The Political Science Faculty Research and Publications Series is comprised of books and articles published by Marquette University's political science faculty.
Submissions from 2024
Voice in an Asymmetric Federation? The U.S. Territories as Intergovernmental Actors, Philip B. Rocco, Sarah Beck, Daniel Bernard Deida, Kevin Gleeson, Uriel Lopez, Aidan Marick, and Benjamin Porter
Submissions from 2023
Putin’s Key Mistake? Not Understanding Ukraine’s Blossoming National Identity - Even in the Russian-friendly Southeast, Lowell Barrington
Does Criminalizing Torture Deter Police Torture?, Mark S. Berlin
Economic Anxiety Among Contingent Survey Workers, Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky
Outsourcing Bureaucracy to Evade Accountability: How Public Servants Build Shadow State Capacity, Jessica Rich
Counting Like a State: The Politics of Intergovernmental Partnerships in the 2020 Census, Philip B. Rocco
Review of The Obligation Mosaic: Race and Social Norms in Political Participation by Allison P. Anoll, Amber Wichowsky
Creative Placemaking and Empowered Participatory Governance, Amber Wichowsky, Jennifer Gaul-Stout, and Jill McNew-Birren
What Do PFAs Do to the Body? Why More Wisconsinites Are Asking That Question, Amber Wichowsky, David Strifling, and Jill McNew-Birren
Submissions from 2022
Obama’s Party? An Examination of Whether a Reluctant Party Leader Transformed the Democratic Party in his Favor, Julia R. Azari and Seth Masket
What Next in Ukraine?, Lowell Barrington
COVID-19, Poverty Reduction, and Partisanship in Canada and the United States, Daniel Beland, Shannon Dinan, Philip B. Rocco, and Alex Waddan
Multi-Label Prediction for Political Text-as-Data, Aaron Erlich, Stefano G. Dantas, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Daniel Berliner, and Brian Palmer-Rubin
The State of American Federalism 2021–2022: Federal Courts, State Legislatures, and the Conservative Turn in the Law, David M. Konisky and Paul Nolette
Work and Demand Making: Productionist and Consumptionist Politics in Latin America, Brian Palmer-Rubin and Ruth Berins Collier
Monitoring Corporate Compliance through Cooperative Federalism: Trends in Multistate Settlements by State Attorneys General, Colin Provost, Elysa Dishman, and Paul Nolette
Review of Government Statistical Agencies and the Politics of Credibility, Philip B. Rocco
Flexible Aid in an Uncertain World: The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Program, Philip B. Rocco and Amanda Kass
Calling in “Sick”: COVID-19, Opportunism, Pretext, and Subnational Autocratization, Philip B. Rocco, Matthew Stenberg, and Safia Abukar Farole
The Effects of Partisan Framing on COVID-19 Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Early and Late Pandemic, Amber Wichowsky and Meghan Condon
Call and Response? Neighborhood Inequality and Political Voice, Amber Wichowsky, Paru Shah, and Amanda Heideman
Submissions from 2021
Social Policy Responses To COVID-19 In Canada and The United States: Explaining Policy Variations Between Two Liberal Welfare State Regimes, Daniel Beland, Shannon Dinan, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan
Trump, Bolsonaro, And the Framing of the COVID-19 Crisis: How Political Institutions Shaped Presidential Strategies, Daniel Beland, Philip B. Rocco, Catarina Ianni Segatto, and Alex Waddan
The Political Logic of Government Disclosure: Evidence from Information Requests in Mexico, Daniel Berliner, Benjamin E. Bagozzi, Brian Palmer-Rubin, and Aaron Erlich
From La Monjita to La Hormiga: Reflections on Gender, Body and Power in Fieldwork, Noelle K. Brigden
Media Attention and Bureaucratic Responsiveness, Aaron Erlich, Daniel Berliner, Brian Palmer-Rubin, and Benjamin E. Bagozzi
Funding the Mission: Jesuit Networks, Outsider Access, and "The Origins of Marquette College" Revisited, H. Richard Friman
Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the COVID-19 Crisis: The United States, Canada, and Australia, Andre Lecours, Daniel Beland, Alan Fenna, Tracy Beck Fenwick, Mireille Paquet, Philip B. Rocco, and Alex Waddan
Fiscal Federalism and Economic Crises in the United States: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Great Recession, Mariely Lopez-Santana and Philip B. Rocco
Incentives for Organizational Participation: A Recruitment Experiment in Mexico, Brian Palmer-Rubin, Candelaria Garay, and Mathias Poertner
Keeping Score: The Congressional Budget Office and the Politics of Institutional Durability, Philip B. Rocco
The Superfluous Congress: Executive Dominance and Business Lobbying in Mexico’s 2013 Tax Reform, Monica Unda-Gutierrez
Una hacienda local pobre: ¿qué explica la recaudación predial en México? Poor local finances: What explains property tax collection in Mexico?, Monica Unda-Gutierrez
Getting Tough on China: Are Campaign Ads a Signal of Future Policy or Just Cheap Talk?, Amber Wichowsky and Jessica Chen Weiss
Submissions from 2020
Primary Primers: While Trump’s Impeachment Now Seems Forgotten, It Damaged his Political Capital and Reduced his Sway in the Republican Party, Julia R. Azari
Designing policy resilience: lessons from the Affordable Care Act, Daniel Beland, Michael Howlett, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan
The Affordable Care Act in the States: Fragmented Politics, Unstable Policy, Daniel Beland, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan
Revising the "Hibernation" Narrative: Technocratic Legal Experts and the Cold War Origins of the "Justice Cascade", Mark S. Berlin
Would the U. S. Military Repress Protesters? Lessons from the Arab Spring, Risa Brooks and Sharan Grewal
Inequality in the Social Mind: Social Comparison and Support for Redistribution, Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky
Organizational and Partisan Brokerage of Social Benefits: Social Policy Linkages in Mexico, Candelaria Garay, Brian Palmer-Rubin, and Mathias Poertner
Trumpism and the Dual Tracks of American Polarization, Paul Nolette
Food and Power, Brian Palmer-Rubin
Organizing Twenty-First-Century Activism: From Structure to Strategy in Latin American Social Movements, Jessica Rich
How Biden's Pick for Defense Secretary Might Shake Up Civil-Military Relations, Michael A. Robinson, Risa Brooks, and Heidi A. Urben
Direct Democracy and the Fate of Medicaid Expansion, Philip Rocco
Ending Federalism as We Know It: Review of The Divided States of America by Donald F. Kettl, Philip B. Rocco
Review of Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States, Philip B. Rocco
The Policy State and the Post-Truth Presidency, Philip B. Rocco
The Quiet Politics of Medicaid Work Requirements, Philip B. Rocco
Trump Is Attempting a Brazen, Anti-Democratic Power Grab. And It Has Nothing to Do With the Election, Philip B. Rocco
Trump’s Fight Over Covid-19 Numbers Shows How the Hollowing Out of Expertise Can Be Dangerous for American Democracy, Philip B. Rocco
We Must Ensure Free and Fair Elections Do Not Become Another Casualty of Covid-19, Philip B. Rocco
Wisconsin’s Pandemic Primary Will Put Voters’ Lives in Danger, Philip B. Rocco
Introduction: An Unsettled Time from American Political Development and the Trump Presidency, Philip B. Rocco and Zachary Callen
Stuck In Neutral? Federalism, Policy Instruments, And Counter-Cyclical Responses to COVID-19 in the United States, Philip Rocco, Daniel Beland, and Alex Waddan
Submissions from 2019
Policy Feedback and the Politics of the Affordable Care Act, Daniel Beland, Philip B. Rocco, and Alex Waddan
Underground Railroads and Coyote Conductors: Brokering Clandestine Passages, Then and Now, Noelle K. Brigden
Let the Generals Speak? Retired Officer Dissent and the June 2020 George Floyd Protests, Risa Brooks and Michael A. Robinson
An “Untrammeled Right”? The McCarran Immigration Subcommittee and the Origins of Presidential Authority to Suspend and Restrict Alien Entry Under §1182(f), H. Richard Friman
From 'Trial and Error' to Major Reform: The Politics of Medicare Demonstration Projects, Andrew S. Kelly and Philip B. Rocco
The opioid litigation has more than 2,000 plaintiffs. Here’s what that means behind the scenes, Colin Provost and Paul Nolette
Brazil’s HIV/AIDS policies proved a success. But here are the new challenges, Jessica Rich
The citizenship question isn’t the only threat to the census. Here’s what’s at stake., Philip B. Rocco
Who Studies International Law? Explaining Cross-national Variation in Compulsory International Legal Education, Ryan Scoville and Mark Berlin
Foreclosure's Fallout: Economic Adversity and Voter Turnout, Paru Shah and Amber Wichowsky
Civic Life in the Divided Metropolis: Social Capital, Collective Action, and Residential Income Segregation, Amber Wichowsky
Submissions from 2018
Federalism and the Politics of Bottom‐Up Social Policy Diffusion in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, Daniel Beland, Anahely Medrano, and Philip B. Rocco
Obamacare in the Trump Era: Where are we Now, and Where are we Going?, Daniel Beland, Philip B. Rocco, and Alex Waddan
A visible geography of invisible journeys: Central American migration and the politics of survival, Noelle K. Brigden
Border Collision: Power Dynamics of Enforcement and Evasion across the US–Mexico Line, Noelle K. Brigden and Peter Andreas
Neurons, Genes, and Policies: How Science Can Contribute to Trauma-Informed Policies, Susan Giaimo
Despite Democrats’ Takeover of the House, Don’t Expect Republicans to Give Up on Undoing Obamacare, Simon F. Haeder and Philip B. Rocco
Global Tobacco Control and Economic Norms: An Analysis of Normative Commitments in Kenya, Malawi And Zambia, Raphael Lencucha, Srikanth K. Reddy, Ronald Labonte, Jeffrey Drope, Peter Magati, Fastone Goma, Richard Zulu, and Donald Makoka
Review of The Mutual Housing Experiment: New Deal Communities for the Urban Middle Class by Kristin M. Szylvian, Philip B. Rocco
How Intense Policy Demanders Shape Postreform Politics: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act, Philip B. Rocco and Simon F. Haeder
Politics at the Cutting Edge: Intergovernmental Policy Innovation in the Affordable Care Act, Philip B. Rocco, Andrew S. Kelly, and Ann C. Keller
Globalization, Institutions of Social Solidarity, and Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe, Duane Swank and Hans-Georg Betz
Submissions from 2017
How the War Over Obamacare Can Erode American Democracy, Daniel Beland, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan
The Difference Law Makes: Domestic Atrocity Laws and Human Rights Prosecutions, Mark S. Berlin and Geoff Dancy
Trump’s Travel Ban Is Built On A Law Meant To ‘Protect’ The U.S. From Jews And Communists, H. Richard Friman
Austerity Has Wounded Public Health in EU Bailout Countries – Greece Worst of All, Susan Giaimo
Shaping Health Policy for Low-Income Populations: An Assessment of Public Comments in a New Medicaid Waiver Process, Marian Jarlenski, Philip Rocco, Renuka Tipimeni, Amy Jo Kennedy, Nivedita Gunturi, and Julie Donohue
Review of Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury by Anna Kirkland, Paul Nolette
State Attorneys General have Taken Off as a Partisan Force in National Politics, Paul Nolette
The Dual Role of State Attorneys General in American Federalism: Conflict and Cooperation in an Era of Partisan Polarization, Paul Nolette
Change and Continuity in the Role of State Attorneys General in the Obama and Trump Administrations, Paul Nolette and Colin Rovost
Informal Caregiving and the Politics of Policy Drift in the United States, Philip Rocco
Republicans Can Still Harm Obamacare through Neglect, Philip Rocco
With Their Obamacare Replacement, Republicans are Jumping Blindfolded through the Policy Window, Philip Rocco
Justice Roberts said Political Science is 'sociological gobbledygook.' Here's Why He Said It, and Why He's Mistaken, Philip B. Rocco
Review of The Federal Design Dilemma: Congress and Intergovernmental Delegation, by Pamela J. Clouser McCann, Philip B. Rocco
The New Politics of US Health Care Prices: Institutional Reconfiguration and the Emergence of All-Payer Claims Databases, Philip Rocco, Andrew S. Kelly, Daniel Beland, and Michael Kinane
Caregiver Integration During Discharge Planning for Older Adults to Reduce Resource Use: A Metaanalysis, Juleen Rodakowski, Philip B. Rocco, Maqui Ortiz, Barbara Folb, Richard Schulz, Sally C. Morton, Sally Caine Leathers, Lu Hu, and A. Everette James
Submissions from 2016
Obamacare and the Politics of Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, Daniel Beland, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan
Obamacare Wars, Daniel Beland, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan
Reassessing Policy Drift: Social Policy Change in the United States, Daniel Beland, Philip Rocco, and Alex Waddan
Why (not) Arrest? Third-party State Compliance and Noncompliance with International Criminal Tribunals, Mark S. Berlin