💐 Congratulations to PI Allen Hicken Allen Hicken Center for Political Studies, and to Anil Menon, @TomPepinsky, and Dan Slater, on receiving a $3+ million Department of Defense 🇺🇸 Minerva grant for "China's Rise and Societal Cohesion in the Indo-Pacific." U-M ISR defense.gov/News/Releases/…

Excited to attend, share, and learn at the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project annual meeting UCLA this coming week!

🏛️ Health is central to people’s lives yet an under-appreciated influence on politics. What can health systems do to ensure the opinions of people with poor health are heard? Join us at #OBSwebinars to find out! ⏱️ Tues 29 Oct, 15:00 CET eurohealthobservatory.who.int/news-room/even… w/ Scott L. Greer 🇺🇦

⏰ Join us to explore the linkage between #health and #democracy in a few of hours! #OBSwebinars ➡️ Tue 29 October 15:00 CET 📌 Register now or save the link to the recording eurohealthobservatory.who.int/news-room/even… w/ Scott L. Greer 🇺🇦 Flavia Topan European Patients' Forum Nolan M. Kavanagh Anil Menon

⏺️ We are live at #OBSwebinars! To kick off the session on health and democracy, Anil Menon talks about the mistrust spreading across Europe. Keep up with us by tuning in now or register to receive the recording in your inbox later👉 eurohealthobservatory.who.int/news-room/even… w/ Scott L. Greer 🇺🇦

Wednesday's Making Sense of the Election & Staying Well panel with UC Merced Political Science Profs Anil Menon, Matthew Hibbing, Christopher Ojeda, and UC Merced Library's Bronwen Maxson covered election stresses and strategies for coping. Check out their insights: ucm.edu/1meyn8

UC Merced Political Science was proud to partner with CAPE at UC Merced for this event!

Link to the brief: eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications/i… Co-authored with Anil Menon. Grateful for Scott L. Greer 🇺🇦 and Flavia Topan.

UC Merced Political Science and CAPE at UC Merced have a great lineup of speakers joining us this year!

Excited to see my work with my amazing co-author, Francesca Parente, published in Journal of Law & Courts! We examine factors explaining compliance with the payment of damages ordered by the IACtHR.

New article alert: "The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade" by Anil Menon and Iain Osgood is now published in British Jnl Poli Sci Link to article: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

This project started with early morning chats in Haven Hall... It really has been a fun series of studies! Popular consumption version here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024…

UC Merced PoliSci Prof. Anil Menon and coauthor Iain Osgood argue that the public may combine two beliefs – a dislike of big business and a sense that globalization benefits big corporations – and form negative attitudes toward international trade. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

#OpenAccess from our new issue - The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade - cup.org/3PJ1XAb - Anil Menon & Iain Osgood (University of Michigan Political Science)

#OpenAccess from PSRM Journal - Climate regulation’s effects on businesses and public support for climate action - cup.org/3XUUqmz - Anil Menon, Katie Nissen (University of Michigan Political Science) & Iain Osgood (University of Michigan Political Science) #FirstView

🌪️How do climate regulations shape public support for climate action? ➡️Anil Menon K.Nissen & I.Osgood find dislike of big corporations drives opposition to climate action when people learn large firms navigate regulations more easily cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView

Check out one of our latest research comics by UC Merced professor Anil Menon, "The Politics of Pain," based on an article with Nolan M. Kavanagh& Justin E Heinze in American Political Science Review escholarship.org/uc/item/8j2394…

This article builds on several published papers & ongoing work from the past few years and integrates interdisciplinary research from the last few decades. We hope it proves a valuable resource for both clinicians and policymakers!

Congrats Anil Menon on receiving the 2025 Award for Distinguished Early Career Research! This award recognizes an untenured UC Merced Senate faculty member for research and/or other creative activities that have had a major impact on the field. polisci.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/dr-a…

Excited to share possibly the first ever registered report using observational data in political science (doi.org/10.1086/737687), out Journal of Politics @[email protected]. In it, we address the following question: What is the electoral cost of infringing on civil liberties? See Paweł Charasz post for details!