Andrew O’Donohue, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government, has co-published an article in the National Academy of Sciences’ journal PNAS Nexus. The paper examines how prosecutions of political leaders affect public opinion by studying Trump’s criminal prosecution. Criminal prosecutions of political leaders have become salient election issues in the United States and globally, yet…
In May, The Atlantic shared an article by Andrew O’Donohue, discussing the administration’s legal strategy and the pattern of democratic backsliding globally. “Donald Trump’s attacks on the courts lack recent precedent in the United States, but they follow a clear pattern seen in backsliding democracies around the world. In many countries, when political leaders challenge…
Andrew O’Donohue, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Government Department and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, published an opinion article in Foreign Policy on how other democracies provide a roadmap for courts to prevail over attacks from the executive branch. “Just two months in, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is aggressively…
Sun Young Park has published a paper in Political Behavior, titled “Stereotyping Women with Sympathy: Youth Political Socialization in Mixed-Gender Environments”. The piece, published in April 2025, theorizes that gender compositions of peer environments influence stereotyping of women in political roles. Youth is a critical period where future citizens can develop both gender stereotypes and…
Kiara Henandez, Ph.D. Candidate, Taeku Lee, Bae Family Professor of Government, and Marcel Roman, Assistant Professor of Government, published an article in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Prior research shows that the pro-Trump, anti-democratic January 6th insurrection (J6) led to a short-term reduction in Republican support for President Trump. However, it remains unclear why the…
Ph.D. Candidate Brian Highsmith co-authored a paper with Maya Sen, Harvard Kennedy School, and Kathleen Thelen, MIT, in Perspectives on Politics. A growing literature has challenged some of the more influential accounts regarding the role of courts in the development of social and economic policy in the United States. We highlight some of the more…
Marco Mendoza Aviña co-authored a paper published in The Journal of Politics. The paper examines the replicability crisis in political science by analyzing over 16,000 hypothesis tests from nearly 2,000 articles, revealing that most studies are severely underpowered while also showing that experts significantly overestimate typical power levels in the discipline. The social sciences face…
Ph.D. Candidate Sophia Anastazievsky has published an article in Ethics & International Affairs, titled “What We Owe to Ukrainians: A Moral Perspective on Nuclear Coercion and Military Intervention”. The piece discusses the moral obligations to intervene militarily in Ukraine to stop Russian human rights abuses and ensure that Ukraine achieves a military victory. Sophia argues that “Ukraine’s…
María Ballesteros, Ph.D. candidate and a Minerva/USIP peace scholar fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and Andrew O’Donohue, Ph.D. candidate and the Carl J. Friedrich fellow, have published a new article in Foreign Policy. On Sunday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed into law a contentious slate of constitutional amendments aimed at overhauling the country’s…
Rochelle Sun has contributed to an article in The Lancet on how the provision of healthcare in Haiti has been integrally challenged by tumultuous socio-political conflict over the past five years. Background There is limited data on the effectiveness of differentiated service delivery (DSD) for HIV care during sociopolitical turmoil. We assessed outcomes with a…
