MPSA Awards
More COPS, Higher Turnout?
By: Brandon J. Romero, University of Michigan The following blog post summarizes the research that was a co-winner of the Midwest Political Science Association’s Best Paper in Political Behavior Award for research presented at the 2024 MPSA Annual Conference. In my paper "More COPS, Higher…
The Subnational Roots of Democratic Stability
By: Julian Michel, Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA, Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich The following blog post summarizes the research that won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for the best comparative politics paper presented at the 2024 MPSA Annual…
Adam Smith on the Effectual Truth of Imagination
By: Trevor Shelley, Arizona State University The following blog post is a summary of the research that won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Review of Politics Award for research presented at the 2024 MPSA Annual Conference. In this article (recently published in Perspectives on…
Do Values Affect Issue Stances? Evidence from Panel Studies
By: Arjun Vishwanath, Vanderbilt University The following blog post is a summary of the research that won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Best Paper in American Politics Award for research presented at the 2023 MPSA Annual Conference. Voters’ issue stances are central to…
What are the local impacts of unauthorized Mexican migration in the United States?
By: Ernesto Tiburcio and Kara Ross Camarena The following blog post is a summary of the research that co-won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Best Paper in Political Behavior Award for research presented at the 2023 MPSA Annual Conference. The award recognizes the best paper on the topic…
The Rise of New Trade Coalitions Under Global Value Chains
By: Hao Zhang The following blog post is a summary of the research that won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Best Paper in International Relations Award for research presented at the 2023 MPSA Annual Conference. The award recognizes the best paper on the topic of international……
Reforming the Rhetoricians: Aristotle’s Underhanded Aim in the Rhetoric
By: Michael C. Hawley, University of Houston The following blog post is a summary of the research that won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Review of Politics Award for research presented at the 2023 MPSA Annual Conference. The award recognizes the best paper in normative political…
Direct Election and Senate Representation
By: Gabriel Foy-Sutherland, University of Chicago; Daniel J. Moskowitz, University of Chicago; Jon C. Rogowski, University of Chicago The following blog post is a summary of the research that won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Patrick J. Fett Award for research presented at the 2023…
The Trump Effect on Immigration Court Cases
By Elise Blasingame, University of Georgia; Christina L. Boyd, University of Georgia; Roberto F. Carlos, The University of Texas at Austin; Joseph T. Ornstein, University of Georgia The following blog post is a summary of the research that co-won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Evan…
A Boundary of White Inclusion: How Religion Shapes Perceptions of Ethnoracial Assignment
By Amanda Sahar d’Urso, Northwestern University The following blog post is a summary of the research that won the Midwest Political Science Association’s Lucius Barker Award (for research presented at the 2021 MPSA Annual Conference). Who do White Americans consider to be White? Is it simply a…