Kelly McMann continues to serve as subnational government project manager for Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), a global collaboration that has produced 350 plus measures of democracy for all countries of the world from 1900 to the present, available at https://www.v-dem.net/en/. V-Dem received the 2016 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award from the...
Faculty Activity and Accomplishments
Professor Karen Beckwith has won an American Political Science Association Centennial Grant to finish the book Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender with her co-authors Professors Claire Annesley (University of Sussex) and Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary).
Professor Kathryn Lavelle has been reappointed to a two-year term as a Global Fellow, Global Europe Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Professor Kelly McMann’s article, “Developing State Legitimacy: The Credibility of Messengers and the Utility, Fit and Success of Ideas,” was published in Comparative Politics, 48,4 (July 2016), pp. 538-556.
Professor Elliot Posner has won a Great Lakes Energy Institute Faculty Fellowship for his project “The Politics of Incumbent Electric Utilities in the Age of Renewables.” His article, co-authored with Abraham Newman, “Structuring Transnational Interests: The Second-Order Effects of Soft Law in the Politics of Global Finance,” was published in the Review of International...
Professor Laura Tartakoff’s essay, “Ethnic Identity and Gender in Pluralist Peru,” was published in the journal Society.