Jane Sumner

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Jane Lawrence Sumner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2016. Her research focuses on how companies and their decisions influence politics. She's also interested broadly in measurement and data issues in political science.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

B.S.: Political Science, University of Michigan, , 2010 -
M.A.: Political Science, Emory University, , 2014 -
Ph.D.: Political Science, Emory University, , 2016 -

Specialties

quantitative methodology and statistics
political economy
multinational corporations

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Publications

Michelle Dion, Jane Lawrence Sumner, and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. 2018. "Gendered Citation Patterns Across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields". Political Analysis 26 (3): 312-327.
Kerner, Andrew and Jane Lawrence. 2014. "What's the Risk? Bilateral Investment Treaties, Political Risk, and Fixed Capital Accumulation." British Journal of Political Science 44 (1): 107-21.
Owens, Michael Leo and Jane Lawrence Sumner. 2018. "Regional or Parochial? Support for Cross-Community Sharing within City-Regions". Journal of Urban Affairs 40 (1): 98-116.
Sumner, Jane Lawrence. 2018. "The GBAT: A Web-Based Tool for Estimating Gender Balance in Syllabi and Bibliographies". PS: Political Science and Politics 51 (2): 396-400.
Esarey, Justin and Jane Lawrence Sumner. 2018. "Overconfidence in Testing of Interaction Hypotheses: Determining and Controlling the False Positive Rate." Comparative Political Studies 51 (9): 1144-1176.

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