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Judicial Politics; Intergovernmental Relations; Political Methodology.

American Foreign Policy in the Middle East, with a Focus on Inter-Institutional Politics; Quantitative Methods; Political Psychology.

Political Communication; Gender and Politics; Environmental Politics.

Judicial politics; Constitutional Law; Civil Liberties; American Political Institutions.

Voting Behavior; Survey Research Methodology; Campaigns;

Interest Groups; Parties.

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

Voting Behavior and Public Opinion; Interest Groups and Civic Engagement; American Political Development; State Theory and State Formation; Methodology of the Social Sciences

Political Psychology; Voting Behavior; Ideology and Partisanship.

Dissertation: “The Consequences of Ambivalent Political Attitudes”

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.

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

Comparative Racial Politics, specifically the Politics of African Diaspora Communities in Latin America. 

Judicial Politics; Research Methods; State Courts, Federal Appellate Courts and Judicial Decision Making.

Voting Behavior; Public Opinion; Elections; Political Parties; Methodology

Campaigns and Mass-level Opinion and Electoral Behavior.

Voting Behavior; Public Opinion; Elite Behavior; Religion & Politics; Methodology.

Gender; Political Parties and Interest Groups; Legislative Politics; Maximum Likelihood Models; Duration Models; Spatial Models; Surveys.

Comparative Ethnic Politics; Forms of Ethnic Violence; Political Parties and Political Theory.

Post-communist Political Economy; Methods; Game Theory.

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? 

Comparative Political Institutions; Interest Group Politics, Parties, and Elections; Political Economy of the Post-communist Transitions; Democratization in Eastern Europe and State Building in Eurasia.

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

Comparative Political Economy, International Political Economy, Economic Growth and Development in Japan, East Asia, Turkey, Middle East, Eastern Europe

Dissertation: “Legislative Party Institutionalization in New Democracies: The Case of Poland.”

Dissertation: The Effects of the Changing Political Party System, Particularly at the Local Level, on the Consolidation of South Africa’s Democracy.

Theories of Dictatorships, Transitions and Democratization Process; European Integration; Administrative Reforms in East European; Political Psychology.

Comparative Political Institutions; Democratic Transitions and Consolidation. Dissertation: Comparative Study of the Argentine Partido Justicialista-Frente para la Victoria and the Mexican Partido de la Revolución Democrática.

Dissertation : The Politics of Taxation in Argentina and Brazil in the Last Twenty Years of the 20th Century.

Politics of the Middle East; Religious Parties; Political Theory          Dissertation: A Comparative Study of the Change in the Map of Religious Parties in Turkey and Israel in the 1980s and 1990s.

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

Institutions of Advanced Democracies; Comparative Political Parties; Comparative Political Behavior; Political Development: EU Studies.

Dissertation: Identifying and Explaining the Variation of Social Security Reforms post the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore.

                     Comparative Politics; Contemporary Political Theory.

Dissertation: Pathways to (Women's) Representation: Examining the Effects of Gender Quotas in Germany and Greece.

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

IR Theory; Historical Sociology and International Relations; Global Ethics; Impact of Emotions in International Relations; The Sociology of Norbert Elias.

Security; Foreign Policy; Creation of Conflict; the Conflict in the Middle East; the Transitions to Democracy in Southern Europe and South America

20th Century Continental Political Theory, particularly the Work of Gilles Deleuze; Global Governance Institutions, particularly the European Union.

Alliance Theory and International Security Affairs of Northeast Asia.

Political Psychology; Foreign Policy; Socialization and Norm Dynamics Among States; Iran and Its Relationship with Other Muslim-majority Countries.

International Relations

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

International Relations Theory; Critical Theory; Democratic
Theory; the Politics of Turkey.

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

International Security; Crises; Asymmetric Relationships; Empire; International Legitimacy; Nuclear Weapons and National Security; Nationalism.

Environmental Politics (Multilevel Governance of International Climate Change); Transatlantic Security; Terrorism; The US-UK "Special Relationship"; American Politics

International Crime, and International Finance and Government Institutions; International Security; Political Economy.

IR Theory, Alliance Behavior; Human Migration; Qualitative Methods. Dissertation: The Development and Role of Anglo Identities in International Security.

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

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

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