Peer Reviewed Articles

Hardin, Shana. 2025. “Empowering candidacy: how authorizing the use of campaign funds for childcare increases women’s candidacy for state legislatures.” Politics, Groups, and Identities, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2530950.

Martin, Kyle. 2025. “Alexander Hamilton’s Theory of Conscience: Conscience as a Source of Constitutional Obligation.” American Political Thought 14(3). https://doi.org/10.1086/736327.

Datta, Aparajita. 2024. “Policy Feedback, Energy Equity, and Climate Justice: Can Existing Policies Improve Solar Access for Low- and Moderate-Income Communities in the United States?” PS: Political Science & Politics 57(4): 463–72. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096524000635. 

Datta, Aparajita, Stephanie Coates, Alan Rossiter, and Ramanan Krishnamoorti. 2024. “Reskilling and Upskilling for Decarbonization: Analyzing Micro-Credential Programs for Energy Workforce Development.” The Journal of Continuing Higher Education: 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/07377363.2024.2377777. 

Lee, Jeemin, and Youngho Cho. 2024. “Koreans’ Support for Democratic Norms and Its Change: An Analysis of the 2003-2020 Asian Barometer Surveys.” Journal of Future Politics 14(1): 5–38. https://doi.org/10.20973/jofp.2024.14.1.5. 

Radziszewski, Elizabeth, and Polina Kharmats. 2024. "Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterterrorism from 2010 to 2023." College Park, MD: START (December). https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/government-responses-asymmetric-threats-state-literature-counterterrorism-2010-2023.

Vidal Bustamante, Constanza M., Victoria J. Hernandez, Ishita Kamboj, Aparajita Datta, and Joineé Taylor. 2024. “Policy Priorities to Build and Sustain the U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing Workforce.” Journal of Science Policy & Governance 25(1). https://doi.org/10.38126/JSPG250116. 

Datta, Aparajita, and Krishnamoorti, Ramanan. 2022. Understanding the Greenhouse Gas Impact of Deforestation Fires in Indonesia and Brazil in 2019 and 2020. Frontiers in Climate. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.799632. 

Liao, Yu-Ceng. 2022. “Party leadership, electoral reform, and mandate-divide. Japanese Journal of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1468109922000111.

Ozer L. Adam and Jamie M. Wright. 2022. “Partisan news versus party cues: The effect of cross-cutting party and partisan network cues on polarization and persuasion.” Research & Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680221075455.

Ozer L. Adam, Brian W. Sullivan, and Douglas S. Van. 2022. “Viewed from Different Engels?: Differences in Reactions to “Socialism” as a Policy Label.” Political Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129211037402.

Wright, Jamie M. 2022 “Racially Conditioned Partisans: Exploring How Racial Attitudes Influence Presidential Approval, Issue Competencies, and Vote Choice.” Presidential Studies Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12787.

Mallette, Adam, Datta, Aparajita, and Krishnamoorti, Ramanan. 2021. Consolidated nuclear waste storage in Andrews, Texas: An integrated technical and policy risk analysis. Energy & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958305X211051328. 

Datta, Aparajita, De Leon, Rafael, and Krishnamoorti, Ramanan. 2020. Advancing carbon management through the global commoditization of CO2: the case for dual-use LNG-CO2 shipping. Carbon Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2020.1840871. 

Datta, Aparajita, and Krishnamoorti, Ramanan. 2019. Opportunities for a Low Carbon Transition-Deploying Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in Northeast India. Frontiers in Energy Research. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2019.00012. 

Junqiang Liu, Hui Zhou, Lingrui Liu, Chunxiao Wang. 2020. “The weakness of the strong: Examining the squeaky-wheel effect of hospital violence in China,” Social Science & Medicine 245(2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112717.

Watson, Penny. 2019. “On the 25^th Anniversary of Michael Desch’s When the Third World Matters: Explaining Why Iran’s Latin America Grand Strategy Poses a Security Threat to the United States.” Democracy and Security. https://doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2019.1566064

Kim, Yongkwang. 2019. “How Conspiracy Theories Can Stimulate Political Engagement.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2019.1651321.

Solis, Jonathan and Leonardo Antenangeli. 2017. “Corruption is Bad News for a Free Press”. Social Science Quarterly.   https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12438.

Waggoner, Philip D. 2017. “Informal politics: the role of Congressional letters in legislative behaviour and careers.” Journal of Legislative Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2017.1358982.

Peer Reviewed Articles Co-Authored with Houston Faculty

Alemán, Eduardo, and Saadet Konak Unal . 2025. “Penalizing Women MPs: The Approval of Women-Initiated Bills in the Turkish Parliament.” The Journal of Legislative Studies 31(1): 270–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2023.2195142.

Achury, Susan, Jason P. Casellas, Scott J. Hofer and Matthew Ward. 2025. “The Dimensions of Judicial Legitimacy: Assessing the Impact of Latino Representation.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 1-22.  https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2469253.

Alvarez, Robert D. and Jason P. Casellas. 2025. Shifting Allegiances: The Election of Latino Republicans to Congress and State Legislatures. Cambridge University Press.

Avdan, Nazli, Shelby Davis, and Michael J. Soules. 2025. “Magical Practices and the Recruitment of Women into Rebel Groups.” Forthcoming at International Studies Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433241295466.

Kennedy, Ryan, Lydia Brashear Tiede, Amanda Austin, Kenzy Ismael. 2025. “Law Enforcement and Legal Professionals’ Trust in Algorithms.” Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis 2(1): 77-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/2755323X251325594.

Badas, Alex and Billy Justus. 2024. "Millionaire Justices and Attitudes towards the Supreme Court." Political Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-023-09905-7.

Alemán, Eduardo, Pablo Valdivieso Kastner,  and Sebastián Vallejo Vera. 2024. “Speech Targeting and Constituency Representation in Open-List Electoral Systems.” Electoral Studies 92: 102865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102865.

Bagashka, Tanya, Samantha Chapa, and Lydia Tiede. 2023 "Influence by Power or Reasons? The Role of Amicus Curiae Briefs in Constitutional Court Decision-Making." East European Politics and Societies. https://doi.org/10.1177/088832542211484.

 Clark, Jennifer H., and Gathoni Kimondo. 2024. “When Women Run: Explaining the Emergence of Women State Legislative Candidates.” The Journal of Legislative Studies: 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2024.2346979. 

Clifford, Scott and Lucas Lothamer. 2024. “How Strong Policy Attitudes Activate Support for Aggressive Political Action.” Political Behavior. 
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09989-9. 

Clifford, Scott, Elizabeth Simas, and JeongKyu Suh. 2024. “The Policy Basis of Group Sentiments.” Political Science Research and Methods. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2024.30. 

Cortina, Jeronimo, and Shana Hardin. 2024. “Descriptive Representation and Reproductive Health Outcomes: The Role of Women Candidates in Reducing Teen Birth Rates.” Healthcare 12(20): 2066. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12202066. 

Kennedy, Ryan, and Amanda Austin. 2024. “A Protocol for Integrating Dynamic Adaptive Questions from Generative AI into Qualtrics Surveys with Minimal JavaScript.” SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4791512.

Kennedy, Ryan, Amanda Austin, Michael Adams, Carroll Robinson, and Peter Salib. 2024. “Net versus Relative Impacts in Public Policy Automation: A Conjoint Analysis of Attitudes of Black Americans.” AI & SOCIETY. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01975-3.

Lothamer, Lucas J., and Brandon Rottinghaus. 2024. “What Causes Threats Directed at the President?” Presidential Studies Quarterly 54(1): 130–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12865.

Scarrow, Susan E., JeongKyu Suh, and Jamie M. Wright. 2024. “Explaining the Narrowing Gender Gap in Partisan Participation: Women’s Empowerment or Men’s Disengagement?” Political Studies: 00323217241297628. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241297628. 

Artabe, Eugenia and Alex Badas. 2023. "Measuring the Countermajoritarian Nature of Supreme Court Decisions." The Journal of Legal Studies. 52(2) 345-375. https://doi.org/10.1086/724420.

Artabe, Eugenia, Samantha Chapa, Leah Sparkman, and Patrick E. Shea. 2023. "External Threats, Capacity, and Repression: How the Threat of War Affects Political Development and Physical Integrity Rights." British Journal of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123422000692 

Badas, Alex, Billy Justus, and Siyu Li. 2022. "Assessing the Influence of Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket in the Judicial Hierarchy." Justice System Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/0098261X.2022.2143304

Badas, Alex and Billy Justus. 2022. "Media Attention and Deliberation on the Supreme Court." Political Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F10659129221114049

Dugoua, Eugenie, Ryan Kennedy, Myriam Shiran, and Johannes Urpelainen. 2022 "Assessing reliability of electricity grid services from space: the case of Uttar Pradesh, India." Energy for Sustainable Development 68 (2022): 441-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2022.04.004

Scarrow, Susan E., Jamie M. Wright, and Anika Gauja. 2022. “Party statutes and party institutionalization.” Party Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688211071066

Wright, Jamie M., Jennifer Hayes Clark, and Heather K. Evans. 2022. “”’They Were Laughing’: Congressional Framing of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Sexual Assault Allegations on Twitter.” Political Research Quarterly 75(1) 147-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912920987631 

Wright, Jamie M., Scott Clifford, and Elizabeth N. Simas. 2022 “The Limits of Issue Ownership in a Polarized Era.” American Politics Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673X221106435

Clifford, Scott, Yongkwang Kim, and Brian Sullivan. 2020. “An Improved Question Format for Measuring Conspiracy Beliefs.” Public Opinion Quarterly. https://academic.oup.com/poq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/poq/nfz049/5717683

 Antenangeli, Leonardo and Francisco Cantú. 2019. “Right on Time: An Electoral Audit for the Publication of Vote Results”. Statistics, Politics, and Policy, 10(2): 137-186. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/spp.2019.10.issue-2/spp-2019-0001/spp-2019-0001.xml

Casellas, Jason and Markie McBrayer. 2019. “From Barrios to Condos: The Effects of Gentrification on Minority Representation.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-race-ethnicity-and-politics/article/from-barrios-to-condos-the-effects-of-gentrification-on-minority-descriptive-representation/E7290614F1B8C483B0376A5CB47BC54A

Markie McBrayer, Patrick Shea and Justin Kirkland.  “Federalism, Fiscal Stability and the Creditworthiness of U.S. State Governments.”  Statistics, Politics and Policy. Vol 9, No 1. 2019. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/spp.2018.9.issue-1/spp-2018-0003/spp-2018-0003.xml

Simas, Elizabeth and Doug Murdoch. 2019. “’I Didn’t Lie, I Misspoke’: Voters’ Responses to Questionable Campaign Statements.” Journal of Experimental Political Science. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-experimental-political-science/article/i-didnt-lie-i-misspoke-voters-responses-to-questionable-campaign-claims/29F09434D1B58E412FB7028CDBBB296A

Waggoner, Philip D., Ryan Kennedy, Hayden Le, and  Myriam Shiran. 2019. “Big Data and Trust in Public  Policy Automation.” Statistics, Politics and Policy. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/spp.2019.10.issue-2/spp-2019-0005/spp-2019-0005.xml?lang=en

Casellas, Jason and Kenicia Wright. 2017. “The Impact of Electoral Rules on Minority Representation.” Todd Donovan (Ed.), Election Rules and Reform, Rowman and Littlefield Press.

Yeaji Kim, Leonardo Antenangeli, and Justin H. Kirkland. 2017. “Measurement Error and Attenuation Bias in Exponential Random Graph Models.” Statistics, Politics, and Policy. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/spp.2016.7.issue-1-2/spp-2016-0001/spp-2016-0001.xml

Book Chapters  

Myriam Shiran, Patrick Shea. 2022. "Survival analysis in international relations" in Huddleston, R. J., Thomas Jamieson, and Patrick James, eds. Handbook of Research Methods in International Relations. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83910-100-7

Phillips, Matthew, and Davis, Shelby. (2022). The Nexus of Organized Crime and Terror in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Organized Crime and Terrorism: What is the Nexus? (Fijnaut, C., Paoli, L., & Wouters, J., eds.). Oxford University Press.

Watson, Penny L. “Iran’s Latin America Strategy and the Challenges to the Balance of Power,” in Extra-Hemispheric Powers in Latin America, editors Gian Luca Gardini (University Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Gonzalo S. Paz (Georgetown University), New York: Routledge, 2020.

Akinrinola, A. A., Adebayo, S. B., Onakpoya, Lulu U., & Nwaozuru, U. C. (2019). Toward Culturally-Inclusive Educational Technology in a Globalized World. In B. Adeoye, & G. Arome (Eds.), The Roles of Technology and Globalization in Educational Transformation (pp. 177-194). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-9746-9.ch014)

Zhu, Ling and Hui Zhou. 2019. “’Two Chinas’: Social  Equity, Social Policies and the Urban-Rural Divide in  China.” In Social Equity in Asia-Pacific Region, 109-136. Ed. Morgan Johansen, Palgrave Macmillan

Kenicia Wright. June 2016. “Power and Minority Representation.” Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance edited by Ali Farazmand. Springer International Publishing. 

Evans, Heather K. and Savannah Sipole. 2016. “From Home-Style to Twitter-Style: How Personal, District, and Campaign Characteristics affect House Candidates’ Twitter-Style.” in Social Media and Politics: A New Way to Participate in the Political Process, Praeger.

Other Publications

Waggoner, Philip D. 2017. “Assessing the Value of State Legislative Experience and Legislative Professionalism in National Election Performance, 1974-2010.” In Press, The Social Science Journal.

Simay Ozlu Diniz, “Turkish Business Cowboys in the U.S.” Political Reflection.

Aldo Ponce Ugolini, “Foreign Direct Investment and Civil Rights: Testing Decreasing Returns to Civil Rights.” Romanian Journal of Political Science, 10(1), 2010.

John Jackson, Richard Myers, and Thomas Cowper, "Leadership in the Net-Centric Organization," Advancing Police Leadership: Proceedings of the Futures Working Group, Vol. 6, J.A. Schafer and S. Boyd, eds. Quantico, Virginia, March 2010.

Ching-Hsing Wang, “Analysis of Legislators’ Law-Making and Constituency Service: Continuity and Change After Party Turnover in the Year 2000.” Taiwanese Political Science Review 13(2009): 113-169 (written in Chinese).

Ching-Hsing Wang and Taofang Huang. 2009. “The Electorate’s Voting Participation.” in Lu-huei Chen, Ching-hsin Yu and Chi Huang (eds.) 2008 Presidential Election: the Critical Election of the Second Party Turnover. Taipei: Wu Nan Press, 2009. (written in Chinese).