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Friday, November 1, 2024

Department of Political Science News Archive

1/16/2024
Trump leads in Iowa Caucus, can Desantis and Haley catch up?
1/16/2024
Hutchinson Drops Bid for GOP Nomination After Dismal Iowa Showing
1/16/2024
Dr. John Green discusses Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the Iowa Caucus
1/10/2024
Senator Brown meets with union workers, opposes trade deals that would compete with Ohio manufacturers
1/9/2024
Dr. David Cohen talks about the presidential primary election

Total results: 425

Election Views From Behind Bars in Ohio: Divided Just Like the Rest of U.S.

Dr. J. Cherie Strachan, professor of political science and director of the Ray. C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, is quoted in this article about the Marshall Project. The Marshall Project is a survey taken to understand how incarcerated people are thinking about the two presidential election candidates.

Down to the wire: Trump, Harris campaign in key states as Nov. 5 looms

In this article, Dr. David B. Cohen, professor of political science, discussed the current presidential candidates choosing states to visit based on strategy. Cohen is also director of UA’s Applied Politics program and a fellow of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics.

Faculty Experts

Stephen C. Brooks

sbrooks@uakron.edu 

  • Coronavirus
  • Effect of pandemic on campaigning and voting in Ohio
  • Media and politics
  • Campaign news
  • Campaign advertising


David B. Cohen

dbcohen@uakron.edu 

  • American politics
  • President
  • Vice president
  • POTUS
  • First Lady
  • White House
  • Presidency
  • White House staff
  • Chief of staff
  • White House press corps
  • Executive branch
  • Cabinet
  • Congress
  • House of Representatives
  • Senate
  • Campaigns
  • Elections
  • Voting
  • Ohio politics
  • Ohio Statehouse
  • Ohio legislature
  • Public opinion
  • Weapons of mass destruction
  • Homeland security
  • Biological weapons
  • Chemical weapons
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Arms control
  • Politics of coronavirus pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19


John Green

green@uakron.edu 

  • Politics
  • Religion and politics
  • Campaign financing


Kim Hufgard

kjl9@zips.uakron.edu

  • Criminal Justice
  • Human Trafficking


Karl Kaltenthaler

kck@uakron.edu 

  • Coronavirus
  • Global cooperation or lack of cooperation
  • Trade (trade wars)
  • US role in the world
  • Islamist Terrorism
  • ISIS (or IS or ISIL)
  • Al Qaeda
  • Taliban
  • Pakistani terrorist groups
  • Radicalization into Islamist terrorist groups
  • Drones
  • Afghanistan
  • Pakistan
  • Iraq
  • Syria and Middle East security
  • Counterterrorism
  • Intelligence issues
  • National security policy and Muslim public opinion


James T. McHugh

mchugh@uakron.edu 

  • Political science
  • Political philosophy and ideology
  • Democratic theory
  • Canadian politics
  • British politics
  • North American regional cooperation (including NAFTA)
  • Human rights
  • International law
  • Legal philosophy
  • State constitutions
  • Comparative constitutional and legal systems

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