Associate Professor
Environmental Research Building 2159
JulieVanDuskyAllen@boisestate.edu
Biography
Dr. VanDusky’s research focuses on how institutions and political parties influence executive-legislative relations, legislative organization, political participation, satisfaction with democracy, and public health outcomes.
Within international relations, Dr. VanDusky’s research focuses on how US troop deployments influence government spending and public opinion within host-states.
Selected Articles
“Ideology, Party Institutionalization, and COVID-19 Vaccine Choice.” 2025. Constitutional Political Economy.
“Partisanship, Policy, and Americans’ Evaluations of State Level COVID-19 Policies Prior to the 2020 Election.” 2022. Political Research Quarterly. With Stephen M. Utych and Michael Catalano.
“COVID-19 Policy Response and the Rise of the Sub-National Governments.” 2020. Canadian Public Policy 46(4): 565-584. With Abdul Basit Adeel, Michael Catalano, Olivia Catalano, Grant Gibson, Ezgi Muftuoglu, Tara Riggs, Mehmet Halit Sezgin, Olga Shvetsova, Naveed Tahir, Tianyi Zhao, and Andrei Zhirnov.
“The Impact of Party-Constituent Relationships on Executive and Legislative Influence over Policymaking.” 2023. Party Politics. With Jaclyn Kettler.
“The Effect of Partisan Representation at Different Levels of Government on Satisfaction with Democracy in the United States.” 2021. State Politics & Policy Quarterly. With Stephen M. Utych.
“Regions of Hierarchy and Security: US Troop Deployments, Spatial Relations, and Defense Burdens.” 2017. International Interactions 43(3):397-423. With Michael A. Allen and Michael E. Flynn.