The Cline Center is pleased to announce that Political Science doctoral students Luzmarina Garcia and Sanghoon Kim will be joining us as 2018 Schroeder Fellows this summer.
Luz will be working with Social, Political, and Economic Event Database (SPEED) data drawn from New York Times articles published between 1945 and 2005 to explore civil unrest events associated with social movements. By cataloguing the characteristics of social movements associated with different kinds of unrest events and integrating event data with geospatial analysis, Luz will develop time series models to better understand how civil unrest activity evolves as a function of group characteristics and resource disparities.
Sanghoon will be using the Cline Center’s Global News Archive in combination with SPEED data to understand how political corruption scandals are reported in news outlets around the world, how those scandals are used strategically by political parties for electoral advantage, and how news of those corruption scandals affects voting in countries with authoritarian legacies.