Laron K. Williams

Laron K. Williams

Professor of Political Science

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publications

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Buttery Guns and Welfare Hawks: The Politics of Defense Spending in Advanced Industrial Democracies

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But Wait, There’s More! Maximizing Substantive Inferences from TSCS Models

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Relaxing the Constant Economic Vote Restriction: Economic Evaluations and Party Support in Germany

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Who Should Be the Chef? The Dynamics of Valence Evaluations across Income Groups During Economic Crises

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Look Over There. Where? A Compositional Approach to Modeling Public Opinion on the Most Important Problem

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Democracy and Diversion: Aggressive Foreign Responses to Domestic Economic Problems

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Estimating the Defense Spending Vote

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Visualize Dynamic Simulations of Autoregressive Relationships in R

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Dynamic Simulations of Autoregressive Relationships

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You’ve Got Some Explaining to Do: The Influence of Economic Conditions and Spatial Competition on Party Strategy

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Survival of the Fittest? Cabinet Duration in Post-Communist Europe

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Flexible Election Timing and International Conflict

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Forecasting the 2015 British Election through Party Popularity Functions

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Interpretation: the Final Spatial Frontier

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Guns Yield Butter? An Exploration of Defense Spending Preferences

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Hawks, Doves, and Opportunistic Opposition Parties

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Data Selection for Making Biodiversity Management Decisions: Best Available Science and Institutionalized Agency Norms

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The Science-Natural Resource Policy Relationship: How Aspects of Diffusion Theory Explain Data Selection for Making Biodiversity Management Decisions

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Making and Breaking Party Leaders: An Informational Theory of Temporary and Lasting Impacts of Prime Minister Debates in Spain

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Learning at Home and Abroad: How Competition Conditions the Diffusion of Party Strategies

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All Economics is Local: Spatial Aggregations of Economic Information

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Problem Importance across Time and Space: Updating the ‘Most Important Problem’ Dataset

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Updating the Party Government Data Set

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Long-Term Effects in Models with Temporal Dependence

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Simulating Probabilistic Long-Term Effects in Models with Temporal Dependence

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Pick your Poison: Economic Crises, International Monetary Fund Loans and Leader Survival

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Predictably Unpredictable: The Effects of Conflict Involvement on the Error Variance of Vote Models

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It’s All Relative: Spatial Positioning of Parties and Ideological Shifts

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Opposition Party Policy Shifts in Response to No-Confidence Motions

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The Economic Roots of Cross-National Similarity in Voter Preferences

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North American Public Opinion on Health and Smoking

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The Space Between: How Ideological Similarity Limits the Effectiveness of Ambiguity

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Don’t Stand so Close to Me: Spatial Contagion Effects and Party Competition

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Unsuccessful Success? Failed No-Confidence Motions, Competence Signals, and Electoral Support

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Taking Time (and Space) Seriously: How Scholars Falsely Infer Policy Diffusion from Model Misspecification

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Temporal Dependence and the Sensitivity of Quantities of Interest: A Solution to a Common Problem

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The Political Consequences of Terrorism: Terror Events, Casualties, and Government Duration

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Opposition Parties and the Timing of Successful No-Confidence Motions

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War Voting: Interstate Disputes, the Economy, and Electoral Outcomes

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Should We Talk about the Weather? How Party Competition and Coalition Participation Influence Politics

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X Marks the Spot: Unlocking the Treasure of Spatial-X Models

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teaching

POLS 9600: Introduction to Comparative Politics

Ph.D. Course, Mizzou, 2023

This course is a graduate level seminar in comparative politics. The purpose of this seminar is to provide an introdcution to the study of comparative political systems. We will discuss a variety of topics dealing with political institutions and behavior.