Florian Justwan

Research on Foreign Policy Attitudes

“Defense treaties increase domestic support for military action and casualty tolerance: evidence from survey experiments in the United States” (With Jeffrey Berejikian). Contemporary Security Policy. 2022. 43(2): 308-349.

“Analyzing Mass Attitudes Towards the International Court of Justice” (With Sarah K. Fisher, Ashley Kerr, Jeffrey Berejikian). Foreign Policy Analysis. 2021. 17(2): 10.1093/fpa/oraa023.

“Territorial Claims, Territorial Attachment and Political Tolerance: Evidence from India” (With Sarah K. Fisher). Politics, Groups, and Identities. 2021. 9(1): 190-207.

“Social Trust and Public Opinion about Territorial Disputes: Evidence from a Survey in India” (With Sarah K. Fisher). Journal of Global Security Studies. 2020. 5(4): 617-633.

“Referenda As Commitment Devices – An Experimental Approach” (With Sarah K. Fisher, Ashley Kerr, Jeffrey Berejikian). Research and Politics. 2020. 7(3): 2053168020943419.

“Public perceptions of the European power hierarchy and support for a single European security and defense policy” (With Gaspare M. Genna). The Social Science Journal. 2020. 57(2): 230-244.

“Surveying Indians’ Foreign Policy Orientations in Territorial Disputes: A Case Study” (With Sarah K. Fisher). Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies. 2020. 7(1): 5-29.

“Testing a Cognitive Theory of Deterrence” (With Jeffrey Berejikian). In: Harrington, Anne I.,  Jeffrey Knopf (eds.). Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons. Athens GA: University of Georgia Press. 2019.

• Featured in NPR’s “Morning Edition” [March 10, 2014].

“Measuring Social Trust and Trusting the Measure” (With Ryan Bakker & Jeffrey Berejikian). The Social Science Journal. 2018. 55(2): 149-159.

“Generalized Social Trust and International Dispute Settlement” (With Sarah K. Fisher). International Interactions. 2017. 43(5): 717-743.

“International Adjudication and Public Opinion in Territorial Disputes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment using Amazon Mechanical Turk” (With Sarah K. Fisher). Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. 2017. 23(3): 1-18.

“Trusting Publics: The Impact of Generalized Social Trust on the Decision to Pursue Binding Conflict Management.” 2017. Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(3): 590-614.

Research on Attitudes Towards Democracy

“Meddling in the 2016 Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy in the US” (With Bert Baumgaertner & Madeleine Curtright). Political Studies. Forthcoming.

“The preference for belief, issue polarization, and echo chambers” (With Bert Baumgaertner). Synthese. 2022. 200(5): 1-27.

“Trump and Trust: Examining the Relationship between Claims of Fraud and Citizen Attitudes” (With Ryan D. Williamson). PS: Political Science & Politics. 2022. 55(3): 462-469.

“Examining the Relationship Between Election Administration and Citizen Attitudes” (With Ryan D. Williamson and Shaniqua Williams). Journal of Election Administration, Research & Practice. 2022. 1(1): 56–67.

“The Effects of COVID-19 on External Political Efficacy” (With Markie McBrayer & Bert Baumgaertner). American Politics Research. 2022. 50(1): 97-107.

“Social Media Echo Chambers and Satisfaction with Democracy among Democrats and Republicans in the Aftermath of the 2016 U.S. Elections” (With Bert Baumgaertner, Juliet Carlisle, April Clark, and Michael Clark). Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties. 2018. 28(4): 424-442.

“Disenfranchised Minorities: Trust, Definitions of Citizenship and Non-Citizen Voting Rights in Developed Democracies.” 2015. International Political Science Review 36(4): 373-392.

“Nail-biters and No-contests: The Effect of Electoral Margins on Satisfaction with Democracy in Winners and Losers” (With Patrick Howell). 2013. Electoral Studies 32(2): 334-343.

Interdisciplinary Survey Research

“Risk of disease and willingness to vaccinate in the United States: a population-based survey” (With Bert Baumgaertner, Ben J. Ridenhour, Juliet E. Carlisle, Craig R. Miller). PLoS Medicine. 2020. 17(10): e1003354.

“Polarization Politics and Hopes for a Green Agenda in the United States” (With April Clark, Juliet Carlisle, and Michael Clark). Environmental Politics. 2020. 29(4): 719-745.

“The effect of trust and proximity on vaccine propensity” (With Bert Baumgaertner, Juliet Carlisle, Emma Carson, and Jordan Kizer). PLoS One. 2019. 14(8): e0220658.

• Featured on website of Newsweek [August 28, 2019].

“The Influence of Political Ideology and Trust on Willingness to Vaccinate” (With Bert Baumgaertner & Juliet Carlisle). PLoS ONE. 2018. 13(1): e0191728.

• Featured in “The Spokesman-Review” [February 6, 2018].
• Featured in “Moscow-Pullman Daily News” [January 27, 2018].

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

“Scaffolding Assignments and Activities for Undergraduate Research Methods” (With Sarah K. Fisher). Journal of Political Science Education. 2018. 14(1): 63-71.

“Classroom Convention: Teaching Comparative Constitutional Design through Simulation” (With Sarah K. Fisher). 2017. Social Studies Research and Practice 12(1): 84-94.

Other Publications

“Assessing the Role of Inter-State Trust in Asymmetric Dyads.” International Studies Review. 2020. 22(3): 716–717 (Review of Trust and Hedging in International Relations by Kendall W. Stiles).

“Die amerikanische Kubapolitik seit dem Ende des Kalten Krieges [The United States’ foreign policy towards Cuba since the end of the Cold War]”. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2010 (published Master’s Thesis).