Dr. Tiffany Barnes was back in the field this summer, conducting further research on gender and politics in Argentina.  This fall, she is serving as a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institutes for International Studies at Notre Dame, where she is working on her book manuscript on women’s legislative behavior in the Argentine provinces.

Dr. Emily Beaulieu Bacchus Is working on a second book project, this one on legislative brawling.  In recent years she has been researching corruption perceptions and political violence.  In 2018 she also became director of the International Studies program here at Kentucky.

Dr. Abby Córdova's ongoing book project, Violence against Women and Political Participation in Contexts of Criminal Violence, explores the effects of increased levels of criminal violence by non-state groups on violence against women and on women’s engagement in politics.

Dr. Betual Demirkaya studies comparative political institutions and deomcratic representation using theory, quantitative methods, and computational text analysis. Her work was published or is forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Theoretical Politics.

PS 210 Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall 2018-Spring 2019):

A general introduction to the domestic politics of countries in the various regions of the world, with an emphasis on the concepts used to understand why political issues and processes differ across developed and developing nations. Students also learn how domestic politics are shaped by super-national institutions and by national integration into a global economy. 

PS 410 Topics in Regional Politics (Not offered Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

PS 415G Comparative Judicial Politics (Not offered Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

PS 417G Survey of SubSaharan Politics (Not offered Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

PS 419G Government & Politics of Eastern Asia (Not offered Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

PS 420G Governments & Politics of South Asia (Not offered Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

PS 427G East European Politics (Not offered Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

PS 428G Latin American Government & Politics (Not offered Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

PS 429 Government & Politics in Russia & Post-Soviet States (Not offered Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

PS 538 Conflict & Cooperation in Latin American Relations (Not offered Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

Archigos (leadership database)

Comparative Constitutions Project

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems

Database of Political Institutions

Electoral Integrity Project

European Protest and Corecion Data

Freedom House

Latin American Newspapers (UK access)

Lexis-Nexis (UK access)

Minorities at Risk

National Elections across Democracy and Autocracy (NELDA)

Data on International Election Monitoring

Polity IV

Quality of Government

World Development Indicators (UK access)

World Values Survey