Contexts of Corruption | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Gothenburg |
| Yui Nishimura | 2024 | Institutionalized Cooperation: How NGO Cooperation Shapes Global Governance on Human Rights | |
| Cayden McDonald | 2023 | Disgust and Social Attitudes: Exploring Why Disgust Underlies Conservatism and Prejudice | Senior Data Analyst, Southern Methodist University |
| Nicholas Coulombe | 2023 | Promises of Future Cooperation and Alliance Credibility | Professor of Government, San Jacinto College |
| Allegra Hernandez | 2023 | The Role of Affective Attachments in American Politics | Health and Human Services Senior Analyst, New Mexico State Legislature |
| Colin Jones | 2023 | The Social Context of Voting | Data Scientist, Starbucks Coffee Company |
| Santiago Lopez Alvarez | 2023 | The impacts of violence on the electoral and political behavior of civilians: Evidence from Colombia | Project Management Officer, UN Executive Office of the Secretary-General |
| Alex Pugh | 2023 | Designed to Favor: The Effects of Appointing Ad Hoc Judges in International Courts | Lecturer, Social Policy Analysis Program, Rice University |
| Enrique Quezada | 2023 | The Effect of Religious Language and Commitments on Americans’ Political Behavior | Assistant Professor, Agnes Scott College |
| Aiganym Valikhanova | 2023 | Target Governments' Domestic and Foreign Policy Responses to Economic Sanctions | Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) |
| Marques Zárate | 2023 | How Citizens Form Perceptions of Political Pandering | Assistant Professor, Brown University |
| Maria Aroca | 2022 | Neither Hierarchy nor Chaos: The Emergence of Legislative Organization in the Colombian Congress | Assistant Professor, Universidad del Norte |
| Yuki Atsusaka | 2022 | Political Methodologies for Electoral Engineering and Minority Representation | Assistant Professor, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston |
| Kristin Bryant | 2022 | Essays on Human Rights: Protecting and Promoting Human Rights at Home and Abroad | Researcher/Statistician, Office of Fiscal Affairs, State of South Carolina |
| Jared Oestman | 2022 | Providing Peace: The Role of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivations in Shaping States’ Voluntary Commitments to UN Peace Operations | Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Las Vegas |
| Andra Pascu-Lindner | 2022 | The Effect of Voter Gender and Gender Stereotypes on Evaluations of High-Information Political Environments | Senior Researcher, Purple Strategies |
| Liana Eustacia Reyes | 2022 | Law and Conflict | Assistant Professor, Purdue University |
| Kaitlin Senk | 2022 | When Do Women Represent Women? Variation in Substantive Representation in Latin America | Lecturer, University of Bath |
| Andy Carrizosa | 2021 | Legislative Instability and Party Power in Paraguay | Survey and Experiments Analyst, A—B |
| Steven Perry | 2021 | Down-Ballot Decision Making: The Effect of Electoral Levels on Individual Cognitive Processing & Information Consumption | Lecturer in Data Visualization for Rice University’s Program in Writing and Communication |
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Jessica Edry
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2020
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Domestic Politics, NGO Activism, and Global Cooperation
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VP, Data Analytics, Live Oak Bank
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| Matt Lamb | 2020 | Disparities in Democracy: The Causes and Consequences of Polling Place Practices and Conditions | Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University |
| Carly Mayes | 2020 | Gender Stereotypes and Candidate Evaluation | Survey Analyst, Houston ISD |
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Cem Birol
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2019
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Publicly-Conducted Missile Tests in International Politics
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Research Data Management Coordinator, Koç University
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Agustina Haime
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2019
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The Importance of Political Parties for Voters in Latin America
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Researcher, Meta
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Jonathan Kurt Simmons
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2019
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The Intervention Nexus: Peacekeeping and Foreign Aid in Conflict-Affected States
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International Relations Advisor for US Army Installation Management Command – Europe
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Andrew Menger
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2018
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Measuring the Costs of Voting and Their Impacts
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Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt University
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Philip Santoso
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2018
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Partisan Bias in Economic Perceptions: How Political and Economic Contexts Condition the Strength of the Partisan Screen
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Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University
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Santiago Sosa
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2018
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An Economic Theory of Pro-Government Militias
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Assistant Professor, Universidad EAFIT
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Carolina Tchintian
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2018
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Ballots, Vote Casting Procedures and Electoral Outcomes
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Director of Political Institutions Research at CIPPEC (an Argentine think-tank)
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Agustin Vallejo
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2018
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The Gendered Effect of Losing an Election and Its Consequences on Descriptive Representation
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston
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Andrew Wood
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2018
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Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Refugee Movements
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Leadership Specialist, Russell Reynolds
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Ahra Wu
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2018
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Alliance Choices and Their Effects on Interstate Disputes: Adopting a New Methodological Approach to Address Endogenous Treatment and Sample Selection Bias
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Senior Research Specialist, Bobst Center, Princeton University
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Santiago Alles
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2017
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Parties, Incumbents and the Reform of Electoral Rules in Latin American Democracies
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Assistant Professor, Universidad de San Andrés
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James Hedrick
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2017
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Immigration Policy in the American States: Attitudes, Adoption, and Outcomes
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Senior Financial Analyst, Federal Housing Finance Agency and Commissioner, Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning Commission
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Mathias Tromborg
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2017
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Voter Demands and Representative Behavior
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Associate Professor, Aarhus University
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Hiroki Kubo
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2016
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Organizing Legislative Parties: How Elections and Policy Positions Shape Intraparty Politics
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Associate Professor, Meiji Gakuin University
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Fanglu Sun
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2016
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Divide and Concede: Territorial Autonomy and Ethnic Rebellion
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Assistant Professor, Fudan University
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Iliya Atanasov
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2015
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Delegation, Agency and Competitive Representation
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Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz
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2015
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Genetic Links Among Ideology, Cognitive Style, Big Five Personality, and Executive Functions
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Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Seonghui Lee
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2015
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What Makes Politics Interesting? How Political Contexts Shape Political Interest and Knowledge Across the World
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex
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Nick C.N. Lin
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2015
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The Electoral Cost of Coalition Governance and Elites' Behavior in Parliamentary Democracies
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Associate Research Fellow, Academia Sinica
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Naoko Matsumura
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2015
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The Effects of Foreign Audiences in International Dispute Settlements
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Professor, Kobe University
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Marvin McNeese
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2015
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Win the Battleground to Win the Battle: Essays on Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and Interest Group Venue Shopping
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Professor, College of Biblical Studies
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Jaewook Chung
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2014
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The Power Distribution Between Allies, Alliance Politics and Alliance Duration
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Assistant Professor, Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES), Kyungnam University
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Jinhyeok Jang
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2014
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Dimensions of Politics: How Institutions Shape East Asian Legislatures
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Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University
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Jaclyn Kettler
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2014
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The Right to Party (Resources): Political Party Networks and Candidate Success
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Associate Professor, Boise State University
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Matthew Loftis
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2014
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Strategic Obfuscation: How Governments Use Bureaucratic Delegation
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Senior Data Scientist, The Danish Tax Agency, Antifraud Unit
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Carlos Cuellar
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2013
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Latino Descriptive Representation in Municipal Government: An Analysis of Latino Mayors
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Associate Vice Provost for Institutional Assessment and Academic Program Review, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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Jason Eichorst
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2013
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Conditioning Descriptive Representation: Institutional Moderation of Unique Group Perspectives in Legislative Debates
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Decision Scientist, USAA
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Tobias Heinrich
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2013
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Strategic Choices in Foreign Aid
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Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
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Yoshiharu Kobayashi
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2013
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Implementation of Economic Sanctions
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Associate Professor, University of Leeds
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Renita Miller
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2013
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Minority Voices: The Representational Roles of African American and Latino Legislators During State Legislative Deliberations
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Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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Tiffany Barnes
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2012
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Gender Quotas and The Representation of Women: Empowerment, Decision-making, and Public Policy
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Professor of Government,
University of Texas at Austin |
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Daina Chiba
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2012
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Essays on Durations of War and Postwar Peace
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Macao
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David Fortunato
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2012
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Essays on Voter and Partisan Behavior in Coalitional Democracies
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Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
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Jesse C. Johnson
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2012
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The Cost of Security: Foreign Policy Concessions and Military Alliances
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Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
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Carla Martinez-Machain
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2012
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Aerial Strategies and Their Effect on Conflict Characteristics
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Professor of Political Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY
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Akitaka Matsuo
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2012
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The Electoral Strategy of Legislative Politics: Balancing Party and Member Reputation in Japan and Taiwan
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS), University of Essex
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Ngoc Phan
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2012
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Anger In Action: The Role of Emotions, Competition, and Threat on Mobilization
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Associate Professor, Hawaii Pacific University
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Stephanie Burchard
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2011
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Authoritatively Democratic? The Functioning of Elections in Botswana’s Dominant Party System
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Researcher, Institute for Defense Analyses Africa Program
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Andrew Spiegelman
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2010
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Cartelization in U.S. State Legislatures
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Head of Data and Analytics, Service NSW
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Christy Aroopala
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2009
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Mobilizing Collective Identity: Frames & Rational Individuals
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Senior Director Data Engineering & Analytics, Moroch Partners
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Raul Gonzalez
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2009
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The Legislative Politics of Party Competition: An Analysis of Internal Organization in Eight Mexican State Congresses, 2001-2008
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Associate Professor of Practice and Director of the Arizona Teachers Academy, University of Arizona and Director of the Tucson Regional Educator Collaborative
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David Goodman
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2009
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The Use of Statutory Control by U.S. State legislators: One Step Closer to a More Complete Understanding of Legislative Control of Bureaucrats
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VP of Learning and Impact, Ajah Data Consulting
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Victor Marin
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2009
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Arms racing and conflict in the Third World: 1970-2000
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Team Chief of the Modeling and Statistics Branch, United States Intelligence Community
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Juan Pablo Micozzi
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2009
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The Electoral Connection in Multi-Level Systems with Non-Static Ambition: Linking Political Careers and Legislative Performance in Argentina
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Associate Professor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
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Jonathan Robinson
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2009
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Measuring Political Clientelism: The Systematic Qualitative Method
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Gavin Dillingham
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2008
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Urban Sprawl and Economic Competition: Explaining Governments' Adoption and the Effectiveness of Urban Growth Management Policy
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Vice President of Research, Energy and Air Quality at Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC)
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Greg Vonnahme
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2008
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Helping America Vote? The Institutional Design of Elections and Recent Reforms
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Associate Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Sezi Anac
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2007
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The Broader-Deeper Trade Off and Regional Trade Agreements
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Counsellor, Embassy of Turkey
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Valentin Krustev
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2007
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Bargaining and economic coercion: The use and effectiveness of sanctions
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Director, KPMG - Netherlands
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Brent Boyea
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2006
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State Methods of Judicial Selection: An Evaluation of Career Ambition
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Professor, University of Texas-Arlington
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Johanna Dunaway
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2006
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What Makes the News? The Institutional Determinants of the Political News Agenda
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Professor, Syracuse University; Research Director, Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship
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Michaela Mattes
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2006
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Falling to "Peaces": Conciliatory Agreements and the Durability of Peace
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Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
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Beth Miller Vonnahme
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2006
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Charting the Course: A Test of the Dynamic Implications of the On-Line and Memory-Based Models
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Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Rosa Eugenia Sandoval Bustos
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2006
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Explaining the commercial peace: Costs, information, and signaling
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Director of Research and Analysis at the Mexican Senate, the Center for International Studies Gilberto Bosques
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Burcu Savun
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2006
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Information, Bias, and Mediation Success: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mediation of International Conflicts
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Professor, University of Pittsburgh
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Paru Shah
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2006
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The Politics and Policy Implications of Latino Representation in Education
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Full Professor, Political Science and Senior Researcher for the Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers University
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M. Shawn Reichert
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2005
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Legislating for Europe: The Dynamics of MEP Voting Behavior
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William O. Douglas Honors College and Department of Political Science Faculty, Central Washington University
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Navin A. Bapat
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2004
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Non-state Actors and Political Conflict
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Professor, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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Kellie Butler
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2004
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Agenda-setting in the States: An institutional Analysis
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Dean of Student Services at Los Rios Community College District, Folsom Lake College; Sacramento CA
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Laura Delgado
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2004
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Legislative Organization in the American States: The Role of Executive Reorganizations
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Freelance Writer, edhelper.com
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Kevin Arceneaux
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2003
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The Federal Face of Democratic Representation: The Effects of Responsibility Attribution on Cross-level Voting Behavior and Government Responsiveness in the United States
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Director of the Center for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF); Professor of Political Science, The Center for Political Research at Sciences Po Paris
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Martin Johnson
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2002
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Influences of Contextual Information and Social Connectedness on Political Behavior
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Deceased 2020; former Dean, Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Chair in Political Communication, Louisiana State University
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Bernadette Jungblut
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2002
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International Trade and Interstate Conflict: The Influence of Domestic Political Institutions
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Professor of Political Science and William O. Douglas Honors College Faculty, Central Washington University
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Nancy Miller
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2002
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Theories of Legislative Organization and the Development of United States State Legislative Committee Systems
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Dayton
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Stephanie Post
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2002
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Cities and Their Suburbs: "Go Along to Get Along"
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Assistant Dean of Operations at School of Engineering, Rice University
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Stacy Ulbig
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2002
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Subnational Contextual Influences on Political Trust
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Professor, Sam Houston State University
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Jeffrey Dixon
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2001
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Intervention, Capabilities, Costs, and the Outcome of Civil Wars
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Associate Professor, Texas A&M University - Central Texas
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Richard Engstrom
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2001
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Electoral District Structure and Political Behavior
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Associate Research Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
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Allison Ownby
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2001
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Cycling and Recycling: The Effects of Group Context and Member Involvement on Social Capital
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Professor and Associate Dean, Office of Educational Programs, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Houston
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Scott Wohlander
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2001
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A Theory of Third-party Intervention in Disputes in International Politics
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Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer at Coverent LLC
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Dina Al-Sowayel
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1999
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Target Types and the Efficacy of Economic Sanctions
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Associate Director of Womens Studies at the University of Houston
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Sean Bolks
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1999
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Security Policy Choices: Foreign Policy Behavior as a Function of Threat, Capability and Governmental Structure
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Vice President Strategic Planning and Analysis at Apex International Energy
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Patrick Moriarty
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1999
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A Domestic Institutional Approach to the Study of Foreign Policy: Factors Affecting Dispute Behavior
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Executive Director, Ernst and Young Advisory
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Robert Hogan
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1998
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The Role of Campaigns in State Legislative Elections
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R. Downs Poindexter Professor and Department Chair, Louisiana State University
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Jody Neathery-Castro
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1998
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Regionalizing France: Decentralization or Trompe l'Oeil?
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Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement and University Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Omaha
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Holly Teeters Reynolds
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1998
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Institutional Change: The Mexican Chamber of Deputies
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Assistant Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi
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Carl Rhodes
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1998
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Information and Leadership in Laboratory and Field
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Managing Director, Ernst and Young
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R. Bruce Anderson
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1997
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Electoral Competition and the Structure of State Legislatures: Organizational Complexity and Party Building
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Dr. Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr. Endowed Chair in American History, Government, and Civics and Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Florida Southern College
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LaVonna Blair Lewis
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1997
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The Allocation of Distributive Program Benefits and the Maintenance of Interest Groups
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Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Teaching Professor of Public Policy, University of Southern California
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Brian Posler
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1997
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Reaping Gains Through the Organizational Party: Delegation to Party Leaders of the United States House of Representatives
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President of Lake Erie College
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Peter Dawson
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1996
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Liberal Hegemony and Democratic Peace
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Chief of Staff of Marine Corps Installations Pacific
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Krittibas Ray
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1995
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The Political Economy of Pax Nipponica: Pacific Asia, Japanese Economic Expansion and Elite Perception
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Valerie Schwebach
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1995
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Conflict Management and Negotiation Arithmetic: Adding Issues, Adding Parties
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Freelance Data Scientist and Statistician
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Lisa J. Carlson
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1994
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A Theory of Escalation: The Use of Coercive Bargaining Strategies in International Conflict
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Professor, University of Idaho
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Sara White
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1994
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Variations in Formal Structures of Neighborhood Organizations and Their Effects on Member Involvement
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Retired from a career in city planning
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Garry Young
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1994
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Legislative Decision Making Under Multiple Referral
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Director, GW Institute of Public Policy, George Washington University
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Adrian Clark
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1991
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A Comparative Examination of the Reagan and Thatcher Administrations' Approaches Toward Reforming the Welfare State
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Professor of Political Science, Del Mar College
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Albert Ellis
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1991
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The Regressive Era: Progressive Era Tax Reform and the National Tax Association--Roots of the Modern American Tax Structure. (Volumes I and II)
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Passed away in February 2013. Taught political science at Texas A&M-Kingsville for more than 20 years.
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Cheryl Young
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1991
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Bill Introduction in the United States House of Representatives, 1821-1895
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Attorney
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Andree E. Reeves
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1990
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Barden to Powell to Perkins: Leadership and Evolution of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, 1951-2004
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Alabama at Huntsville
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Michelle Taylor-Robinson
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1990
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Bureaucratic Politics as a Cause of Government Growth: The Case of Costa Rica
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Professor, Texas A&M University
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