Job Placement
Placement History
Our graduate students have been very successful in securing positions at leading organizations in academia, industry, and government. Following is the placement history of recent graduates.
2022-2023
| Name | Dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Allie, Feyaad | Power, Exclusion, and Identity: The Politics of Muslim Marginalization in India | Harvard |
| Bate, Jon | Does International Security Assistance Make an Impact? Evaluating the Strategic Effectiveness of Military Aid | US Army |
| Fanlo, Abby | To Co-opt or to Coerce? How the Adversaries of Great Power Proteges Respond to Retrenchment | |
| Hai, Zuhad | Essays on the Politics of Scientific and Technological Change | New York University |
| Johnson, Jamal | Racial Misinformation: How Americans Misperceive Racial Inequality | Bain & Company |
| Kim, Jiwon | Voting Across Divisions: How Ethnicity and Conflict Shape Political Preferences in Myanmar and Beyond | Reformed University Fellowship |
| Lal, Apoorva | Essays in Political Methodology | Data Scientist, Netflix |
| Lee, Soyoung | National Interest in International Relations: Domestic Distributional Consequences and Constraints to Conflict | Yale |
| Lienesch, Rachel |
Racial Politics of the White Left and Beyond |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt |
| Napier, Creed | At Arm’s Distance: How States Manage Escalation with Proxies and Denials | Air Command and Staff College at Air University |
| Nowacki, Toby | Essays in Political Economy | Data Scientist, Deliveroo |
| Parker, Brett | Essays on Judicial Selection and Judicial Behavior | Federal judicial clerkship |
| Peters, Austin | Essays on Machine Learning and Empirical Legal Studies | Clerkship, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Petrov, Philip | Moral Cognition in Law and Policy | Fellow, University of Chicago Law School |
| Sinnott, Shawna | The Cyber Spiral? Operational and Political Implications of Emerging Domains of Warfare | US Marine Corps |
| Toenshoff, Christina | Hiding in the Crowd: Corporate Climate Lobbying under Investor and Consumer Pressure | Leiden University |
| Toth, Aliz | Of Land and Leviathan: How State-Society Bargaining Shapes Infrastructure in India | LSE |
| Vargas Nunez, Cesar | Borders of Solidarity - Politics, Immigration, and Health | Claremont McKenna |
2021-2022
| Name | Dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Aldridge, Alejandra Gimenez | How Americans Think About Democracy | Brigham Young University |
| Figueroa Alvarez, Valentin | The Protestant Road to State Bureaucracy | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| Fleischaker, Nathan | Si vis pacem, para bellum: Essays on Military Preparations and Deterrence | Marine Corps |
| Jee, Haemin | Credit For Compliance: How Institutional Layering Ensures Compliance in China | West Point |
| Kelly, Patrick | The Civil-Military Politics of War Termination | West Point |
| Kim, Sung Mi | The Evolution of the Trading System:The Effects of Rising Preferential Trade Agreements | Postdoc, UC San Diego |
| Robinson, Kaitlyn | Organizing for Violence: The Politics of Militant Group Formation and Fragmentation in Armed Conflict | Rice University |
| Schwartz, Avshalom | Democratic Phantasies: Political Imagination and the Athenian Democracy | Postdoc, Stanford Civics Initiative |
| Sukin, Lauren |
The Risks of Nuclear States' Signals of Resolve |
LSE |
| Zhang, Emily Rong | Measurement and Representation | Berkeley Law |
| Zhang, Tongtong | Whose Voice Matters? Conformists, Non-conformists, and Responsiveness in China | American University |
2020-2021
| Name | Dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Abdelgadir, Aala | Islamic Identity and Politics in Muslim-minority Contexts | University of Pittsburgh |
| Alrababah, Ala' | Media Manipulation at Home and Abroad | Postdoctoral Fellow, Immigration Policy Lab, ETH Zurich |
| Fabrizio, Ashley | Contingent Radicalization: Government Repression and Ethnonationalist Political Mobilization | Quantitative Researcher, Facebook |
| Franco, Annie | Essays on American Politics and the Science of Science | Research Scientist, Facebook |
| Grinberg, Marc | Misuse and Manipulation: The Strategic Politics of Military Capacity Building | Postdoctoral Fellow, the Watson Institute of Public and International Affairs, Brown University |
| Hedgecock, Katie | Deciphering the Implications of State-Sponsored Cyber Operations for IR Theory | West Point |
| Lueders, Hans | Political Representation in Democratic and Autocratic Regimes | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University |
| Marble, Will | Political Responses to Economic Change | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University |
| Myrick, Rachel |
Partisan Polarization and International Politics |
Duke University |
| Rodriguez, Luis | Crime and Impunity: Three Essays on the Drug War | |
| Seaford, Artemis | Autonomy, Intimacy, and the Law | Public Policy, Facebook |
| Tyler, Matt | Essays in Political Methodology | Rice University |
| Van Lieshout, Elisabeth | Demanding Deals: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements | Trade Policy Analyst, OECD |
| Waldie, Bradford | Friendship and Firepower: Long-term Security Commitment Among Like-minded States | US Air Force |
| Yoder, Jesse | Essays on Elections and Voting in the United States | Research Scientist, Facebook |
| Zhang, Anna | Go West, Young Han: Internal Migration as a Strategy of Counterinsurgency | Washington University in St. Louis, after postdoc at University of Pennsylvania |
2019-2020
| Name | Dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Basu, Jacqueline | The Social Basis of Legitimacy: Public Discourse and the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence |
| Bauer, Vincent |
Does Doctrine Matter? The role of discretion during counterinsurgency |
Research Analyst, Data Science Team at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) in DC |
| Cryer, Jennifer | Navigating Identity and Strategic Home Style: How Race and Gender Influence Candidate Campaign Communication | USC |
| DeHart, Cameron | The Proliferation of State and Local Elections in the United States, 1776-1900 | Lecturer, University of California, Merced |
| Franco Vivanco, Edgar | Strategies of Indigenous Resistance and Assimilation to Colonial Rule | University of Michigan |
| Hausman, David | Arbitrations in Administrative Courts | Berkeley Law, after postdoc at Stanford |
| Hundley, Lindsay | Foreign-Backed Leadership Change and Maintenance | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford |
| Lee, Nathan | Responsiveness to Expertise in 21st Century American Politics | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| MacDonald, Bobbie | Room to Move: Political Accountability of "Lawmakers" in the Kenya National Assembly 1998-2019 | Senior Data Scientist, Our World in Data |
| Malik, Mashail | Why do Ethnic Parties Flourish or Die?: The Microfoundations of Identity Politics in Pakistan’s Megacity | Harvard |
| Mousa, Salma | Conflict, Contact, and Social Cohesion in the Middle East | Yale University |
| Parreira, Christiana |
Family, Faith and Informal Order in Postwar Lebanon |
Graduate Institute, Geneva |
| Pena Rangel, David | Leveling Down All Things Considered | Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) |
| Schaftel, Ben | Public Confidence in the United States Military | United States Air Force |
| Snyder, Neil | A Loud Voice and a Big Stick: Essays on Military Influence in America | United States Army |
| Song, Eunhou Esther | NGOs, the State, and Legitimacy in Contemporary China | Research Fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) |
| Thompson, Dan | Essays on the Political Economy of Elections | UCLA |
| Williamson, Scott | The King Can Do No Wrong: Blame Games and Regime Survival under Authoritarian Rule | Bocconi University after postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi |
2018-2019
| Name | Dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
|
Blackman, Alexandra |
The Politicization of Faith: Settler Colonialism, Education, and Political Identity in Tunisia |
Cornell after postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Brooks, Andrew | The Impact and Creation of British Colonial Armies in Africa | Data Scientist, Paradigm Strategies |
| Emeriau, Mathilde | When Bureaucratic Discretion Leads to Discrimination: Evidence from France | London School of Economics |
| Esberg, Jane | Strategies of Repression: Killings, Courts, and Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes | University of Pennsylvania after postdoc at Princeton |
| Krupenkin, Masha | Essays on Partisan Negativity | Boston College |
| Malone, Iris | Insurgency Formation and Civil War Onset | George Washington University after postdoc at CISAC |
| McNamee, Lachlan | Demographic Engineering: Geopolitics, State-Sponsored Demographic Change, and the Construction of Political Order | UCLA after postdoc at the European University Institute |
| Mintz, Kevin | Sex-Positive Political Theory: Pleasure, Power, Public Policy and the Pursuit of Sexual Liberation | Postdoc at the National Institutes of Health |
| Spahn, Brad | Before the American Voter | Research Scientist, Facebook |
|
Streeter, Shea |
The Racial Politics of Police Violence in the United States | University of Michigan |
2017-2018
| Name | Dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
|
Bansak, Kirk |
Essays in Political Methodology |
University of California, San Diego |
| Chu, Jonathan | The Liberal Democratic Community and Humanitarian War | National University of Singapore, after postdoc at University of Pennsylvania |
| Jackson, Marlette | Beyond the State: The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Elites on State-Building in East Africa | Diversity and Inclusion, Stanford School of Engineering |
| Lamboy, Lily | Evaluative Justice | Lecturer, Stanford University |
| Liu, Adam | The Political Origin and Economic Consequences of Bank Proliferation in China | National University Singapore after postdoc at Yale |
| Liu, Glory | Inventing the Invisible Hand: Adam Smith and the Making of an American Creed | Postdoc at Brown |
| Liu, Lizhi | From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China | Georgetown Business School |
| Perlman, Rebecca | Precaution in The Private Interest | Princeton University |
| Persen, Kerry | The Moderates' Dilemma: Obstacles to Mobilizing Against Islamist Extremism | Postdoc at CISAC |
|
Robinson, Michael |
Danger Close: Military Politicization and Elite Credibility | West Point |
| Shen, Shiran | Political Pollution Cycle: The Inconvenient Truth and How to Break It | University of Virginia |
2016-2017
| Name | Dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
|
Barlow, Robert |
The origins and requirements of the duty to promote justice | Hult International Business School |
| Ejdemyr, Simon | Essays on the Allocation of Local Public Goods | Quantitative Researcher, Facebook |
| Fresh, Adriane | Elites, Institutions and Economic Development | Duke University after postdoc at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University |
| Haskell, Jennifer | What We Say When We Talk About China: The Role of Trade Politics in Driving China's Image in the U.S. | Data Scientist, Nuna Health |
| Kitagawa, Risa | Violence, Justice, and Reconciliation: The Politics of Transitional Justice in Societies Recovering from War | Northeastern University after Columbia University postdoc |
| Min, Eric | Negotiation in War | UCLA after CISAC postdoc |
| Mummolo, Jonathan | Modern Police Tactics, Police-Citizen Interactions and the Prospects for Reform | Princeton University |
| Paglayan, Agustina | Political Origins of Public Education Systems | University of California, San Diego after Center for Global Development postdoc |
| Parthasarathy, Ramya | The Politics and Policies of Inclusion | Consultant at McKinsey & Company |
| Payson, Julia | When Governments Lobby | New York University |
| Petersen, Erik | Causes and Consequences of News Media Content | Texas A&M after Dartmouth postdoc |
| Robles, Gustavo | Essays on the political economy of Violence in Mexico | Research Associate, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University |
| Weinreb, Jason | Political Risks in International Finance | Quantitative Geopolitical Analyst, Kensho Technologies |
| Zhang, Kelly | Voter Pessimism and Politician Corruption: Evidence from Kenya | Data Scientist, Social Capital |
2015-2016
| Name | DISSERTATION TITLE | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Anoll, Allison | Social Norms, Structural Segregation and the Mechanics of Political Participation | Vanderbilt |
| Christensen, Darin | The Determinants and Consequences of Foreign Investment in Africa | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Downey, Kara | Building the Nation, Binding the State: Nationalism, Insecurity, and Ethnic Tolerance in Kyrgyzstan | Energy Data Analyst at Opinion Dynamics |
| Garfias, Francisco | Weak States and the Development of State Capacity | University of California, San Diego |
| Katagiri, Azusa | Essays on Interstate Crises and Audiences: A Text Analysis Approach to US Foreign Relations | Nanyang Technological University |
| Kronick, Dorothy | The Politics of Criminal Violence | University of Pennsylvania |
| Neuman, Craig | Revealing Resolve or Crippling Credibility? The Signalling Effect of Economic Sanctions | Air Force Special Operations Command |
| Perry, Tomer | Democratic Justice in Global Affairs | Research Associate, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University |
| Platas Izama, Melina |
Muslim Education in Sub-Saharan Africa |
New York University, Abu Dhabi |
2014-2015
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Bonilla-Worsley, Tabitha | The Impact of Campaign Promises on Voter Behavior | University of Southern California Post-Doc |
| Bonheim, Jeff | Military Strategy and Public Support for War | US Military Academy at West Point |
| Figueroa, Lucila | Cultural Norms and Attitudes Toward Immigrants in the US | Senior Researcher at Vera Institute of Justice after University of Virginia Post-Doc |
| Israel-Trummel, Mackenzie | Politics at the Intersections: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Political Identity and Behavior | University of Oklahoma |
| Lee, Melissa | Mind the Gap? The International Sources of Sovereignty and State Weakness | Princeton University |
| Lee, Carrie | The Politics of Military Operations | US Air War College |
| Opalo, Ken | Institutions and Political Change: The Case of African Legislatures | Georgetown University |
| Prather, Lauren | Self-Interest, Group Interest, and Values: The Determinants of Mass Attitudes Towards Foreign Aid in Donor Countries | University of California, San Diego |
| Puente, Lucas | How does politics affect central banking | Thumbtack Inc. |
| Rho, Sungmin | The Workers' Dilemma: Factory Workers and Collective Action in China | University of Pennsylvania Post-Doc followed by the Graduate Institute, Geneva |
| Wilkins, Arjun | Ideological Sorting and the Transformation of American Politics |
2013-2014
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Coyne, Brian | Non-State Governance and Non-State Legitimacy | Teaching Fellow, Stanford University |
| Gillum, Rachel | Muslim-American Identity, Integration, and Government Relations in the Post-9/11 Environment | RiceHadleyGates and Stanford University's Center for International Conflict and Negotiation |
| Gulotty, Robert | Governing Trade Beyond Tariffs: The politics of multinational production and its implications for international cooperation | University of Chicago |
| Hamisi, Lonjezo | Secretary or General?: The U.N. Secretary-General's Diplomatic Interventions in International Conflicts | Department of Political Affairs, United Nations Secretariat |
| Jeon, Sangick | Essays on the Costs and Benefits of Ethnic Diversity | Groundtruth.io |
| Livny, Avital | A State of Distrust: Islamic Mobilization in Turkey and the Muslim World | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Zhang, Nan | Corruption and Social Norms: Explaining Corruption's Persistence in the Face of Moral Condemnation | European University Institute |
2012-2013
| name | Dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Brule, Rachel | Gender Equity, Legal Reform and Local Institution: The Political Economy of Gender-Equalizing Land Inheritance Reform in Rural India | New York University, Abu Dhabi |
| Dropp, Kyle | Strategic Elite Rhetoric, Manipulation of Electoral Institutions and Voter Decision-Making | Dartmouth College |
| Gottlieb, Jessica | Peasants into Democrats: Evaluating the Determinants of Democratic Failure in Mali | Texas A&M |
| Jackman, Molly | The Institutional Foundations of Majority Party Power | Fellow at the Brookings Institution, followed by Vanderbilt |
| Jackman, Saul | War, Presidential Action, and Congressional Reaction | Fellow at the Brookings Institution, followed by Vanderbilt |
| Lee, Alexander | Diversity and Power: Caste in Colonial India | University of Rochester |
| Li, Xiaojun | Access, Institutions and Policy Influence: The Changing Political Economy of Trade Protection in Post-Reform China | University of British Columbia |
| Robinson, Amanda | Trust Amid Diversity: Nationalism and Interethnic Trust in Africa | Ohio State University |
2011-2012
| name | Dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Gowder, Paul | An Egalitarian Theory of the Rule of Law | University of Iowa Law School |
| Gross, Wendy | Opinions About Hispanics: Causes and Consequences | Knowledge Networks |
| Kricheli, Ruth | Mass Participation under Autocratic Rule | |
| Ling, Paul | Confidence-Building Measures: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis | U.S. Naval Academy |
| Matanock, Aila | International Insurance: Why Militant Groups and Governments Compete with Ballots Instead of Bullets | University of California, San Diego Post-Doc followed by University of California, Berkeley |
| Stein, Rachel | Crime, Punishment, and War | George Washington University |
| Tausanovitch, Christopher | Ideology and Representation in the United States | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Warshaw, Christopher | Issue Representation in the 107th-111th Congresses | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2010-2011
| Name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Albertus, Michael | Political Regimes and Redistribution | University of Chicago |
| Anzia, Sarah | Election Timing and the Political Influence of the Organized | University of California, Berkeley |
| Condra, Luke | Ethnic Group Rebellion in Civil War | University of Pittsburg (GSPIA) |
| Golby, James | Duty, Honor, Party? | US Military Academy at West Point |
| Handler, Scott | Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Understanding Modern State-building (and Counterinsurgency) | US Military Academy at West Point |
| Harlan, Danielle | Examining Judicial Divisiveness on the Supreme Court of the United States | Carnegie Foundation |
| Izquierdo, Richard | Rethinking Presidential Constructions of Constitutional Regimes: The Inverse Dynamics of Leadership and Historical Context | Princeton University, Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Johnson, Tim | Service after Serving: The Hiring, Performance, and Compensation of Military Veterans in the United States Federal Civilian Bureaucracy | Willamette University |
| Lidow, Nicholai | Violent Order: Rebel Organization and Liberia's Civil War | University of California, San Diego Post-Doc |
| Peters, Maggie | Open Trade, Closed Borders: Immigration Policy in the Era of Globalization | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Velasco, Nicole | Essays on Democratization and Redistribution in the Philippines | Lee University |
| Valenzuela, Ali | Identity in Context: How Neighborhoods, Churches and Campaigns Shape Latino Unity | Princeton University |
2009-2010
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Bhavnani, Rikhil | Political Inequality: Effects and Remedies | Princeton CSDP Post-Doc followed by University of Wisconsin |
| Condra, Luke | Ethnic Group Rebellion in Civil War | University of California, San Diego Post-Doc |
| Kaplan, Oliver | Civilian Autonomy in Civil War | Stanford University Post-Doc |
| Lacina, Bethany | The politics of security policy: Evidence from language violence in India, 1950-1989 | University of Rochester |
| Lee, Charlotte | Party adaptation, elite training, and political selection in reform-era China | Hamilton College |
| Mittal, Sonia | Dynamic Constitutional Stability | Attending Yale Law School |
| Raso, Connor | Procedural Constraints on Agency Rulemaking: An Analysis of Political Control of the Bureaucracy | Judicial Clerk, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| Tahk, Alexander | Essays on the Statistical Analysis of Roll-Call Votes and Judicial Citations | University of Wisconsin |
2008-2009
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Adida, Claire | Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa | University of California-San Diego |
| Ang, Yuen Yuen | State, Market, and Bureau-Contracting in Reform China | Columbia University SIPA |
| Chen, Jowei | Essays on the Electoral Geography of Distributive Politics | University of Michigan |
| Cohen, Dara | Explaining Sexual Violence During Civil War | University of Minnesota |
| Dragu, Tiberiu | Essays on Executive Power | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Driscoll, Jesse | Exiting Anarchy: Militia Politics After the Post-Soviet Wars | University of California, San Diego |
| Harbridge, Laurel | Bipartisanship in a Polarized Congress | Northwestern University |
| Kuo, Alexander | Political Origins of Firm Strategies | Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Cornell University |
| Menaldo, Victor | Banking on Redistribution in Latin America: Transaction Costs, Democracy, and Fiscal Redistribution in Latin America from 1808 to 2008 | University of Washington |
| Price, Bryan | Removing the Devil You Know: Unraveling the Puzzle Behind Decapitation Effectiveness and Terrorist Group Duration | US Military Academy at West Point |
2007-2008
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Carnes, Matthew | The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America | Georgetown University |
| Collins, Nathan | Adaptive Models of Political Behavior | Santa Fe Institute |
| Girod, Desha | Foreign Aid and Post-Conflict Reconstruction | Georgetown University |
| Lopez de Nava, Karla | Democratic Accountability for Economic Performance: Informational and Institutional Dynamics in Economic Voting Across Democracies, 1970-2005 | Acumen, LLC |
| Malhotra, Neil | Essays on Survey Methodology and Bandwagon Effects | Stanford University Graduate School of Business |
| Margalit, Yotam | Globalizations's Losers: International Economic Integration and the Politics of Discontent | Columbia University |
| McElwain, Kenneth Mori | Manipulating Electoral Rules: Intra-Party Conflict, Partisan Interests, and Constitutional Thickness | University of Michigan |
| Morrison, James | An Unholy Trinity: The Influence of Locke, Smith, and Keynes on British Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy | Middlebury College |
| Wallace, Jeremy | Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Migration, and Authoritarian Resilience in China | Ohio State University |
| Weeks, Jessica | Leaders, Accountability, and Foreign Policy in Non-Democracies | Cornell University |
2006-2007
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson, Robert | An Informational Theory of Judicial Organization | Pepperdine University Law School |
| Arriola, Leo | Between Coordination and Cooptation: The Opposition's Dilemma in Africa | University of California, Berkeley |
| Bambaci, Juliana | Presidential Discretion in Separation of Powers Systems | First Quadrant L.P. |
| Bullock, John | Essays on Partisanship and Public Opinion: Bayesian Updating, Party Cues, and False Beliefs about Politics | Yale |
| Butler, Daniel |
Moving to Win: Candidate Positioning, Polarization, and the Partisan Control of Congress |
Yale |
| Duggan, Catherine |
Money from Strangers: Indirect Regulation in Developing Financial Markets |
Harvard Business School |
| Jesse, Stephen |
Policy, Party and Perceptual Bias in American Politics |
University of Texas, Austin |
| Shapiro, Jacob |
The Terrorist's Challenge: Security, Efficiency, Control |
Princeton |
| Shimizu, Kay |
Private Money as Public Funds: the Politics of Economic Downturn |
Columbia University |
2005-2006
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Anderson, Sarah |
Who matters? : testing floor, party, and committee models of appropriations policy formation |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Erdem, Ebru | Political Salience of Ethnic Identities: A Comparative Study of Tajiks in Uzbekistan and Kurds in Turkey | University of California, Riverside |
| Kasara, Kimuli | Essays on Ethnic Politics in Africa | Columbia University |
| Levendusky, Matt | Sorting: Explaining Change in the American Electorate | University of Pennsylvania |
| Lin, Chao-Chi | Prime Ministerial Power and Policy Transformation: Party Politics in Political Reform in Japan | National Chengchi University, Taiwan |
| Patel, David | Islam, Information, and Social Order: The Strategic Role of Religion in Muslim Societies | Cornell University |
| Sechser, Todd | Winning Without a Fight: Power, Reputation, and Compellent Threats in International Crises | University of Virginia |
| Smuthkalin, Worawut |
Political regimes and welfare state development in East Asia : how state leaders matter to social policy expansion in Taiwan, Thailand, and China |
Foreign Ministry, Royal Government of Thailand |
| Strickler, James Vincent | Reconsidering Rosenberg: How His Challenge to Brown v. Board of Education May Be Better Met | DePauw University |
2004-2005
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Felter, Joe | Taking Guns to a Knife Fight: A Case for Empirical Study of Counterinsurgency | US Military Academy at West Point |
| Han, Hahrie |
Issue publics and congressional representation : the dynamics of citizen policy concerns and political outcomes |
Wellesley College |
| Ichino, Nahomi | Essays on Ethnic Diversity and Political Instability in Sub-Saharan Africa | Harvard Academy Post-Doc, then Harvard University |
| Jung, Joo-Youn | Inside the State in Transition: Transforming the Economic Bureaucracies in South Korea, China, and Japan | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Kim, Moonhawk | Markets, Coalitions and Institutions: International Trade Integration and Political Reforms | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Mecham, Quinn | From the Sacred to the State: Institutional Origins of Islamist Political Mobilization | Middlebury College |
| Montgomery, Alex |
Social action, rogue reaction : us post-cold war nuclear counterproliferation strategies |
Reed College |
| Praditsarn, Netithorn | GATT/WTO and Economic Development in Developing Countries: A Case of Thailand | Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| Putnam, Tonya | Courts Without Borders? The Politics and Law of Extraterritorial Regulation | Columbia University |
| Romero, Vidal |
Misaligned interests and commitment problems : a study of presidents and their parties with application to the Mexican presidency and privatization in Latin America |
ITAM (Mexico City) |
| Simpser, Alberto | Making Votes Not Count: Strategic Incentives for Electoral Corruption | University of Chicago |
| Stoll, Heather | Social Cleavages, Political Institutions, and Party Systems: Putting Preferences Back into the Fundamental Equation of Politics | University of California, Santa Barbara |
2003-2004
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Dimitrov, Martin | Administrative Decentralization, Legal Fragmentation, and the Rule of Law in Transitional Economies: The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Laws in China, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Taiwan | Dartmouth College |
| Dubyak, William | The Political Behavior of Individual US Military Members | US Naval Academy |
| D'Onofrio, Eve | Faith, Family, and Freedom: The Battleground Over Children's Rights | Boston University |
| Jacobi, Tonja | The Judiciarys Strategic Interactions with the Elected Branches in the American Political System | Northwestern Law School |
| Law, David | Essays on Judges and Judging | University of San Diego (Law), University of California, San Diego (Political Science) and currently Washington University School of Law and Political Science |
| Major, Solomon | The Domestic Politics of International Economic Sanctions | Naval Post Graduate School |
| Marinov, Nikolay | Deter, Bargain, Destabilize: Explaining the Initiation, Duration, and Success of Economic Sanctions | Yale University |
| Pope, Jeremy | The Electrical Foundations of Congressional Party Organization | Brigham Young University |
| Razo, Armando | Social Networks and Credible Commitments in Dictatorships | Indiana University |
2002-2003
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Fravel, M. Taylor | The Long March to Peace: Explaining China's Settlement of Territorial Disputes | University of California, Berkeley |
| Hassner, Ron | The Path to Indivisibility: The Role of Ideas in the Resolution of Intractable Territorial Disputes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Hillygus, D. Sunshine | Understanding Receptivity to Political Campaigns: Voter Decision-making in Election 2000 | Harvard University |
| Kelts, Steven | Moralized Selves: Liberty and Self-Government in the Multicultural State | George Washington University |
| Lawless, Jennifer | Women and Elections: Who Runs? Who Wins? Does it Matter? | Brown University |
| Sims, Gretchen Crosby | Rethinking the Political Power of American Business: The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility | The Joyce Foundation |
| Terra, Jonathan | Influence, Assets and Democracy: Who Got What After the Fall of Communism In East Central Europe? | Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education Economics Institute, Czech Republic |
| Treier, Shawn | Explaining Policy Change: Conversion and Replacement | University of Georgia, currently University of Minnesota |
2001-2002
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton, Joshua | Essays on Ideal Point Estimates and Their Uses | Princeton |
| Guilmartin, Eugenia | An Empirical Analysis of Right Wing Terrorism in the United States (1995-2001) | US Military Academy |
| New, Michael | A Comparison of Fiscal Discipline Measures Passed Through the Citizen Initiative to Fiscal Discipline Measures Enacted Through Other Means | University of Alabama |
| Primo, David | Essays on Bargaining and the Politics of Public Expenditures in the United States | University of Rochester |
| Ramirez, Ricardo | The Changing Landscape of California Politics, 1990-2000 | University of Southern California |
| Rhodes, Sybil | Crossed Wires? The Privatization of Public Utilities and the Rise of Consumer Movements in Latin America, 1985-2000: A Case Study of Telecommunications | Western Michigan University |
2000-2001
| name | dissertation title | placement |
|---|---|---|
| Alence, Rod | World Markets and the Politics of African Open Economies: Domestic Policy Responses to External Volatility in Ghana, 1937-84 | University of Witwatersrand |
| Ayala, Louis J. | Effect of Constituency Size on the Nature of Senate Representation | Notre Dame |
| Cai, Yongshun | The Silence of the Dislocated: Chinese Laid-off Employees in the Reform Period | National University of Singapore |
| Chavez, Rebecca Bill | The Construction of the Rule of Law in Nascent Democracies | United States Naval Academy |
| Fazal, Tanisha | Born To Lose and Doomed to Survive State Death and Survival In The International System | Columbia University |
| Gould, Erica R. | Financiers as Fund Principals: An Alternative Explanation of Changes in the Activities of the International Monetary Fund | University of Virginia |
| Grob, Douglas | Institutional Foundations of Partisan Change a New Look at Critical Elections in America | University of Maryland |
| McIntosh-Sundstrom, Lisa | Strength from Without? Transnational Actors on NGO Development in Russia | University of British Columbia |
| Theriault, Sean M. | Congress and the Power of the People | University of Texas, Austin |
| Tiberghien, Yves E. | Political Mediation of Global Economic Forces: The Politics of Corporate Restructuring in Japan, France, and South Korea | University of British Columbia |