Non-Assimilation in the National Interest: Multiple Identities & the U.S. Immigration Debate

Edwina Barvosa

University of California, Santa Barbara, barvosa@chicst.ucsb.edu

Identity Politics Field Research: Problems and Prospects

Benjamin Marquez

University of Wisconsin, Madison, marquez@polisci.wisc.edu

Latino Politics Research: a Critical Intellectual History

Anna Sampaio

University of Colorado, Denver, anna.sampaio@cudenver.edu

Latinos and Language: Why No Political Movement for a Bilingual Language Policy?

Ronald J. Schmidt

California State University, Long Beach, rschmidt@csulb.edu

Beyond "Ideas Matter:" The "When," the "Where" and the "How would you Know?" of Ideas in Politics

Mark Blyth

Johns Hopkins University, Mark.Blyth@jhu.edu

Ideas and Social Democracy in Europe

Sheri Berman

Barnard College, sberman@barnard.edu

Ideas and Politics: Towards a Second Generation

Jal Mehta

Harvard University, jmehta@fas.harvard.edu

Constructing the Ballast: An Ontology for Feminism

Susan Hekman

University of Texas, Arlington, hekman@uta.edu

Feminist Empiricism and Interpretive Social Science: A Method

Eloise A. Buker

St. Louis University, bukerea@slu.edu

Theorizing Shiny Things: Feminist Archival Labors

Kathy E. Ferguson

University of Hawaii, kferguso@hawaii.edu

Informative Regress: Critical Antecedents in Historical Causation

Dan Slater

University of Chicago, slater@uchicago.edu

  Erica Simmons

  University of Chicago, ericas@uchicago.edu

Legacy Claims in Comparative-Historical Analysis

Robert Mickey

University of Michigan, rmickey@umich.edu

The Meaning of Cause in Historical Explanation

James Mahoney

Northwestern University, James-Mahoney@northwestern.edu

  Erin Kimball

  Northwestern University, e-kimball2@northwestern.edu

  Kendra L Koivu

  Northwestern University, k-koivu@northwestern.edu

Reviewing Institutional Review Boards: Issues for Political Science Research, Especially Qualitative and Interpretive Methods (Or, Explaining Political Ethnography, Interviewing, etc. to Your Institutional Review Board: Why you need to do so and the probability of your success)

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

University of Utah, psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu

  Dvora Yanow

  Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, d.yanow@fsw.vu.nl

Opportunity and methodology: Lessons from research on/in Iraq

Nida Alahmad

New School University, alahn409@newschool.edu

Rashomon in a Brazilian shantytown: The problem of data reliability in the ethnographic research of civil violence

Enrique Desmond Arias

John Jay College of Criminal Justice- CUNY, dearias@jjay.cuny.edu

Truth or Lies: Collecting and assessing data from post-genocide Rwanda

Lee Ann Fujii

George Washington University, lafujii@gwu.edu

Refocusing the ethnograpic gaze in warscapes: War as social condition

Stephen C. Lubkemann

George Washington University, sl02@gwu.edu

Crossing borders: A comparative look at the challenges of fieldwork in two "post-conflict" zones, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda

Elizabeth Levy Paluck

Yale University, elizabeth.paluck@yale.edu

'Counting': Studying Phenomena that Bypass the State

Kamal Sadiq

University of California, Irvine, kamal@uci.edu

Critical Language Analysis

Douglas C. Dow

University of Texas, Dallas, dougdow@utdallas.edu

Conversational Interviewing

Joe Soss

University of Wisconsin, Madison, jbsoss@wisc.edu

Discourse Analysis

Lisa Wedeen

University of Chicago, l-wedeen@uchicago.edu

Feminist Methods

Mary Hawkesworth

Rutgers University, mhawkes@rci.rutgers.edu

Generalizing? Validity? Reliability?

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea

University of Utah, psshea@poli-sci.utah.edu

Intersectionality Research

Ange-Marie Hancock

Yale University, Ange-Marie.Hancock@yale.edu

Legal Archeology

Julie L. Novkov

University at Albany -- SUNY, jnovkov@albany.edu

Participant Observation

Dorian T. Warren

Columbia University, dw2288@columbia.edu

Political Ethnography

Jan Kubik

Rutgers University-New Brunswick, kubik@rci.rutgers.edu

Political Theorists doing Empirical Research

Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

Whitman College, kaufmatv@whitman.edu

Post-Colonial Analysis

Kevin M. Bruyneel

Babson College, kbruyneel@babson.edu

Reflexivity, Positionality, and Field Research

Timothy Pachirat

Yale University, timothy.pachirat@yale.edu

Reflexivity, Positionality, and Field Research

Samer S. Shehata

Georgetown University, sss32@georgetown.edu

Teaching Qualitative-Interpretive Methods

Elisabeth Jean Wood

Yale University, elisabeth.wood@yale.edu

Teaching Qualitative-Interpretive Methods

Emily Hauptmann

Western Michigan University, emily.hauptmann@wmich.edu

Theory in Framing, Fieldwork, and Analysis

Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh

University of Connecticut, cyrus.zirakzadeh@uconn.edu

Working with 'Personal' Documents (autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, life histories, etc.)

Lloyd I. Rudolph

University of Chicago, lrudolph@uchicago.edu

Working with 'Personal' Documents (autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, life histories, etc.)

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

University of Chicago, srudolph@midway.uchicago.edu

Writing as Method

Dvora Yanow

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, d.yanow@fsw.vu.nl

Pathways to Theory-Building: Anchoring Political Science in History

Erik M. Kuhonta

McGill University, erik.kuhonta@mcgill.ca

Historiography, Ethnography and Positivist Political Science

Tuong H. Vu

Naval Postgraduate School, thvu@nps.edu

Historically-Informed Political Science: An Oxymoron?

Bruce Cumings

University of Chicago, rufus88@uchicago.edu

Explanations Without Causes and Causes Without Reasons

Hudson Meadwell

McGill University, hudson.meadwell@mcgill.ca

We are all Rwandan Now? The controversies of history in post-genocide Rwanda

Elisabeth King

University of Toronto, e.king@utoronto.ca

Impossible Politics, Possible Political Science : Modeling Incompatible Political Objectives in Rwanda?

David J. Simon

Yale University, david.simon@yale.edu

Understanding Post-Conflict Societies: Rwanda?s Policy of National Unity, Ethnic Identity and the Voices of Ordinary People

Susan M. Thomson

Dalhousie University, smthomson@dal.ca

Living Beyond Conflict? Identity/alterity and reconciliation among Rwandan Youth

Lyndsay McLean Hilker

University of Sussex, L.C.McLean-Hilker@sussex.ac.uk

Policy Feedbacks in Retirement? Pension Income and Policy Preferences in Western Europe

Julia Lynch

University of Pennsylvania, jflynch@sas.upenn.edu

Policy Feedbacks and the Politics of Medicare

Andrea Louise Campbell

Massachusetts Institue of Technology, acampbel@mit.edu

  Kimberly J. Morgan

  George Washington University, kjmorgan@gwu.edu

From Student Activism to Sallie Mae: Policy Feedbacks of Higher Education Policy and the Reemergence of Inequality in College Degree Attainment, 1968-2006

Suzanne B. Mettler

Syracuse University, smettler@maxwell.syr.edu

Globalization, the 'Welfare State' in Africa and Local Views of Citizenship: A Comparative Analysis of Policy Feedbacks in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire

Lauren M. Morris MacLean

Indiana University, macleanl@indiana.edu

Can Leviathan be a Democrat? Competitive Elections, Robust Mass Politics, and State Infrastructural Power

Dan Slater

University of Chicago, slater@uchicago.edu

Where did Federalism Come From? The Impact of Infrastructural Capacity on European Patterns of State Formation

Daniel F. Ziblatt

Harvard University, dziblatt@latte.harvard.edu

State Infrastructural Power and Nationalism in Latin America

Matthias vom Hau

Brown University, Matthias_vom_Hau@brown.edu

Containing Conflict or Instigating Unrest? A Statistical Test of the Effects of Infrastructural Power on Civil Violence

Matthew Lange

McGill University, matthew.lange@mcgill.ca

From Capacity to Power: State Infrastructure Investment Strategies in Post-Apartheid Durban, South Africa

Daniel Schensul

Brown University, Daniel_Schensul@brown.edu

Fixing the Fluid: Theoretical and Methodological Strategies for Endogenising Ethnicity in the International Escalation of ‘Ethnic’ Conflict

Martin Austvoll Nome

University of Oslo, m.a.nome@stv.uio.no

A Nested Analysis of Post-Civil War Democratization

Jai Kwan Jung

Cornell University, jkj3@cornell.edu

Spatial and Qualitative Analysis of Displacement in Columbia

Abbey Steele

Yale University, abbey.steele@yale.edu

Insurgent State Building

Ana Arjona

Yale University, ana.arjona@yale.edu

Gendering Political Representation

Karen Celis

Hogeschool Gent, karen.celis@hogent.be

Masculinism and Feminalism

Georgia Duerst-Lahti

Beloit College, duerstgj@beloit.edu

Intersectionality

S. Laurel Weldon

Purdue University, weldon@polsci.purdue.edu

Women and Development Policies: Concepts, Gender Discourse, and Co-optation

Kathleen A. Staudt

University of Texas, El Paso, kstaudt@utep.edu

Democracy

Pamela Paxton

The Ohio State University, paxton.36@osu.edu

Assessing Comparability in Cross-National Survey Research

Zachary Elkins

University of Illinois, zelkins@uiuc.edu

Contextualized Comparison: Challenges and Solutions in Comparative Research

David Collier

University of California, Berkeley, dcollier@berkeley.edu

  Diana Kapiszewski

  University of California, Berkeley, dianakap@berkeley.edu

On the meaning and measurement of national identity

Christopher S. Parker

University of California, Berkeley, parker@berkeley.edu

  Derek Stafford

  University of Michigan, dstaff@umich.edu

How to do the Comparisons: Multi-level Analysis with Regional Data, an Illustration from the AmericasBarometer 2006

Mitchell A. Seligson

Vanderbilt University, seligsonm@yahoo.com

  Abby Cordova

  Vanderbilt University, abby.b.cordova@vanderbilt.edu

  Daniel Moreno

  Vanderbilt University, daniel.moreno@vanderbilt.edu

A Paradox in Financing Health Care Systems: The Effect of Framing Health Care as a Right or as a Good on Individual Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance

Jonathan Wand

Stanford University, wand@stanford.edu

"Inquiry Into Democracy: Visualizing the Public"

James D. Johnson

University of Rochester, jd.johnson@rochester.edu

Re-Making the Political: Positivism in Political Science

Lisa Wedeen

University of Chicago, l-wedeen@uchicago.edu

Positivism, Interpretivism, and Realism

Keith Topper

Northwestern University, k-topper@northwestern.edu

Qualitative Methods and International Politics

Jonathan M. Acuff

University of Washington, acuff@u.washington.edu

How Do Normative Concepts Fit in Empirical IR Theory?

Ryan Davis

Princeton University, rwdavis@princeton.edu

The False Promise of Philosophical Foundations: Why International Relations Should Move Beyond Philosophy-of-Science Divides

Nuno Peres Monteiro

University of Chicago, monteiro@uchicago.edu

  Keven Ruby

  University of Chicago, kruby@uchicago.edu

A Summary of Comparing Comparisons: Territorial Autonomies in the Light of Alternative Methods

Maria Helena Ackrén

Åbo Akademi University, maria.ackren@abo.fi

The Politics of Social Pacts in New Democracies: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Jose Aleman

Fordham University

Building Theoretical Frameworks in the Study of Race and Poltiical Representation: The Value of Interview Data

Katrina L. Gamble

Brown University, katrina_gamble@brown.edu

Strange Bedfellows: Why the Left and Right Vote against the Middle in Congress

Wesley Hussey

University of California, Los Angeles, whussey@ucla.edu

Congressional Ambivalence on the "Fast Track": Trade Policy and Power from Nixon to G. W. Bush

Jasmine Farrier

University of Louisville, j.farrier@louisville.edu

Causal Process Analysis and the Agency of Leaders in the U.S. House

Randall W. Strahan

Emory University, polsrs@emory.edu

How Dependable is Path Dependence? Negative Feedback, Self-Undermining Processes and the Political Economy of Late Development

Kenneth Shadlen

London School of Economics, k.shadlen@lse.ac.uk

Welfare Policies and Welfare States: Connecting Process to Structure in Policy History

Margitta Maetzke

Georg-August-University Goettingen, mmaetzk@gwdg.de

Events, Institutional Development, and the Socio-Economic Structure: England’s Path toward the Financial Revolution, 1660-1730

Wenkai He

MIT, hewenkai@mit.edu

Comparative Historical Research and Blaise Pascal

Jan Erk

Leiden University, jan_erk@hotmail.com

Getting Control of the Counterfactual

Richard Maass

University of Notre Dame, rmaass@gmail.com

Internal and External Validity: Friends or Foes?

Tolga Demiryol

University of Virginia, td3x@virginia.edu

Process Tracing and Bayesian Logic

Andrew Bennett

Georgetown University, bennetta@georgetown.edu

States of Imposition: Systemic Competition, Outside Intervention, and a Second Image Reversed Approach to State Formation in Late Colonial East Asia

Ja Ian Chong

Princeton University, jchong@princeton.edu

The Path toward Centralized Public Finance in Meiji Japan, 1868-1890

Wenkai He

MIT, hewenkai@mit.edu

Prussias, Miracles, and Developmental States in Proper Perspective: Corruption and Sustained Growth in Botswana, Chile, Korea, and Tunisia

Benjamin Smith

University of Florida, bbsmith@polisci.ufl.edu

  Sarah VandeRee Howland

  University of Florida, SarahVHowland@yahoo.com

Can we Generalize from a Single Case? The Answer is "Yes"

Nivien Saleh

Northern Arizona University, Nivien.Saleh@nau.edu

The "Autopsy Approach" to Case Selection: Re-evaluating the Role of Case Studies in the Social Sciences

Adrian Sinkler

University of Washington, acs22@u.washington.edu

What (we think) a Case Study Really is, What it is Good for and How to do it Well

Joachim K. Blatter

Erasmus University Rotterdam, blatter@fsw.eur.nl

Qualitative Causal Inference? Assessing Causality with Small-N Methods in Comparative Politics

Carlos Gervasoni

University of Notre Dame, carlos.gervasoni.1@nd.edu

Re-Conceptualizing Terrorism: Definitional Analysis

Olga Bogatyrenko

University of California-Davis, obogatyrenko@ucdavis.edu

Two Kinds of Explanation in Social Science: Finding a Cause Versus Conceptual Breakthrough

Fred Eidlin

University of Guelph, feidlin@uoguelph.ca

How To Code

Thomas Pepinsky

Yale University, thomas.pepinsky@yale.edu