Karen Beckwith

Funded the presentation of “Party System Change, Party Demise, and Women’s Political Representation,” at the Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) / SUCCESS Project Workshop at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, June 11-12, 2026.

Kelly McMann

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting–I served as a discussant on the panel Generational Politics and Democratic Attitudes and hosted a meeting of the global Subnational Politics and Research Network that I created and lead, both of which helped increase CWRU global visibility and benefited my research.

I attended the Global Roundtable on the Future of Decentralization and Multilevel Governance co-hosted by the OECD, World Bank, and NYU, among other organizations. The event was helpful to my plans to return to local government research and practitioner outreach and to design a course on the topic.

Midwest Political Science Association Conference–Co-authors and I presented the paper “Measuring Democracy in Subnational Units Worldwide: A New Method,” from a new project. I will also met individually with two scholars of subnational politics from other universities to discuss research.

Elliot Posner

Funded attendance at RTOGov Winter 2026 Research Workshop in Washington, D.C., where he presented “Stranded in Ohio: Wholesale Electric Markets and the U.S. Political Economy of Power Plants, 2008-2022.”

Matthew Hodgetts

Funded attendance of the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association where he co-organized the Environmental Political Theory pre-conference workshop and co-convened the panel “Teaching Environmental Political Theory”

Karen Beckwith

Previously funded research on new parties was published as Karen Beckwith, “Gender, ‘Newness’ and Party System Change,” in Gendering Party Politics, eds. Elin Bjarnegård and Meryl Kenny. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, with acknowledgment of research assistance from POSC major Art Martinez; and research on gender parity cabinets in Europe, involving electoral and government quantitative data collection, was published as Karen Beckwith and Susan Franceschet, “Gendering Cabinet Reshuffles in France and Spain,” Government & Opposition, 59 (4), 2024: 1230-1251; doi:10.1017/gov.2022.31, with acknowledgement of research assistance from POSC major Jackson Rudoff

Elliot Posner

Funded attendance at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) in Limerick, where he presented “Private Capital and the U.S. Political Economy of Decarbonization: Markets as Policy Arenas”

Kelly McMann

At the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, presented the paper “Political Control Under the Cover of Social Policy: A Survival Tactic for Electoral Democracies” and hosted a meeting of the global Subnational Politics and Research Network that I created and lead, both of which helped increase CWRU global visibility and benefited my research

By invitation of the Governance and Local Development Institute in Sweden, I attended its Local Governance Process Indicators (LGPI) Workshop to comment on the development and implementation of its data collection project.

Matthew Hodgetts

Funded attendance of the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association in Bretton Woods, NH where he presented “Hope, Fear, and (Realistic) Dreams of Climate Utopia”

Funded attendance of the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Seattle, WA where he co-chaired the Environmental Political Thought section and convened the panel “Hope Springs Eternal: So Why Is Everybody Selling It?”

Karen Beckwith – Support for travel to the University of Uppsala, Sweden, for research consultation, and to Norway, to present a paper, with Professor Marta Regalia, on “Late-Stage Suffrage and the Welfare State in France and Italy,” at the Workshop on Women’s Suffrage and the Making of the Welfare State, Oslo, Norway, May 31-June 1, 2023

-Support for outside expert speakers in Special Topics seminar, POSC 391, for Fall Semester 2023

Matthew Hodgetts

Funded attendance of the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association in Newport, RI where he chaired the Political Theory section and presented “The roles of fear and hope in digital misinformation”

Kelly McMann – Delivered paper “Democracy’s Benefits: Why Particular Regime Types Tackle Certain Problems Better” at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

– Funded the work of three undergraduate research assistants on two projects:  1) Democracy’s Advantages and 2) Democracy Saves Lives:  How Lower Levels of Corruption Prevented COVID Deaths

Matthew Lacombe – Delivered papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montreal

– Attended the Midwestern Political Science Association conference, Chicago

Girma Parris – American Political Science Association (APSA), Montreal

Matthew Hodgetts

Funded attendance at the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association in Mystic, CT where he presented “On the necessity of climate utopianism”

Elliot Posner – Presentation of “Stranded in Ohio: Bankruptcies, Bailouts and Buyouts of Coal and Nuclear Power Plants” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montreal

Laura Tartakoff – Research for POSC 364, Dominican Republic

Justin Buchler – American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle

– Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago

Matthew Hodgetts

Funded attendance at the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association in Bretton Woods, NH where he presented “Digital Speech and the Value of Free Expression: Why is COVID-19 Misinformation Different Than Climate Change?”

Girma Parris – Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago

– Pacific Northwest Political Science Association (PNWPSA), Portland

– Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Portland

Matthew Hodgetts –  Presented “Regulating Climate Speech on the Digital Frontier” at New England Political Science Association (NEPSA)

Elliot Posner – Participation in “Author Meets Critics: Abraham Newman and Elliot Posner’s Voluntary Disruptions: International Soft Law, Power and Finance” at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Kyoto

Matthew Hodgetts – Western Political Science Association (WPSA), San Diego