Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published the co-authored article "Influencing Overseas Chinese by Tweets: Text-images as the Key Tactic of Chinese Propaganda" in the Journal of Computational Social Science. The article traced and analyzed thousands of tweets with #USAVirus hashtag and Twitter's decisions to suspend the accounts. The…

Kenneth M. Miller (Political Science) spoke with NPR's Mountain West News Bureau on the potential for a longer wait for resolution of the 2020 presidential election due to the huge wave of early voting and the integrity of the elections process. Miller and Dan Lee (Political Science) were interviewed by KSNV-TV on likely scenarios for election…

Olivia Cheche (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) recently had her OpEd, "NSHE, Regents Don’t Deserve Credit for Our Accomplishments" published in the Las Vegas Sun. Her piece discusses how opponents of Question 1 on the Nevada ballot wrongfully claim the successes of students, staff, and faculty as "NSHE"…

Kenneth M. Miller (Political Science) was interviewed by two media outlets on the upcoming presidential election, discussing the increasing impact of Latino voters in Nevada elections with KTNV-TV and the significance of Democrats' advantage in registered voters in Pennsylvania with the Bucks County Courier Times (Philadelphia).

David Damore (Political Science), Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute), and Karen Danielsen (Public Policy and Leadership) wrote an op-ed titled "Blue Payback? Major Metropolitan Areas in Red States Could Swing the Senate to Democrat" for USA Today. Based upon their recently published book, Blue Metros, Red States, the…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published the co-authored article "Measuring ‘Closeness’ in 3-Candidate Elections: Methodology and an Application to Strategic Voting" in Electoral Studies. The article discusses three axioms in measuring strategic voting, suggests a set of new measurements, and examines the measures through the…

Marie Falcone (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, and The Lincy Institute) is the lead author of "Ending Corporal Punishment of Preschool-age Children," a public policy paper published on the "Brown Center Chalkboard," a Brookings Institution blog. The paper discusses the prevalence of corporal punishment within 23 states…

David Damore (Political Science), Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute), and Karen Danielsen (Public Policy and Leadership) published Blue Metros, Red States: The Shifting Urban-Rural Divide in America's Swing States (Brookings Institution Press). The book, which includes contributions from William Brown (Brookings Mountain…

Kristian Thymianos (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, and The Lincy Institute) recently had their op-ed, "Nation Critically Needs More Women in Leadership" published in the Las Vegas Sun. In their piece, Thymianos discusses the underrepresentation of women in politics and the crucial role they play in "addressing…

Robert Lang (Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute), William Brown (Brookings Mountain West), and David Damore (Political Science) gave the plenary address "Economic Impacts of COVID-19 and Nevada's Roadmap to Economic Recovery" at the American Planning Association, Nevada Chapter 2020 State Conference.  The presentation focused on…

Elizabeth Maltby (Political Science) published her article "Demographic Context, Mass Deportation, and Latino Linked Fate" in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. The article examines how immigration enforcement shapes the way native- and foreign-born Latinos feel about their ethnic identity.

David Fott (Political Science and Great Works Academic Certificate Program) wrote an essay for Constitution Day, "Natural Rights Do Not Entitle Us to Injure the Health of Others," which was published in the Nevada Independent earlier this month.