Centers
Bruton Center for Development Studies
The Bruton Center promotes the use of innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the study of urban and regional development. The center’s research agenda focuses on urban and suburban growth, racial and economic segregation, neighborhood decline, land use patterns, and the health and environmental consequences of spatial development processes.
Paul Jargowsky, Director
Center for Behavioral and Experimental Economic Science
The Center is a venue for bringing together faculty and graduate students who meet the highest standards for experimental research on human behavior in economic settings. Although most economists focus on aggregates, such as markets, experimental economic research studies individual behavior that may differ from the behavior of aggregates. The Center features a newly designed, state-of-the-science laboratory with over 30 computers in both fixed and reconfigurable spaces for face-to-face and paper-pencil research. The Center also hosts seminars and workshops that bring together leading experimentalists in the social and behavioral sciences from the United States and other countries. Ultimately, the mission of the Center to advance significantly knowledge and understanding of the choices that people make in settings involving markets, negotiation, and trade and production relationships.
Catherine C. Eckel, Director
Center for Global Collective Action
The Center coordinates research and educational efforts in the study of global collective action, that is, situations in which two or more countries must coordinate actions to achieve a mutually desirable outcome that cannot be achieved by either country acting alone. Global collective actions include problems such as curbing ozone shield depletion, standards of financial practices, eradication of diseases, control of greenhouse gas emissions, and elimination of transnational terrorism. The Center works to identify mentors and to assemble researchers on these problems, to conduct workshops and short stays for scholars in residence, and to advance publication of publicly beneficial research on these topics.
Todd Sandler, Director
Center for The Study of Texas Politics
The non-partisan Center for the Study of Texas Politics develops opportunities for North Texans to interact with Texas’ leading policy-makers while simultaneously enhancing the quality of instruction, research and service that exists in the school.
Gregory Thielemann, Director
Institute for Public Affairs
The Institute of Public Affairs helps to meet the needs of metroplex cities and other local jurisdictions to solve a variety of current and emerging challenges. The Institute focuses its efforts on the provision of research, consulting and training services to local governments and non-profit organizations. In particular, it engages graduate students directly with the governments that we serve, brings together policy leaders to find solutions to shared problems, and gives the University a vehicle to increase its visibility as a leader in the solution of area-wide problems.
Douglas Watson, Director
Texas Schools Project
The Texas Schools Project brings together individual level data from multiple Texas state agencies, school districts, as well as other sources to support independent, high-quality academic research to improve academic achievement, increase transitions to and success in postsecondary education, and improve labor market outcomes of students in Texas and nation. Improving the quality of education provided to low-income and minority students has been a particular focus of the project.
Paul Jargowsky, Director
Journals
American Journal of Political Science
The American Journal of Political Science is committed to significant advances in knowledge and understanding of citizenship, governance, and politics, and to the public value of political science research. AJPS, the official journal of the Midwest Political Science Association,has been published since May, 1957 and is published four times a year.
Marianne Stewart, Editor
Crime & Delinquency
Crime & Delinquency is a valuable resource for policy-makers, scholars, administrators, and researchers in the criminal justice field. Crime & Delinquency is a policy-oriented journal for the professional with direct involvement in the criminal justice field, focusing on the following areas: the social, political and economic context; the victim and the offender; the criminal justice response; and the setting and implications of sanctions.
Paul Tracy, Editor
Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, Associate Editor
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations
The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy's structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution.
Catherine C Eckel, Co-Editor
Electoral Studies
Electoral Studies is an international journal covering all aspects of voting, the central act in the democratic process. Political scientists, economists, sociologists, game theorists, geographers, contemporary historians and lawyers have common, and overlapping, interests in what causes voters to act as they do, and the consequences. Electoral Studies provides a forum for these diverse approaches.
Harold D Clarke, Editor
- Updated: March 7, 2008
