Faculty and Staff

Research and professional interests: Literature and politics; biblical criticism; Missouri politics

Research and professional interests: Political Behavior, Political Psychology, American Politics, Partisanship, Political Identities, Public Opinion.

Research and professional interests: State legislative politics; job satisfaction; survey research methodology; applied survey research for governmental, commercial, and non-profit organizations

Research and professional interests: Modern political thought; American political thought; Politics and literature; Religion and politics

Research and professional interests: Use of Information technology in decision making; computer simulation and modeling for disaster response; social vulnerability; integration of geographic information systems in public service

Research and professional interests: Employee motivation; local government employee compensation; Public service motivation; cooperation and conflict among local elected officials

Research and professional interests: Provision of public goods and services by non-state actors in weak/failed African states; Increasing mobilization of minority groups in democratizing countries; Peace and conflict processes

Research and professional interests: International conflict and political psychology with an area focus on China

Research and professional interests: Latin American politics (especially Brazil, Mexico and Bolivia); social movements; land reform; taxation; social policy

Research and professional interests: Chilean labor politics and women’s social and political participation in Latin America; Latin-American student movements and attempts to explain why student mobilization varies across the region

Research and professional interests: The law of church and state; constitutional law; modern and contemporary liberal political thought; American political thought; religion and politics

Research and professional interests: Public risk management; public procurement; politics in state budgeting; interstate fiscal disparities; revenue forecasting; China’s pension system; China revenue policies China’s health policies

Research and professional interests: Nationalism; Social movements; Non-state actors; Politicized Islam; Middle-East and Mediterranean politics (special emphasis on Turkey, Iraq, the Kurds, and other Middle Eastern minorities); Forced migration

Research and professional interests: Bureaucracy; red tape; leadership; strategic management; program evaluation