Below you may find selected research articles from Political Science faculty in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

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Submissions from 2024

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State Capacity and COVID-19 Responses: Comparing the US States, Kiran Auerbach, Joshua Y. Lerner, and Hannah M. Ridge

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Bottom-up Global Change: Stealth Action in a Decentralized World, Art Blaser and Trinity Huynh

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Ontological Complexity of Interpolity Orders: The Encounter Between Chosŏn and Tibet in Qing, Inho Choi and Minju Kwon

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What Biden Could Still Learn From Incumbent Presidents Who Decided Not to Run Again, Luke A. Nichter

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Ethnodoxy and Immigration Attitudes in the Middle East/North Africa, Hannah M. Ridge

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Fair Elections, Representation, and the Win-Loss Satisfaction with Democracy Gap, Hannah M. Ridge

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Jewish Nationalism in Israel: A Measurement, Hannah M. Ridge

Submissions from 2023

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Review of Thorne, Benjamin, The Figure of the Witness in International Criminal Tribunals: Memory, Atrocities and Transitional Justice, Art Blaser and Trinity Huynh

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Always Silent? Exploring Contextual Conditions for Nonresponses to Vote Intention Questions at the 2020 US Presidential Election, Stefano Camatarri, Lewis Luartz, and Marta Gallina

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Gin, Jesus, & Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South, John Compton

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Manufacturing a Protestant Consensus: Religion and Regime Entrenchment in the Eisenhower Era, John W. Compton

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So What is ‘Bidenomics’ Anyway? Certainly Not the Key to President Biden’s Reelection, Lori Cox Han

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A Theory of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the Government-Citizen Relationship / Teorija vpliva pandemije COVID-19 na odnos med vlado in državljani, Lewis Luartz

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The Ukraine War Wouldn’t Have Surprised Richard Nixon, Luke A. Nichter

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Democratic Commitment in the Middle East: A Conjoint Analysis, Hannah M. Ridge

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Measuring Ethnodoxy in Egypt and Morocco, Hannah M. Ridge

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Perceived Party Differences, Election Outcomes, and Satisfaction with Democracy, Hannah M. Ridge

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Smoller: Local Government and Climate Change, Fred Smoller

Submissions from 2022

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A New Wave of “Space Nationalism” in the United States: Why Are Evangelicals Good With It?, Andrea Molle

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Dismantling New Democracies: The Case of Tunisia, Hannah M. Ridge

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Party System Institutionalization, Partisan Affect, and Satisfaction with Democracy, Hannah M. Ridge

Submissions from 2021

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Review of: Murray, Stuart F. Disability and the Posthuman: Bodies, Technology, and Cultural Futures, Arthur Blaser

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Martial Arts in the Pandemic, Martin J. Meyer, Andrea Molle, Benjamin N. Judkins, and Paul Bowman

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SARS-COV-2 and the (Dark) Future of Society: A Machiavellian Approach to the End of Body Sovereignty and the Beginning of Bio-Feudalism, Andrea Molle

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Should the State of Israel Pursue Krav Maga as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Jewish People? History and Politics Say Yes., Guy Mor and Andrea Molle

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Citizens’ Democratic Attitudes: Winning the Constituency Offsets the Negative Effect of Electoral Defeat at the National Level, Hannah Ridge

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Electoral Outcomes and Support for Westminster Democracy, Hannah M. Ridge

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Just Like the Others: Party Differences, Perception, and Satisfaction with Democracy, Hannah M. Ridge

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Smoller and Moodian: Issues Matter in Supervisor’s Race, Fred Smoller and Michael A. Moodian

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Smoller, Moodian & King: Help Us Save the Earth, Fred Smoller, Michael A. Moodian, and Richard King

Submissions from 2020

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Pandemics Prey on Fears, Both Legitimate and Illegitimate, Joseph O. Baker, Ann Gordon, Edward Day, and Christoper Bader

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The Flesh and The Devil: Belief in Religious Evil and Views of Sexual Morality, Joseph O. Baker, Andrea Molle, and Christoper Bader

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Boyd and Blaser: An Uneven COVID-19 Toll in Orange County and Elsewhere — Orange County Isn’t the World, But is Part of It, Art Blaser and LouAnne Boyd

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The Cradle of the Countermajoritarian Diffifficulty, John W. Compton

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Rights and Representation: Media Narratives about Disabled People and Their Service Animals in Canadian Print News, Lana Kerzner, Chelsea Temple Jones, Beth Haller, and Arthur Blaser

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Mainero and Smoller: Response to Wagner, Mario Maneiro and Fred Smoller

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Mainero and Smoller: The GOP is Self-Destructing, Mario Maneiro and Fred Smoller

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Enemy Mine: Negative Partisanship and Satisfaction with Democracy, Hannah M. Ridge

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State Regulation of Religion: The Effect of Religious Freedom on Muslims' Religiosity, Hannah M. Ridge

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Smoller and Moodian: Four Takeaways From the 2020 General Election, Fred Smoller and Michael A. Moodian

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Smoller and Moodian: It’s Time to Rename John Wayne Airport, Fred Smoller and Michael A. Moodian

Submissions from 2019

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Review of The Third Disestablishment: Church, State, and American Culture, 1940-1975. By Steven K. Green, John W. Compton

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Why the Covenant Worked: On the Institutional Foundations of the American Civil Religion, John W. Compton

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Effect of Religious Legislation on Religious Behavior: The Ramadan Fast, Hannah M. Ridge

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Smoller and King: California Should Have its Own Solar Decathlon, Fred Smoller and Richard King

Submissions from 2018

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Review of Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, Nubar Hovsepian

Submissions from 2017

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Driverless Cars and Disability: Alternative Worlds in Media Presentation, Art Blaser

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Introducing International Relations: Placing “Disability”, Art Blaser

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Multiple Perspectives on Service Animals in Society, Arthur W. Blaser

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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine, Nubar Hovsepian

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Smoller: Orange County Supervisors Should Support the Voter’s Choice Act, Fred Smoller

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Smoller: Phasing in The Voter’s Choice Act, Fred Smoller

Submissions from 2016

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"Their Shadows Still Walk with Us": Mapping a Decolonial Cartography of Struggle with Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, Sandra Álvarez

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Review of 'Republican Theology: The Civil Religion of American Evangelicals', John Compton

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Why You Can’t Count On Congress to Rein In a President Trump, Lori Cox Han

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Review of Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider in a Turbulent Age, Nubar Hovsepian

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Review of The Near East Behind the Scenes: Memoirs of a Diplomat and Journalist (1952-2012), Nubar Hovsepian

Submissions from 2015

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Smoller/Grindle: Time is Now for an Ethics Commission, Fred Smoller and Shirley Grindle

Submissions from 2014

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What Is Originalism Good For?, John W. Compton

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Guest Editorial: Measure E is a Hoax by OC Supervisors, William R. Mitchell, Fred Smoller, Dave Baker, and Shirley Grindle

Submissions from 2012

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One State or Two in Israel/Palestine: The Stress on Gender and Citizenship, Gordon Babst and Nicole M. Tellier

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Review of Bruce Ledewitz, Church, State and the Crisis in American Secularism, John Compton

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Political Theory in Institutional Context: The Case of Patriot Royalism, John Compton and Karen Orren

Submissions from 2006

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2006 Apsa Teaching and Learning Conference Track Summaries, Gordon Babst, Denise DeGarmo, Chris Harth, Bob Reinalda, Amy Cabrera Rasmussen, Reilly Hirst, Anas Malik, and Ange-Marie Hancock

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New Strategies for an Old Medium: The Weekly Radio Addresses of Reagan and Clinton, Lori Cox Han

Submissions from 2004

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Assessment Is Not a Four-Letter Word, Fred Smoller

Submissions from 2003

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Out of Office and In the News: Early Projections of the Clinton Legacy, Lori Cox Han and Matthew J. Krov

Submissions from 2002

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Building Political Consensus and Distributing Resources: A Trade-Off Or a Compatible Choice?, Yi Feng and Theodora‐Ismene Gizelis

Submissions from 1999

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John Dewey, Art and Public Life, Mark Mattern

Submissions from 1997

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Teaching Democratic Theory Democratically, Mark Mattern

Submissions from 1992

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How To Advance Human-Rights Without Really Trying - an Analysis Of Nongovernmental Tribunals, Arthur Blaser

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Watergate Revisited, Fred Smoller