Accomplishments: Department of Political Science
Christian Jensen, Nadia Eldemerdash (both Political Science), and assistant teaching professor Steven Landis (Political Science, University of Notre Dame) have recently published new research in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe that examines the relationship between vulnerability to climate change, political institutions and…
Kenneth Miller and Tanner Bates (both Political Science) published "PACs and January 6th: Campaign Finance and Objections to the Electoral College Vote Count" in Research & Politics, where they show that more business-friendly House Republicans are more supportive of democratic norms compared to members who receive more of their…
Sofia Takhtadjian and Issac Hernandez-Alcaraz (both from The Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West) were selected to represent Nevada as part of the 2023 Western Governors' Leadership Institute, where they attended the Western Governors' Association's 2023 Annual Meeting in Boulder, Colorado. The two participated in the institute’s…
Jared Oestman (Political Science) and Rick K. Wilson (Political Science, Rice University) published "The Effect of Biased Peacekeepers on Building Trust" in the Journal of Experimental Political Science. The authors used a laboratory experiment to evaluate the extent to which impartiality matters in efforts by third-party peacekeepers to…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) presented an invited paper titled, "Public Opinion on National Defense in Taiwan: One Year after the Ukraine Crisis," in the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region 2023 Annual Conference at Hoover Institute, Stanford University on May 22-23, 2023. In this article, he analyzed…
David Fott (Political Science) published "Philosophy, Politics, and Rhetoric in Cicero's On the Orator" in the latest issue of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. Several scholars maintain that Cicero regards philosophy and rhetoric as coexisting in ultimate harmony. Fott argues instead that Cicero subtly demonstrates that…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Mediation Analysis of Conspiratorial Thinking and Anti-Expert Sentiments on Vaccine Willingness," in Health Psychology, along with 120 coauthors. This article analyzes a survey across 137 countries and 40 languages (n = 15740) on political trust and vaccine…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published a co-authored article, "Why does Taiwan Identity Decline?" in Journal of Asian and African Studies. This article exploits 53 waves of survey in Taiwan to examine four competing theories on the decline of Taiwan identity. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis of issue…
Elizabeth Maltby (Political Science) and Olivia Cheche (recent UNLV graduate in Political Science) were awarded the 2023 Award for the Best Paper on Blacks and Politics from the Western Political Science Association for their paper, "Racial Threat, Black Lives Matter, and Shaping 2020 Politics: How Race Influenced Political Participation in the…
Dan Lee (Political Science) was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Participatory Democracy by Nevada Secretary of State Francisco V. Aguilar. The Advisory Committee is "charged with assisting the Secretary of State in identifying and proposing programs that support participatory democracy and solutions to any problem concerning the level of…
Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) was invited by Duke University to deliver a public speech titled, "How The Ukraine Crisis Shapes Public Opinion In Taiwan & The World," on April 13, 2023. The talk analyzes how the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict updates the calculation and foreign policy preference in Taiwan, China, and the United…
Among more than 100 chapters of Model United Nations in the United States, the UNLV Model United Nations ranked in the top 50. Undergraduate student Cecilia Winchell is the president of UNLV Model Nations.