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Research

Theissmorse Class

Graduate students often collaborate with faculty on research. Below are some recent examples of jointly published articles involving faculty and graduate student collaboration.

WILLIAM AVERY:

  • "Re-Examining the Linkage Between Economic Development and Democracy: Evidence from Latin America," with James T. Smith, Paper presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2.

JOHN COMER:

  • "Losing and Acquiring Health Insurance: Consequences for Health Care," with Keith Mueller and Joe Blankenau, Journal of Health and Social Policy, 11: 2000.
  • “The Implications of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 on Partisan Registration and Turnout,” with James T. Smith, Presented at the 1998 Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago.
  • "State Responses to Democratic Policy Reform," with Jeff Walz, Political Research Quarterly, March 1998.
  • "Female Empowerment: The Influence of Women Representing Women," with Angela High-Pippert, Women and Politics, 1998.
  • "Underinsurance: The Hidden Dimension of the Health Care Crises," with Keith Mueller and Joe Blankenau, Great Plains Research 6:1996.

DAVID FORSYTHE:

  • "Human Rights, the United Nations, and Foreign Policy," with Barbara Anne Rieffer, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Paris: UNESCO), Forthcoming.
  • "The United Nations and Human Rights," with John Mehrtens, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Paris: UNESCO), Forthcoming.
  • "U.S. Foreign Policy, Democracy, and Migration" with Michelle Leonard and Garry Baker, in Refugees and Migrants Edited by Peter Bender and Aristida Zolberg, Forthcoming.
  • "U.S. Use of Force Abroad," with Ryan Hendrickson, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Fall 1996.
  • "Human Rights, Humanitarian Intervention, and World Politics," with Kelly Kate-Pease, Human Rights Quarterly, 1993.
  • "Humanitarian Intervention and International Law," with Kelly Kate-Pease, Australian Journal of International Law, 1993.

JOHN HIBBING:

  • “Public Attitudes Towards Congress", for Congress Reconsidered 7th Ed. Edited by Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I.
  • Oppenheimer, with James T. Smith, Forthcoming.
  • "Situational Dissatisfaction in Congress: Explaining Voluntary Departures," with Michael K. Moore, Journal of Politics 60, Forthcoming.
  • "Public Disapproval of Congress Can be Dangerous to Majority Party Candidates: The Case of 1994," in David W.
  • Brady, John Cogan, and John Ferejohn, eds., Congressional Elections in the Post WWII Era. with Eric Tiritilli. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.
  • "A not-So-Distant Mirror: The 17th Amendment and Congressional Change," with Sara Brandes Crook, American Political Science Review 92: 1997.
  • "Length of Congressional Tenure and Federal Spending," with Michael K. Moore, American Politics Quarterly, April 1996.
  • "Modern Congressional Election Theory Meets the 1992 House Elections," with Sunil Ahuja, Staci Beavers, Cynthia Berreau, Anthony Dodson, Patrick Hourigan, Steven Showalter, and Jeff Waltz, Political Research Quarterly, 1994.
  • "Unfastening The Electoral Connection: The Behavior of U.S. Representatives When Reelection Is No Longer A Factor," with Rebekah Herrick and Michael K. Moore, Journal of Politics, 56: 1994.
  • "Is Serving Congress Fun Again? Voluntary Retirements from the House Since the 1970s," with Michael K. Moore, a Research Update in the American Journal of Political Science, 36: 1992.
  • "The Modern United States Senate: What is Accorded Respect?" with Sue Thomas, Journal of Politics, 52: 1990.

DAVID RAPKIN:

  • "Regionalizing Multilateralism: Prospects for Formation of Regional Blocs in the IM," with Jonathan R. Strand, Under Review, (1999)
  • "The United States and Japan in the Bretton Woods Institutions: Sharing or Contesting Leadership?" with Jonathan R. Strand, International Journal 52, 2: 265-96.1997.
  • "Institutional Adjustments to Changed Power Distributions: Japan and the United States in the IMF," with Joseph U. Elston, and Jonathan R. Strand, Global Governance 3, 2: 171-95. 1997.
  • "Is International Competitiveness a Meaningful Concept?" in C. Roe Goddard, John T. Passe-Smith, and John
  • Conklin, eds, International Political Economy: Readings on State-Market Relations in the Changing Global Order, with Jonathan R. Strand, Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner. 1996.
  • "Competitiveness: Useful Concept, Political Slogan, or Dangerous Obsession?" in David P. Rapkin and William P.
  • Avery, eds, National Competitiveness in a Global Economy, with Jonathan R. Strand , Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner 1995.

KEVIN SMITH

  • "Buying a Better SAT Score: A Renewed Search for the Elusive Link between Education Expenditures and Outcomes." with Jeremy Eccles, State and Local Government Review 30: 42-51, 1998.
  • "Expensive Lessons: Education and the Political Economy of the American States," with J. Scott Rademacker, Political Research Quarterly, Forthcoming.

ELIZABETH THEISS-MORSE:

  • "Antipathy, Apathy and Fellow Citizens." with Angela High-Pippert and Laura Ebke, Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Montreal, Canada, July 12-15.
  • "Citizenship Demands and Learned Helplessness," with Christine Pappas, Paper presented at the 1994 Scientific Conference of the International Society of Political Psychology, Santiago de Compestela, Spain.