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 Job Candidates 2008 - 2009

Name
Area of Substantive Interest
Dissertation Title

Field

Lakeyta M. Bonnette
CV
Political Psychology, American Politics, Minority Politics

"Key Dimensions of Black Political Ideology: Contemporary Black Music and Theories of Attitude Formation"
Advisor: William Nelson

American
Michael Cohen
CV
Web Site
Parties and Elections; Comparative Political Institutions (specifically  Federalism); and Public Policy Diffusion "Behavioral Expectations, Voter Perceptions and Regional Parties"
Advisor: Marcus Kurtz
Comparative

Web Site

Voting Behavior, Public Opinion, Interest Groups, Civic Engagement, American Political Development, State Theory
"On the Autonomy of the Democratic State: How Mass Democracy Promotes State Power"
Advisor:
Gregory Caldeira
American
Thomas M. Dolan
CV
Security Studies, International Relations, Political Psychology, Foreign Policy, Conflict Processes, Conflict Resolution, Strategic Studies

"Recognizing Victory and Admitting Defeat"

Advisor: Richard K. Herrmann

IR
Delia Dumitrescu
CV

Web Site
Comparative political communication; political behavior; advanced
democracies; parties and elections; political psychology
Election Posters Campaigns: An Old Form
of Campaign Communication in a New Light
Advisor: Anthony Mughan
Comparative
Political Economy of Taxation, State Building, Latin American Politics, Politics of Development, and Democratization
"The Politics of Taxation in Argentina and Brazil in the Last Twenty Years of the 20th Century"
Advisor: William Liddle
Comparative
TongFi Kim
Web Site
CV
Alliance Theory, East Asian Politics, International Relations Theory, International Security “The Alliance Market: American Security Relations Under Unipolarity”
Advisor: Randall Schweller
IR
Danielle Langfield
CV
Democratization, political parties, South African Politics "Harbingers of Change? Local Party Strategies in Dominant Party Systems"
Advisor: Richard Gunther
Comparative
Banks P. Miller
Web Site
CV
Judicial behavior; state politics; political methodology State Success in State Supreme Courts: Judges, Litigants and State Solicitors
Advisor:
Lawrence Baum
American

Methodology

Autumn Lockwood Payton
Web Site
CV
International Organization, Institutional Design, International Law and Human Rights, Political Methodology "Tying Gulliver Down: When Weak States Dominate the Design of International Institutions"
Advisor: Daniel Verdier
IR
Tina D. Pierce
CV
American Politics "Political Leadership and Policy: A Case Study of the Columbus City School District and its Board of Education"
Advisor: William E. Nelson Jr.
American
Amanda M. Rosen
Web Site
CV
International Organization, Climate Policy, Transatlantic relations, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Emission Impossible? The Politics of International and Domestic Climate Policy Making
Advisor: Randall Schweller
IR

Comparative

Yusuf Sarfati
Web Site
CV

Politics of the Middle East, Religion and Politics, Culture and Politics, Social Movements, Political Theory, Democratic Theory

State Co-optation, Religiopolitical Actors, and the Mobilization of Sociocultural Cleavages: A Comparative Study of the Rise of Religious Parties in Turkey and Israel
Advisor:R. William Liddle
Comparative
Anand Edward Sokhey
Web Site
CV

American Politics: voting behavior; public opinion; political participation; religion and politics
Methodology: survey research/questionnaire design; econometric techniques; experiments

"Motivation and the Social Information Search"

Advisor: Paul A. Beck

American

Methodology

Sarah Wilson Sokhey
WEB Site
CV

Political economy
Post-communist countries

Market-Oriented Reforms & the Role of Private Interests in Russia
Advisor: Sarah Brooks, Timothy Frye
Comparative
Yohanes Sulaiman
CV

Web Site

Ethnic and Religious Conflicts, Indonesian Foreign Policy, International Relations Theory, International Security, Leadership and International Politics, Public Opinion,
U.S. Foreign Policy

"The Banteng and the Eagle: Indonesian Foreign Policy and the United States During the Era of Sukarno: 1945-1967."

Advisor: John Mueller

IR
Konstantin Vössing
Web Site
CV

Institutions of advanced democracies, institutionalist approaches, political development, comparative political parties, social movements, comparative political behavior, European integration

"The formation of social democratic parties. Degrees of inclusion as external constraints and the strategic choices of labor elites."
Advisor: Richard Gunther
Comparative
Byungwon Woo
CV
Web Site
International Institutions, International Political Economy,
Interactions between International and Domestic Politics,
Formal Theory, Political Methodology
"Balancing on a Seesaw:the IMF, Government, and Domestic Interests in IMF Program Design and Implementation"
Advisor: Daniel Verdier
IR

Methodology

Christina Xydias
Web Site
CV
Women in politics, comparative electoral systems, democratic theory, gender theory, and terror and terrorism “Women Representing Women?: Pathways to Substantive Representation”
Advisor: Goldie A. Shabad
Comparative

Theory

 

 


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