Government at Brigham Young University

31 faculty and 0 courses in Government at Brigham Young University.

Faculty

• Michael Barber, Professor h-index 50
  American politics, Congress, political polarization, political ideology Publications Barber, M., Bolton, A., & Thrower, S. (2019). Legislative Constraints on Executive Unilateralism in Separation of Powers Systems. Legislative Studies Q
• Kirk Hawkins, Professor h-index 23
  Es on political organization and populism, and I direct Team Populism, a global scholarly network studying populism's causes and consequences. Projects include the creation of a global populism dataset, experimental research on populism's r
• Darren Hawkins, Professor h-index 20
• Jeremy Pope, Professor h-index 18
• Alejandra Aldridge, Assistant Professor h-index 17
• Sven Wilson, Professor h-index 15
• Ethan Busby, Assistant Professor h-index 14
• Kelly Patterson, Professor h-index 14
  Campaigns and elections, public opinion, and political parties. His publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior. He regularly teaches courses in American polit
• Jessica Preece, Professor h-index 13
• Jay Goodliffe, Professor h-index 13
• Joel Selway, Associate Professor h-index 12
  Selway's research addresses the design of democratic political institutions for ethnically-divided societies. He has analyzed topics as diverse as civil war, riots, economic growth and public goods provision. Selway's work has appeared in W
• Adam Brown, Associate Professor h-index 11
• Christopher Krewson, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  American Politics; Law and Courts; American Political Institutions; Public Opinion; Political Behavior
• Adam Dynes, Associate Professor h-index 10
  American politics, representation, legislative politics, distributive politics, political parties, state and local politics, experimental methods, causal inference Publications Dynes, A. (forthcoming). Who Benefits from the Party Organizati
• Quinn Mecham, Associate Professor h-index 6
  Quinn's research interests focus on the political mobilization in the Islamic world, including elections, protest, and political violence. He also focuses on political participation in authoritarian regimes. He has written extensively on th
• Scott Cooper, Associate Professor h-index 6
  Es on economic and security cooperation, including regional currencies such as the euro and franc zone and alliances such as NATO. This has led him to study regional institutions all over the world, including Western and Eastern Europe, Cen
• Ryan Davis, Associate Professor h-index 6
  Justice; rights; democratic ethics; Kantian ethics
• Darin Self, Assistant Professor h-index 5
  Focus on democracy and authoritarianism with a specific interest in how political parties and militaries affect the development of these regimes. Current Dr. Self is teaching the core course on Comparative Politics and a course on Democracy
• David Romney, Assistant Professor h-index 5
• Douglas Atkinson, Assistant Professor h-index 5
• Celeste Beesley, Associate Professor h-index 4
  International Political Economy, Globalization and Public Opinion Publications Beesley, C. (2016). "Euromaidan and the Role of Protest in Democracy.". PS: Political Science and Politics , 49 (2), 244-249. Beesley, C. (2015). Globalization a
• Rebecca Dudley, Assistant Professor h-index 2
  Es on conflict resolution and foreign policy, emphasizing the role that third parties play in the dynamics of conflict and conflict resolution. She was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow with the America in the World Consortium, a Graduate Fellow with t
• Chad Nelson, Associate Professor
• Chris Karpowitz, Professor
  Political psychology, civic engagement and political participation, democratic and deliberative theory, political communication, experimental methods, public opinion, political behavior, the presidency, American political thought Awards Mar
• Daniel Milton, Visiting Professor
• Josh Gubler, Associate Professor
  Intergroup Cooperation and ConflictPolitical PsychologyMiddle East
• Ken Stiles, Professor
• Quin Monson, Professor
• Ralph Hancock, Professor
• Reed Rasband, Visiting Professor
• Ricardo Vernet, Visiting Assistant Professor
  Comparative politics, social movements, democratization, authoritarianism, Latin American politics

Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.