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Contents

Mark Your Calendars.

1) March 3, 3-5:30pm SADAT FORUM, Colony Ballroom, SSU- The Iran Nuclear Issue: Current State of Play

2) March 25, 11-12:15PM Faculty Meeting with the Dean, 2113 Chincoteague

3) GVPT Distinguished Lecture Series with Professor Jacob Hacker

April 10, 11-12:30pm, Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall

4) April 25, MARYLAND DAY

5) May 22, GVPT Graduation, 12:30pm in the Armory

Messages Chair – Irwin Morris Director of Graduate Studies – Michael Hanmer Placement Director – Kathleen Cunningham Director of Undergraduate Studies – Scott Kastner

The GVPT Graduate Student Association Staff and Administration Columns Accomplishments of our PhD Alums Field Updates - Workshops and Seminars American Politics Field – Workshops and Seminars International Relations Field/CIDCM – Workshops and Seminars Comparative Politics Field – Workshops and Seminars Political Theory Field – Workshops and Seminars Political Methodology and Formal Theory Field – Workshops and Seminars Announcements Center Announcements

Center for American Politics and Citizenship (CAPC) Center for Int. Development and Conflict Man. (CIDCM)

Sadat Chair for Peace

ICONS Faculty Achievements

Graduate Student Achievements Calendar of Department Events

The Department of Government and Politics Newsletter – University of Maryland, College Park : https://twitter.com/GVPTUMD

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR

On March 3rd

at 3:30pm, the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development and the College of Behavioral and Social

Sciences will be hosting the Sadat Forum- The Iran Nuclear Issue: Current State of Play. This forum will feature

guests UMD President Wallace Loh and BSOS Dean Gregory Ball as well as panelists Ambassador Thomas Pickering,

Dr. Jessica Mathews, Dr. Suzanne Maloney, and Dr. Shibley Telhami, who will serve as moderator. This event will be

held in the Colony Ballroom in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. The Sadat Lecture continues to be one of the

department's annual highlights, and I want to thank Shibley on behalf of the department for this important

contribution to our community.

I also would like to take this opportunity to remind our faculty that the Faculty Meeting with Dean Ball will be

held on March 25th

at 11am in 2113 Chincoteague.

Finally, Government and Politics will be participating for the 3rd

year at the university’s Maryland Day 2015 on

Saturday, April 25th

. The Event will run from 10a.m. to 4p.m. GVPT will be located in the tent outside of

Tydings Hall facing the mall. Faculty or graduate students that would be interested in participating should

contact Cissy and Mike.

Best,

Irwin L. Morris

Professor and Chair

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES

The admissions committee made its first round of selections; we have an outstanding group of admitted students

who have a variety of excellent choices. Ann Marie has been doing an amazing job scheduling visits with

admitted students. Please join me in thanking her. Thank you also to the faculty and students who have made

time to meet with students, talk with them on the phone, and discuss the program and area via email.

Thank you to Ernesto Calvo, Mike Mansfield, and Irwin Morris for the excellent work on building an

infrastructure to help students compete for external funding and to our students for remarkable results. We

again improved on the percentage of students applying for external funds; and again a number of students won

large awards. This is great news and helped us weather cuts from the Graduate School to BSOS. Here are

some highlights from my report to BSOS:

55 students, 47.4%, have at some point submitted an application for external funding

o This is a 9.3 percentage point increase (and 24.5% increase) over the previous year

2 students won NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants

Students submitted 42 new applications during 2014

3 second year students submitted applications for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for early

career students, which provides three years of support (valued at $228,000 each)

Since we began tracking external funding, GVPT students report having submitted a total of 175

applications for external funding

Keep up the great work!

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Mike Hanmer

GVPT, Director of Graduate Studies

MESSAGE FROM THE PLACEMENT DIRECTOR

Jonathan Hensley has an interview at Middle Tennessee State University!

As Placement Director, I am here to help with any issues related to job searches and career planning more

generally. Please feel free to ask me questions about any aspect of the process – from thinking about what type

of job to pursue, to applying and interviewing, to seeking job outside academia. I am happy to comment on

CVs and job application materials.

Anyone on the market this year who receives an invitation to interview should immediately contact me to

arrange a practice job talk.

Maryland has recently placed graduate students at top departments for tenure-track jobs and post-docs, and I

look forward to helping to continue this trend.

Kathleen Cunningham

Director of Placement

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

No Updates

Scott Kastner

Director for GVPT Undergraduate Studies

Apitchaya Pimpawathin

Assistant Director for GVPT Undergraduate Studies

GVPT GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION We hope that everyone is having a productive semester and is managing to stay warm – spring is right around the corner.

February was a busy month. First, we would like to thank Professor Ernesto Calvo for his informative workshop on

Google Trends and R. Second, we would like to thank Professor Beth Simmons who was kind enough to meet with

graduate students and field questions on academic/professional development. Finally, we would like to thank Brian

Humes who gave a workshop on the NSF dissertation grant process. A special thanks goes to all those who contributed to

organizing these informative events.

At our last meeting we discussed a variety of important issues. First, we went over how budget issues will impact

graduate students. Second, we discussed how to proceed with student led workshops. Third, we discussed future

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volunteering and social options. Finally, we discussed future/upcoming workshops. There are several very informative

workshops coming up (or in the works), so make sure to check your e-mail and attend if you can. We thank all of you who

are instrumental in setting up these important events.

Due to budget cuts we are no longer able to purchase food through the department. However, we set up a TILT account in

order to receive electronic donations and there is also a donation jar in the graduate lab. We will have food!

Our next meeting is Wednesday, March 4 at 11am in Tydings 1136.

Upcoming GSA Meeting Dates:

Wednesday April 1 11am Tydings 1136

Wednesday May 6 11am Tydings 1136

You’re GSA Co-Chairs,

Andrew Lugg and Caitlin McCulloch

(alugg@umd.edu and cem72@umd.edu)

STAFF AND ADMINISTRATION

SOCIAL NETWORKS and

The Department of Government and Politics is on Twitter and Face Book. “Follow” and “Like” GVPT. Information that you want to

share on either (or both) of these outlets can be forwarded to gvptdepartment@gmail.com.

MAKE-UP EXAMS (Proctoring)

The main office staff does not proctor or oversee make-up exams. Make-up exams will not be held in the GVPT main Office

Conference Room.

RETURNING STUDENT PAPERS

The main office staff does not collect or return student papers. If you want to provide a pick-up service, give the students a time when

you will be in your office for them to pick the papers up. Leaving papers out for the students to flip through is a violation of student

privacy. The best suggestion is to ask the students to provide a self addressed and stamped envelope and you will return the papers to

them.

INSTALLING Personal Network Devices IS PROHIBITED

Please refrain from connecting your own networking devices to the campus network. Not only is this a violation of the Policy on the

Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources (http://www.nethics.umd.edu/aup/), but also could cause much disruption to

you, your colleagues, and our students. Such disruptions may be as serious as multi-building wide network outages (i.e., entire

building data and voice services become unavailable).

If such a device is found on the network (i.e., a wired or wireless device that can hand out IP addresses) the device owner will be

referred to the Division of IT’s Security Office and their device will be confiscated.

If you have needs that you feel the campus network cannot fulfill, please contact OACS. We will work with you and our network and

security offices to devise a networking solution that works for you, yet is in compliance with the campus’ security rules and

regulations.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR PHD Alums

Books

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Boros, Diana, PhD 2010: announced Re-imagining Public Space: The Frankfurt School in the 21st Century,

(Palgrave Macmillan, December 2014), edited by Diana Boros and James Glass; foreword by Stephen Eric

Bronner.

VanderVeer, Stacy, PhD 1997, Waste, Want or War? The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land,

Energy, Food, Water & Minerals, Philip Andrews-Speed, Raimund Bleischwitz, Tim Boersma, Corey Johnson,

Geoffrey Kemp, Stacy D. VanDeveer (Routledge/Earthscan, 2015); Transnational Climate Change Governanc,

Harriet Bulkeley, Liliana Andonova, Michele Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Thomas Hale, Matthew Hoffman,

Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson, Charles Roger & Stacy D. VanDeveer (Cambridge University Press, 2014);

and The Global Environment: Institutions, Law and Policy, 4th

Edition, Regina S. Axelrod & Stacy

D. VanDeveer, eds. (CQ Press, 2015). Stacy also has one forthcoming: The European Union and

Environmental Governance, Henrik Selin & Stacy D. VanDeveer (Routledge, forthcoming, May, 2015)

Articles

Bell, Melissa, PhD 2012, “The Electoral Consequences of Marriage and Motherhood: How Gender Traits

Influence Voter Evaluations of Female Candidates." The Journal of Women, Politics and Policy 36.1 (2015): 1-

15, 2015.

Bramlett, Brittany, PhD 2012: “Senior Power or Senior Peril: Aged Communities in American Society in the

Twenty-First Century.” Published as part of the Social Logic of Politics Series by Temple University Press,

January 2015.

Other

VanderVeer, Stacy, PhD 1997, is currently Professor and Chair of the UNH Department of Political Science

and currently serving as Co-Chair of the Academic Planning Committee for the newly established UNH Carsey

School of Public Policy.

FIELD UPDATES - WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

AMERICAN POLITICS FIELD - WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

The American Politics Workshop is a bi-monthly research colloquium for faculty and graduate students. The workshop constitutes an

ongoing research community where participants present and discuss papers in an informal, supportive environment. Papers are made

available via the workshop website in advance of our meetings, and participants are expected to have read them. Discussion leaders

are assigned on a rotating basis, matching papers with discussants who share complementary research interests. Many of the papers

presented in recent years have gone on to publication in top tier political science journals.

The workshop is especially beneficial for our graduate students. It provides an excellent opportunity to interact with the American

Politics faculty outside of the classroom and, for advanced graduate students actively engaged in scholarly research, the workshop can

also be an invaluable source of professional advice. The American Politics faculty strongly encourages all of our graduate students to

regularly participate in the workshop.

The AP Workshop website is: http://www.gvpt.umd.edu/apworkshop. While the workshop focuses on issues in American politics, all

faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend.

Spring Workshop Schedule:

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January 30 – 2113 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:30pm

Genny Mayhew, UMD GVPT "Politics at the Water-Cooler: A Field Experiment on Information

Transmission in Workplace Social Networks" (co-authored with Christopher B. Mann and Arend Edward

Sokhey).

Discussants: Antoine Banks will be the faculty discussant and Zack Scott will be the student discussant.

February 6 – 2113 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:30pm

Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University - cosponsored and supported by the Women's Graduate Student

Group Kira Sanbonmatsu will discuss her book (coauthored with Susan J. Carroll), titled More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures (Oxford University Press, 2013). Analyzing nationwide surveys of state legislators conducted by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), the book advances a new approach for understanding women’s election to office, challenging assumptions of a single model of candidate emergence and the necessity for women to assimilate to men’s pathways to office. Carroll and Sanbonmatsu argue that a relationally embedded model of candidate emergence better captures women’s decision-making than an ambition framework in which candidacy is self-initiated. They argue that more women can run if more efforts are made to recruit women of varying backgrounds. Their research also examines party differences and the reasons that Democratic women are outpacing Republican women.

February 20 – 2113 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:30pm

Mike Parrott, UMD GVPT

February 27 – 2113 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:30pm

Thomas F. Schaller, UMBC

March 6 – 2113 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:30pm

TBA

March 27 – 2113 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:30pm

Patrick Wohlfarth, UMD GVPT

April 10 – GVPT Distinguished Lecturer Series – Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall

Jacob Hacker, Yale University

April 24 – 2113 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:30pm

Alexander Theodoridis, UC Merced

May 8 – 2113 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:30pm

TBA

COMPARATIVE POLITICS FIELD – WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

Throughout the course of the semester we will hold periodic gatherings for the comparative field, including

social events, speakers, and special topic seminars (e.g. how to do research in the field, how to get grants to go

overseas). Watch for our lineup of guest speakers for the 14-15 academic year. Although the Comparative

Politics Workshop focuses on comparative politics, all faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend. Any students and/or faculty interested in presenting their work at the Comparative workshop in November

should contact Kanisha Bond, kanisha@umd.edu.

Spring Workshop Schedule:

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February 13 – 1109 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:15pm

A joint CIDCM/IR & Comparative Workshop with Dr. Patricia Justino, from the Institute of Development

Studies in the UK, will be giving a talk regarding her current research entitled, "Conflict, Violence and

Development: A Micro-Level Perspective and New Research Directions."

DC AREA WORKSHOPS

This spring the comparative politics subfield will be hosting the first annual DC-Area Comparative Workshop. The date for the workshop has been set for Thursday, April 30 here at the University of Maryland. The event is scheduled to go all day with 3 papers presented in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, leaving plenty of time for socializing. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided. Each of the five universities attending (Georgetown, George Washington, George Mason, American and UMD) will present one paper and offer up both a graduate student and faculty member to serve as discussants. Those who are interested in attending need to RSVP by March 2, so that we are able to plan accordingly. If interested, please send all RSVPs to edunford@umd.edu. In the meantime, if there any questions and/or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to either Dr. Johanna Birnir or Eric Dunford.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FIELD/CIDCM – WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

The international relations workshop brings together faculty and graduate students with an interest in

international relations. We invite faculty and graduate students to discuss their latest research; present papers in

progress, with a formal discussant; present information for professional development; and invite guest speakers.

Students are strongly encouraged to attend and we would also like to see some students present their own work

in the workshop. Working papers will be posted on the IR Workshop website at

www.gvpt.umd.edu/irworkshop as they become available.

Students could present dissertation work or a conference paper. Students interested in presenting their work or

would like to act as a discussant should contact Todd Allee at tallee@umd.edu.

Spring Workshop Schedule:

February 13 – 1109 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:15pm

A joint CIDCM/IR & Comparative Workshop with Dr. Patricia Justino, from the Institute of Development

Studies in the UK, "Conflict, Violence and Development: A Micro-Level Perspective and New Research

Directions."

February 13 – 1109 Chincoteague Building – 11-12:15pm

Livia Schubiger (ETH-Zurich), “One for All? State Violence and Insurgent Cohesion.”

Kathleen Cunningham and Dan Siegel will serve as discussants.

March 2 – 2141K Chincoteague Building – 11-12:15pm

Sabine Otto, Konstanz "The Grass Is Always Greener. Why Armed Groups Switch Sides in Civil Conflict"

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March 23 – 2141K Chincoteague Building – 11-12:15pm

Dan Siegel, UMD "State Hosting of Foreign Rebel Groups"

March 30 – 2141K Chincoteague Building – 11-12:15pm

Elisabeth Gilmore, UMD Public Policy Title TBA

April 20 – 2141K Chincoteague Building – 11-12:15pm

Jim Vreeland, Georgetown "Data Dissemination and Regime Stability"

May 1 – 2141K Chincoteague Building – 2-3:00pm

Rachel Stein, George Washington "War and Revenge: Explaining Conflict Initiation by Democracies"

May 7 – 2141K Chincoteague Building – 11-12:15pm

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POLITICAL THEORY FIELD - WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

Please watch for emails and newsletters for panels as we schedule them. All graduate students and faculty are

welcome, especially those with some interest in wars and/or game theory. A lot of really clever work has been

done recently in this area. So even if you don't care at all about wars, and couldn't care less about game theory,

you should come just to find out what is going on.

For more information contact Professor James Glass jglass@umd.edu.

POLITICAL METHODOLOGY & FORMAL THEORY FIELD - WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

Friday, May 1, 2015 – 1101 Morrill Hall – 11-12:30

David Nickerson from Notre Dame University

For information and details of the Methods Field Workshops, please contact Professor David Cunningham at

dacunnin@umd.edu.

CENTER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Center for American Politics and Citizenship (CAPC)

CAPC Sponsors Second Poll with The Washington Post

CAPC recently announced the results of its second Washington Post/University of Maryland Poll. This public

opinion survey focused on the economic and social issues that are salient across Maryland. Results show that

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while Marylanders like Governor Larry Hogan and support his tax cutting initiatives, they oppose some of his

efforts such as slowing the growth of education funding. Similar to the initial poll, the second poll garnered

significant nationwide attention.

A deeper analysis of the survey data by CAPC graduate assistant Jared McDonald shows that then-Lt. Governor

Anthony Brown did not lose his gubernatorial election because of low voter turnout, rather it was a lack of

support from Democratic voters that doomed his election bid.

A panel discussion of the Washington Post/University of Maryland poll occurred on February 23rd

, featuring

CAPC faculty, reporters form the Washington Post, and members of the Maryland House of Delegates. The

event was well attended by UMCP students, faculty, staff, and members of the general public.

CAPC Announces Internship Application Dates

Are you a capable and motivated undergraduate student looking for an internship? CAPC offers the Maryland

Internship Program (MIP), a comprehensive program focused on state and local government that allows

students to integrate what they learn in the classroom with real world experience in the political process.

This competitive program places highly qualified undergraduate students in internships where they work with

and learn from officials in state and local government. Internship placements include the offices of the

Governor and Lieutenant Governor, members of the General Assembly, state and local agencies, and courts.

Alumni of the Maryland Internship Program will also take with them invaluable experiences, skills, and

networking that will help them find, and succeed in, careers in government, politics, or any other field.

For more information please contact CAPC at mip@umd.edu or at 301-314-2736.

To apply: visit our website at www.capc.umd.edu/MIP

Applications are accepted and evaluated on a rolling basis.

Summer 2015 final due date: April 10, 2015

Fall 2015 final due date: May 8, 2015

Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM)

Sadat Chair for Peace In February, Dr. Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, is scheduled to speak at the World Affairs Council of the Desert in Indian Wells, California, on “The World Through Arab Eyes.” He is also scheduled to deliver lecture in Arabic at the Al-Hewar Center in Vienna, Virginia, entitled, “Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in American Public Opinion.” Looking ahead to March, the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development and the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences are hosting the Sadat Forum- The Iran Nuclear Issue: Current State of Play. This forum will feature guests UMD President Wallace Loh and BSOS Dean Gregory Ball as well as panelists Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Dr. Jessica Mathews, Dr. Suzanne Maloney, and Dr. Shibley Telhami, who will serve as moderator. This

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event will be held on March 3, 2015, from 3:30pm to 5:00pm, in the Colony Ballroom in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. The Sadat Chair, together with the Program for Public Consultation, will also be releasing a new American public opinion survey of attitudes toward Iran's nuclear program and American policy choices on this issue. This release will take place at the Sadat Forum on March 3. For more information and to RSVP for the Sadat Forum, please use this link: http://ter.ps/sadatforum Dr. Telhami will also be speaking on a panel entitled, “Public Opinion: Perspectives on Peace and the Two-State Solution” at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC on March 2nd. In addition, Dr. Telhami will be the keynote speaker at the Baker Institute Conference at Rice University in Houston, Texas on March 10th.

International Communication and Negotiation Simulations (ICONS)

Please contact Gillea Benitez, ICONS Program Coordinator, at gbenitez@umd.edu, 301-405-4381. Follow us

on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/iconsproject

Minor in International Development and Conflict Management (MIDCM)

MIDCM Faculty Stacy Kosko selected to pilot courses for Global Classroom and Fearless Ideas

Dr. Kosko’s Fearless Ideas course will be part of a pilot launched by the University of Maryland’s Academy for Innovation and

Entrepreneurship. Entitled “Innovation and Design for Entrepreneurship and Action (“IDEAs”) in Peace and Development,” In

this course, offered in the Spring 2015 semester, students will learn practical, applicable knowledge and skills through an

intensive, problem-based and design-oriented experience.

Baha’i Chair for World Peace

February 25, 2015 | 2PM - Solidarity Across Differences Series Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University, NY "Mars, Venues, or Planet Earth? Women & Men on Campus in a New Millennium" Location: Colony Ballroom, Adele H. Stamp Student Union RSVP: http://www.bahaipeacechair.umd.edu/events/kimmel March 25, 2015 | 3PM - Empowerment of Women and Peace Series Farzaneh Milani, Raymond J. Nelson Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia "Iranian Women Writers: A Moderating and Modernizing Force" Location: Atrium, Adele H. Stamp Student Union RSVP: http://www.bahaipeacechair.umd.edu/events/milani2015 April 2015 - Frontiers of Globalization and Governance Series Amitav Acharya, Professor of International Relations, UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance, School of International Services, American University Virginia Haufler, Associate Professor, Government and Politics, Director of Global Communities, University of Maryland Location: Forthcoming (visit bahaichair.umd.edu for updates)

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The George and Lisa Zakhem Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace

No Updates

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

Books In Press

Croco, Sarah E. Peace at What Price?: Leader Culpability and the Domestic Politics of War Termination,

Cambridge University Press, March 31, 2015.

Glass, James announced Re-imagining Public Space: The Frankfurt School in the 21st Century, (Palgrave

Macmillan, December 2014), edited by Diana Boros (Ph.D. 2010 Alum) and James Glass; foreword by Stephen

Eric Bronner.

Chapter and Article Publications

Cunningham, David E. and Douglas Lemke. 2014. “Beyond Civil War: A Quantitative Examination of Causes

of Violence within Countries.” Civil Wars 16(3): 328-345.

Karol, David “Forcing Their Hands? Campaign Finance Law, Retirement Announcements and The Rise of The

Permanent Campaign in U.S. Senate Elections -in Congress & The Presidency Vol 42. No 1. 79-94.

Lee, Frances E. 2015. “How Party Polarization Affects Governance,” Annual Review of Political Science,

18:15.1-15.22, doi: 10.1146/annurev-polisci-072012-113747; with Sarah A. Binder. 2015. “Making Deals in

Congress.” Solutions to Political Polarization in America. Nathaniel Persily, ed. New York: Cambridge

University Press, 240-261; and Frances also released her article “American Politics Is More Competitive Than

Ever, and That Is Making Partisanship Worse.” in Political Polarization in American Politics. Daniel J.

Hopkins and John Sides, eds. New York, Bloomsbury: 76-79, 2015.

Uslaner, Ric “The Consequences of Corruption,” in Paul Heywood (ed.), Handbook of Political Corruption

Abingdon, U.K. and New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 199-211. And “Diversity, Segregation, and Trust,” in

Ruud Koopmans, Bram Lancee, and Merlin Schaeffer, eds., Ethnic Diversity in Diverse Societies London:

Routledge, 2015, pp. 87-104.

Lectures, Presentations and Other

Alcaniz, Isabella will present her paper "Regional Integration in Latin America" on March 19 at the University

of Pennsylvania for the Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism (DCC) as part of a 2014-

2015 series that will become an edited volume on Post-Neoliberal Latin America to be published by

the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2015.

Lee, Frances E. “Insecure Majorities: Congress & the Permanent Campaign,” Department of Political Science,

University of California-San Diego, January 29, 2015. Panelist, “Can We Make American Democracy Work?”

New America Foundation, Washington, DC, February 12, 2015. And “Party Competition & the Permanent

Campaign,” Public Lecture, Arts and Sciences Week, University of Oklahoma, February 26, 2015.

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Uslaner, Ric has 3 Invited Lectures to report. “Diversity, Segregation, and Trust,” at the Workshop on

“Understanding Social Trust and Other social Behaviors—A Transatlantic Dialogue: A Conference in Honor of

Eric M. Uslaner,” University of Manchester, UK, February 27, 2015, “The Historical Roots of Corruption,”

Osaka University (Japan), March 18, 2015; Siena University (Japan), March 19, and Keynote lecture “Disasters

and Trust,” Conference on Justice and Catastrophe: Silent, Invisible and Slow Moving Catastrophes,” Graduate

School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, March 23-25, 2015.

Awards

GRADUATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

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MARCH 2015

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SSU

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GVPT Conf Rm

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Empowerment of

Women and Peace Series

3pm Atrium, SSU

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