The Department of Political Science is committed to teaching students how to effect positive social change. They offer courses that include service-learning and community-based research and that encourage students to accept responsibility for their learning and to recognize that knowledge may be obtained from a variety of different people and situations.
Below you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in Political Science.
Submissions from 2022
P/A Forum Symposia Animal Labour A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice?, Jishnu Guha-Majumdar, Diego Rossello, Angie Pepper, Peter Niesen, Will Kymlicka, and Charlotte E. Blattner
Submissions from 2019
Submissions from 2018
Remembering Lee Ann in South Africa: Meta-data and reflexive research practice, Robin L. Turner
Submissions from 2016
Rethinking Linkage to the West: What Authoritarian Stability in Singapore Tells Us, Su-Mei Ooi
Lasting Legacies: Contemporary Struggles and Historical Dispossession in South Africa, Robin L. Turner
Submissions from 2015
Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, One Year Later, Su-Mei Ooi and Megan Day
China’s New Silk Road and Its Impact on Xinjiang, Su-Mei Ooi and Kate Trinkle
Peace-building without Western Saviors? An Approach to Teaching African Gender and Sexuality Politics to American students., Robin L. Turner
Submissions from 2014
The transnational protection regime and democratic breakthrough in Taiwan and South Korea, Su-Mei Ooi
Xi Jinping and Social Media: Harnessing the People’s Voice, Su-Mei Ooi and Brittanie Redd
Traditional, Democratic, Accountable? Navigating Citizen-Subjection in Rural South Africa, Robin L. Turner
Submissions from 2013
The Human Rights Implications of China's Slowdown, Su-Mei Ooi and Patrick Poon
Land restitution, traditional leadership and belonging: defining Barokologadi identity, Robin L. Turner
Media Presentations as a Strategy for Teaching African Politics, Robin L. Turner
Submissions from 2012
The Developmental State: Understanding State-Society Relations in Asia, Vincent Chua, Su-Mei Ooi, Surain Subramaniam, and Yew Tong Chia
The U.S. No Longer Makes the Grade: Economic Inequality Put an End to the 'American Century', David S. Mason
Submissions from 2010
Submissions from 2009
Does Patronage Still Drive Politics for the Rural Poor in the Developing World? A Comparative Perspective from the Livestock Sector, David K. Leonard, Jennifer Brass, Michael Nelson, Sophal Ear, Dan Fahey, Tasha Fairfield, Martha Johnson Gning, Michael Halderman, Brendan McSherry, Devra Coren Moehler, Wilson Prichard, Robin L. Turner, Tuong Vu, and Jeroen Dijkman
Entering a Systemic Revolution, David S. Mason
To Increase Federal Revenue, Taxes Must Go Up, David S. Mason
The Transnational Protection Regime and Taiwan's Democratization, Su-Mei Ooi
Submissions from 2007
Review of "Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities", Su-Mei Ooi
Review of "Rethinking Asia’s Economic Miracle: The Political Economy of War, Prosperity and Crisis", Su-Mei Ooi
Submissions from 2005
Review of "Consolidating Taiwan’s Democracy", Su-Mei Ooi
Livestock, Liberalization, and Democracy: Constraints and Opportunities for Rural Livestock Producers in Reforming Uganda, Robin L. Turner
Submissions from 2004
Fairness Matters: Equity and the Transition to Democracy, David S. Mason
Fairness Matters: Social Justice and Political Legitimacy in Post-Communist Europe, David S. Mason
Communities, Wildlife Conservation, and Tourism-based Development: Can Community-based Nature Tourism Live Up to Its Promise?, Robin L. Turner
Livestock Production and the Rural Poor in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa States, India, Robin L. Turner
Politically Feasible Pro-poor Livestock Policies in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa States, India, Robin L. Turner
Submissions from 2002
Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism: An Annotated Bibliography and General Overview, Focusing on U.S. Literature, 1996-2002, Robin L. Turner and Diana Pei Wu
Submissions from 2001
Globalization and Security: The Role of International Financial Institutions in Pacific Asian Security, Su-Mei Ooi
Submissions from 1999
Political involvement in transition: Who participated in Central and Eastern Europe?, David S. Mason
Submissions from 1997
Public Opinion and the 1996 Elections in Russia: Nostalgic and Statist, Yet Pro-Market and Pro-Yeltsin, David S. Mason
The MIDDLE CLASS: Increasingly Fond Memories of a Grim Past, David S. Mason
Submissions from 1996
Political Involvement in Transition: Who Participated, and Electoral Dynamics, In Central and Eastern Europe?, David S. Mason and James R. Kluegel
Submissions from 1995
Attitudes toward the Market and Political Participation in the Postcommunist States, David S. Mason
Submissions from 1993
Attitudes Towards the Market and the State in Post-Communist Europe, David S. Mason
Submissions from 1991
Apathy and the Birth of Democracy: The Polish Struggle, David S. Mason
Perestroika in Central Europe, David S. Mason
Public Opinion in Poland's Transition to Market Democracy, David S. Mason
The Polish Parliament and Labor Legislation During Solidarity, David S. Mason
Perestroĭka, Social Justice and Public Opinion, David S. Mason and Svetlana Sydorenko
Submissions from 1990
Perestroyka, Social Justice and Soviet Public Opinion, David S. Mason and Svetlana Sydorenko
Submissions from 1989
Solidarity Enters the Fray, David S. Mason
Public Opinion Reform in China, David S. Mason and Ken Colburn
Submissions from 1988
Glasnost, Perestroika and Eastern Europe, David S. Mason
Political Apathy in Poland, David S. Mason
Submissions from 1983
Policy Dilemmas and Political Unrest in Poland, David S. Mason
Solidarity, the Regime and the Public, David S. Mason
Submissions from 1982
Membership of the Polish United Workers Party, David S. Mason
Romanian Autonomy and Arms Control Policies, David S. Mason
The Day Indianapolis Died, David S. Mason and Gary Kyxer-Sheeley