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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Dr. Julie VanDusky-Allen started at Boise State University in 2013 and is currently an assistant professor with the Department of Political Science. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science in August 2011 from Binghamton University. She currently teaches courses in comparative politics, American politics, and research methods. With respect to research, she focuses mostly on how political parties adapt to institutional limits on their power. She also examines how US troop deployments influence foreign policy decision-making in other countries. Additionally, Dr. VanDusky-Allen received a Fulbright research scholarship to gather data and teach in Mexico City during the 2008-2009 academic year.

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About Julie VanDusky-Allen

Dr. Julie VanDusky-Allen started at Boise State University in 2013 and is currently an assistant professor with the Department of Political Science. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science in August 2011 from Binghamton University. She currently teaches courses in comparative politics, American politics, and research methods. With respect to research, she focuses mostly on how political parties adapt to institutional limits on their power. She also examines how US troop deployments influence foreign policy decision-making in other countries. Additionally, Dr. VanDusky-Allen received a Fulbright research scholarship to gather data and teach in Mexico City during the 2008-2009 academic year.

Protecting Fish to Save Tribes: Modeling with Decision Theory (Julie VanDusky-Allen, Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova) Formal Modeling for Substantive Resarch (2018)

Articles (13)

Political Parties and Initial COVID-19 Policies: Subnational Trends in India (Nisha Bellinger and Julie A. VanDusky-Allen) Contemporary South Asia (2023)

In this analysis, we examine the relationship between the effective number of parliamentary parties (ENPP) at the state level in India and the initial policy responses among Indian state governments to the COVID-19 pandemic between ...

The Impact of Party-Constituent Relationships on Executive and Legislative Influence Over Policymaking (Julie A. VanDusky-Allen and Jaclyn J. Kettler) Party Politics (2023)

In this analysis, we examine the effect of party-voter linkages on executive and legislative influence over policymaking in democracies throughout the world. We expect committees in legislatures with programmatic parties to have more power over ...

Partisanship, Policy, and Americans’ Evaluations of State-Level COVID-19 Policies Prior to the 2020 Election (Julie A. VanDusky-Allen, Stephen M. Utych and Michael Catalano) Political Research Quarterly (2022)

The COVID-19 pandemic was a key policy issue during the 2020 election in the United States. As such, it is important to analyze how voters evaluated government responses to the pandemic. To this end, in ...

The Effect of Partisan Representation at Different Levels of Government on Satisfaction with Democracy in the United States (Julie VanDusky-Allen and Stephen M. Utych) State Politics & Policy Quarterly (2021)

In this paper, we analyze how variations in partisan representation across different levels of government influence Americans’ satisfaction with the democracy in the United States. We conduct two survey experiments and analyze data from the ...

How America’s Partisan Divide Over Pandemic Responses Played Out in the States (Julie VanDusky-Allen and Olga Shvetsova) The Conversation (2021)

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, a partisan divide has existed over the appropriate government response to the public health crisis. Democrats have been more likely to favor stricter policies such as prolonged economic shutdowns, limits on ...

COVID-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments (Julie VanDusky-Allen) Canadian Public Policy (2020)

We examine the roles of sub-national and national governments in Canada and the United States vis-à-vis the protective public health response in the onset phase of the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This period ...

Clientelism by Committee: The Effect of Legislator–Constituent Relationships on Legislative Organization (Julie VanDusky-Allen and Michael Touchton) Political Research Quarterly (2020)

In this paper, we analyze how legislator–voter relationships influence legislative organization. We argue that legislators who engage in clientelistic practices to gain votes will create much larger committee systems, with more committees, than legislators who ...

Institutional Origins of Protective COVID-19 Public Health Policy Responses: Informational and Authority Redundancies and Policy Stringency (Olga Shvetsova, Andrei Zhirnov, Julie VanDusky-Allen, et al.) Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy (2020)

In this essay, we argue that institutional systems that allow redundancies in information channels and in policy-making are more likely to generate a rapid policy response to crises such as the onset of COVID-19 pandemic ...

Regions of Hierarchy and Security: US Troop Deployments, Spatial Relations, and Defense Burdens (Michael A. Allen, Michael E. Flynn and Julie VanDusky-Allen) International Interactions (2017)

Recent work has begun exploring the effects of foreign military deployments on hoststate foreign policies. However, research mostly focuses on dyadic relationships between major powers and host-states, ignoring the broader regional security environment of host-states. ...

Winners, Losers, and Protest Behavior in Parliamentary Systems (Julie VanDusky-Allen) The Social Science Journal (2017)

In this paper, I examine the impact of winning and losing in parliamentary systems on protest behavior. I argue that losers in parliamentary systems with single party, majority governments are more likely to protest than ...

The Localized and Spatial Effects of US Troop Deployments on Host-State Defense Spending (Michael A. Allen, Julie VanDusky-Allen and Michael E. Flynn) Foreign Policy Analysis (2016)

We analyze how the deployment of US troops affects host-state defense spending. We test this relationship, from 1951 to 2003, by examining how the deployment of US military forces impacts defense spending in different types ...

The Conditional Effect of Term Limits on Electoral Activities (Julie VanDusky-Allen) Politics & Policy (2014)

In this article, I examine how term limits affect the amount of time that legislators focus on constituency service and fundraising. I use data from the 2002 U.S. State Legislative Survey conducted by Carey, Niemi, ...

Bicameralism and the Logic of Party Organization (Julie VanDusky-Allen and William B. Heller) Comparative Political Studies (2014)

This article takes a novel approach to the question of how bicameralism matters by asking not how it shapes policy outcomes, but rather how it shapes political parties. Bicameralism uniquely challenges political parties because party ...

Industry Regulation: Rationale and Stakeholders (Carol Mershon, Olga Shvetsova and Julie VanDusky-Allen) Formal Modeling for Substantive Research (2019)

Democratic Breakdown in V for Vendetta (Julie VanDusky-Allen) Poli Sci Fi: An Introduction to Political Science Through Science Fiction (2016)

I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected. Like I could see the whole thing, one long chain of events that stretched all the way back before Larkhill. I felt like I could see ...

The Polycephalic Leviathan: The Concurrent Development of Centralized, Decentralized, and Private Property Protection Mechanisms within the State (Julie VanDusky-Allen) (2011)

This dissertation explores a central government’s decision to either protect its citizens’ property or to instead create the incentives that encourage citizens to protect their own property. A central government protects its citizens’ property through ...

The ‘Barbie’ and ‘Star Wars’ Universes are Entertaining, but They Also Unexpectedly Can Help People Understand Why Revolutions Happen (Michael A. Allen and Julie VanDusky-Allen) The Conversation (2023)

Barbie dolls and “Star Wars” movies and toys have entertained generations of American children – in many cases, well into adulthood. But these brands’ influence stretches beyond a penchant for hot pink and lightsaber battles.In ...

Regions of Hierarchy and Security: Deployments, Spatial Relations, and Defense Burdens (Michael A. Allen, Michael E. Flynn and Julie VanDusky-Allen) 2015 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association (2015)

Term Limits and the Selection of Committee Chairs (Julie VanDusky-Allen) 2015 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association (2015)

Party System Size, Executive Tape, and Protests (Julie VanDusky-Allen) 72nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (2014)

Troops Deployments and Foreign Policy Substitution (Michael A. Allen, Julie VanDusky-Allen and Michael Flynn) 72nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (2014)

Shared Executive Power and the Logic of Party Organization (Julie VanDusky-Allen and William B. Heller) 71st Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (2013)