John Tuman and Hafthor Erlingsson (both Political Science) have published a study of foreign direct investment flows in the Mexican automobile industry. The article appears in the journal Growth and Change Erlingsson is a doctoral student.

Rebecca Gill (Political Science and the Women's Research Institute of Nevada) and Kate Eugenis ,'17 PhD Political Science, have published their article "Do Voters Prefer Women Judges? Deconstructing the Competitive Advantage in State Supreme Court Elections" in State Politics & Policy Quarterly. In this article, the authors find that…

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science) recently published the "State of Black Entrepreneurship in America."  The report evaluates the economic and entrepreneurial outcomes for African Americans in comparison to Black African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants, in order to provide a deeper examination of the influence social capital and immigrant…

Steven Landis (Political Science) presented “Food Price Volatility, Rebel Groups, and Civilian Victimization in Sub-Saharan Africa" as a part of the SMA General Speaker Series.  He addressed  concerns for the U.S. military due to the second-order effects of climate change, How food insecurity impacts rebel group capabilities…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) co-authored the article "Self-Defense in Taiwan: New Findings from Surveys" in the Pacific Forum. In this article, the authors conducted and analyzed a series of survey experiments to explore the psychological mechanism behind Taiwanese people's willingness to fight against invasion under…

Rebecca Gill (Women's Research Institute of Nevada and Political Science) delivered the luncheon address at the 2019 Grassroots Lobby Days event hosted by the Nevada Women's Lobby in Carson City. Her talk centered on the ways in which the #MeToo movement has changed the way our institutions conceptualize and address sexual harassment in the…

Ashley Schobert (Brookings Mountain West, Economics, and Political Science), a student of the Brookings public policy minor program, wrote an opinion editorial, "Single-payer Health Care is a Worthy Goal for the US — Eventually," which was published in the Las Vegas Sun. The piece offers a response to the March 7 campus event, "The Great…

Rebecca Gill (Political Science and WRIN) and co-author Valerie Sulfaro (James Madison University) published the article "Title IX: Help or Hindrance?" in the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy in its special issue on the #MeTooPoliSci movement. In the article, the authors provide practical guidance for those who have experienced…

Robert E. Lang (Lincy Institute and Brookings Mountain West) and David R. Damore (Political Science) are the authors of a new, recently published policy brief, "The Road to Carnegie R1 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas." Founded in 1957, UNLV is now classified as a top research university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of…

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science) is the author of the refereed policy report "Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrency, and Capital: Alternative Sources of Business Capital for Black Entrepreneurs." She is the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Senior Research Fellow for the Center for Policy Analysis and Research at the Congressional Black…

Rafael Oganesyan (Political Science) published a manuscript analyzing the politicization of regional development funds in the European Union. The peer-reviewed article, which appears in the Journal of Common Market Studies, was co-authored by Nathan Henceroth, a visiting assistant professor at Allegheny College. 

Tiffiany Howard (Political Science) has been awarded the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations-International Affairs Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year.  Her fellowship year will be spent at the United Nations organization UNESCO, based in Paris, where she will continue her research on digital terrorism and online radicalization by…