On April 12, the following students presented their research at the annual Research Excellence in Political Science (REPS) poster session in Oak 408. This event is sponsored by the Alan R. Bennett Honors Professorship in Political Science.

 

Abuse of power or moral failings?: The punishment of judges engaged in sexual misconduct	Ariana	Bahavar
Is There a Double Standard?: Gender Differences in the Punishment of Judicial Misconduct	Erin	Carney
Confined in Connecticut: Criminal Justice Policy Recommendations Based on Best Practices in a Neighboring State	Riona	Casey
Forgotten Immigrant Voices: West Indian Immigrant Experiences and Attitudes towards Contemporary Immigration	Danielle	Cross
As Seen on Screen: American Ambivalence Shown through Death Penalty and Vigilante Films	Lisette	Donewald
The Medicaid Blockade: Analyzing the Impact of Gubernatorial and State Legislature Partisanship in the Ballot Initiative Process for PPACA Medicaid Expansion	Samuel	Dorman
Dissecting Discontent: How stocks and flows of county-level economic and social factors affect the vote shares of populist candidates	Thomas	Dowd
Americans on the Move: Multimodal Migration in a Changing Nation	Noah	Frank
European Nationalism and its Impact on Foreign Investment – Examining Europe’s Top Five Football Leagues	Richard	Goyne III
The Stamford Experience in the Twenty-First Century: Analyzing Urban Development Conflict at the Neighborhood Level	Michael	Hernandez
Affirmative Action in Higher Education: What Role does Whiteness Ideology Play?	Siyu	Huang
Exploring Affective Polarization in the UConn Student Body	Musa	Hussain
The Tale of Two Cities	Aaliyah	Kerr
New York Times v. Sullivan; “Still an Occasion for Dancing in the Streets?”	Margaret	McGuire