"Screening Out Disagreement? Candidate Nomination Criteria and Preference Diversity in Parliamentary Debate", with Zachary Greene
"Mr BERT Goes to Parliament: Classifying and Scaling Parliamentary Speech in Europe using Pre-trained Language Models", with Benedikt Ebing, Fabian David Schmidt, Minh Duc Bui, Goran Glavaš, and Zachary Greene
"Is it all Cheap Talk?: The Effects of International Climate Agreements on Domestic Political Debates", with Patrick Bayer and Zachary Greene
"Usurping the Leader: A Comparative Analysis of Party Leadership Changes", with Julia Maynard
"What's on the Agenda?: The Use of Parliamentary Questions on Intra-party Issue Raising"
"Building Castles Made of Sand? The Impact of Domestic Issue Dispersion on EP Party Unity", with Anastasia Ershova, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Zachary Greene, and Nikoleta Yordanova
"Expanded Representation: A Textual Analysis of Shifts in Parliamentary Discourse pre/post New Zealand's Electoral System Change", with Julia Maynard
"A Changing Agenda: The Impact of Leadership Shifts on Party Manifestos", with Julia Maynard
"Are they really listening?: The Impact of Devolution on Politician Incentives for Representation"
Publications
Aubree Calvin, Sara Moats, & Christine Sylvester. 2016. "Online Learning Track Summary", PS: Political Science and Politics, 49(3):578-79. Renee Van Vechten, Monti Datta, & Christine Sylvester. 2015. "Integrating Technology Track Summary", PS: Political Science and Politics, 48(3):507-09.
Research Assistantships
Dr. Michael Weintraub (Binghamton University - Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016) historical research, data collection and preparation for projects related to civil wars, violent crimes, and military engagement, along with archival setup to facilitate optical character reading of primary source material
Dr. Amanda Licht (Binghamton University - Summer 2015) content analysis of newspaper articles to ascertain the impact of sanctioning and threat of sanctions on leader survival
Amb. Richard Butler (The Pennsylvania State University - Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013) research on the connection between diplomacy and nuclear security, manuscript review, practice of diplomacy course development
Amb. Dennis Jett (The Pennsylvania State University - Spring 2012) content analysis of U.S. State Department Office of Inspector General Embassy Evaluations and developed dataset measuring Embassy efficiency to analyze the connection between financial contributions and the appointment of U.S. Ambassadors