Faculty Publications

Selected Recent and Forthcoming Faculty Publications

The Department’s faculty members continue to produce a large number of high quality publications. Some of the recent and forthcoming publications include:

 

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Prof. Julia Azari 

  • Azari, Julia R. Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History. Princeton University Press, 2025. 
  • Ewing, Sean, and Julia R. Azari. "From the Podium to the Press: Coverage of Kamala Harris’s 2024 Convention Address." The Forum, vol. 22, no. 2-3, pp. 309-324. De Gruyter, 2025.
  • Azari, Julia. "Weak parties, strong partisanship." The Making of the Presidential Candidates, 2024, ed. Jonathan Bernstein and Casey Dominguez (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024).
  • Azari, Julia R. and Alexis Nemecek. “Populism, popular sovereignty, and periphery.” In Popular Fictions: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice, Ewa Attanassow, Thomas Bartscherer, and David Bateman, eds. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming (peer-reviewed)
  •  Azari, Julia R. "Preface." In Midterms and Mandates: Electoral Reassessment of Presidents and Parties, Patrick Andelic, Mark McClay, and Robert Mason, eds. University of Edinburgh Press, 2022. (invited)
  • Azari, Julia R. "Presidents and Political Parties." In New Directions in the American Presidency, pp. 86-104. Routledge, 2023.
  • Azari, Julia R., and Seth Masket. "Obama’s Party? An Examination of Whether a Reluctant Party Leader Transformed the Democratic Party in his Favor." The Forum, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 257-274. De Gruyter, 2022.
  • Azari, Julia R. "The Scrambled Cycle: Realignment, Political Time, and the Trump Presidency." In American Political Development and the Trump Presidency, pp. 13-27. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 
  • Azari, Julia. "Are Parties Inherently Conservative?." The Making of the Presidential Candidates 2020 (2019): 165-186.
  • Azari, Julia. "It's the Institutions, Stupid: The Real Roots of America's Political Crisis." Foreign Aff. 98 (2019): 52.
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Prof. Lowell Barrington 

  • Barrington, Lowell. "A new look at region, language, ethnicity and civic national identity in Ukraine." Europe-Asia Studies 74, no. 3 (2022): 360-381.
  • Barrington, Lowell. "Is the regional divide in Ukraine an identity divide?" Eurasian Geography and Economics 63, no. 4 (2022): 465-490.
  • Barrington, Lowell. "Putin’s Key Mistake? Not Understanding Ukraine’s Blossoming National Identity -- Even in the Russian-friendly Southeast." The Conversation, May 23, 2023. 
  • Barrington, Lowell. "What's Next in Ukraine?" Taylor and Francis blog, June 10, 2022. 
  • Barrington, Lowell. "Citizenship as a cornerstone of civic national identity in Ukraine." Post-Soviet Affairs 37, no. 2 (2021): 155-173.

Prof. Mark Berlin 

  • Berlin, Mark S.  “Chicago Police Torture and the Limits of Human Rights Enforcement in Liberal Democracies.” Perspectives on Politics, forthcoming.
  • Berlin, Mark S. "Does Criminalizing Torture Deter Police Torture?." American Journal of Political Science (2021).
  • Berlin, Mark S. "Response to Paul Morrow’s Review of Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes." Perspectives on Politics 19, no. 3 (2021): 965-965.
  • Berlin, Mark S. Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes. Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Berlin, Mark S. "Revising the" hibernation" narrative: Technocratic legal experts and the Cold War origins of the 'justice cascade'." Human Rights Quarterly 42, no. 4 (2020): 878-901.
  • Scoville, Ryan, and Mark Berlin. "Who Studies International Law? Explaining Cross-national Variation in Compulsory International Legal Education." European Journal of International Law 30, no. 2 (2019): 481-508.

Prof. Noelle Brigden 

  • Brigden, Noelle and Heather Hlavka. "Embodied Empowerment: Somatic Approaches to Gender Violence and Trauma." Violence Against Women 31(1, 2025): 6-21. 
  • Brigden, Noelle. "Mama Fit Goes to El Salvador: Fitness in a Transnational Society." In Embodiment and Representations of Beauty (Emerald Publishing, 2024). 
  • Brigden, Noelle. "Gym Mobilities: Shaping Bodies and Lifting Community at the edges of San Salvador’ in (Un)settling Place: The Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move, edited by Heike Drotbohm, Yaatsil Guevara-Gonzalez, and Nanneke Winters. 
  • Brigden, Noelle, Katie Rose Hejtmanek and Melissa Forbis, eds., Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong as Feminist.London: Routledge, 2023. 
  • Brigden, Noelle. ‘Understanding Body Resistance in El Salvador: A Qualitative Discussion of a Pilot Program for Embodied Empowerment’ Violence Against Women 29 (12-13, 2023): 2393-2417. 
  • Brigden, Noelle and Elsy Aracely Argueta. "Transformative Writing and Naming: Gimnasio Elba y Celina." In Gender and Power in Strength Sports: Strong As Feminist, edited by Noelle Brigden, Katie Rose Hejtmanek and Melissa Forbis, London: Routledge Press. 
  • Brigden, Noelle. ‘Gym Mobilities: Shaping Bodies and Lifting Community at the Edges of San Salvador’ in (Un)Settling Place, edited by Heike Drotbohm, Nanneke Winters, and Yaatsil Geuvara. Berghan Books.
  • Brigden, Noelle, and Ċetta Mainwaring. "Subversive Knowledge in Times of Global Political Crisis: A Manifesto for Ethnography in the Study of International Relations." International Studies Perspectives 23, no. 2 (2022): 191-208.
  • Brigden, Noelle. "Trauma-Informed Research Methods." Researching Gender-Based Violence: Embodied and Intersectional Approaches (2022): 144.
  • Brigden, Noelle, and Miranda Hallett. "Fieldwork as social transformation: place, time, and power in a violent moment." Geopolitics 26, no. 1 (2021): 1-17.
  • Brigden, Noelle K. "From La Monjita to La Hormiga: Reflections on Gender, Body and Power in Fieldwork." Geopolitics 26, no. 1 (2021): 118-138.
  • Brigden, Noelle K., and Anita R. Gohdes. "The Politics of Data Access in Studying Violence across Methodological Boundaries: What We Can Learn from Each Other?." International Studies Review 22, no. 2 (2020): 250-267.

 

Prof. Risa Brooks 

  • Brooks, Risa, and Peter B. White. "The military before the march: Civil-military grand bargains and the emergence of nonviolent resistance in autocracies." Journal of Peace Research 61, no. 6 (2024): 1002-1018.
  • Brooks, Risa A., Michael A. Robinson, and Heidi A. Urben. "Following Orders or Following the Oath? Assessing Democratic Norm Endorsement Among Service Academy Cadets." Journal of Conflict Resolution 68, no. 7-8 (2024): 1279-1306.
  • Brooks, Risa. "Revisiting the Janus-face: Civil–military relations and strategy-making." In Research Handbook on Civil–Military Relations, pp. 40-53. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
  • Brooks, Risa. "Beyond Defection: Explaining the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries’ divergent roles in the Arab Spring." Journal of Strategic Studies 47, no. 2 (2024): 288-315.
  • Brooks, Risa A., Michael A. Robinson, and Heidi Urben. "Speaking Out: Why Retired Flag Officers Participate in Political Discourse. Texas National Security Review  (Winter 2023/2024)." (2024).
  • Allen, Nathaniel, and Risa Brooks. "Unpacking “Stacking”: Researching Political Identity and Regime Security in Armed Forces." Armed Forces & Society 49, no. 1 (2023): 207-227.
  • Brooks, Risa, and David Pion-Berlin. "Slow Rolls, Shoulder-Taps, and Coups: Building a Research Program in Military Dissent Across Regime Types." Journal of Global Security Studies 7, no. 4 (2022): ogac026.
  • Brooks, Risa A., Michael A. Robinson, and Heidi A. Urben. "What Makes a Military Professional? Evaluating Norm Socialization in West Point Cadets." Armed Forces & Society 48, no. 4 (2022): 803-827.
  • Brooks, Risa. "The Best They Could Do? Assessing US Military Effectiveness in the Afghanistan War." Armed Forces & Society (2022): 0095327X221116876.
  • Brooks, Risa. "Beyond Defection: Explaining the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries’ divergent roles in the Arab Spring." Journal of Strategic Studies (2022): 1-28.
  • Brooks, Risa, and Sharan Grewal. "“Twice the Citizen”: How Military Attitudes of Superiority Undermine Civilian Control in the United States." Journal of Conflict Resolution 66, no. 4-5 (2022): 623-650.
  • Brooks, Risa. "Tying the Hands of Militants: Civilian Targeting and Societal Pressures in the Provisional IRA and Palestinian Hamas." Journal of Global Security Studies 7, no. 1 (2022): ogab021.
  • Brooks, Risa, and Peter M. Erickson. "The sources of military dissent: Why and how the US military contests civilian decisions about the use of force." European journal of international security 7, no. 1 (2022): 38-57.
  • Brooks, Risa, and Peter B. White. "Oust the leader, keep the regime? Autocratic civil-military relations and coup behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring." Security Studies 31, no. 1 (2022): 118-151.
  • Schake, Kori, Peter D. Feaver, Risa Brooks, Jim Golby, and Heidi Urben. "Masters and Commanders: Are Civil-Military Relations in Crisis?." Foreign Aff. 100 (2021): 230.
  • Brooks, Risa. "Through the Looking Glass." Strategic Studies Quarterly 15, no. 2 (2021): 69-98.
  • Brooks, Risa, Jim Golby, and Heidi Urben. "Crisis of Command: America's Broken Civil-Military Relationship Imperils National Security." Foreign Aff. 100 (2021): 64.
  • Brooks, Risa. "Paradoxes of professionalism: Rethinking civil-military relations in the United States." International Security 44, no. 4 (2020): 7-44.
  • Brooks, Risa A. "Integrating the civil–military relations subfield." Annual Review of Political Science 22 (2019): 379-398.

 

Prof. Darrell Dobbs 

 

Prof. Lucia Kovacikova

  • Kovacikova, Lucia. “Bringing Capacity Back In: Paradiplomacy and Sub-State Government Internationalization in the Global Economy.”&Բ;Publius: The Journal of Federalism 55, no. 1 (2025): 174–200. .
  • Bauhr, Monika, Ruth Carlitz, and Lucia Kovacikova. "Beyond buildings: Social bargaining and effective access to public services." Public Organization Review 24, no. 1 (2024): 389-406. .
  • Kovacikova Lucia. “Canadians Abroad; Overview of Recent Research and Implications for Public Policy.” McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (2024): .  
  • Carlitz, Ruth and Lucia Kovacikova. "Gendered Impact of Corruption on Public Services in Emerging Democracies." In Gender and Corruption in Democracies: A Handbook, edited by Tiffany Barnes and Emily Beaulieau. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Prof. Matthew Mleczko 

  • Mleczko, Matthew. “The Cumulative Exposure to Exclusionary Zoning in Impoverished Neighborhoods.” Demography. Forthcoming.
  • Mleczko, Matthew. 2024. “Trends and Characteristics of U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhood Integration, 2000–2020.”&Բ;Urban Affairs Review, September, 10780874241278619. .
  • Mleczko, Matthew and Matthew Desmond. 2023. “Using Natural Language Processing to Construct a National Zoning and Land Use Database.”&Բ;Urban Studies. doi: 10.1177/00420980231156352. 

Prof. Paul Nolette 

  • Kim, Dongwook, and Paul Nolette. "The institutional foundations of the uneven global spread of constitutional courts." Perspectives on Politics 22, no. 1 (2024): 294-311.
  • Provost, Colin, Elysa Dishman, and Paul Nolette. "Monitoring Corporate Compliance through Cooperative Federalism: Trends in Multistate Settlements by State Attorneys General." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 52, no. 3 (2022): 497-522.
  • Konisky, David M., and Paul Nolette. "The State of American Federalism 2021–2022: Federal Courts, State Legislatures, and the Conservative Turn in the Law." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 52, no. 3 (2022): 353-381.
  • Konisky, David M., and Paul Nolette. "The state of American Federalism, 2020–2021: Deepening partisanship amid tumultuous times." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 51, no. 3 (2021): 327-364.
  • Nolette, Paul, and Colin Provost. "Change and continuity in the role of state attorneys general in the Obama and Trump administrations." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 48, no. 3 (2018): 469-494.
  • Nolette, Paul. "The dual role of state attorneys general in American federalism: Conflict and cooperation in an era of partisan polarization." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 47, no. 3 (2017): 342-377.

 

Prof. Jerry Prout 

  • Prout, Jerry. Chasing Automation: The Politics of Technology and Jobs from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Society. Cornell University Press, 2022.
  • Prout, Jerry. "The Six and the Sixties: Newsweek Addresses the “Crisis of the American Spirit”." Journalism History 44, no. 2 (2018): 89-100.
  • Prout, Jerry. "Populism and the Populists: The Incoherent Coherence of Coxey's March." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 78, no. 3 (2019): 593-619.
  • Prout, Jerry. Coxey’s crusade for jobs: unemployment in the Gilded Age. Cornell University Press, 2016.

Prof. Jessica Rich 

  • “The Policy Consequences of Social Movements.” Special issue of World Development. (Co-editor and co-author of lead article, with Santiago Anria and Candelaria Garay). Accepted for publication. 
  • “What Makes Bureaucracies Politically Resilient: Evidence from Brazil’s Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign” (lead author, with Liam Bower and Elize Massard). Comparative Politics. 57(1): 25-48 (2024).
  • “Social Movements and Policy Entrenchment” (with Santiago Anria and Candelaria Garay). Comparative Politics. 57(1): 25-48 (2024).
  • Rich, Jessica AJ. "Outsourcing Bureaucracy to Evade Accountability: How Public Servants Build Shadow State Capacity." American Political Science Review (2022): 1-16.
  • Rocco, Philip, Jessica AJ Rich, Katarzyna Klasa, Kenneth A. Dubin, and Daniel Béland. "Who counts where? COVID-19 surveillance in federal countries." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 46, no. 6 (2021): 959-987.
  • Rich, Jessica AJ. Ativismo patrocinado pelo Estado: burocratas e movimentos sociais no Brasil democrático. SciELO-Editora FIOCRUZ, 2021.
  • Mayka, Lindsay, and Jessica AJ Rich. "Brazil’s Participatory Infrastructure." In The inclusionary turn in Latin American democracies (2021): 155.
  • Rich, Jessica AJ. "Teaching Methods in the Context of a Writing Intensive Course." In The Palgrave Handbook of Political Research Pedagogy (2021): 447-457.
  • Rich, Jessica AJ. "Organizing twenty-first-century activism: From structure to strategy in Latin American social movements." Latin American Research Review 55, no. 3 (2020): 430-444.
  • Rich, Jessica AJ, Lindsay Mayka, and Alfred P. Montero. "Introduction the politics of participation in Latin America: new actors and institutions." Latin American Politics and Society 61, no. 2 (2019): 1-20.
  • Rich, Jessica AJ. "Making national participatory institutions work: bureaucrats, activists, and AIDS policy in Brazil." Latin American Politics and Society 61, no. 2 (2019): 45-67.
  • Rich, Jessica. State-sponsored activism: Bureaucrats and social movements in democratic Brazil. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

 

Prof. Philip Rocco 

  • Rocco, Philip. 2025. Counting Like a State: How Intergovernmental Partnerships Shaped the 2020 US Census. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 
  • Rocco, Philip and Amanda Kass. “Using National Data Sources to Compare Subnational Policies: Insights from the American Rescue Plan Act.” Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2024.2323482.
  • Kass, Amanda and Philip Rocco. “Local Governments, Pandemic Aid, and Community Violence Intervention.” Urban Affairs Review, DOI: 10.1177/10780874241241305.
  • Rocco, Philip, Sarah Beck, Daniel Bernard-Deida, Kevin Gleeson, Uriel Lopez, Aidan Marick, and Benjamin Porter. "Voice in Asymmetric Federation? The U.S. Territories as Intergovernmental Actors." Regional and Federal Studies 34(1, 2024): 63-86. 
  • Béland, Daniel, Gregory P Marchildon, Anahely Medrano, and Philip Rocco. “Policy Feedback, Varieties of Federalism, and the Politics of Health Care Funding in Canada, the United States, and Mexico.” Politics and Policy, 2024, DOI: 10.1111/polp.12575.
  • Béland, Daniel, Shannon Dinan, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan. "Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Canada and the United States.” Social Policy and Society, 2023, DOI: 10.1017/S1474746423000222.
  • Rocco, Philip. "Counting Like a State: The Politics of Intergovernmental Partnerships in the 2020 Census." Political Science Quarterly 138, no. 2 (2023): 189-216.
  • Kass, Amanda, Philip Rocco, and Alex Hawley. Replenish, Replace, Repair: How Illinois is Using its ARPA Aid (University of Illinois System, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, 2023). 
  • Rocco, Philip, and Amanda Kass. "Flexible Aid in an Uncertain World: The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Program." State and Local Government Review 54, no. 4 (2022): 346-361.
  • Stenberg, Matthew, Philip Rocco, and Safia Abukar Farole. "Calling in “Sick”: COVID-19, opportunism, pretext, and subnational autocratization." Global Studies Quarterly 2, no. 3 (2022): ksac017.
  • Béland, Daniel, Shannon Dinan, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan. "COVID-19, poverty reduction, and partisanship in Canada and the United States." Policy and Society 41, no. 2 (2022): 291-305.
  • Rocco, Philip. “Laboratories of What? American Federalism and the Politics of Democratic Subversion,” in Democratic Resilience: Can the US Withstand Rising Polarization?, ed. Robert Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Ken Roberts (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 
  • Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, Catarina Ianni Segatto, and Alex Waddan. "Trump, Bolsonaro, and the framing of the COVID-19 crisis: How political institutions shaped presidential strategies." World Affairs 184, no. 4 (2021): 413-440.
  • Rocco, Philip, Jessica AJ Rich, Katarzyna Klasa, Kenneth A. Dubin, and Daniel Béland. "Who counts where? COVID-19 surveillance in federal countries." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 46, no. 6 (2021): 959-987.
  • Rocco, Philip. "Keeping score: the congressional budget office and the politics of institutional durability." Polity 53, no. 4 (2021): 691-717.
  • Béland, Daniel, Gregory P. Marchildon, Anahely Medrano, and Philip Rocco. "COVID-19, federalism, and health care financing in Canada, the United States, and Mexico." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 23, no. 2 (2021): 143-156.
  • Béland, Daniel, Shannon Dinan, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan. "Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes." Social Policy & Administration 55, no. 2 (2021): 280-294.
  • López-Santana, Mariely, and Philip Rocco. "Fiscal federalism and economic crises in the United States: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and great recession." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 51, no. 3 (2021): 365-395.
  • Lecours, André, Daniel Béland, Alan Fenna, Tracy Beck Fenwick, Mireille Paquet, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan. "Explaining intergovernmental conflict in the COVID-19 crisis: The United States, Canada, and Australia." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 51, no. 4 (2021): 513-536.
  • Rocco, Philip, Daniel Béland, and Alex Waddan. "Stuck in neutral? Federalism, policy instruments, and counter-cyclical responses to COVID-19 in the United States." Policy and Society 39, no. 3 (2020): 458-477.
  • Rocco, Philip. "Direct democracy and the fate of medicaid expansion."  JAMA Health Forum, vol. 1, no. 8, pp. e200934-e200934 (2020). 
  • Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan. "The Affordable care act in the states: fragmented politics, unstable policy." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45, no. 4 (2020): 647-660.
  • Rocco, Philip, and Andrew S. Kelly. "An Engine of Change? The Affordable Care Act and the Shifting Politics of Demonstration Projects." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 6, no. 2 (2020): 67-84.
  • Béland, Daniel, Michael Howlett, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan. "Designing policy resilience: lessons from the Affordable Care Act." Policy Sciences 53 (2020): 269-289.
  • Callen, Zachary, and Philip Rocco, eds. American political development and the Trump Presidency. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
  • Kelly, Andrew S., and Philip Rocco. "From ‘trial and error’to major reform: The politics of Medicare demonstration projects." Public Administration 97, no. 3 (2019): 621-638.
  • Béland, Daniel, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan. "Policy feedback and the politics of the Affordable Care Act." Policy Studies Journal 47, no. 2 (2019): 395-422.

Prof. Pat Sobkowski

  • Sobkowski, Patrick J. "The Enduring Crisis in Teaching Constitutional Law." Emory LJ Online 74 (2024): 48.
  • Sobkowski, Patrick J. "Of Major Questions and Nondelegation." Yale Journal on Regulation (2023).
  • Sobkowski, Patrick J. "Consistent with the Letter and Spirit: Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Future of Presidential Removal Power." U. Dayton L. Rev. 47 (2022): 163.
  • Sobkowski, Patrick J. "A Matter of" Principal": A Critique of the Federal Circuit's Decision in Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew, Inc." Wash. Univ. L. Rev. Online 98 (2020): 21.

Prof. Mai Truong

  • Truong, Mai. "Integrating Digital and On-Site Fieldwork: Practical Solutions for Scholars with Limited On-Site Access." PS: Political Science & Politics (2025): 1-8.
  • Trinh, Minh D., and Mai T. Truong. "A warning from above: How authoritarian anti-protest propaganda works." World Politics 77, no. 2 (2025): 338-381.
  • Truong, Mai. "Who Dominates the Coalition? Frame Salience and Public Support for Policy–Democracy Protest Coalitions under Authoritarian Rule." Government and Opposition (2024): 1-23.
  • Truong, Mai. "The “Ironic Impact” of Pro-Democracy Activists: How Pro-Democratic Frames Undermine Support for Local Policy-Based Protests in Authoritarian Regimes." Comparative Political Studies 57, no. 7 (2024): 1107-1138.
  • Truong, Mai. “Declining opportunities for speaking out: The impact of Vietnam’s new leadership on grassroots collective action.”&Բ;Asian Journal of Comparative Politics (2022): 20578911221139764.
  • Truong, Mai, and Paul Schuler. 2021. “The Salience of the Northern and Southern Identity in Vietnam.”&Բ;Asian Politics and Policy 13(1): 18-36.
  • Schuler, Paul and Mai Truong. 2020. ”&Բ;Comparative Politics 52(4): 647-669.