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Welcome to LSU's Department of Political Science. The Department is home to over 500 undergraduate majors and over 50 graduate students. They study with 30 faculty who are well known scholars in a wide variety of fields and who are amongst the most honored teachers at this university. We provide a vibrant place to study and a perfect place to prepare for an active role in politics. Please browse our website to learn more about us. For example, see what we teach under "Courses" and what we write under "Research." If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
James R. Stoner, Department Chair
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Ping Xu has accepted an offer to join the faculty in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island as a tenure-track assistant professor, starting in the fall of 2012.
Heather Ondercin has received the Marian Irish Award for the best paper in women and politics from the Southern Political Science Association for her paper at their 2011 conference titled “The Changing Meaning of Being a Man or a Woman.”
Congratulations to Ping Xu, who has been awarded a dissertation year fellowship by the Graduate School, for her work on “Immigration, Welfare and Income Inequality in 20 OECD countries, 1970-2009.”
Congratulations to Kate Bratton, Kit Kenny, and Chris Weber, who have just been awarded a grant of $104,911 for their project, "The Dynamics of Social Influence: A Longitudinal Look at Socially Structured Disaster Response." This will allow them to conduct a follow-up survey to the one they did last summer through their Rapid Response NSF grant.
Congratulations to Dustin Howes, who has just been awarded an ATLAS grant for 2011-12.
Dr. Christopher Kenny, Chris Weber, and Kathleen Bratton were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project "RAPID: Social Context and Emotional Response to Disaster." They are studying individual and social responses in Louisiana to the Gulf oil gusher.
Ping Xu, a doctoral student in political science, received the Warren Miller Scholarship to attend the 2010 ICPSR Summer Program at the University of Michigan.
Bill Clark has been named book review editor of The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review.
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Recent study ranks the Department 10th in country for research productivity.
Newly Published Research
Howes, Dustin. January 2012. "Terror In and Out of Power" European Journal of Political Theory. 11(1): 25-58.
Weber, Christopher, Johanna Dunaway, and Tyler Johnson. June 2011. “It’s all in the Name: Source Cue Ambiguity and the Persuasive Appeal of Campaign Ads.”Political Behavior.
Ondercin, Heather L., and Daniel Jones-White. 2011. "Gender Jeopardy: What is the Impact of Gender Differences in Political Knowledge on Political Participation?"
Social Science Quarterly, Volume 92, (3).
Berringer, Andrea C.S. 2011. "Possible Framework for Climate Change IDP's: Disaster and Development Induced Displacement and Resettlement Models and their Integration." The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, Volume 2 (4):
Bratton, Kathleen A. and Stella M. Rouse. 2011. "Networks in the Legislative Arena: How Group Dynamics Affect Cosponsorship." Legislative Studies Quarterly
36(3): 423-460.
Matt Fowler, Wayne Parent, Pete Petrakis, Summer 2011. "The Old South in the 2008 Presidential Election." American Review of Politics, Volume 32, pp. 83-103.
Davis, Belinda C., Michelle Livermore & Younghee Lim. 2011. "The Extended Reach of Minority Political Power: The Interaction of Descriptive Representation, Managerial Networking, and Race." The Journal of Politics 73 (2): 494-507
Garand, James C. and Micheal W. Giles. 2011. "Ranking Scholarly Publishers in Political Science: An Alternative Approach." Political Science & Politics 44 (2): 375-383.
Mulcahy, Kevin. 2011. "The Cultural Policy of the Counter-Reformation: The Case of St. Peter's." International Journal of Cultural Policy (Routledge) 17 (2): 131-152.
Kirby Goidel, Wayne Parent and Bob Mann. 2011. "Race, Racial Resentment, Attentiveness to the News Media, and Public Opinion
Toward the Jena Six" Social Science Quarterly 92 (1): 20-34.
Dunaway, Johanna. 2011. “Institutional Influences on the Quality of Campaign News Coverage.” Forthcoming, Journalism Studies (February 2011, special issue on the media as an institution).
Clark, William A. 2010. “Boxing Russia: Executive-Legislative Powers and the Categorization of Russia’s Regime Type.” Demokratizatsiya. 19 (1): 5-22.
Clare, Joe. 2010. “Ideological Fractionalization and the International Conflict Behavior of Parliamentary Democracies.” International Studies Quarterly 54 (4): 965-987.
Clare, Joe, and Vesna Danilovic. 2010. “Multiple Audiences and Reputation Building in International Conflicts.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 54 (6): 860-882.
Danilovic, Vesna, and Joe Clare. 2010. “Deterrence and Crisis Bargaining.” in Robert A. Denemark (ed.) The International Studies Association Compendium Project, Blackwell Publishers.
Dunaway, Johanna, Regina P. Branton, and Marisa Abrajano. 2010. “Agenda Setting, Public Opinion, and the Issue of Immigration Reform.” Social Science Quarterly 91(2):359-378.
Xu, Ping and James Garand. 2010. “Economic Contexts and Americans’ Attitudes toward Income Inequality”, Social Science Quarterly, Vol.91(5), pp.1220-124.
Garand, James C. 2010. "Income Inequality, Party Polarization, and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate." The Journal of Politics 72 (4): 1109-1128.
Gaines, N. Susan and James C. Garand. “Morality, Locality, or Equality: Analyzing Determinants in Support for Same-Sex Marriage.” Political Research Quarterly (September 2010: 553-67).
Rouse, Stella, Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, and James C. Garand, “Divided Loyalties? Understanding Variation in Latinos’ Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States,” Social Science Quarterly (September 2010: 856-82).
Hogan, Robert E. 2010. "Candidate Gender and Voter Support in State Legislative Elections," Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy, Vol. 31, No. 1: 44-66.
Kim, Wonik, and Jennifer Gandhi. 2010. "Coopting Workers under Dictatorship." The Journal of Politics 72 (3): 646-658.
Regina G. Lawrence with John Maxwell Hamilton and Raluca Cozma. 2010. "The Paradox of Respectability: The Limits of Indexing and Harrison Salisbury’s Coverage of the Vietnam War." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 15 (1), 77-103.
McEachern, Patrick. 2010. Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics. Columbia University Press
Schafer, Mark and Scott Crichlow. 2010. Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making in International Relations. New York: Columbia University Press.
Stoner, James R. 2010. "Freedom, Virtue, and the Politics of Regulating Pornography." In James R. Stoner, Jr., and Donna M. Hughes, eds. 2010. The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of Papers. Princeton, NJ: The Witherspoon Institute. Pp. 165-184.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan, and David Cingranelli. 2009. "IMF Programs and Human Rights, 1981-2003." Review of International Organizations. 4(1): 47-72.
Branton, Regina P., and Johanna Dunaway. 2009. “Spatial Proximity to the US-Mexico Border and Local News Coverage of Immigration Issues.” Political Research Quarterly 62(2): 289-302.
Branton, Regina P., and Johanna Dunaway. 2009. “Slanted Newspaper Coverage of Immigration: The Importance of Economics and Geography.” Policy Studies Journal 37(2): 257-27.
Garand, James C., Micheal W. Giles, Andre Blais, and Iain McLean. 2009. "Political Science Journals in Comparative Perspective: Evaluating Scholarly Journals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom." PS Political Science & Politics. 42 (4): 695-717.
Howes, Dustin E. 2009. Toward a Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Politics. State University of New York Press.
Lawrence, Regina G. and Melody Rose. 2009. Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics and the Media on the Campaign Trail. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Sandoz, Ellis. 2009. "The Philosopher's Vocation: The Voegelinian Paradigm." The Review of Politics 71(1): 54-67.
Sobek, David. 2009. The Causes of War. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Stoner, James. 2009. “Who Has Authority over the Constitution of the United States?” In The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism, eds. Steven Kautz, Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Pp. 95-111, 270-72.
Xenos, M.A. and Becker, A.B. (2009). Moments of Zen: Effects of The Daily Show on Information Seeking and Political Learning. Political Communication, 26(3):317-332.
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