Institutions; Federalism; Legislative Politics; Political Methodology

Formal Theory, Political Parties, Interest Groups, Quantitative Methodology

Political behavior, political psychology, identity politics, public opinion, legislative politics, American foreign policy, political methodology.

Political psychology, morality, race and ethnicity, and experimental methodology

Judicial Politics, Judicial Decision-Making, Federal Appellate Courts and Political Methodology.

Voting Behavior; Public Opinion; Elite Behavior; Survey Research; Interest Groups; Quantitative Methods; Political Psychology.

Research Interest: Identity (Race, Gender, and Religion) and Electoral Politics; Urban Politics and Policy; Courts and the Constitution; Political Psychology

US Politics; Canadian Politics; Voting Behavior; Public Opinion; Campaign Dynamics.

Political Psychology, Voting Behavior and Elections, Political Parties, Public Opinion, Ideology, Party Identification.

Judicial Politics; Gender Politics; Race Politics; Quantitative Methods; Survey Methodology.

American Politics: Political Parties, Elections, and Voting Behavior; Political Psychology, and Survey Methodology.

American Politics; Judicial Politics; Constitutional Law; State & Local Politics; Religion & Politics; Political Psychology.

Race and Politics; Black Voting Behavior and Political Participation; Minority Youth Voting Behavior and Civic Engagement.

American Politics.

Political Behavior and Ideology; Latino Politics; Women in Politics.

Political psychology, voting behavior, public opinion, religion and politics.

Congressional and State Legislative Redistricting; Legislative Elections; Public Policy Diffusion; Political Parties; Legislative Politics; State Politics; Direct Democracy.

Voting Behavior, Political Parties, Elections, Survey Research, Political Methodology.

Dissertation: Political Leadership and Policy Preferences: A Case Study of the Columbus Board of Education.

American Politics, Public Opinion, Gender, Congress, Political Psychology

Post-communist Political Economy; Methods; Game Theory.

Comparative Political Economy; Latin American Politics; Labor Politics; Social Welfare Policy; US Foreign Policy.

Research interests: Latin America; electoral stability in authoritarian systems; decision-making and information sources.

Ethnic Politics; Political Economy of Ethnic Violence; Communal Riots in India.

Parties and Elections; Comparative Political Institutions of the Developed World; Federalism; Public Policy Diffusion.

Comparative Political Deliberation; Democratic Theory; Technocratic Politics/Governance.

Post-communist democratization; Political Parties; Voter Behavior; Campaigns; Political Psychology

Political Communication and Political Behavior in Advanced Industrialized Countries; Political Psychology.

Dissertation: Political Posters: An Old Form of Campaign Communication in a New Light. Why Do Politicians Use Posters and to What Effect? 

Democratization, quality of democratic governance, civil society and media in politics.

Nonprofit Organizations and Political Empowerment; Women and Politics; Civic Engagement; Community Involvement and Women; Women in Japan.

Legislature Reform; Decentralization; Political Leadership; Social Movement and Civil Society.

Democratization, Party Systems, Developing world especially sub-Saharan Africa.
Dissertation: Harbingers of Change? Local Politics in Dominant Party Democracies

Ethnic conflict, democratization, and voting behavior.

Comparative politics, methodology, Central European politics, political economy, nation-state formation.

Comparative Political Economy, Social Protection in Industrialized Democracies, Political Methodology.

International Migration and Its Impact on Developing Countries, Comparative Immigration Policy, Democracy and Development, Southeast and East Asian Politics, Political Methodology.

The Politics of Economic Reform in Post-communist Countries.     Dissertation: The Transformation of the Welfare State in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia.

Transitional justice, democratization, democratic theory, political culture; Southeast Asia, Indonesia

Political Economy of Development; Latin American Politics.

     Women in politics, German politics, comparative electoral systems, democratic theory, gender theory, and terror and terrorism.

Dissertation: Women Representing Women: Pathways to Substantive Representation.

Comparative Political Economy; Globalization, and Social Protection in Developing Countries; Turkey and Middle East.

Identity, representation, and practice.

International Organizations; International Security; Constructivism; Qualitative Methods.

IR theory, international organization, transnational politics, American foreign policy

International Political Economy; Rationalist Theories of Institutions; Quantitative Studies of International Security; Methods; Game Theory.

Social Theories of International Relations; Philosophy of Science; Transatlantic Relations; Ideational Approaches to IR; and Race in International Relations

IR Theory; Security Studies; US WMD and Defense Policy; Political Psychology; International Organizations

IR Theory; The Social Construction of Sovereignty; International Norms; Legitimacy; Political Theory.

IR theory; Political Psychology; Nationalism; Globalization; Identity

Anomie; Comparative Historical Foreign Policy Analysis; Collective Emotion and Sovereignty; Durkheim and Weber in IR; Processes of State Identity Change; Qualitative Methods; Transatlantic Relations.

IR Theory; Political Psychology; Foreign Policy; International Security.
Dissertation: 'Image-ning' Credibility: The Perceptual Logic of Domestic Signaling in International Bargaining.

International Organization; International Institutions; Regime Design.

IR Theory; International Political Economy; Political Psychology; Corporate Social Responsibility; Media and Politics; the Public Interest.

IR Theory; International Norms and Norm Change; Social Theories of Institutions; Hegemony and Hegemonic Decline; Qualitative Methods.  Dissertation: The Politics of Progress in International Relations.

International Security; IR Theory; The Sources of International Conflict; Foreign Policy; Alliance Behavior.

IR Theory, International Organization, Security.

International Security; Political Psychology; American Foreign Policy; Strategic Culture; Public Opinion

Alliance Theory and International Security Affairs of Northeast Asia.

IR Theory, Systems Theory, International Political Authority, International Rule of Law.

Near East Politics; Foreign Policy.

International Relations

Dissertation: How Weak States Dominate the Design of International Institutions?

IR theory, international organization, theories of sovereignty.

IR Theory; International Security; Comparative Politics; China’s Foreign Policy; Political Psychology.

International Political Economy; International Institutions; Economic Sanctions, WTO Dispute Settlement Process; Formal Theory; Methods.   Dissertation: The Effect of Domestic Interests in International Economic Bargaining.

IR theory, great power politics, nationalism, statistical methods, causal inference, China's rise, East Asian security, Taiwan Strait

International Security; Middle-Eastern Politics, Religion and Politics; Nationalism; Conflicts in the Third-World.

Latin American Politics, political thought of Latin America, democratic theory