Recent Faculty Publications

Christopher M. Federico

This book identifies the factors that have shaped and conditioned the sorting of Americans into different belief patterns and partisan camps as a function of authoritarianism over the past thirty years. It shows, through the use of nationally representative samples, panel data, and experiments, how authoritarianism has increasingly structured a wide range of attitudes, how it has become a growing influence on vote choice, and how the parties have sorted on authoritarianism. However, it makes the point that the impact of authoritarianism on the evolution of partisanship and mass opinion in America has been more complex and contingent than previous treatments have suggested.

Jane L. Sumner

This text teaches basic R skills to political science students with no programming background. Intended specifically for the students who need to learn R for a class and who have no interest in R or may even be afraid of or hostile to it, this text builds an awareness of basics, confidence, and a skill set necessary to transition into more advanced texts.

Paul Goren

A new perspective on how beliefs about abortion and gay rights reshaped American politics.

Paul Goren

Political psychologists have long theorized that authoritarianism structures the positions people take on cultural issues and their parties ties. Authoritarianism is durable; it resists the influence of other political judgments; and it is very impactful—in a word, it is strong. By contrast, researchers characterize the attitudes most people hold on most issues as unstable and ineffectual—in a word, weak. But what is true of most issues is not true of the issues that have driven America's long running culture war—abortion and gay rights. This Element demonstrates that moral attitudes are stronger than authoritarianism.

August Nimtz

Nimtz's and Edwards's real-time comparative political analysis offers a unique look at two historically consequential figures with two very different theoretical and political perspectives, both of whom expertly examined the most contentious issue of the nineteenth century. By juxtaposing the political thought and activism of Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, Nimtz and Edwards are able to make insightful observations and conclusions about race and class in America.

Tanisha M. Fazal

Offers a comprehensive history of U.S. military medicine, examines how the U.S. has assessed the costs of war prior to major conflicts, and explicitly connects changes in military medicine to changes in veterans' benefits and the costs of war.

Kathleen Collins

A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups.
 

Tricia D. Olsen

This book explores victims' varying experiences in seeking remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse.

Timothy R. Johnson

SCOTUS and COVID compares the volume and nature of online print and broadcast television coverage from major media outlets from all U.S. Supreme Court oral argument sessions during the October 2019, 2020, and 2021 Terms.