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COMPARATIVE POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:

Daniel Milton (Ph.D. expected 2012)
Curriculum Vitae
Website: http://myweb.fsu.edu/djm07g/index.html

Daniel’s research interests lie in issues of international conflict and national security policy. His main focus is on understanding the causes and consequences of terrorism. Daniel’s dissertation, entitled “Transnational Terrorism and Foreign Policy,” examines the connection between a state’s foreign policy and the probability that the state experiences blowback in the form of terrorist attacks from the targets of its foreign policy. Positing a theory of how foreign policy can directly or indirectly create a perception of threat in citizens living in countries targeted by foreign policy, Daniel employs a unique unit of observation (directed dyad) to test this theory. The results suggest that foreign policy has an effect on transnational terrorism, although this effect is not uniform across all types of foreign policy.

In addition, Daniel has worked on a number of collaborative projects with faculty members and fellow graduate students. In one of these projects, currently under revise and resubmit at the Journal of Politics, he joined William Berry and Matt Golder to examine the use (and in some cases, misuse) of interaction terms in the literature. In a triad of projects related to terrorism, Daniel is in the process of co-authoring manuscripts that examine the connection between terrorism and foreign aid, terrorism and territorial disputes, terrorism and Islam, and the media’s portrayal of terrorists in print. He has also conducted research on the government’s role in diffusing technology and controlling information.

Dissertation Committee: Will H. Moore (Chair), Mark A. Souva, David A. Siegel, and Joseph K. Young (American University)

Sunhee Park (Ph.D. expected 2012)
Curriculum Vitae
Website: http://myweb.fsu.edu/sp04g/

Sunhee Park’s research interests include civil war, civil war resolution, the bridge between civil war research and comparative politics research (e.g., democratization after civil war and transformation of warring groups into political party), formal theory, and political methodology.

During civil war termination bargaining, warring groups, such as those in Sierra Leone, sometimes make unexpected offers. More strongly situated groups sometimes make a smaller bargaining offer to themselves, while more weakly situated groups make larger offers, than would be expected according to each group’s relative power? Employing a rational choice framework, Sunhee argues that expectations about third party enforcement of a signed agreement upon defection should lead bargaining participants to recalculate the costs of defection. This will lead groups to make sincere bargaining offers because they believe that the agreement, once signed, will be enforced. Based on this framework, she develops a bargaining model with a reneging option from which she draws empirical implications about civil war termination bargaining. To test these empirical implications statistically, she created a unique dataset, the Political Power-sharing Bargaining Dataset, 1989-1994, that adopts the bargaining participant as the unit of analysis and includes detailed information about participants' internal and external power, battlefield outcomes, third party peace enforcement, and the political power-sharing offers with respect to transitional government, parliament, and courts made during civil war termination bargaining attempts. In addition, she conducts an in-depth case study of Sierra Leone’s five political power-sharing bargaining attempts during its civil wars from 1991 to 2002.

Dissertation Committee: Will H. Moore (Chair), David A. Siegel, Mark Souva, and Richard Feiock (Public Administration)

AMERICAN POLITICS & PUBLIC POLICY:

Meredith Whiteman (Ph.D. expected December, 2011)
Curriculum Vitae

Meredith’s research interests are in the field of Public Policy with an emphasis on political and policy networks, experimental methods, and the American political environment. Her dissertation examines how the underlying qualities of a population enhance and diminish institutional effects on political outcomes. In particular, she studies how the structure of informal relationships interacts with both individual and institutional factors to support collective action. Her work incorporates the traditional view of formal institutions, formal rule and policymaking bodies, as well as the view that populations of citizens make up their own, informal institutions of norms and behaviors. By focusing on the complex interactions between, institutions, networks and individuals, she provides new insights into this underdeveloped segment of the literature. With survey and experimentally generated network data, Meredith examines these critical interactions in three arenas; cooperation game experiments, coordination game experiments and a regional collaborative governance program in Tampa, Florida. She currently has two manuscripts under review at respected journals, including one manuscript from her dissertation project. In addition to her research agenda, by the spring of 2012 Meredith will have designed, prepared and taught five sections of introductory and advanced undergraduate courses at the Florida State University.

Dissertation Committee: John T. Scholz (chair) Jason Barabas, Richard Feiock (Public Administration), David J. Cooper (Economics).


	Home News People -Faculty -Department Administration -Graduate Students -Ph.D. Job Candidates -Ph.D. Alumni Research Graduate Programs -Prospective Students -Current Students Undergraduate Programs			Hire a FSU Political Science Ph.D. Student These FSU graduate students are currently seeking academic positions: COMPARATIVE POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Daniel Milton (Ph.D. expected 2012) Curriculum Vitae Website: http://myweb.fsu.edu/djm07g/index.html Daniel’s research interests lie in issues of international conflict and national security policy. His main focus is on understanding the causes and consequences of terrorism. Daniel’s dissertation, entitled “Transnational Terrorism and Foreign Policy,” examines the connection between a state’s foreign policy and the probability that the state experiences blowback in the form of terrorist attacks from the targets of its foreign policy. Positing a theory of how foreign policy can directly or indirectly create a perception of threat in citizens living in countries targeted by foreign policy, Daniel employs a unique unit of observation (directed dyad) to test this theory. The results suggest that foreign policy has an effect on transnational terrorism, although this effect is not uniform across all types of foreign policy. In addition, Daniel has worked on a number of collaborative projects with faculty members and fellow graduate students. In one of these projects, currently under revise and resubmit at the Journal of Politics, he joined William Berry and Matt Golder to examine the use (and in some cases, misuse) of interaction terms in the literature. In a triad of projects related to terrorism, Daniel is in the process of co-authoring manuscripts that examine the connection between terrorism and foreign aid, terrorism and territorial disputes, terrorism and Islam, and the media’s portrayal of terrorists in print. He has also conducted research on the government’s role in diffusing technology and controlling information. Dissertation Committee: Will H. Moore (Chair), Mark A. Souva, David A. Siegel, and Joseph K. Young (American University) Sunhee Park (Ph.D. expected 2012) Curriculum Vitae Website: http://myweb.fsu.edu/sp04g/ Sunhee Park’s research interests include civil war, civil war resolution, the bridge between civil war research and comparative politics research (e.g., democratization after civil war and transformation of warring groups into political party), formal theory, and political methodology. During civil war termination bargaining, warring groups, such as those in Sierra Leone, sometimes make unexpected offers. More strongly situated groups sometimes make a smaller bargaining offer to themselves, while more weakly situated groups make larger offers, than would be expected according to each group’s relative power? Employing a rational choice framework, Sunhee argues that expectations about third party enforcement of a signed agreement upon defection should lead bargaining participants to recalculate the costs of defection. This will lead groups to make sincere bargaining offers because they believe that the agreement, once signed, will be enforced. Based on this framework, she develops a bargaining model with a reneging option from which she draws empirical implications about civil war termination bargaining. To test these empirical implications statistically, she created a unique dataset, the Political Power-sharing Bargaining Dataset, 1989-1994, that adopts the bargaining participant as the unit of analysis and includes detailed information about participants' internal and external power, battlefield outcomes, third party peace enforcement, and the political power-sharing offers with respect to transitional government, parliament, and courts made during civil war termination bargaining attempts. In addition, she conducts an in-depth case study of Sierra Leone’s five political power-sharing bargaining attempts during its civil wars from 1991 to 2002. Dissertation Committee: Will H. Moore (Chair), David A. Siegel, Mark Souva, and Richard Feiock (Public Administration) AMERICAN POLITICS & PUBLIC POLICY: Meredith Whiteman (Ph.D. expected December, 2011) Curriculum Vitae Meredith’s research interests are in the field of Public Policy with an emphasis on political and policy networks, experimental methods, and the American political environment. Her dissertation examines how the underlying qualities of a population enhance and diminish institutional effects on political outcomes. In particular, she studies how the structure of informal relationships interacts with both individual and institutional factors to support collective action. Her work incorporates the traditional view of formal institutions, formal rule and policymaking bodies, as well as the view that populations of citizens make up their own, informal institutions of norms and behaviors. By focusing on the complex interactions between, institutions, networks and individuals, she provides new insights into this underdeveloped segment of the literature. With survey and experimentally generated network data, Meredith examines these critical interactions in three arenas; cooperation game experiments, coordination game experiments and a regional collaborative governance program in Tampa, Florida. She currently has two manuscripts under review at respected journals, including one manuscript from her dissertation project. In addition to her research agenda, by the spring of 2012 Meredith will have designed, prepared and taught five sections of introductory and advanced undergraduate courses at the Florida State University. Dissertation Committee: John T. Scholz (chair) Jason Barabas, Richard Feiock (Public Administration), David J. Cooper (Economics).