Political Science News

Grad. Student Paper for Institute of Replication

Graduate Student Joseph Bonneau has a new paper with the Institute for Replication on "From Anti-Corruption to Economics: An Extension of Tsai et al. (2021)."  From the Abstract: "I reproduced their original findings, and did not find any notable coding errors while doing so. Then . . . I engaged in an extension of the original model . . .

Profs. Hosek and Peritz on "Crafting Trade Policy in the United States House of Representatives"

Professors Hosek and Peritz have published their article on "Crafting Trade Policy in the United States House of Representatives" in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.  Among their findings: "[We] show that legislators who represent districts hardest hit by trade competition promote protectionism at a higher rate. We find strong evidence that district economic conditions reinforce the party position for Democrats and reveal intra-party cleavages among Republicans."

Current and Past Grad Students on the Impact of Covid-19 on 2020 Presidential Election

Five current and past graduate students (Carlos Algara, Sharif Amlani, Sam Collitt, Isaac Hale, and Sara Kazemian) have published an article in Political Behavior on "Nail in the Coffin or Lifeline? Evaluating the Electoral Impact of COVID-19 on President Trump in the 2020 Election." 

Among other things, they find "evidence that President Trump gained support in counties with higher COVID-19 deaths."  Nicely done!

"Prospects for Ukraine's Future: Russia's War and Its Consequences"

The Department of Political Science, together with several other UC Davis departments, is pleased to announce that Paul D'Anieri (Political Science/Public Policy, UC Riverside) will be coming to campus on November 18 (12-1:30 pm, International Center Multipurpose Room) to give a talk: "Prospects for Ukraine's Future: Russia's War and Its Consequences." Prof.

Prof. Tellez on "Taking Dyads Seriously"

With his collaborators, Professor Tellez has published on article on "Taking Dyads Seriously" in the most recent issue of Political Science Research and Methods.  They "show a regression-based approach, the Additive and Multiplicative Effects (AME) model, can be used to account for the inherent dependencies in dyadic data and glean substa