Political Science faculty at Iowa State maintain active research programs spanning all subfields of the discipline. Below is a small sample of our recent publications. More complete listings are available on individual faculty pages in the department directory.
2021
- V. Ximena Velasco Guachalla, Calla Hummel, Sam Handlin, and Amy Erica Smith, “Latin America Erupts: When Does Competitive Authoritarianism Take Root?,” Journal of Democracy
- Nell Gabiam, “Palestinian Refugees and Europe’s ‘Refugee Crisis’: Seeking Asylum in France in the Wake of the Syrian War,” Journal of Refugee Studies
- Lauren Honig, Amy Erica Smith, and Jaimie Bleck, “What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya,” Perspectives on Politics
- Maxwell B. Allamong and David A. M. Peterson, “Screw Those Guys: Polarization, Empathy, and Attitudes about Out-Partisans,” Political Psychology
- Richard W. Mansbach and Yale Ferguson, Populism and Globalization: The Return of Nationalism and the Global Liberal Order, Palgrave Macmillan
- Kyle Estes, “Whose Ties Still Bind? Ethnic Domination, Informal Social Networks, and Public Goods Provision in Kyrgyzstan,” Problems of Post-Communism
- Peiyi Lu and Mack Shelley, “Comparing Older Adult and Child Protection Policy in the United States of America,” Ageing & Society
- Scott G. Feinstein and Ellen B. Pirro, “Testing the World Order: Strategic Realism in Russian Foreign Affairs,” International Politics
- Nell Gabiam, “Recurring Displacement, Homemaking and Solidarity amongst Syrian and Palestinian Syrian Refugees in Turkey,” Anthropology of the Middle East
- Matthew L. Layton, Amy Erica Smith, Mason W. Moseley, and Mollie J. Cohen, “Demographic Polarization and the Rise of the Far Right: Brazil’s 2018 Presidential Election,” Research & Politics
2020
- David A. M. Peterson, Joanne M. Miller, Kyle L. Saunders, and Scott D. McClurg, “Macrointerest,” British Journal of Political Science
- Amy Erica Smith and Robin Globus Veldman, “Evangelical Environmentalists? Evidence from Brazil,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
- Chunyu Yang, Yu Wang, and Zhanfeng Dong, “Evaluating the Impact of Denitrification Tariff on Energy-Related NOx Generation in China: Policy Effects and Regional Disparities,” Energy Policy
- Amy Erica Smith, “Covid vs. Democracy: Brazil’s Populist Playbook,” Journal of Democracy
- Shelly M. Palmer, Simon T. Knoblauch, Donna M. Winham, Molly B. Hiller, and Mack C. Shelley, “Putting Knowledge into Practice: Low-Income Women Talk about Food Choice Decisions,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Jennifer Wolak and David A. M. Peterson, “The Dynamic American Dream,” American Journal of Political Science
- Jonathan Hassid, “Censorship, the Media, and the Market in China,” Journal of Chinese Political Science
- Mark D. Ramirez, and David A. M. Peterson, Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos, Cambridge University Press
- Olga V. Chyzh and Mark S. Kaiser, “A Local Structure Graph Model: Modeling Formation of Network Edges as a Function of Other Edges,” Political Analysis
- Heidi Hardt, Hannah June Kim, Amy Erica Smith, and Philippe Meister, “The Gender Readings Gap in Political Science Graduate Training,” Journal of Politics
- Tessa Ditonto, “The Mediating Role of Information Search in the Relationship Between Prejudice and Voting Behavior,” Political Psychology
- Chien-fei Chen, Yu Wang, Lazarus Adua, and Hua Bai, “Reducing Fossil Fuel Consumption in the Household Sector by Enabling Technology and Behavior,” Energy Research & Social Science
2019
- Yen-Han Lee, Yen-Chang Chang, Stephan Arndt, Mack Shelley, and Ching-Ti Liu, “Weekly Marijuana Use and Health-Related Measurements among Adults in the United States: A Longitudinal Study,” Drugs: Education, Prevention, And Policy
- Mark David Nieman and Cameron G. Thies, “Property Rights Regimes, Technological Innovation, and Foreign Direct Investment,” Political Science Research and Methods
- David J. Andersen, David P. Redlawsk, and Richard R. Lau, “The Dynamic Process Tracing Environment (DPTE) as a Tool for Studying Political Communication,” Political Communication
- Debora Duque and Amy Erica Smith, “The Establishment Upside Down: A Year of Change in Brazil,” Revista de Ciencia Politica
- Roseanne W. McManus and Mark David Nieman, “Identifying the Level of Major Power Support Signaled for Proteges: A Latent Measure Approach,” Journal of Peace Research
- Amy Erica Smith, Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God, Cambridge University Press
- Peiyi Lu, Chunyu Yang, Jun Yao, and Mack Shelley, “Outpatient and Inpatient Service Use by Chinese Adults Living in Rural Low-Income Households,” Social Work in Public Health
- Paul A. Djupe, Amy Erica Smith, and Anand Edward Sokhey, “Explaining Gender in the Journals: How Submission Practices Affect Publication Patterns in Political Science,” PS: Political Science & Politics
- Peiyi Lu and Mack Shelley, “Retirement, Pensions, and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults in China, England, Mexico, and the United States,” International Journal of Aging & Human Development
- Ahlam Khalfan Al Subhi and Amy Erica Smith, “Electing Women to New Arab Assemblies: The Roles of Gender Ideology, Islam, and Tribalism in Oman,” International Political Science Review