Recent research publications and grants by Bush School faculty and research staff:
AbouAssi, Khaldoun, Sungdae Lim, Ann O’M. Bowman, and Jocelyn M. Johnston. 2025. “Focusing on the individual in cross-sectoral collaboration.” Public Administration Review. 85: 224-237. doi.org/10.1111/puar.13798
Abreha, Kaleb, and Raymond Robertson. 2025. “Revisiting the effects of regional trade agreements using staggered adoption design.” Atlantic Economic Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11293-025-09828-0
Abreha, Kaleb; Trinity Johnson, and Raymond Robertson. 2025. “Is crime a ‘root cause’ of Central American emigration? Evidence from El Salvador.” Journal of Development Economics, 174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103456
Acton, Riley, Kalena E. Cortes, Lois Miller, and Camila Morales. 2025. “Distance to degrees: How college proximity shapes student’s enrollment choices and attainment across race and socioeconomic status.” Economics of Education Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102724
Acton, Riley, Kalena E. Cortes, and Camila Morales. 2025. “Distance to opportunity: Higher education deserts and college enrollment choices.” In Financing Institutions of Higher Education, eds. John Y. Campbell and Kaye Husbands Fealing. University of Chicago Press.
Allamong, Maxwell B., Jongwoo Jeong, and Paul M. Kellstedt. 2025. “Spelling correction with large language models to reduce measurement error in open-ended survey responses.” Research and Politics. 12(1) https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168024131151
Amjad, Maria, Mark Berlin, Sara Daub, Ilayda B. Onder, and Joshua Fawcett Weiner. Forthcoming. “Commanders of the Mujahideen: Introducing the Jihadist Leaders Dataset (JLD).” Journal of Peace Research.
Bartel, Fritz. Forthcoming. “In search of a superpower: The west’s abortive search for leverage in early Post-Soviet Russia.” Diplomatic History 49(5): 690-713. https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaf057
Bazan, Gabriela, Brady Duke, Joanna Lahey, and Roberto Mosquera. 2025. “Influence of anti-Hispanic bias on perceptions of Hispanic status of names.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Studies 47(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/07399863251333452
Bearce, David and Ana Carolina Garriga. 2025. “Reconsidering the relationship between central bank independence and fixed exchange rates.” International Studies Quarterly 69(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf074
Benton, Allyson L., Soren Jordan, and Andrew Q. Philips. 2025. “Taking variance seriously: Visualizing the statistical and substantive significance of ARCH-GARCH models.” Journal of Politics https://doi.org/10.1086/734275
Bouché, Vanessa, Robbie Waters Robichau, Torey Tipton, Moriah Metcalf, and Ti’Ara Clark. 2025. “Human trafficking policy evolution: Analyzing punctuated diffusion across two decades.” Journal of Human Trafficking. doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2025.2529713
Brannon, Elizabeth and Sumin Lee. 2025. “Ruling rebel parties and accountability for wartime sexual violence.” Security Studies 34(3): 564-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2025.2507070
Bromo, Francesco, Lindsey P. González, Manuela Muñoz, and Kristy M. Pathakis. 2025. “Many of us are not like the others: Country of origin and Latino voting behavior in the United States.” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, pp. 1–25. doi:10.1017/rep.2025.10025.
Casellas Connors, Ishara, Lisa Unangst, and Kerri Evans. 2025. “Navigating the tension: US refugee resettlement agency support of postsecondary access.” Journal of Refugee Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feae086
Casellas Connors, Ishara and Hailey Feik. 2025. “Communicating social justice in the public sphere: the case of public higher education.” Public Management Review, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2024.2442582
Casellas Connors, Ishara. 2025. “Disrupting the narrative: Afro-Latin Americans across U.S. higher education.” In Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Edited by Laura W. Perna. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 40. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51930-7_5-1
Castillo, Jasen and John M. Schuessler. Grants from the Stand Together Trust totaling $281,350 to support the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy.
Castillo, Jasen and John M. Schuessler. Grants from the National Laboratories totaling $262,065 to support the National Security Affairs Program in the Albritton Center for Grant Strategy
Causey, Christina L. and Joanna N. Lahey. 2025. “Employment law and retirement.” The Oxford Handbook of Retirement (2nd ed.). Edited by Mo Wang. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197699584.003.0027
Cerrato, Maddalena. 2025. Michel Foucault’s Practical Philosophy: A Critique of Subjectivation Processes. SUNY Press.
Chen, Gang, Trang Hoang, and Carol Ebdon. 2025. Managing Public Pension Plans: Decisions, Challenges, and Reforms. New York: Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032671185
Cheong, So-Min., Marco Perez, Youn Soo Jung, Brian Kim, and Kari Nadeau. 2025. “Latent effects of wildfire particulate matter on resting heart rate measured with wearable devices.” Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 18(8) https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCEP.125.013836
Chinchilla, Alexandra. 2025. “Balancing acts: why great powers underprovide security assistance.” International Politics: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-025-00692-y
Chinchilla, Alexandra, Paul Poast, and Dan Reiter. 2025. “Would Americans go to war against China? How a divided public thinks about conflict.” Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/would-americans-go-war-against-china
Chinchilla, Alexandra. Defense Security Cooperation University. Project title: “When Influence Succeeds: A Partner-Centric Analysis of U.S. Security Cooperation Effectiveness.” $218,000, 2025-27.
Clifford, Scott, Lucia Lopez, and Lucas Lothamer. Forthcoming. “Reassessing support for political aggression and violence in the United States.” Public Opinion Quarterly.
Clifford, Scott, Elizabeth Simas, and JeongKyu Suh. 2025. “The policy basis of group sentiments.” Political Science Research and Methods 13(2): 482-488.https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2024.30
Clifford, Scott, and Carlisle Rainey. 2025. “The limits (and strengths) of single-topic designs.” Political Analysis (Letter) 33(2): 164-170. https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2024.20
Cortes, Kalena E., Karen Kortecamp, Susanna Loeb, and Carly Robinson. 2025. “A scalable approach to high-impact tutoring for young readers.” Learning and Instruction, 95(February) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2024.102021.
Cortes, Kalena E. (PI)“A Parent-Child Math Engagement Program to Enhance Learning and Decrease Math Anxiety.” Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) of North America. $98,000, 2025-2026.
Cortes, Kalena E. “Estimating the Value of a New Postsecondary Credential: An Audit Study of Community College Bachelor’s Degrees.” (Co-PIs: Riley Acton, Lois Miller, Camila Morales, and Julia Turner). Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) of North America. $73,350, 2025-2026.
Cortes, Kalena E. Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) Coalition. Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PIs: Riley Acton, Lois Miller, Camila Morales, and Julia Turner). $15,000, 2025.
Cortes, Kalena E. “Unlocking Opportunities: Facilitating Student Transfers from Two- to Four-Year Colleges through Coaching.” (Co-PIs: Danila Serra, Celeste Carruthers, and Ishara Casella-Connors). Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) of North America. $170,312, 2024-2026.
Cortes, Kalena E. (PI) “A Parent-Child Math Engagement Program to Enhance Learning and Decrease Math Anxiety.” Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) of North America. $102,726, 2024-2025.
Crewe, Emma and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson. 2025. “Co-operation in polarized legislatures: Learning from the case of the Texas State House of Representatives.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly. First view: https://doi.org/10.1017/spq.2025.10009
Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher, Leonardo Gentil-Fernandes, Elisabeth Gilmore, Reyko Huang, Danielle F. Jung, and Cyanne E. Loyle. 2025. Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change. Cambridge Elements, Series: Organizational Response to Climate Change: Businesses, Governments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009569439
Dague, Laura, Cici McNamara, Ryan Westergaard, Kevin A. Look, and Marguerite Burns. 2025. “Continuity of prescription medication use among adults leaving state prison.” JAMA Network Open 8(2): e2461982. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.61982
Dague, Laura (PI). Episcopal Health Foundation Grant, “Texas Impacts of Ending Federal Health Insurance Subsidies 2025” (with Ben Ukert, Co-PI), $58,413, 2025.
Dague, Laura and Rebecca Myerson. Grant from J-PAL North America, “Barriers to Enrollment, Procedural Denials, and Loss of Medicaid Coverage.” $149,263, 2024-2027.
Dague, Laura, Rebecca Myerson and Allison Espeseth. Wisconsin Idea Collaboration Grant, “Enrollment Barriers, Procedural Denials, and Loss of Medicaid Coverage.” $100,000, 2024-2027.
Dague, Laura and Rebecca Myerson. Grant from J-PAL North America, “Outreach and Maintenance of Medicaid Enrollment: Evidence from Wisconsin’s Navigator Program.” $161,337, 2022-2025.
Dague, Laura and Marguerite Burns. Grant from Wisconsin Department of Health Services “Contract for program evaluation for Wisconsin’s Medicaid & BadgerCare Plus Health Coverage CMS 1115 Waiver Provisions for 2019-2023.” 2019-2025.
Dorigo, Tommaso, Gary D. Brown, et al. 2025. “Artificial intelligence in science and society: The vision of USERN.” IEEE Access 13: 15993-16054. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3529357
Emidy, M. Blake, Josephine K. Hazelton-Boyle, Lauren K. McKeague, and Christina S. Barsky. 2025. “Checked out: The impact of U.S. public library politicization on employee turnover intention, emotional exhaustion, and reduced compassion.” The American Review of Public Administration. https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740251386419
Florea, Adrian and Reyko Huang. 2025. “Functional sovereignty in contested territories.” International Studies Quarterly 69(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaf069
García Montero, Mercedes, Mar Martínez Rosón, Manuela Muñoz, and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson. Forthcoming. “Men are from Mars, and women are from Venus? Political ambition of women and men within the legislature.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 50(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.70016
Garritano, Carmela. 2025. African Energy Worlds in Film and Media. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Gerrish, Ed, Mikhail Ivonchyk, Cleopatra Charles, Robert A. Greer, and Temirlan T. Moldogaziev. 2025. “A meta‐analysis of the state and local government borrowing costs.” Public Administration Review, 85(2): 486-503. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13822
Giannouchos, Theodoros V., Nima Khodakarami, Daniel Marthey, Laura Dague, and Benjamin Ukert. 2025. “Changes in emergency department payer mix among children following Medicaid unwinding in Texas.” Health Services Research https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.70023
Goidel, Spencer H., Bradley Madsen, Craig Freeman, and Kirby Goidel. 2025. “Yes to Koch, no to woke: Public opinion, free markets, and business involvement in politics.” Public Opinion Quarterly 88(4): 1141-1165. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfae057
Goidel, Spencer, Kirby Goidel, and Paul M. Kellstedt. 2025. “Nostalgia in politics.” Public Opinion Quarterly 88(4): 1121-1140. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfae054
Guo, Mingyue, Youngsik Choi, So-Min Cheong, and Zheng O’Neill. 2025. “Current and future residential electricity demand using large-scale smart meter data in a changing climate.” Sustainable Cities and Society vol.130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2025.106623
Haglin, Kathryn, Soren Jordan, Alison Higgins Merrill, and Joseph Daniel Ura. 2025. “Reevaluating ideological asymmetries in specific support for the Supreme Court.” Research & Politics 12(3): 1-5. DOI:10.1177/20531680251355253
Helms, Benjamin and Junghyun Lim. Forthcoming. “Globalization, internal migration, and public goods provision in emerging economies.” American Journal of Political Science.
Howell, Mike, Danny Davis, Dan DeBree, and Miner Marchbanks III. Ocular Methods in Credibility Assessment. Grant sponsored by the Department of Defense. 2023-2025. $1,444,945, 2023-2025.
Jo, Hyeran (Principal Investigator). Small State Statecraft and Realignment. Grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. $400,500
Jung, Jae-Hee and Scott Clifford. 2025. “Varieties of values: Moral values are uniquely divisive.” American Political Science Review 119(1): 462-478. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000443
Kagalwala, Ali and Guy D. Whitten. Forthcoming. “The answer was there all along: Worry about the dynamics!” Journal of Politics. https://doi.org/10.1086/736026
Kaspar, Wendi and Sarah Potvin. 2025. “Goodness vs. greatness: An analysis of motivation in open access policies at US land-grant institutions.” Libraries and the Academy 25(4): 703-28. DOI: doi.org/10.1353/pla.2025.a971029
Kenwick, Michael R., Sumin Lee, and Burcu Kolcak. 2025. “Military experience and casualty sensitivity in elite discourse: Evidence from the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Journal of Conflict Resolution. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027251365535
Lahey, Joanna N. and Marianne Wanamaker. 2025. “Effects of restrictive abortion legislation on cohort mortality evidence from 19th century law variation.” Journal of Public Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105329
Liu, Xinsheng, Taiping Ding, Youlang Zhang and Arnold Vedlitz. 2025. “Tainted trust: Air pollution and political trust in China,” Environmental Politics 34(2): 299-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2371768
Moldogaziev, Temirlan T., Tyler A. Scott, and Robert A. Greer. 2025. “Organizational fragmentation and service performance of municipal water districts.” Public Management Review, 27(4), 935-955. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2023.2268083
Mommaerts, Corina (PI) and Laura Dague (co-I). NBER Research on the Economics of Alzheimer’s/Dementia Grant Program, “Disparities in Medicaid Managed Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Adults with ADRD: Evidence from Wisconsin,” $200,000, 2025-2026.
Morriss, Andrew P. and Roger E. Meiners. 2025. “Regulating entities, not activities: Reforming the environmental permit raj.” Case Western Reserve Law Review 75(1): 333-381. https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/caselrev/vol75/iss1/11
Myerson, Rebecca (PI) and Laura Dague (co-I). Arnold Ventures grant, “Barriers to Enrollment, Procedural Denials, and Loss of Medicaid Coverage: A Randomized Trial to Identify Effective Outreach Solutions”, $336,218, 2025-2028.
Nederman, Cary J. 2025. “Constitutionalism and consent: The roles of quod omnes tangit in the political thought of William of Ockham.” Storia del Pensiero Politico 14(1): 3-18.
Nederman, Cary J. 2025. “John of Salisbury on natural law, natural rights and liberty: A skeptical alternative.” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 11: 95-123.
Nederman, Cary J. 2025. “Tyranny, despotism and consent in Marsiglio of Padua’s Defensor pacis.” The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 30: 247-264.
Nederman, Cary J. 2025. “The rhetorician and the Republic: Brunetto Latini, Cicero and Republican Rome.” Pp. 223-240. In Brunetto Latini intellettuale totale. Edited by Gianluca Briguglia and Antonio Montefusco. Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo.
Nederman, Cary J. 2025. “Representation, consent and the aristocratic ethos: Two late medieval theories.” Pp. 35-54. In Aristocratic Voices: Traditional Alternatives to Liberalism, Populism and Radical Egalitarianism. Edited by Richard Avramenko and Ethan Alexander-Davey. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.
Nederman, Cary J. and Alessandro Mulieri. 2025. “Medieval political philosophy.” In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward Zalta and Uri Noodleman. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval–political/.
Nederman, Cary J. 2024. “Dismembering the body politic: Medical metaphor in the writings of Erasmus.” Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 55(2): 267-98 [published in July 2025].
Nguyen-Hoang, Phuong, Trang Hoang, and Josephine Gatti Schafer. 2025. “The cost of development: How TIF relates to property values across Nebraska school districts.” Economic Development Quarterly (online first). https://doi.org/10.1177/08912424251387557
Oberhelman, Steven M. (ed.) 2025. Manuscripts, Plants, Remedies in the Mediterranean Tradition: Essays across the disciplines for Alain Touwaide. Berlin and Boston: Walter De Gruyter.
Tome 1: Manuscripts: Codices, Texts, Science and Medicine (680 pages)
Tome 2: Plants: Botany, Gardens, Materia medica, Ethnopharmacology (846 pages)
Tome 3: Remedies: Pharmacy, Drugs and Food, Archaeology, Tradition, Continuity (906 pages)
Onder, Ilayda B. 2025. “How civilian loyalties shape rebel-led victimization of rebel constituencies.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 69(4): 701-730. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027241263006
Onder, Ilayda B., Nazli Avdan, and Aaron Hoffman. 2025. “Credit claims and the survival of terrorist organizations.” International Interactions. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2025.2505010
Onder, Ilayda B., and Mark Berlin. Forthcoming. “How statements of denial by armed actors shape public perceptions and emotions.” Political Psychology.
Resh, William G., Yongjin Ahn, Weijie Wang, and Keunyoung Eli Lee. 2025. “Employee turnover effects of the 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown.” Public Administration Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.70032
Robertson, Raymond (PI). Grant from Google to support the Mosbacher Institute, $250,000.
Robichau, Robbie Waters, Tara Kolar Bryan, and Jooho Lee. 2025. “Sharing evaluation information to strengthen nonprofit accountability: The influence of learning and data utilization practices.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 54(1), 27-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640241230884
Roche Rodriguez, Jaime A., Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson, and Daniela Ruiz Zárate. 2025. “Exports to jobs: Morocco’s trade patterns and local labor market outcomes.” Middle East Development Journal, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2025.2488647
Ruyle, Leslie E. and S. Mitchell. 2025. “The impact of conflict on biodiversity in the age of the anthropocene.” In Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (2nd ed), eds. Michael I. Goldstein, Mark J. Costello and Scott Elias. Elsevier.
Ruyle, Leslie (PI). Grant from The Conflict and Development Foundation to support Dr. Ruyle and her students, $200,000.
Seaworth, Angela. Grant from Private Foundation to build pipeline of nonprofit professionals in Texas through Nonprofit Summer Internships. (Anonymous). $50,000.
Simas, Elizabeth N. and Lucas Lothamer. 2025. “Not just who, but how: Further probing the connection between primary election dissatisfaction and general election voting behavior.” Electoral Studies, 96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102969
Simas, Elizabeth. 2025. “It’s not me, it’s you? Reexamining how perceived sexism impacts candidate electability.” Politics, Groups, and Identities, 13(4), 974-982. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2024.2430523
Simas, Elizabeth and Sebastian Ege. 2025. “Psychological dispositions and political attitudes in a hyperpartisan context.” Political Psychology 46(S1): 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70049
Soni, Anmol, Mistur, Evan, and M. Blake Emidy. 2025. “The interactive effects of professionalism and politicization: Why professional standards and political control mix like oil and water.” Public Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2025.2513488
Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi. 2025. “Ideological proximity and armed group competition: The case of the Iranian Mojahedin.” Perspectives on Politics first view https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592725000489
Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi. 2025. “The Islamic Republic’s new lease on life.” Foreign Affairs, July 8, 2025, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/islamic-republics-new-lease-life
Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi. 2025. “Can Iran save itself? The Islamic Republic is attempting reform at home – so it can withstand pressure from Washington.” Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/can-iran-save-itself
Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi. Grant from Harvard Kennedy School’s Managing the Atom project for the 2024-2025 academic year. $95,000.
Taylor, Lori L., Shawna Grosskopf, and Kathy J. Hayes. 2025. “Top heavy? On the allocative efficiency of small school districts.” International Transactions in Operational Research 32(5): 2707-2731. https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.13617
Tarar, Ahmer. 2025. “Socrates on virtue, conventional goods, and happiness: A game-theoretic analysis.” Philosophical Studies. 182: 2631–2655. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-025-02369-x
Teague, Aileen. 2025. Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969-2000. New York: Oxford University Press.
Vande Kamp, Garrett N. and Soren Jordan. 2025. “The necessity of moving averages in dynamic linear regression models.” American Journal of Political Science 69(1): 176-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12825
Yang, Jeonghwa, Hyunseok Hwang and Arnold Vedlitz. 2025. “What affects citizens’ perception of public infrastructure decision-making in a disaster setting?” Public Performance & Management Review 48(2): 314-344.https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2024.2426987
