Spring 2014
the
Spectrum
Duke | POLITICAL SCIENCE Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Department of Political Science Magazine
ON THE MOVE: POL SCI relocates to Gross Hall
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from the Chair... This is a time of transition in the Political Science Department. I write at the end of the first semester after the transition to our new home in Gross Hall. It has been a long and, at times, trying move but we are now settled into our new facilities. We invite you to come and visit our offices whenever you are in the area. This also marks the beginning of a new and improved version of our departmental newsletter. This expanded magazine, The Spectrum, contains a great deal of interesting information about the activities of the department and the people who are a part of it. It is the product of a lot of hard work from many people. But I want to express special appreciation to Vilay Nidiffer and Laura Satterfield who have done an excellent job in spearheading this project. And this is also the end of my first semester as the Chair of the department. Given the great job my predecessor, Karen Remmer, did in adding a number of outstanding new faculty members, my initial tasks have involved integrating the new faculty and reviewing our existing programs and curriculum. We are giving special attention to our undergraduate and graduate curricula. Even the best programs face challenges, as the result of changing technology, evolving student interests and/or emerging events and conditions in the world of politics. At Duke we want to be prepared for the challenges we confront now and in the future. I am encouraged by some of the creative responses that are coming out of our discussions. I will report on those changes in the next edition of The Spectrum. If you have any questions about the department, I would be glad to hear from you.
Jack Jack Knight jack.knight@duke.edu
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SPRING 2014
Welcome to the inaugural issue of The
Spectrum. Each Spring we’ll bring you up to date with the full spectrum of Duke’s department of Political Science. We invite you to explore the programs offered to our undergraduates, keep up to date with innovative faculty research and publications, visit with our graduate students, and support our culture of excellence. This first issue is inspired by the bold palette of Trinity College. We hope to keep you engaged and proud to be part of our legacy and tradition. If you care to share a story about your time at Duke, please feel free to contact us at polsci.spectrum@duke.edu. As always, thank you for your continued support.
Forever Duke
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New Faculty
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Duke Immerse
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Undergraduate
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Faculty in Focus
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Alumni
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Graduate
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Publications
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Retiring Faculty
Managing Editor
Vilay Nidiffer Editor
Laura Satterfield
the Spectrum Available Online http://issuu.com/dukepolsci
Contributors Jonathan Anomaly Kyle Beardsley Jean Carlton Ben Hand-Bender Kerry Haynie
Jerry Hough Edmund Malesky Maureen McCormick Harlow Georg Vanberg Duke University Archives & Libraries
Cover photo courtesy of Lamberrt Architecture & Interiors Faculty & Staff photos courtesy of Duke Photography
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Polsci Moves to Gross Hall The Perkins Project began renovations on the original
and use of the building. Binkley continues that Lambert was also tasked with enhancing the approach to the building. A pedestrian bridge was constructed along the path from the French Family Science Center and the Bryan Center to the main entry of Gross Hall. The bridge was designed to avoid descending, then having to ascend the steep slope on approach from Science Drive. Duke Stone (see page 40) and painted metal railing, as well as the Duke standard lamp posts pull the beauty of campus into the walk to Gross Hall.
Renovations, to what is now called the Gross Hall for Interdisciplinary Innovation, began almost three years earlier and opened its second floor to the department in July 2013. It is also home to several Arts & Sciences classrooms, the Energy Initiative, Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), the Pratt School of Engineering Jennifer West Lab, and the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI).
This work was completed concurrently with interior renovations designed by Lord Aeck Sargent-Chapel Hill (LAS) and LeChase Construction as general contractor. LeChase Project Manager Zack Gibson tells us that the fate of the Gross Chemistry building was very questionable during the early stages of discussion. Determining what best served and represented Duke University included discussion of demolishing the existing structure and starting over. Because the building is located in a prime location for visual exposure and the structure of the building was solid, it was determined that reusing the building structure for interior development while enhancing the visual aesthetics and accessibility to the building would be the focus of attention.
1928 and 1948 addition of the Perkins Library after receiving a $13.6 million pledge from alumni David M. Rubenstein. After almost 80 years of residence in the Perkins Library these renovations forced the department of Political Science to relocate to the Gross Hall building, best known by its former name “Gross Chem”. The Gross Chemistry building opened its doors in 1968 and was dedicated to Paul Gross who served as the Chemistry department chair from 1921-1948.
The forty-five year old building received its face-lift from Lambert Architecture & Interiors. Architect Sam Binkley explains that the building is an example of mid-century “Brutalist” architecture. In spite of its stark forms and materials true to its style and period, the facade still carried some mid-century conceptualization of Gothic design with the stone clad vertical stair towers that resemble “spires.” The scope of the exterior renovations included recoating the entire exterior to clean and brighten the building as well as modifications to the exterior skin of the South facade of the second and third floors. The North and South facades were originally clad with concrete panels with a pebble texture. The objective was to replace these panels with glass panels in the same rhythm to respect the original design. This would allow the newly renovated interior spaces access to light and offer views to the exterior. A specialty coating of white pin dots, called “frit” was applied to the glass to reduce the light glare from the exterior and to more closely mimic the light color of the concrete panels that the glass units replaced. At night, there is a dramatic reversal with interior light creating a glowing effect showing the vibrancy of the new interior
LeChase’s services associated with Gross Hall began with the renovations of the first floor to become the Energy HUB. Once completed, all parties were convinced that this building could certainly provide aesthetic and functional space with modern technology and flexibility required for today’s research, learning, and teaching environments. Gibson stated that the building’s 2nd and 3rd floors were in dire need of modification since the existing space was outdated and provided little flexibility for the changing educational and research environments. All existing walls, roof, and MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) systems were completely demolished to the existing structure in preparation for a new floor plan with modern enhancements. Along with
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all new plumbing, mechanical, and electrical services and equipment, the newly installed layout provides contemporary spaces for research, teaching, conference and office space. In addition, a new 20’ x 60’ skylight was installed to support daylight into the center core of the building. This is quite a magnificent architectural addition to the building as well as a structural marvel requiring expertise and great precision for installation.
hoped to build upon the success of some of the dynamic ideas implemented in the first floor Energy Hub project, and proposed the use of lots of glass, colors, and curves to soften the rigorous geometry of the existing structural elements. Q: What was a challenge?
The LAS Principal in Charge, Lauren Dunn Rockart, discusses the renovations:
There were a couple! While the large floor plate, nearly an acre, provided a unique opportunity for an alternative academic environment (most older campus buildings are constructed with a central corridor flanked by individual rooms), it also presented a challenge to creating spaces with access to natural light. The construction schedule was aggressive and working in an occupied building made that even more challenging. In fact, some construction on final, less critical, details is still going on at night. Another challenge was ensuring that the renovated spaces present a unified design while accommodating some of the individual needs and aspirations of the many distinct occupant groups, priorities and activities.
Q: Can you provide any comments on the process of changing Gross Chemistry to Gross Hall?
Q: What was the greatest success?
Duke’s charge to the design team was to create flexible, adaptable space that could be used for emerging initiatives, research, swing space, or other yet unidentified occupants. During the design process, we met with proposed future occupant groups and identified common themes. Collaboration, interaction, innovation and interdisciplinary were the most frequently used terms to describe their goals. Gross Hall’s very large floor area presented the opportunity to have the large, flexible open spaces which supports an interactive, collaborative environment.
I think the greatest success was the Atrium space (nicknamed the “Winter Garden” due to some of the early design concepts). It started as a fairly extreme idea, but as we began to look at how well the existing building structure could accommodate a large hole in the middle, and how much benefit Photo courtesy of Lord Aeck Sargent ©2013 Cameron Triggs, triggsphoto there would be to bringing natural light into the middle of the enormous floor plate, it became a possibility. It completely changed the character of the second and third floors, made the floors much more useable for office, meeting and collaboration, and creates a new destination in the building.
Q: How did you conceptualize the change? The building’s “bones” really dictated the overall organization of spaces. There are very large, low beams which naturally became dividers between zones. The east and west edges were conducive to being divided into private offices, while the large expanses in between evolved into open spaces ringed with other specific program spaces like meeting rooms and classrooms. We
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Q: How do you feel about the end result? Every time we hear about the many, unanticipated ways that the building is being used, we feel better and better! The hard work of design and construction is a distant memory when we see students and faculty lingering in the atrium after class, impromptu meetings popping up in the team rooms, writing on walls, and the building being used long into the evening. We are very grateful to have had this opportunity to work with Duke and with all of the dynamic (and patient) occupant groups, and are very proud of the end result. We hope that the revitalized Gross Hall will serve the Duke community in a new way for the next 30 years. The fate of the department’s permanent residence has yet to be determined; until then we intend to take advantage of Gross Hall to engage and interact with our students, faculty, and peers.
GROSS HALL Photos courtesy of Lord Aeck Sargent Š2013 Cameron Triggs, triggsphoto
We would like to extend a sincere
THANKS to everyone who was part of this project. We understand the hard work and dedication that was put into renovating and reinventing Gross Hall. The list of members that supported this project is long. The following represents those most connected to the project to achieve success: Architect (Interior Renovation):
Lord Aeck Sargent (Chapel Hill) Lauren Dunn Rockart, AIA Principal in Charge Derek West, RA Project Manager Sarah Weiser Ward, AIA Project Architect Aaron Wilner Project Designer Chris Hinton Signage Design Kristalynn Offhaus, IIDA Interior Designer Architect (Exterior Curtainwall, Bridge):
Lambert Architecture & Interiors
Consultants: RMF Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection) LHC Structural Engineers (Structural) Light Defines Form (Lighting Design)
LeChase Construction Site Staff: Zack Gibson Project Manager Tony Hancock Project Superintendent Jonathan Keel Assistant Project Manager John Guerrant Assistant Superintendent Glenn Foushee Assistant Superintendent Site Support Staff: Doug VanAmburg Rickie Hill Javier Diaz Dean Chandler Nicholas Scrip Roger Smith
Executive Management / Estimating: Jessie Brewer – Vice President (Southeast Region) Paul Sevene – Vice President Tony O’Neil – Project Executive Wes Foushee – Regional Director of Preconstruction John Carter – Sr. Estimator Glenn Turner – Regional Safety Officer Administrative Support: Ellie Gossett - Accounting Denise Thompson – Contract Administrator Pam Holmes – Admin. Support
“Each of these team members, as well as our Subcontractors and material suppliers, played a key role in achieving successful completion of this project. We are thankful to have a strong team and committed professionals on staff and supporting our industry.” –Zack Gibson, LeChase Construction Duke University Office of Information Technology Network Services TurnKey Communications 7
Original 1960’s Era facade
2013 facade courtesy of Lambert Architecture & Interiors
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New Faculty Laia Balcells joins the department as Assistant Professor. Her research explores the determinants of civil wars and political violence, the micro-logic underpinning violence during conflict, nationalism, and redistribution and conflict. Her book manuscript Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence in Civil War deals with the dynamics of violence against noncombatants during civil wars. She has also been a recipient of the APSA Luebbert Prize for Best Article in Comparative Politics. Laia received her PhD from Yale University. For more on Laia, visit www.laiabalcells.com laia.balcells@duke.edu
Kyle Beardsley joins the department as Associate Professor after six years at Emory University. His research is focused on peacekeeping, the influence of the UN Security Council resolution, and the impact of nuclear weapons on crisis behavior. His book The Mediation Dilemma won the 2012 Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title” award. Kyle received his PhD from UC-San Diego.
For more on Kyle, please visit http://people.duke.edu/~kcb38 kyle.beardsley@duke.edu
Fiscal policy has received a lot of attention in the news lately as governments around the world struggle to deal with significant deficit and debt burdens. Thinking about how the rules of the budget process can help to address these issues has been one focus of Professor Georg Vanberg’s recent work. A well-known fact among economists and political scientists is that governments that are made up of more than one party – so-called “coalition governments,” which are the norm in European democracies – typically have significantly higher levels of spending than single-party governments, and that this tendency increases as more parties are added to a coalition. In joint work with Lanny Martin of Rice University (recently awarded SPSA Journal of Politics Best Article), Vanberg challenges this conventional wisdom and demonstrates that there are budgetmaking rules that counteract the temptation for coalitions to engage in heightened spending. Analyzing spending patterns for most European democracies over more than twenty years, they find that coalition governments that make budgets under rules that limit the ability of individual parties to unilaterally push for spending, and that create incentives for parties to watch the spending demands of other parties, coalition governments behave just like single-party governments – a finding with significant implications for potential reforms of budget processes. In closely related work, Vanberg continues to focus on how coalition governments bargain over policy, using detailed legislative histories of government-sponsored legislation to understand which legislators in parliamentary systems are most influential in the policy process.
Georg Vanberg arrived this fall as Full Professor. He has taught at Florida State University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on judicial and legislative politics and coalition theory. He is also the Associate Editor for the journal Public Choice. Georg received his PhD from the University of Rochester. To learn more about Georg, visit http://people.duke.edu/~gsv5 georg.vanberg@duke.edu
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The UN and the Prevention of Conflict The international community, and especially the UN, has been much maligned for not being able to adequately
prevent armed conflict and mass atrocities, such as what we are currently seeing in Syria. Although the UN was originally founded primarily to prevent war between states, and its attention has shifted in recent decades to conflict within states, the UN is often characterized, not unreasonably, as reactive rather than proactive in preventing armed violence. But what is the record of the UN in being able to prevent conflict when it does act? In two separate studies, Professor Kyle Beardsley has found that the record of the UN in being able to prevent armed conflict is actually quite good. The first, published in The Journal of Politics in 2011, finds that peacekeeping, which tends to involve UN operations or at least a UN Security Council authorization, helps to prevent the spread of conflict. The study finds that neighbors of countries which have recently participated in an armed conflict are more than 75% more likely to experience an armed conflict themselves when there are no peacekeepers deployed to the original conflict area. When peacekeepers are deployed, the neighboring states are not at greater risk of experiencing an armed conflict. It appears that peacekeepers help reduce the transnational movement of insurgents and support across borders, which are responsible for the contagion of conflict in the absence of the peacekeepers. A second study, a working paper co-authored with David Cunningham and Peter White (University of Maryland), investigates whether UN Security Council resolutions that relate to self-determination movements—people-groups that demand more autonomy or secession from a sovereign state—reduce the likelihood that those movements will resort to armed conflict. The study finds that Security Council actions which involve diplomatic activity, such as mediation and fact-finding, and that directly pertain to a self-determination movement significantly reduce the propensity for those movements to result in civil war. Moreover, actions involving new authorizations of military force and sanctions can indirectly reduce the likelihood of civil war in self–determination movements. That is, when the UN acts strongly in a country for reasons that do not directly pertain to a particular movement, this changes the dynamics between the government and the movement, deterring them from armed conflict. These studies thus show that the international community, and the UN specifically, can indeed play a strong role in helping to prevent major violence around the world. That the UN often does not act ahead of time to prevent major atrocities is thus both lamentable and a reason for further study of the politics of the Security Council. As a next step, Beardsley and his colleagues will investigate the conditions that enable the Security Council to play a preventive role and those that impede it. To learn more about Professor Beardsley’s research, please visit people.duke.edu/~kcb38.
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Ashley Jardina will join the department as Assistant Professor this fall. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Her research interests lie in understanding group conflict and the way in which group identities influence individuals’ political preferences and voting behavior in the United States. Her current focus is on the conditions under which racial identification among white Americans is a salient and significant predictor of policies, candidates, and attitudes toward racial and ethnic groups. ashley.jardina@duke.edu
Alexander Kirshner joins Duke as Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research cuts across democratic theory, comparative politics and constitutional law. His recently published book A Theory of Militant Democracy: The Ethics of Combatting Political Extremism investigates the paradoxical ethical dilemmas raised by antidemocratic opposition to democratic governments. Alex received his PhD from Yale University. For more on Alex, visit http://people.duke.edu/~ask34 alexander.kirshner@duke.edu
Edmund Malesky joins the department as Associate Professor after spending six years at UC-San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. His work focuses on foreign direct investment, multinational corporations, and authoritarian institutions in Asia and beyond. He received both his MA and PhD from Duke University. Eddy has recently been appointed to the White House Board of Directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation. For more on Eddy’s research please turn to page 24 or visit http://people.duke.edu/~ejm5 eddy.malesky@duke.edu
Mathew McCubbins will join the department as Full Professor this fall. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he previously held endowed chairs at UCSan Diego and USC. He has written many prize winning works on political institutions, and his current research focuses on the intersection of cognition, decision-making and politics.
David Siegel joins the department as Associate Professor. Receiving his PhD from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, he spent six years teaching at Florida State University. He does research on institution, collective action, and social networks with specific reference to electoral turnout, protests, rebellions and terrorism. David’s book A Mathematics Course for Political & Social Research was published in 2013. For more on David, visit http://people.duke.edu/~das76 david.siegel@duke.edu
NEW FACULTY
For more on Mat, visit http://www.mccubbins.us mat.mccubbins@duke.edu
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Duke Immerse
Live and breathe history‌ Freedom Struggles in the 20th Century: A comparison of the Civil Rights Movement in the American South and South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggles This Duke Immerse semester grew out of a desire to understand the similarities and differences between the American Civil Rights Movement and the anti-apartheid struggles in South Africa. The program combines classroom study with visits to historic sites of resistance and oppression in South Africa, as well as discussions with scholars and activists from both countries. This program is lead by William Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History and Sheridan Johns, Professor Emeritus of Political Science. Offered this Spring.
Nelson Mandela Capture Site
Durban, South Africa
Photo courtesy of Marc Crowther
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The Fall 2013 Governance, Policy, and Social Justice
Photos Courtesy of Kerry Haynie
Duke Immerse Program (GPS) was a research intensive semester-long exploration and inquiry into urban life, governance, and policymaking in Durham and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. There are numerous unresolved issues of social and economic justice that afflict both the post-Jim Crow American South and post-apartheid South Africa. Despite dramatic political change in both settings, most notably the ostensible attainment of basic equality through the adoption of civil and political liberties as constitutional provisions, persistent patterns of poverty and inequality remain. The GPS Immerse program included four courses: Comparative Urban Politics; U.S. Comparative State Politics; Development and Africa; and Advanced Research and Writing in Urban Politics and Policymaking. The courses were linked by the common theme of governance, policy and social justice. In both the U.S. and South Africa racial and class divisions and group-based disparities remain prominent features of the urban landscape, despite the formal barriers of segregation having come down, sixty years ago in the U.S., and two decades ago in South Africa. The persistence of various divisions and disparities has serious implications for housing and neighborhoods, public health, education, community cohesion, and general economic and social development. Twelve students and two faculty facilitators spent the semester exploring these issues through coursework, site visits, guest lectures, and fieldwork in Durham and Pietermaritzburg. An underlying premise of the program was that a cross-country, cross-city comparative analysis would expand our knowledge and understanding of patterns of social and economic deprivation and development, and might ultimately suggest policy reforms and prescriptions that could aid in eradicating some of the remaining barriers to socioeconomic justice in these and other countries.
Above: Dr. Robert Fincham, Director of the Msunduzi Innovation and Development Institute providing details on how the Pietermaritzburg city landscape and municipal boundaries are changing; Duke Immerse students at Girl’s High School; and Professor Lawrence conducting class.
Kerry Haynie
Sheridan Johns
Associate Professor klhaynie@duke.edu
Professor Emeritus johns@duke.edu
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The program was facilitated by Kerry L. Haynie, Associate Professor of Political Science and African & African American Studies, and Ralph Lawrence, Professor of Policy Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Duke. Professor Lawrence spent three weeks in residency at Duke at the very beginning of the semester. Three weeks after he returned to South Africa, Professor Haynie and the entire class traveled to Pietermaritzburg for two weeks. There, Professor Lawrence continued his classroom instruction, and the class engaged in numerous activities including meetings with elected members of the municipal and provincial parliaments; a guest lecture by a UKZN faculty expert on local urban policy; a tour of the Endendale Valley and Imbali peri-urban area and township; a visit and tour of Girl’s High School, one of the most diverse and academically successful public schools in the country; and presentations by the Director and staff of the Msunduzi Innovation and Development Institute (MIDI), a partnership between the Pietermaritzburg Chamber of Business Msunduzi Municipality, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and the Durban University of Technology. In Durham, the students met with Mayor Bill Bell and City Manager Tom Bonfield to get their perspectives on pressing and emerging governance and policy issues. Program participants also conducted interviews with members of the Durham City Council, the Durham School Board, and the Duke-Durham Partnership. Along with the submission of individual research papers on topics related to the program’s theme, the program culminated in the production of four group projects: Mapping Durham; City Structures; Durham Bound: Perspectives on Public Education in Durham; and Who Governs Durham? Below: view of Pietermaritzburg; Professor Haynie (right) with Speaker of the Pietermaritzburg City Council, Babu Baijoo (center) and a local civic activist.
Photos Courtesy of Kerry Haynie
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Above: Mahatma Gandhi plaque marking place of the 1893 railway incident, Platform No-1, Railway Station, Pietermaritzburg; a monument near Zibukezulu High School commemorating Nelson Mandela’s last speech before his arrest. Below: Rhino siting during a safari break.
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DUKE IMMERSE
Photos Courtesy of David Morris
Duke Immerse was developed in 2009 by a group of Duke faculty with the concept of allowing students to research a single theme or problem through four integrated courses within one semester. Its intention is to connect students with faculty who are engaging in their own research by increasing student faculty interaction and collaboration as well as connecting course material with the real world.
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A Letter from David Morris Trinity ‘16
Over the past few weeks people have asked me, what did I learn and get out of the Duke Immerse experience? They make the remark that what I learned couldn’t have been anything new to me because I am South African and lived there for more than half of my life. Essentially, all I knew up to the age of eleven was my “idea” of South Africa. This past semester my experience in Duke Immerse challenged the way I looked at and experienced South Africa. Growing up in the aftermath of apartheid in South Africa was life to me. The apartheid era was something that we never talked about; it was not part of the South African rhetoric. In retrospect, it seemed like it never happened and a large chunk of South Africa’s history was swept under the rug and buried. In the Duke Immerse courses apartheid, and its aftermath, was unveiled in a way that made me question the idea of freedom and equality. The trip to South Africa highlighted this to great extent. The experience reminds me of a quote from To Kill a Mockingbird, The Duke Political Science Standard when Atticus Finch tells his daughter Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from The DPSS is a publication of the his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk Duke University Political Science around in it.” By looking at South Africa from the lens of an department that showcases outstanding American student, I saw firsthand how the effects of 50 years research in political science by Duke of institutional racism can still breed social inequities in a Undergraduates. Recently published work country 20 years after the introduction of democracy. In order addresses immigration policy in the EU, to fully understand what apartheid was to the people of South the influence of international election Africa I had to completely dispense everything I knew and monitors, the look at South Africa for what it was. This is what I took away role of Congress from the program. I did learn a lot about urban governance Duke Political Science Standard and policy, but for the most part, it changed my perspective in foreign about South Africa. policy, and the David
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The Great Democratic Experiment: Two American Republics Guided by Montesquieu and Hume
relationship between economic interdependence and international conflict. The department publishs the Duke Political Science Standard once every Spring; the fourth issue is expected in Spring 2014.
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Luke Maier
Let Loose the Drones of War: A Place for Drones in Just War Theory Margaret Bice
Assessing Security Sector Reform: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Development Strategy Targeting SecurityApparatuses Based on National Indicators Ryan Boone
A Democratic Union in the Making: An Assessment of the European Parliament’s Evolution in Relation to Narrowing the Democratic Deficit Marcus Granlund
Deference for the Divine: The Court and the Church Reed McGinley-Stempel
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THE UNDERGRADUATE
Our students are trained to tackle the greatest political questions of our time. Politics permeate every aspect of our life, from local funding for public education to global challenges such as poverty and terrorism. When you study political science you gain practical knowledge and conceptual tools to pursue careers in law, business, journalism, public service, and education. The Duke University department of Political Science is among the top in the nation. It fosters an environment of original research among its undergraduate majors. In addition to designing courses that provide opportunities for active learning, we provide a number of settings for students to develop and present their work.
“Upon declaring my major in Political Science, I quickly realized I’d found my academic home at Duke.”
Upon declaring my major in Political Science, I quickly realized
The HONORS PROGRAM is designed to give the very best Undergraduates in Political Science an intensive experience conducting a large, sustained, original research project. Under direction of a Faculty Advisor, students use the appropriate methods from political science to answer a research question of their own devising, writing up the results in a significant research paper—the senior thesis.
I’d found my academic home at Duke. I chose to write an honors thesis because I wanted to undertake a project that would serve as a culmination of my studies in the department. My thesis examines the assertion of democratic control over a nation’s armed forces and civil war termination. I argue that if a civilian government is able to restrain the military and subjugate it to the oversight of elected officials, a country is less likely to see a recurrence of civil war. Democratic control of the armed forces provides constraints on the military that prevents it from unilaterally initiating hostilities and provides a signal to the citizens that post-war reforms are being enacted, making them more willing to recognize the state’s monopoly on force and less likely to attempt to address their grievances through violent means. Throughout the writing process, I have received overwhelming support from the Political Science department. My adviser Professor Beardsley has been a tremendous resource as I have confronted the hang-ups inherent in such research. Every faculty member I have interacted with this semester, even those whom I have just met, has been excited to hear my theory, offer encouragement, ask questions, and help me refine my argument. It has been incredibly rewarding to feel like I have the entire department backing me up every step of the way.
Jessica Sun
Trinity ‘14
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The Undergraduate
The Duke Ethics Club “What was the right thing to do with Tamerlan Tsarnev’s body?” This question was posed to Duke’s Ethics Bowl Team in the final round of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl on Saturday, November 9th. The Team answered that all people deserve to have their final wishes reasonably accommodated as long they do not directly harm others—supported by arguments related to universal human dignity, promotion of beneficial societal values, and an explanation of healthy psychological responses to trauma and terrorism. The moral reasoning posited by Duke seniors Julian Cooper, Irina Danescu, Ben Hand-Bender and first-year students Spenser Easterbrook and Sangwon Yun, earned the team 1st place in the competition and automatic qualification to the National Competition in February. The Duke Team finished with a 5-0 record, after facing excellent challenges from Clemson, University of Maryland, Campbell, Georgetown and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Photo Courtesy of Daniel Wueste
Team Captain and Student-Coach Ben Hand-Bender said, “it was an honor to represent Duke University at a very competitive and prestigious Regional Competition. It was amazing to see how well the Team worked together to answer questions and provided well-thought out moral and ethical justifications for our positions.” He continued to highlight the impressiveness of the achievement–as this was the first year Duke entered into the competition–and was especially thankful to Dr. Michael Munger, Dr. Jonathan Anomaly, and the PPE Certificate Program for their sponsorship and support for the Team.
The Summer Research Initiative The Summer Research Initiative unites faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in research projects.
Students can choose either field-research abroad or project-based research in Durham. The goal is to introduce students to the cutting-edge research being done by our faculty and to teach them to do primary research of their own. These collaborations have resulted in co-authored research between faculty and undergraduates and further improved one of the most demanded majors at Duke. Research projects cover issues ranging from the intergenerational transmission of political engagement to state reactions to China’s growing power to the international politics of antitrust regulation. We would like to thank alumni for their generous support of this cutting edge program.
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Director of Undergraduate Studies Bahar Levengtoglu 294B Gross Hall Box 90204 Durham NC 27708
Program Coordinator Suzanne Pierce 216A Gross Hall Box 90204 Durham NC 27708
(919) 660-4314
(919) 660-4325
bahar.leventoglu@duke.edu
suzanne.pierce@duke.edu
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is in its
eighth year as a certificate program at Duke, and an increasing number of political science majors are taking PPE classes as a way of enriching their understanding of the relative role of markets and political institutions in promoting human welfare. While the PPE program is housed in the Political Science department, our students also take core courses in economics and philosophy, in addition to political science, and take a Gateway course early in their studies, and a Capstone seminar in their final year of college. The PPE Gateway course, called Prisoner’s Dilemma and Distributive Justice, is essentially a “principles” course in which students learn the basics of game theory, distributive justice, the economic function and moral justification of property rights, and the various ways in which market interactions and political institutions can produce mutual gains or create collective action problems modelled by the prisoner’s dilemma. Many students have described this as the most important class they’ve taken in college, as it draws upon central concepts from different disciplines, and applies them in a rigorous way to problems that all students can appreciate. The PPE program began in 2005 when Provost Peter Lange saw an opportunity to take advantage of Duke’s strength in all three of the cognate disciplines. Lange asked Michael Munger (former Chair of Political Science at Duke) to team up with Geoffrey Brennan (who teaches Political Science at Duke, Philosophy at UNC, and Economics at the Australian National University) and Geofrrey Sayre’McCord (then Chair of Philosophy at UNC) to create a curriculum for students who want to explore the extent to which the big ideas in philosophy, politics, and economics can be brought together to illuminate social behavior, and evaluate political institutions. Visiting Professor Jonathan Anomaly has
worked at Duke and UNC for the past four years to further build the program, and along with Mike Munger and Geoff Sayre-McCord, is currently assembling an anthology of classic readings in PPE that is likely to set the agenda for similar programs around the world. For the past five years, The Duke and UNC have joined forces to host an annual undergraduate PPE colloquium. During this event, Duke and Carolina hosts top students from around the country, who meet for two days to discuss readings on a common topic. Past topics have included inequality, libertarian paternalism, and taboo markets. This event is generously supported by the Thomas W. Smith Foundation, which allows us to cover costs for students traveling from Yale, Penn, Tulane, Michigan, Virginia, and other elite universities with PPE programs.
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Among the diverse topics PPE students discuss is whether “taboo markets” in which people exchange money for drugs, organs, or even adopted children, are morally justified, and how we might compare the collective consequences of legal markets with those that are likely to emerge under black markets. PPE students learn to ask fundamental questions, and in addition to studying ideal theories about how political societies should be arranged, they quickly learn to ask the “compared to what?” question when proposing alternatives to current arrangements. By studying how institutions shape incentives, and how incentives shape market and political behavior, PPE students learn to reject easy answers and carefully consider trade-offs.
Geoffrey Brennan Director of UNC-Duke PPE Professor of Political Science Professor of Philosophy geoffrey.brennan@duke.edu
Jonathan Anomaly Visiting Assistant Professor Duke Universiy UNC-Chapel Hill jonathan.anomaly@duke.edu
Michael Munger Director of PPE Professor of Political Science Professor of Economics munger@duke.edu
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Doris Cross Assistant to the RBSI Director
210C Gross Hall Durham, NC 27708 (919) 660-4328 doris.cross@duke.edu
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Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Named in honor of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former APSA President, Ralph J. Bunche, the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) program goal is to encourage students to pursue academic careers in political science by helping to:
v Enhance participants’ writing, research, and analytical skills and make them more competitive applicants for graduate school admissions and financial assistance. v Improve the students’ use of computers for statistical analysis of research data used in the study of political science. v Expose interested and engaged students to issues in the discipline and profession of political science.
v Inform promising students about political science career opportunities and encourage applications to Ph.D. programs in political science.
The APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) 2014 session will be accepting applications in late fall 2014. The RBSI is jointly sponsored by Duke University and the American Political Science Association. Prior to 2013, the RBSI had also received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and was designated as an REU (research experience for undergraduates) site. Due to NSF funding restrictions imposed by the Coburn Amendment, the 2013 RBSI session had to be canceled. 20
Please donate to the APSA Ralph Bunche Endowment Fund at www.apsa.org
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v Introduce participants to leading political scientists.
Faculty in Focus On July 1, 2012, Paula D. McClain became the fourteenth dean of the Duke University Graduate School and vice provost for graduate education. The Graduate School has approximately 2,400 Ph.D. students and 650 research master’s degree students enrolled across over 60 departments and programs, working with more than 1,000 graduate faculty members. She is the first black dean of any of Duke’s ten schools and colleges. Dean McClain has been a member of the Duke political science faculty since 2000, also holding an appointment in the Sanford School of Public Policy. She came to Duke from the University of Virginia. Her service to Duke includes chairing the Academic Council from 2007-09 as well as serving on a number of other university committees. A committed academic, she tries to set aside time to devote to her research, as being an academic is a strong part of her identity. In July, 2013, the sixth edition of Can We All Get Along? Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (Boulder: Westview Press) and the second edition of American Government in Black and White (New York: Oxford University Press) were published.
In addition to those roles, she directs the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, an intensive five-week program at Duke that trains minority students from across the country to pursue doctoral degrees and careers in political science. Professor McClain’s primary research interests are in racial minority group politics, particularly inter-minority political and social competition, and urban politics. She has said that the position of Dean of the Graduate School was perfect for her, as she has had a commitment to graduate education for several decades and having the ability to influence graduate education at Duke is exciting. Dean McClain had previously partnered with The Graduate School on numerous occasions, participating in the orientation for new students and serving on graduate fellowship committees. In recognition of her commitment to graduate students, Dean McClain received the 2011 Graduate School’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.
Paula McClain paula.mcclain@duke.edu
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The American Grand Strategy (AGS) Program at Duke University is an interdisciplinary initiative that creates and disseminates new knowledge in the grand strategy field. The mission of the program is to prepare the next generation of strategists by studying past generations and interacting with current strategic leaders. We provide courses and active learning opportunities outside of the classroom. The capstone of the Duke program is the American Grand Strategy seminar -- a one-semester intensive course taught each fall for select undergraduate and graduate students. The course is currently taught by Peter Feaver, a professor of political science and public policy and former advisor on national security to both the Clinton and the George W. Bush administrations, and Hal Brands, a diplomatic historian specializing in U.S. foreign policy and a professor of public policy.
A centerpiece of AGS involves bringing leading thinkers and policymakers to campus to enrich our conversation – leaders such as David Petraeus, Condoleeza Rice, Robert Gates, Martin Dempsey, and Bob Woodward, to name just a few. We also explore opportunities beyond the campus through trips and workshops arranged by the AGS undergraduate executive council. Past high-level briefings at the White House, State Department, the Pentagon, and Ft. Bragg have given participants valuable insight in how strategy is handled on a day-to-day basis. AGS is a growing research community of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates who are committed to deepening their understanding of America’s role in the world – past, present and future.
“Grand strategy”: the plans developed by national leaders to confront global challenges and opportunities.
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Peter Feaver
Alexandra Pfadt
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Program Coordinator alexandra.pfadt@duke.edu
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Michael Gillespie (Director) and Nora Hanagan (Managing Director) of the Program in American Values and Institutions have completed a proposal for a certificate in “American Values, Law, and Institutions,” that will offer students an opportunity to develop a specialty in American democracy, looking at the values articulated by the founders, later reformers, and writers who gave shape to the American experience, the constitutional and legal structures that have given these values lasting power, and the social and political institutions that give these values a continuing force and meaning. They anticipate the certificate program will begin in the fall. michael.gillespie@duke.edu
Michael Ward joined the Duke faculty in 2009. He teaches Security, Peace, and Conflict. The major thrust of his recent research has been on finding better ways to understand politics by trying to predict what will happen in certain contexts. One of his major projects is creating mathematical models that try to predict political instability in every country, in every month. His computer model, CRISP, produces predictions every month that are incorporated into a widely-used decision making tool known as W-ICEWS. On average this model is about 90% accurate. It consists of many separate models that are combined together. Currently, this model predicts new insurgencies in Nepal, Chad, and Liberia in the near future. This research is conducted in Ward’s virtual laboratory at Duke, a collaboratory consisting of post-doctoral fellows, current graduate students, and undergraduates. More information can be found at mdwardlab.com or at the lab’s new blog, http://predictiveheuristics.com/. michael.d.ward@duke.edu
Abdeslam Maghraoui’s research focuses on the connection between culture and
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politics in the Middle East and North Africa. His previous work emphasized this connection in political ideology (a study of liberal colonialism in Egypt) and political institutions (strategies of autocratic survival in Morocco). He extends this research to social norms and discrimination. His current research examines the question of social exclusion of non-dominant groups in a Muslim-majority environment. He draws on social dominance research to investigate whether and how gender and religious discrimination might be related. He conducts novel survey experiments in a Muslim context to compare youths’ attitudes about women and religious minorities. Findings from the first experiments in Morocco reveal a puzzling paradox. Results show remarkably heterogeneous and tolerant attitudes toward a Jewish minority and non-observant Muslims but strong intolerance toward women’s autonomy. Findings suggest that adversity to women’s autonomy may not be the result of gender prejudice alone. Respondents are significantly more intransigent on the observance of strict norms in family than in non-family settings irrespective of gender. He also found astonishing language variations in individual responses that reflect deep-seated sociolinguistic biases. Thanks to a grant from The Trent Foundation, Professor Maghraoui will duplicate the experiments in Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, three non-Arab, Muslim majority countries. abdeslam.maghraoui@duke.edu
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On October 15, President Obama appointed Edmund
Malesky, Associate Professor of Political Science to serve on the board of the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF). VEF was created by monies from the debt owed by Vietnam to the United States from the Vietnam War era. In an act of reconciliation, the two governments decided to channel the resources into scholarships for talented Vietnamese scientists and engineers to pursue their doctorates in the U.S. All recipients must return to teach and research in Vietnam, with the ultimate goal of building up domestic excellence in the science and technology fields. In his capacity on the board, Malesky will help oversee the program, monitoring the selection of candidates, financial allocations, and assist with outreach to the Vietnamese and US academic communities. The appointment follows on the heels of another great honor. In March 2013, Malesky was awarded a state medal by the Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) for his role in promoting economic reform and opportunities for the growth of private companies in Vietnam. The medal citation primarily discussed Malesky’s work as the lead researcher on the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI), an annual survey of 13,000 foreign and domestic firms, which is used to rank the investment environments of Vietnamese 63 provinces. The index, which was started in 2005, assesses local governments on issues of economic governance, including regulatory costs, property
language skills provide a comparative advantage in doing field work there, he has tended to pursue more general comparative questions in his academic research, using subnational and individual level data in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam to test the micro-logics of important political science theories and probe deeper into puzzles in the literature. Malesky has invested a great deal of effort into acquiring an expertise in field research methods. As his published papers attest, he frequently employ surveys, carefully-identified natural experiments, and randomized controlled trials (RCT) in his research designs. Malesky’s research agenda is very much at the intersection of CPE and IPE, falling into three major categories: 1) Authoritarian political institutions and their consequences; 2) The political influence of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations; and 3) Political institutions, private business development, and formalization. The newest addition to his research agenda is his work on political institutions in authoritarian countries. Malesky came to the literature relatively late, as there was already a great deal of excellent work on the types and political consequences of authoritarian regime. His work, however, has sought to move beyond typologies into the specific institutional mechanisms that exist in authoritarian systems and a clear micro-analysis of the impact of institutional configurations. Malesky’s
Edmund Malesky
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rights protections, quality of contracting institutions, transparency, and control of corruption. The PCI has become a critical tool of Vietnamese policymakers, cited in speeches by two successive Prime Ministers, used in Vietnam’s promotion process, and chosen by Vietnamese television as one of the ten most important economic events of 2007. It is so well known, that the PCI has even appeared as the final answer in a Vietnamese television game show called “Golden Bell.” Malesky is sometimes labeled as specialist in East Asia, particularly in Vietnam. Although it is true that his 24
work is informed by detailed knowledge of the political systems in Vietnam and China, which, despite their similar authoritarian classification as single-party states, vary dramatically in the representation, participation, and political competition. Malesky argues (with Regina Abrami and Yu Zheng) that these differences have important consequences for explaining inequality, public spending, local-central relations, and ultimately regime survival. The next strand of this work focused directly on the work of National Assemblies in authoritarian countries, exploring electoral institutions and query
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sessions, and testing whether these institutions ensure the responsiveness they are purported to in the broader literature.
the costs of societal non-compliance (i.e. environmental degradation, labor rights violations, unsafe workplaces), the investment by developmental organizations seems like a bargain.
Currently, Malesky is on sabbatical in Singapore in order to roll out his latest foray into the authoritarian institutions literature, a randomized experiment to test whether government programs to allow public comments on draft laws increases citizen compliance with the law. The first RCT is currently taking place in Vietnam, but Malesky and co-authors are working on expanding it to China.
Three underlying mechanisms have been proposed for why participation should increase compliance: 1) citizens and businesses have a better understanding of regulations and so are less likely to make mistakes; 2) the legislative process and governing institutions are viewed as more legitimate after participation; 3) the resulting legislation is of higher quality and better tailored to local preferences, thereby reducing conflict between state and society. These ideas The motivation of the project is straightforward: have had real influence in developing countries, including International development organizations allocate millions Vietnam and China, where extensive new participation of dollars each year into legislative participation campaigns measures—including online commenting on draft laws— in an effort to foster improved governance, especially in have been introduced in recent years. states in democratic. One motivation for these programs is based upon a hypothesis borrowed from the Deliberative Democracy literature in political science: stakeholder Malesky’s work provides the first empirical test of participation in legislative drafting, through public the relationship between participation and regulatory comment periods, provides information to governments compliance by businesses. His partner in the endeavor about the preferences of citizens, businesses, and civil society. is VCCI , which already has significant experience in Armed with this information, governments can then make soliciting comments on business regulations through its laws that enjoy wider societal compliance. Employers who own online portal and other direct means of communication comment on a new labor law, for instance, are believed to with Vietnam’s business community. The project takes be more likely to abide by the safety regulations which that advantage of a process for public participation in the law imposes on their business. When considered against drafting of Vietnamese legislation, which was formalized in the 2008 Law on Laws. In particular, it focuses on a 25
new regulation on chemical storage about to be put out for public comment by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MOLISA). The RCT analyzes the downstream compliance of four randomly assigned groups of firms: 1) those simply receiving a presentation about the regulation; 2) those invited to provide comments on the draft regulation; 3) those invited, but also subsequently notified that their comments will be used by the drafting committee in the form of briefing books; and 4) a control group not invited to participate, but instead receiving a placebo treatment on services provided by VCCI. After the final regulation is promulgated, the team will monitor the firms in all four groups to test compliance with the final legislation. Because safety requirements for chemical storage are readily observable, Malesky hopes to have clear evidence of whether participation led to downstream compliance and which of the three mechanisms is most responsible.
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Convincing evidence of success will lead to greater use of participatory interventions, while a non-result will spur research about how legislative participation can be made more effective. At the end of the day, the goal is to improve the welfare of citizens and workers. There is strong theoretical support to suspect that participation that induces self-compliance may be the best way forward. On the other hand, reasonable doubts about the efficacy of participation, given the costs of setting up a system and the opportunity costs of participation, especially for the poor and less educated. The rigorous evaluation that Malesky proposes will hopefully provide the answers that practitioners need to advance participation and ultimately save lives. Another project in the authoritarian institutions literature is taking place in China, where Malesky is running a large-scale project in China in collaboration with the Chinese Communist Party’s Translation Bureau’s in-house think tank and the Peking University Law School. The project, funded by The Asia Foundation, investigates a key hypothesis of Chinese governance reform of the past five years. Has greater transparency through China’s open governance initiative (OGI, a version of the US Freedom of Information Act with some notable national security exceptions)
reduced corruption among Chinese government agencies in local government? In effect, China has moved from police patrol style monitoring of bureaucratic agencies to fire alarms, and they would like to know if the effort has been successful. The research endeavor has involved an intensive coding effort of bureaucratic compliance with OGI across Chinese provinces and central agencies. In addition, the research team “audited” agencies by requesting information and monitoring the quality and timeliness of their response. Corruption measures have been provided to us by the State Auditing Agency, which releases an internal, quarterly report on misuse of public funds by bureaucratic agencies and government. Of course, some of this information is politicized, but it represents the clearest indication of public corruption in China to date. Malesky’s second research program continues the work on his dissertation, which won the Gabriel Almond prize for best dissertation in Comparative Politics and the International Political Economy Society’s best paper award in 2012. In that project, Malesky considered the overt focus on the political determinants of FDI attraction in the general political economy literature to be misleading and thought more attention should be paid to the lobbying of multinational corporations after investment. Malesky has explored the influence of FDI on de facto decentralization to provincial actors in Vietnam and on general economic reform in transition states, always paying careful attention to address endogeneity in the research design. His latest project in this arena (with Nate Jensen) probes the political motivations for national and subnational leaders to offer tax incentives to investors.
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In studying multi-national corporations, Malesky became aware that too little attention was being paid to the political interactions of smaller, more entrepreneurial ventures in developing-country context, which inspired his third research program. These businesses often account for a great deal of economic activity, and in many countries serve as the primary drivers of economic growth. Indeed, a great deal of cross-national work, privileges the decisions of these actors in formal models, but then tests the derived hypotheses on cross-national aggregate data that is several nodes removed from the decisions of small businesses. At Duke, Malesky has taught courses on research methods and authoritarian institutions, and will be adding a course on the political economy of development with a focus on Asia. In all these cases, Malesky’s direct field experience and interaction with government officials and practitioners informs his teaching. He loves to bring real world problems into the classroom setting, brainstorming about the issues that researchers must face, and giving students ideas about how he personally tackled them. eddy.malesky@duke.edu
Tim Büthe is currently working on three major research projects. With support from the National Science Foundation, he is examining how the globalization of product and financial markets affects the politics, law, and economics of antitrust (known in the rest of the world as “competition policy”). Antitrust or competition law authorizes government intervention in the economy in order to safeguard market competition against manipulation through price fixing, bid rigging, and other anti-competitive practices. It therefore is supposed to enhance efficiency and economic freedom, but improper enforcement can also protect or even create inefficiencies. Prof. Büthe’s research seeks to advance our theoretical understanding of competition law and enforcement when the boundaries of markets far exceed the borders of polities and jurisdictions, taking both the international and transnational politics of market competition seriously. The project also seeks to improve our empirical knowledge about competition policy in global markets. With a colleague from Columbia Law School, Anu Bradford, and a team of research assistants from Duke Political Science, Duke Law, and Columbia Law, Prof. Büthe is gathering a wealth of new data on current competition laws and enforcement practices in more than a hundred countries, as well as building a dataset of every U.S. antitrust enforcement action over the past half century. Prof. Büthe also is extending his research on global governance, including his book with Walter Mattli, New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy (Princeton UP, 2011/2013). A key finding of his earlier research was that transnational governance of global markets systematically empowers some vis-à-vis others, in part through the exclusion of certain market participants. His current research explores mechanisms of participation and representation to make global governance more democratic. Prof. Büthe’s third project extends his research on humanitarian and development aid NGOs, especially his article “The Politics of Private Foreign Aid: Humanitarian Principles, Economic Development Objectives, and Organizational Interests in the Allocation of Private Aid by NGOs” (International Organization, Fall 2012, co-authored with Solomon Major and André de Mello e Souza). His current research updates the empirical analysis and, most importantly, seeks to better understand why many of these aid NGOs are able to maintain their strong commitment to humanitarian norms in the face of conflicting material and organizational incentives, even though much research in behavioral economics suggests that this is very unlikely. buthe@duke.edu
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John Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He received his BA from Allegheny College (1969; Gold Citation, 2009) and his MA (1971) and PhD (1975) from the University of Rochester (Distinguished Scholar Award, forthcoming, 2013), in Political Science. At Duke he has been department chair and was the founding director and then co-director (with professor Wendy Wood) of Duke’s Social Science Research Institute. At Duke, he also received the inaugural Graduate Mentoring Award. Aldrich’s research has been centered mostly in American politics, but more recently, his work has become more comparative. His first book, Before the Convention (University of Chicago Press, 1980) assessed presidential nomination campaigns in the post-McGovern-Fraser era of primary-centered campaigning. His book Why Parties? (University of Chicago Press, 1995; 2011) won the Gladys Kammerer award in 1996. Since 1980, he has coauthored the Change and Continuity series on American elections (CQ Press), with Paul Abramson and David Rohde, and now being joined by Brad Gomez. He has been actively involved in various survey research projects, including the American National Election Studies, where he currently serves as chair of its board, and is a member of the Planning Committee for the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. An outgrowth of his work on the ANES is Improving Public Opinion Surveys (Princeton UP, 2012) which he co-edited with Kathleen McGraw. Aldrich co-authored “Foreign Policy and Voting in Presidential Elections” with Eugene Borgida and John Sullivan that won the Heinz Eulau award in 1990 for best article in the APSR. Aldrich and David Rohde have studied the relationship among political parties, elections, and the Congress. This has led to a number of articles and chapters including ones that received the CQ Press Award (Legislative Studies Section, APSA) in 1996, and the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (SPSA), in 1997. Aldrich is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and at the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio. He was co-PI and then PI for a Summer Institute of Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models. He co-edited the American Journal of Political Science, chaired the APSA Task Force on Interdisciplinarity, has been a member of the APSA council and its secretary, and was president of the Southern and Midwest Political Science Associations.
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Margaret McKean Professor Emeritus Meg and Michael Gillespie at her retirement reception at the Sarah Duke Gardens.
Margaret McKean Professor Emerita of Political Science Research Professor of Environmental Policy in the Nicholas School
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I timed my retirement in June 2012 to allow me to focus on the extremely demanding chore of organizing the 14th global conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, which was held in June 2013 in Japan. In spite of huge distances separating me from the other organizers in Japan and from the IASC secretariat in Mexico, and even with some pretty frightening internal bureaucratic problems on the Japan side, we were able to pull off a terrific meeting with 430 participants and almost that many papers presented. The conference took place on the slopes of Mount Fuji, literally on the commons I have studied for many years. Our meeting was sponsored by the Commoners’ Associations that struggled for decades, Japan’s 1947 Constitution in hand, against the Japanese government, to reclaim their commons from the Japanese military which had confiscated much of it in 1935. The Supreme Court has ruled that these common access rights still exist, and the Japanese military must pay handsome rent to commoners with whom it now shares the use of the commons. Sponsoring our conference was also a major political victory for the commoners, showing the Japanese government and public that coordinated use of shared resources is actually a topic of considerable international, scholarly, and practical concern on this environmentally pressed planet. Prince Akishino endorsed this concern by attending the conference as well. My only regret was that I could not introduce Lin Ostrom, who would have been a keynote speaker of course, to the commoners who had looked forward to meeting her at this event. Like the commoners of Torbel, Switzerland, who were also featured in Governing the Commons, they justifiably felt that they too earned a bit of her Nobel Prize in 2009 by protecting the institutions with which they manage collective goods. Since the conference I have done two stints of teaching, one in Japan, but I am returning now to the backlog that suffered neglect while I focused on the conference. A major spillover benefit of working so long on a topic that Japanese scholars of politics and policy used to think peculiar (as opposed to legal sociologists who found it fascinating) is that I have finally established some legitimacy for studying this topic, and now there is a generation of younger scholars in Japan who do political economy, who now see cooperation and coordination in the production of collective goods as a key problem, and who therefore find scholarly value in studying the commons of Japan (not just the commons of southeast Asia or India). Joint projects with my colleagues in Japan have emerged over the last decade, so I have two books to complete with them, one on contemporary commons in Japan, and one on contemporary commons in developed economies. I have a new project on legal disputes over the commons with Japanese scholars who have been developing a documentary archive on the legal dimensions of these struggles, and we are hoping to develop a database with the help of Arun Agrawal and Ashwini Chhatre, who have been instrumental in developing and analyzing the International Forest Resources and Institutions database launched by Lin Ostrom. I am also working on a few smaller projects on the legal aspects of creating new commons, and I have talks coming up at Indiana, Brigham Young, and Tokyo in March 2014. But as I polish these tasks off (I will not be adding any more new ones to my plate!), my most serious goal is to return to my book-length manuscripts on Cooperation on the Japanese Commons and on Property Rights for a Small Planet.
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The Alumni
Walter Molano One of the leading economists and strategists focusing on emerging markets, Dr. Walter T. Molano is the Chief Economist at BCP Securities, LLC. Molano received his Ph.D. in 1995. He arrived at Duke in 1991, leaving a short career as a naval officer flying A-6 Intruders. He was recruited by Peter Lange and was named a James B. Duke Fellow. He received an SSRC Pre-dissertation fellowship to do field research in the Southern Cone of Latin America. His dissertation was published as a book, The Logic of Privatization. He has established the Walter Molano Fellowship for research in Latin America. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree, Master in International Relations degree, and a Certificate in International Law, and is a 1983 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. Molano is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. In 2013, he published, In the Land of Silver, a book that examines the economic and political development of Argentina. Molano is a Visiting Professor teaching the Politics of International Finance this Spring at Duke. For more on Molano’s new book, please see Faculty Publications on page 36.
Brendan Nyhan
received his Ph.D. in 2009. He is currently Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and is a media critic for the Columbia Journalism Review. Nyhan, a James B. Duke Fellow, came to Duke to work with his advisor John Aldrich. He describes Professor Aldrich, a leading scholar of American political parties, as “…one of the most decent and generous people,” he has ever met. It was Nyhan’s mentoring by Aldrich as well as Professors David Rohde, Mike Munger, Jay Hamilton (Stanford) and Georg Vanberg that was his largest influence. “I wouldn’t be on the faculty at Dartmouth without the training and support I received at Duke.”
Nyhan with Aldrich at a recent lecture.
Looking back on his time at Duke, Nyhan says his most memorable were spent working on research in a team setting with graduate students and faculty in the Political Institutions and Public Choice program (PIPC) and attending Duke basketball games. Nyhan says the departments graduate student colloquium promoted scholarly exchange and learning among peers; the training he received in research design and quantitative methods was invaluable. It’s here that he developed his research interest in scandal and misinformation. The two co-authors he has worked with most extensively – Jason Reifler (University of Exeter) and Jacob Montgomery (Washington University in St. Louis) – are also fellow Duke Ph.D. graduates that he met in the program. His advice to students pursuing a political science degree: “Learn quantitative methods! Whether you’re in business, the law, politics, sports, or academia, data analysis skills are likely to be a valuable asset in your career”. 30
Follow Brendan on Twitter @BrendanNyhan or visit his blog at www.brendan-nyhan.com.
David Sparks received his PhD in
2012. He currently serves as the Director of Basketball Analytics for the Boston Celtics.
When asked what aspects of his education at Duke he found most important after graduating, Sparks responded, “I think the EITM (Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models) approach to integrating theory and empirics has served me well. Even when I am not explicitly developing formal models, I approach my statistical work from the perspective of a social scientist,
David Sparks
Sparks attributes his interest in political science to his high school Government teacher. At Duke, he was heavily influenced by his involvement with the Political Institutions and Public Choice program (PIPC) and the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI). He states the PIPC program, which let him work closely with David Rohde and John Aldrich and other graduate students, was a great environment in which to work. He learned from other students, such as Mike Brady, Jacob Montgomery, and Brendan Nyhan, how to develop research and begin building a career. He is grateful to Paula McClain and Scott de Marchi for letting him work with the Bunche students stating that, “…each summer was a great learning experience for me.” He says Aldrich, who was also his advisor, was also influential, particularly in his research and professionalization. “When I first came to Duke, I had a very nebulous sense of my research interests. Over the course of the program, my focus changed substantially, shifting toward projects on classical scaling, polarization, and partisanship, in which John and I were both interested. I also really appreciate John’s mentorship, his work ethic, and the good-natured way he interacts with everyone.”
always seeking to test our theoretical expectations, rather than solely mining data for patterns.” He also prospered from his involvement with SSRI (Social Science Research Institute) and the PARISS (Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences) program, which, along with his coursework, exposed him to a wide variety of methodological approaches. At Duke, he says he was never forced to adopt one particular tool at the expense of others, and as such he is now able to apply a wide variety of techniques and adopt new ones relatively quickly. His advice to undergraduates and graduates is similar: “Take classes that cover difficult material, and be bold and experimental in the challenges you pursue. As a student at Duke, you are being taught by people who are not only pushing the boundaries of their field, but who put lots of time and effort into helping you learn from their expertise. Outside of school, and to a lesser extent post-prelims, autodidacticism seems to be the rule. I certainly wish that I had taken more statistics and computer science courses under the guidance of people whose job it was to ensure that I learned those skills.” Sparks notes that, “Several professors, Mike Ward in particular, encouraged my interest in information visualization.” This is reflected below in an isarithmic map created by Sparks of the 2012 Presidential Election. For more on David, visit http://dsparks.wordpress.com.
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Ben Barber is a 6
year graduate student specializing in Comparative Politics; studying how subsidies slow the process of economic revitalization in cities around the world. th
Ben says the full story about why he chose Political Science is too convoluted to tell. In short, political science seeks to understand big and important social questions. After spending a lot of time studying economics, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, he was dissatisfied with the scope of their questions. Economists are concerned with the quality of the method, and political scientists are concerned with the quality of the idea. It’s exciting to be in a field where the quality of the idea is paramount.
intellectual agenda. Professors such as Karen Remmer, Herbert Kitchselt, Pablo Beramendi, David Soskice, and Eddy Malesky have provided him with invaluable support. However, Ben states, “I am especially indebted to Erik Wibbels, who has had the largest influence on my work. Without his incalculable amount of patience, guidance, and feedback I would not be the scholar I am today.”
“It’s exciting to be in a field where the quality of the idea is paramount.”
Benjamin Barber Comparative Politics
Ben’s immediate goal is to become an assistant professor at a research university. He hopes in the long-term, that his work will positively impact the world. “Duke’s Political Science department has given me the tools to answer important questions, and I hope to use them to help solve real world issues after graduate school. Duke has been a wonderful place to learn and grow as a person. The staff and faculty are all friendly, warm, and generous with their time. I truly feel blessed to have had the opportunity to spend the last six years at this amazing institution.”
While interested in many aspects of comparative politics and political economy, his main research agenda centers on the question: why do some cities die while others remain dynamic or revitalize? As a native of the Detroit area, he has seen the devastating effects of declining cities: increased crime, mass exodus, and increased poverty. His dissertation explores the role of governmental aid towards declining areas, and how it can work as a brake or accelerator in the process of decline. When asked who influenced him the most, he revered his parents and their impact on the development of his intellectual curiosity. They emphasized education and encouraged him to question how the world works. Without their support, it is unlikely he would have pursued his education through college and beyond. With regards to his postgraduate education, he would be remiss to say there was only one person who sculpted his
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Ben will be receiving his PhD this May 2014. For more on Ben, visit sites.google.com/site/bbarberiv
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Danielle Lupton International Relations
I am a 6
year graduate student in the department specializing in international relations. While taking my first international relations course as an undergraduate, I became fascinated by the ways in which leaders shape international politics and decided to major in political science. After having an opportunity to conduct research with faculty during the summer of my junior year, I also knew I wanted to pursue a doctorate. During my graduate school search, I was impressed by the personal attention I received from the faculty here at Duke. For example, when touring the campus I met with Professors Joseph Grieco and Peter Feaver, who were both interested in my research and were clearly passionate about the program. I chose Duke based on its exceptional faculty and excellent reputation. During my time at Duke, I have always found my professors to be supportive of my research and nurturing of my growth as a scholar. My research, including my dissertation, focuses on the conditions under which individual leaders affect international conflict. I particularly enjoy using multiple approaches to analyze the effect of these leaders. In my dissertation, I conduct experimental surveys, historical case study research, and statistical analysis. My dissertation advisors, Professors Joseph Grieco and Tim Buthe, have served as enthusiastic mentors and encouraged my research. th
Our department has provided me with support to attend national conferences as well as specialized research workshops and programs, allowing me to network and meet other scholars. I have also expanded my knowledge beyond my own research by working with faculty members on their research projects. For example, I spent one summer working with Professor Bruce Jentleson examining Middle East peace processes and an academic year with Professor Tim Buthe researching investment treaties. In addition to research, I also discovered that I have a strong passion for teaching and very much enjoy working with students. After serving as a teaching assistant, I had the opportunity to teach my own course in Introduction to International Relations. As such, my goal upon completing my Ph.D. is to become a professor of political science so that I may work with students and continue my research. Danielle
Danielle will receive her PhD this May 2014 and will be joining the faculty at Colgate University as Assistant Professor this Fall 2014. For more on Danielle, visit www.daniellelupton.com.
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THE GRADUATE
from the DGS... Duke’s graduate program in political science consistently ranks among the best in the country.
A remarkable pool of students and a dedicated faculty make this possible on the basis of three commonly shared principles: ambition to pursue new and interesting questions across field boundaries, rigor in seeking the most compelling answer to these questions, and collaboration among faculty and students throughout the process. Duke is at the cutting edge in fields as diverse as political economy, political philosophy, the study of conflict, race and politics, political behavior, and the study of the origins and effects of political institutions. Our students participate in labs and workshops and are set to publish from the very early stages of the program, combining basic training with a hands on learning-by-doing education. The results are visible. Last year alone our students produced 22 publications in professional journals. They regularly co-teach with the faculty with great success, building a feedback track from research efforts to the transmission of knowledge. We also continue to place them regularly in top ranking schools. New and exciting opportunities are also afoot as the program continues to expand, including new plans to have a joint Masters with Economics and Statistics. As we continue to explore new territories and advance research in political science, we are very appreciative of your interest and your support.
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Cassy Dorff Security, Peace, and Conflict
Cassy Dorff is a fourth year graduate student specializing in Security, Peace, and Conflict. When asked why she chose to study political science Cassy remarks that there is a very long answer to this question. After short stints in journalism and creative writing, time at a NYC based non-profit, and a job at a human rights commission in Mexico, she found herself involved in research labs at her undergraduate institution (University of Texas), “These experiences were undoubtedly influential in my life, but each left me wanting to know more: to ask big questions and spend time carefully exploring the answers. Because of my lifelong fascination with violence, death, and human rights issues, political science was a good place to start.” Her dissertation looks at the role of civilians in civil conflict. More specifically, she asks how civilians can influence armed actors during the course of an intrastate war. Civilians (and survivors of violence) are often overlooked in the studies of the dynamics of war, and she aims to fill this gap. She is currently working on a survey to investigate civilian perceptions of the efficacy of nonviolent and violent actions by civilian organized groups in on-going/high intensity conflict regions. Her hope is that this will allow her to better assess which barriers stand in the way of nonviolent mobilization and how civilians might be able to influence the strategy of armed actors. At Duke, she has been influenced most by her advisor Michael Ward. “Mike has a stellar sense of humor and gives great and often challenging feedback on all my work. For his patience and encouragement, I am quite grateful.” To Cassy, being a fourth year graduate student means she is considering what is ahead in the years to come. Ideally, Cassy would like to join the academic world. “I love teaching and researching so it seems like the place for me. I am Duke University Graduate School probably most excited about the sheer mystery of it all; moving 2127 Campus Drive to a new place is always life changing.” Box 90065 Durham, NC 27708 USA For more on Cassy, visit http://cassydorff.com. 919-681-3257 http://gradschool.duke.edu/ 35
Jerry Hough is on sabbatical and is completing two book-length projects. One, co-authored with Robin Grier of the University of Oklahoma, is entitled Building an Effective Market and State: The Lessons of England, Spain, and Their Colonies. It is being submitted to a Cambridge Press copy-editor. Covering 800 to 1825, it asks Douglass North’s question “why does time matter?” Why did development take so many centuries even in the “good” case of England and the U.S. and even longer in Spain and Mexico? North concedes he does not have a theory of change, and the book attempts to provide one. It uses North’s voluminous correspondence in the Duke University archives and insists that North’s insistence on the timeless restraining impact of informal institutions is the major problem. The insights of Max Weber and Mancur Olson must be added to provide engines of change. As Weber argued, the age-old tribal and village informal restraints on self-interest are not those needed for a market economy. Yet they must be replaced precisely when, for the first time in millions of years, people are being taught that the pursuit of self-interest is the key to economic growth and efficiency. This takes time. Even more important, the market is a typical game theory game, but one in which the rules of the game are determined by self-interested players. Government officials not only seek conventional rent, but violate the rules of the game and create new ones to benefit themselves. The establishment of effective rules to solve the problem of rulers’ control of their agents is the collective action reason so many centuries are
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needed to build an effective state and market. We accept Mancur Olson’s basic insight that compulsion and selective side payments are required for large-scale collective action. Until the requisite taxes for selective side payments can be collected, compulsion is vital. Hence we point to the essential role of the armed merchant fleet and its naval ally as key factors in England from the early alliances with the Flemish and then Hanseatic League to the military role of the navy-merchant alliance (not Parliament) in the Restoration of 1660, the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and the “military-fiscal state” of the 1700s. Hough is also completing an archive-based book on The American Domestic Politics of the Cold-War, 19301990. He argues that American policy towards Europe was heavily influenced by the attitudes of EuropeanAmerican “races” towards their homeland. The reaction was a decisive actor in US politics from the rejection of the League of Nations to McCarthyism and then Republican support for détente to facilitate German unification. The main conclusion, supplemented by 40 years of research and involvement in Soviet-American relations, is that the Cold War was more Soviet-American cooperation to end the “civil war” in Western Europe that caused so much devastation to Russia and so much domestic turmoil in the US. The re-definition of race to make skin color central was part of the effort to create a common identity among European-Americans. Jerry Hough is a James B. Duke Professor of Political Science specializing in the government and politics of the former Soviet Union. jhough@duke.edu
In this timely, insightful, and concise introduction to the history and development of Argentina, one of the most complex countries in Latin America and the developing world, Dr. Walter Molano takes a pragmatic look at the major variables that shape the country’s political and economic policies. Argentina is a country that intrigues. It is full of contradictions. In the Land of Silver transcends 200 years of economic and political development in a country that only a century ago was as prosperous as the U.S. and many European countries, and is now on the bottom rung of the emerging world. Its unique location at the extreme limits of a vast empire and distant from the centers of civilization imbued it with a yearning to react to what was happening abroad. By examining the formation of the country’s political and economic institutions from geographical and external perspectives, readers will gain a better understanding of the forces that shape the country’s policy decisions.
Over the past half century, two overarching questions have dominated the study of mass political behavior: How do ordinary citizens form their political judgments, and how good are those judgments from a normative perspective? The authors of The Ambivalent Partisan offer a novel approach to these questions, one in which political reasoning is viewed as arising from trade-offs among three generally conflicting psychological goals: making decisions easily, getting them right, and maintaining cognitive consistency. Christopher Johnston
Oxford University Press
Employing macroeconomic performance as a lens to evaluate democratic institutions, Professor Keech uses public choice and political economy models of political behavior that give room for opportunism on the part of the public officials and shortsightedness on the part of voters to see if democratic institutions lead to inferior macroeconomic performance. William Keech
Cambridge University Press
A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research provides both a primer for math novices in the social sciences and a handy reference for seasoned researchers. It begins with the fundamental building blocks of mathematics and basic algebra, then goes on to cover essential subjects such as calculus in one and more than one variable, including optimization, constrained optimization, and implicit functions; linear algebra, including Markov chains and eigenvectors; and probability. David Siegel Princeton University Press
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from antidemocratic groups? By allowing citizens who do not share democratic values to participate, democracies place themselves in jeopardy; but denying antidemocrats the right to participate may also conflict with democratic ideals. Alexander Kirshner offers a set of principles for determining when one may reasonably refuse rights of participation, and he defends his theory by exploring real-world examples, ranging from the far right British Nationalist Party to Turkey’s Islamist Welfare Party to America’s Democratic Party during Reconstruction. Alexander Kirshner Yale University Press
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In the sixth edition of this widely acclaimed text, Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart Jr. combine traditional elements of political science analysis—history, Constitutional theory, institutions, political behavior, and policy actors —with a fully updated survey of the political status of four major groups: African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and American Indians. The authors show similarities and differences in these groups’ political action and experience, and point the way toward coalition, competition, and consensus building in the face of ongoing conflict. Westview Press
Concise, affordable, and engaging, American Government in Black and White, Second Edition, is a unique introduction to American government that uses racial and ethnic equality as its underlying theme. Authors Paula D. McClain and Steven C. Tauber address issues of inequality in major facets of government, including the U.S. Constitution, key American political institutions and instruments of political behavior, and the making of public policy. Engaging the original voices of racial and ethnic actors in our nation's history, they show students how to measure and evaluate the importance of equality in America, from its founding up to today. Paula McClain Oxford University Press
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The New Global Rulers examines the transnational private bodies whose rules increasingly govern international product and financial markets, enabling economic globalization and determining the distribution of its costs and benefits. It analyzes who gets to write the rules in these non-governmental organizations, as well as who wins and who loses from the simultaneous privatization and internationalization of governance— and why. Büthe and Mattli develop a new theoretical framework for understanding global private regulation, emphasizing the interaction between domestic and international institutions. They also present detailed empirical analyses of such regulation based on multi-country, multi-industry business surveys. The book demonstrates the deeply political nature of rule-making by technical experts, as well as the centrality of institutions in determining the pertinent power resources in global private politics. Tim Büthe Princeton University Press
Retiring faculty
David Paletz joined the department in 1967 and will be retiring in August 2014. With his research focusing on the intersection of the media, American government, and politics, he teaches such courses as Politics and the Media, Politics and the Libido, and Film and Politics. Throughout his career, Professor Paletz authored close to one hundred publications receiving multiple teaching and research awards; including a Congressional Fellowship from the American Political Science Association (APSA), two Fulbright Scholarships and the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from Duke University students. Most recently, he was the 2012 recipient of the David Swanson Career Achievement Award, given by the Political Communication sections of APSA and the International Communication Association. Professor Paletz was also honored at a celebration organized by former students who were touched by his teaching. Among these students was Duke trustee and former Duke Alumni Association President, Ann Pelham ’74, who in combination with her daughter, Catherine Cullen ’06, created and endowed the David L. Paletz Innovative Teaching Fund. The fund provides annual grants to Trinity College of Arts& Sciences faculty who find inventive ways to inspire and educate students. These practices, as modeled by Professor Paletz during his long teaching career, include: introducing students to inquirybased learning and original research; providing access to experiences, programs, and guest lecturers, both on and off campus; and incorporating technology or new teaching methods into the classroom. To make a gift to this fund in honor of David Paletz’s long legacy of exceptional teaching, please visit https://gifts.duke.edu/, click the “Add an unlisted designation” link, and type “David Paletz Innovative Teaching Fund” in the box that appears.
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West Campus Construction Highlights: Penn Pavilion, completed August 2013; West Union, expected completion January 2016; Rubenstein Library, expected completion date, August 2015. Below: University Bookstore and Gothic Reading Room new storefront; Penn Pavilion; construction of West Union Building; walkway from West Union to Bryan Center; and construction of Rubenstein Library.
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