Prof. Julia Azari is currently working several projects. One is an article manuscript on mandates and landslide presidential elections. The second is an article on divisive primary elections. The third is an article on the vice presidential selection process. The final is a book manuscript on presidential rhetoric.
Prof. Lowell Barrington is currently working on three projects. The first examines the lessons from the integration policies in Estonia and Latvia over the last decade. The second is a revision of the first edition of his introductory comparative politics textbook, Comparative Politics: Structures and Choices. The third is the manuscript for an introduction to political science textbook titled POLI SCI. The latter two projects are both under contract with Wadsworth/Cengage.
Prof. Darrell Dobbs is currently studying the classical trivium and quadrivium in search of a foundational art of learning.
Prof. Jeffrey Drope is currently working on several projects. He is editing a large volume on the politics of public health in Africa, particularly focusing on tobacco control. This project is supported by a grant from the International Development Research Centre. He is also writing a related book that helps economic development practitioners to use political science concepts to reach their policy goals more successfully and efficiently. Finally, he has recently submitted several manuscripts for review including a study of elites' attitudes toward trade policy in developing countries, and an examination of the politics of smoke-free policies in Africa.
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Stephen Engel is currently working on three projects. First, he is completing a book manuscript that examines how and why presidential and congressional hostilities toward judicial authority have changed over time. It is currently under review with Cambridge University Press. Second, he is examining the normative implications of a new model of jurisprudence known as democratic constitutionalism, particularly focusing on its ironic implications for same-sex marriage. Third, he is beginning a large-scale project, which is an attempt to bring an American political development (APD) perspectives to bear on the rise of sexuality politics and the state’s management of sexuality across various political and legal sites since the 1890s. It is currently titled, “The Schizophrenic Citizen: An APD Account of Sexuality Politics in the United States.”
Prof. Michael Fleet is currently working on two book manuscripts. The first is titled The Political Influence of the Catholic Church in an Era of Secularization. The second is on the Catholic Church and politics in Spain.
Prof. H. Richard Friman is currently working on two book projects exploring the ways in which alien criminality arguments have influenced historical and current immigration control policies in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Other research projects underway include investigating the political processes through which "name and shame" strategies have influenced patterns of state cooperation with global prohibition regimes. Prof. Friman also has contributed chapters on the illegal migration industry for two edited volumes, one in press and the other under review.
Prof. Ryan Hanley is currently at work on a book entitled Altruism's Wisdom, research on which is being supported by a grant from the University of Chicago's Arete Initiative. In addition, he is at work on an article on education in the Scottish Enlightenment, multiple single-author articles on Adam Smith and David Hume, and two co-authored articles.
Prof. Lawrence LeBlanc is currently working on two projects. The first is a co-authored article, “Compliance with the Reporting Requirements of the United Nations Human Rights Conventions.” The second is a single-authored book chapter, “The United States and the Genocide Convention: The Sovereignty Package in Perspective.”
Prof. John McAdams is currently working on a book titled JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think About Claims of Conspiracy (under contract with Potomac Books).
Prof. Barrett McCormick is currently working on several projects, including a book manuscript titled Media Markets and the Transformation of China's Public Sphere, a book chapter comparing the development of media markets in China with other countries, and an early-stage project on the consequences of China's growing role in Africa.
Prof. Duane Swank is currently working on a co-authored article titled “Institutional Change and the Politics of Social Solidarity in Capitalist Democracies”; additional articles and a book project on the origins, evolution, and consequences of varieties of capitalism; a book manuscript on the spread of neoliberal policies and institutions; and a collaborative project on understanding change and continuity in coordinated market economies.
Prof. McGee Young is currently working on a book chapter on advocacy organizations. He is also completing an article on constructing advocacy coalitions and working on a co-authored article titled “Political Parties and Changing Patterns of Associationalism.”
