MPSA Blog
#MPSA2024– This Is My Why
by Michael A. Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Our world and our lives today are filled with all sorts of communications technology, making it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to meet up with people from all over the world without physically traveling…
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……
Introducing “Parties, Politics, Peace: Electoral Inclusion as Peacebuilding”
by Carrie Manning, Ian O. Smith, Ozlem Tuncel The notion of liberal peacebuilding, the prevailing approach to international intervention to end civil war in the decades after the Cold War’s end, has fallen out of favor of late. But for the last thirty years, international peacebuilding efforts have…
U.S. States are Trying Political Scientist-Approved Voting Reforms. How's It Going?
by Michael A. Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Most U.S. elections use plurality voting, in which the single candidate winning the most votes is elected, even if they fall short of a majority. If the election is partisan, chances are that the finalists were chosen in…
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…
Toward a Synthesis of Feminist Philosophy of Science and Political Theory
By Kenneth Burke In the dynamic environment of modern political science, a feminist philosophy of science offers a crucial perspective for addressing the challenges posed by the contemporary social, cultural, and economic environments. Political scientists grappling with the challenges of…
Dangerous Logic of Ambitions: Autocrats’ Quest for Historical Immortality
by Daria Blinova, PhD student, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware What do autocrats truly want? The theory of autocratic survival suggests that autocratic leaders aim to concentrate the power in their hands to maintain control over the society they…
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…