Woodrow Wilson

Department of Politics

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Publications

Robert Fatton, Jr.

Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery

Nicholas J.G. Winter

Dangerous Frames: How Ideas About Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion

Anne Meng

Accessing the State

Carol Mershon

Accessing the State

Murad Idris

War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought

Anne Meng

Ruling Parties in Authoritarian Regimes: Rethinking Institutional Strength.

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

The Geography of Citizenship Practice: How the Poor Engage the State in Rural and Urban India.

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India

Kevin Duong

What Was Universal Suffrage?

Nicholas J.G. Winter

Online coders, open codebooks: New opportunities for content analysis of political communication

Nicholas J.G. Winter

The Shape of and Solutions to the MTurk Quality Crisis

Nicholas J.G. Winter

Masculine Republicans and Feminine Democrats: Gender and Americans’ Explicit and Implicit Images of the Political Parties

Nicholas J.G. Winter

Gendered (and Racialized) Partisan Polarization

John M. Owen, IV

Sino-Russian Cooperation against Liberal Hegemony

John M. Owen, IV

International Politics: How History Modifies Theory

Sidney Milkis

Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements and the Transformation of American Politics

Sidney Milkis

Building a Conservative State: Partisan Polarization and the Redeployment of Administrative Power

Justin Kirkland

How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization

Justin Kirkland

How Dispositional Empathy Influences Political Ambition

Justin Kirkland

Roll Call Rebels: Strategic Dissent in the United States and United Kingdom

Justin Kirkland

Indecision in American Legislatures

George Klosko

Oaths and Political Obligation in Ancient Greece

"Preface" Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures

Surviving Crises, Catastrophes, and Peace-Keeping Forces in Haiti

David Leblang

Exporting Murder: US Deportations and the Spread of Violence

David Leblang

Populists at the Polls: Economic, Political, and Social Factors in the 1896 Presidential Election

David Leblang

Controlling Immigration?

Jennifer Rubenstein

Between Samaritans and States: The Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGOs

Jennifer Rubenstein

Emergency Claims and Democratic Action

Leonard Schoppa

Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan's System of Social Protection

John Echeverri-Gent

Interpreting Politics: Situated Knowledge, India, and the Rudolph Legacy

Anne Meng

Constraining Dictatorship

Todd Sechser

Emerging Technologies and Strategic Stability in Peacetime, Crisis, and War

Todd Sechser

Reputations and Signaling in Coercive Bargaining

A Bargaining Theory of Coercion

Todd Sechser

Military Technology and Duration of Civil Conflict

Todd Sechser

Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy

Todd Sechser

Signaling Alliance Commitments: Hand-Tying and Sunk Costs in Extended Nuclear Deterrence

Todd Sechser

Crisis Bargaining and Nuclear Blackmail

Todd Sechser

The Illusion of Democratic Credibility

Todd Sechser

Goliath's Curse: Coercive Threats and Asymmetric Power

Killing Haitian Democracy

Haiti Trapped in the Outer Periphery

Herman Mark Schwartz

American Hegemony: Intellectual Property Rights, Money, and Infrastructural Power

Herman Mark Schwartz

Covering the Private Parts: The Post-Crisis (Re-)nationalization of Housing Finance

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

The Pursuit of Social Welfare: Citizen Claim-Making in Rural India

Kevin Duong

The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France

Kevin Duong

No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution

Kevin Duong

The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought

Kevin Duong

"Does Democracy End in Terror?" Transformations of Antitotalitarianism in Postwar France

Lawrie Balfour

"Toni Morrison and the Fugitives' Democracy" in African American Political Thought: A Collected History

Lawrie Balfour

"Living 'in the Red': Time, Debt, and Justice," in To Shape a New World: The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lawrie Balfour

Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois

Lawrie Balfour

The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy

Leonard Schoppa

The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan: Relying on Logic and Hope Over Evidence

Leonard Schoppa

Residential Mobility and Local Civic Engagement in Japan and the United States: Divergent Paths to School

Leonard Schoppa

The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change

Carol Mershon

Challenging the Wisdom on Preferential Proportional Representation

Carol Mershon

What Effect do Local Political Elites Have on Infant and Child Death? Elected and Chiefly Authority in South Africa

Carol Mershon

Formal Modeling in Social Science

Daniel Gingerich

Buying Power: Electoral Strategy Before the Secret Vote

Daniel Gingerich

Vote Secrecy with Diverse Voters

Daniel Gingerich

Lying About Corruption in Surveys: Evidence from a Joint Response Model

Daniel Gingerich

Ballot Reform as Suffrage Restriction: Evidence from Brazil's Second Republic

Todd Sechser

A Bargaining Theory of Coercion

Daniel Gingerich

Police Violence and the Underreporting of Crime

Murad Idris

"States of Nature and Islands of Politics: Animality, Death, Colonialism" in The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought

Murad Idris

"Colonial Hesitation, Appropriation, and Citation: Qasim Amin, Empire, and Saying 'No'" in Colonial Exchanges Political Theory and the Agency of the Colonized

Murad Idris

Ibn Tufayl’s Critique of Politics

Murad Idris

Alternative Political Theologies: Erasmus on Peace, Speech, and Necessity

Murad Idris

Political Theory and the Politics of Comparison

Murad Idris

Producing Islamic philosophy: The life and afterlives of Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān in global history, 1882–1947

Murad Idris

The Kazanistan Papers: Reading the Muslim Question in the John Rawls Archives

Murad Idris

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory

Jennifer Lawless

The Decline of Local News and Its Effects: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Jennifer Lawless

A Trump Effect? Women and the 2018 Midterm Elections

Jennifer Lawless

Nice Girls? Sex, Collegiality, and Bipartisan Cooperation in the U.S. Congress

Sidney Milkis

"Our Undivided Support: Donald Trump, the Republican Party and Executive-Centered Partisanship" in Dynamics of American Politics: Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance

Justin Kirkland

Party Competition, Personal Votes, and Strategic Disloyalty in the U.S. States

Robert Fatton, Jr.

Killing Haitian Democracy

Robert Fatton, Jr.

Surviving Crises, Catastrophes, and Peace-Keeping Forces in Haiti

Robert Fatton, Jr.

"Preface" in Haiti: International Dilemmas and Failures

Jennifer Lawless

Women on the Run: Gender, Media, and Political Campaigns in a Polarized Era

David Leblang

Ethnocentrism Reduces Foreign Direct Investment

Sonal Pandya

Ethnocentrism Reduces Foreign Direct Investment

Sonal Pandya

French Roast: International Conflict and Consumer Boycotts-Evidence from Supermarket Scanner Data

David Leblang

Risky Business: Institutions vs. Social Networks in FDI

Sonal Pandya

Risky Business: Institutions vs. Social Networks in FDI

Sonal Pandya

Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Globalized Production in the Twenty-First Century

David Leblang

Babies across Borders: The Political Economy of International Child Adoption

Sonal Pandya

Babies across Borders: The Political Economy of International Child Adoption

David Leblang

Doctors with borders: occupational licensing as an implicit barrier to high skill migration

Sonal Pandya

Doctors with borders: occupational licensing as an implicit barrier to high skill migration

Sonal Pandya

Democratization and Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization, 1970-2000.

Sonal Pandya

Trading Spaces

Sonal Pandya

Labor Markets and the Demand for Foreign Direct Investment

David Leblang

The Financial Crisis of 2007: Our Waterloo or Take a Chance on IPE?

Sonal Pandya

The Financial Crisis of 2007: Our Waterloo or Take a Chance on IPE?

Philip Potter

The Death and Life of Terrorist Networks: How Alliances Help Militants Survive

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