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Faculty Research
Our faculty employ many approaches to knowledge—data collection, statistical analysis, experiments, surveys, field research, interviews, historical analysis, and other approaches to evidence—to understand American and international politics.
SELECTED ARTICLES
Brent Boyea, “Facing the Public: Voter Assessments of Judicial Scandal” Journal of Law and Courts 2025 (with K. Canelo and D. Myers)
Brent Boyea, “Individual Contributions to State Supreme Court Campaigns: Context and the Impact of Institutional Design” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 2017
Brent Sasley, “A Nation That Dwells Alone? Israel in the Discipline of International Relations” Israel Studies 2020
Brent Sasley, “Blogging Identities on Israel/Palestine: Public Intellectuals and Their Audiences” PS: Political Science and Politics 2014 (with Mira Sucharov)
Bai-Linh Hoang, "“Are You Too Busy to Listen Up?” Legislative (Dis)engagement from Constituents in Local Public Meetings" Political Communication 2025
Bai-Linh Hoang, “Does Race Affect Public Evaluations of Constituent Messages in Local Government Meetings? Results From an Experiment” Political Studies Review 2023
Christopher Chambers-Ju, “Adjustment Policies, Union Struggles, and Strategies of Mobilization: Teacher Politics in Mexico and Argentina” Comparative Politics 2021
Christopher Chambers-Ju, “Data Collection, Opportunity Costs, and Problem Solving: Lessons From Field Research on Teachers’ Unions in Latin America” PS: Political Science & Politics 2014
Kayla Canelo, “Facing the Public: Voter Assessments of Judicial Scandal” Journal of Law and Courts 2025 (with B. Boyea and D. Myers)
Kayla Canelo, “Citations to Interest Groups and Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2022
Mark Hand, “The Research Gap in Social Entrepreneurship” Stanford Social Innovation Review 2016
Mark Hand, “The Role of Policy Narrators During Crisis: A Micro-Level Analysis of the Sourcing, Synthesizing, and Sharing of Policy Narratives in Rural Texas” Policy Studies Journal 2023
Xavier Medina-Vidal, “Partisan Attachment and Democracy in Mexico: Some Cautionary Observations” Latin American Politics and Society 2010 (with A. Agues, S. Bowler, and J. Hiskey)
Xavier Medina-Vidal, “Fiscal Policy and Economic Inequality in the U.S. States: Taxing and Spending from 1976 to 2006” Political Research Quarterly 2015 (with TJ Hayes)