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.
2022
- Mollie J. Cohen, Amy Erica Smith, Mason W. Moseley, and Matthew L. Layton, “Winners’ Consent? Citizen Commitment to Democracy When Illiberal Candidates Win Elections,” American Journal of Political Science
- Peiyi Lu and Mack Shelley, “Testing the Missingness Mechanism in Longitudinal Surveys: A Case Study Using the Health and Retirement Study,” International Journal of Social Research Methodology
- Karen M. Kedrowski, “Integrating Civic Engagement into Scholarly Reward Systems,” PS: Political Science & Politics
- Jonathan M. Powell, Salah Ben Hammou, Amy Erica Smith, Lucas Borba, Drew Holland Kinney, Mwita Chacha, and Erica de Bruin, “A Coup At the Capitol? Conceptualizing Coups and Other Antidemocratic Actions,” International Studies Review
- David A. M. Peterson, Joanne M. Miller, Kyle L. Saunders, and Scott D. McClurg, “Macrointerest,” British Journal of Political Science
2021
- Peiyi Lu, Mack Shelley, and Yi-Long Liu, “Government Transfers and Poverty Alleviation among Older Adults in the United States from 2002 to 2014,” Social Policy and Society
- 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
- 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
- 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
- James McCormick and Gerald Schmitz, “Meeting the Challenge of ‘America First’ and the New Nationalism,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal
- 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