• From the Streets to the Mountains: Dynamics of Transition from a Protest Wave to Insurgency in Kashmir 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (2014-09)

  This study investigates the dynamics of transition from a peaceful protest wave to a violent insurgency. It examines the causal path leading to a major shift in the intensity of a protest wave and argues that the transition ...
• The Dynamics of the Demobilization of the Protest Campaign in Assam 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen (2016-01-20)

  This study highlights the role that critical events play in the demobilization of protest campaigns. Social movement scholars suggest that protest campaigns demobilize as a consequence of polarization within the campaign ...
• Razed, repressed and bought off: The demobilization of the Ogoni protest campaign in the Niger Delta 

  Demirel-Pegg, Tijen; Pegg, Scott (2015-12)

  This study examines the demobilization of the Ogoni protest campaign in the oil producing Niger Delta region of Nigeria in the mid-1990s. The contentious politics literature suggest that protest campaigns demobilize as a ...
• Physiological Arousal and Self-Reported Valence for Erotica Images Correlate with Sexual Policy Preferences 

  Friesen, Amanda; Smith, Kevin B.; Hibbing, John R. (Oxford Journals, 2016-04-29)

  Individuals do not always accurately report the forces driving their policy preferences. Such inaccuracy may result from the fact that true justifications are socially undesirable or less persuasive than competing ...
• Beyond Survey Self-Reports: Using Physiology to Tap Political Orientations 

  Wagner, Michael W.; Deppe, Kristen D.; Jacobs, Carly M.; Friesen, Amanda; Smith, Kevin B.; Hibbing, John R. (Oxford, 2015)

  Some aspects of our attitudes are composed of things outside of our consciousness. However, traditional survey research does not use measurements that are able to tap into these aspects of public opinion. We describe, ...
• The Effect of Personal Economic Values on Economic Policy Preferences 

  Friesen, Amanda; Hibbing, Matthew V. (Wiley, 2016)

  Objectives Citizens often express that the government should be run like a business or household in the way that money is saved and spent, though individuals vary in their personal financial preferences and attitudes ...
• Conscientious Women: The Dispositional Conditions of Institutional Treatment on Civic Involvement 

  Friesen, Amanda; Djupe, Paul A. (Cambridge UP, 2016)

  Current thinking about the effect of religion on civic engagement centers on “institutional treatment”—the development of resources, social pathways to recruitment, and motivation that occurs in small groups and activities ...
• Pine Tar and the Infield Fly Rule: An Umpire’s Perspective on the Hart-Dworkin Jurisprudential Debate 

  Blake, William D (2014)

  What is law? Though on its face this question seems simple, it remains an incredibly controversial one to legal theorists. One prominent jurisprudential debate of late occurred between H.L.A. Hart, a positivist, and Ronald ...
• “The Brooding Spirit of the Law”: Supreme Court Justices Reading Dissents from the Bench 

  Blake, William D; Hacker, Hans J (2010-01)

  In rare instances, a Supreme Court justice may elect to call attention to his or her displeasure with a majority decision by reading a dissenting opinion from the bench. We document this phenomenon by constructing a data ...
• Pyrrhic Victories: How the Secularization Doctrine Undermines the Sanctity of Religion 

  Blake, William D (2013-03)

  Over the past 25 years, federal courts have sanctioned displays of religious symbols on public property – including the crèche, the Ten Commandments, and the Latin cross – by privileging their secular value or because ...
• Jurisprudence Transcending Time and Space: Affirmative Action and the Revolution of 1937 

  Blake, William D (2005-04)

  The purpose of this paper is to compare the jurisprudential debate on affirmative action to economic rights questions facing the Court during the Lochner Era. Proponents of the antidiscrimination principle believe that all ...
• The Neutrality Principle: The Hidden Yet Powerful Legal Axiom at Work in Brown versus Board of Education 

  Hacker, Hans J; Blake, William D (2006)
• Black Sox in the Courtroom by William F. Lamb (review) 

  Blake, William D (2014)
• The Filibuster, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers 

  Blake, William D (2003-04)

  The filibuster is inconsistent with the vision of the Senate expressed by the Framers in the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and early congressional history.
• The Physiology of Political Participation 

  Gruszczynski, Michael W; Friesen, Amanda; Jacobs, Carly M; Smith, Kevin B; Hibbing, John R (2013-03)

  Political involvement varies markedly across people. Traditional explanations for this variation tend to rely on demographic variables and self-reported, overtly political concepts. In this article, we expand the range of ...
• Religion, Politics and the Social Capital of Children 

  Friesen, Amanda (2013-07)

  Using a national data set, this study demonstrates that religious traditionalism and political conservatism are positively related to family size and the interactions between these measures result in increased political ...
• Gender and Physiological Effects in Connecting Disgust to Political Preferences 

  Friesen, Amanda; Jacobs, Carly M (2011-12)

  Sensitivity to disgust predicts social attitudes, but this relationship can shift depending on gender and whether response to disgust is measured through surveys or physiological tests. We are interested in exploring the ...
• Beyond the Three “Bs” How American Christians Approach Faith and Politics 

  Friesen, Amanda; Wagner, Michael W (2012-08)

  While it is well known that religiosity measures inform modern political alignments and voting behavior, less is known about how people of various religious orthodoxies think about the role of religion in society. To learn ...
• The Politics of Denying Communion to Catholic Elected Officials 

  Blake, William D; Friesen, Amanda (De Gruyter, 2013-12)

  In his 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry, a Catholic, was threatened with being denied Holy Communion because of his pro-choice voting record. This article investigates the extent to which communion denial impacted ...
• Do Political Attitudes and Religiosity Share a Genetic Path? 

  Friesen, Amanda; Ksiazkiewicz, Aleksander (Springer, 2014-10)

  Social scientists have long recognized and sought to explain a connection between religious and political beliefs. Our research challenges the prevalent view that religion and politics constitute separate but related belief ...

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