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Doctoral Student
World Politics

• Affiliation(s)

  • Instructor, National Capital Research Seminar (Washington, DC)

• Fields of Study

  • World Politics, Methods, Security, Conflict, American Foreign Policy

• About

  Neill's research interests lie primarily in the fields of international security theory, comparative foreign policy and public opinion.  In his dissertation, he examines the overlap between security theory, which identifies retrospective voting within democracies as the cause of regime-dependent international behavior, and behavioral politics, which suggests that accurate retrospective voting is in fact rather rare.  The vulnerability of mass opinion--what the theoretical literature describes as "resolve"--to elite suggestion suggests that extant research into electoral constraints and international politics is incomplete.  

• Education

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BA in Political Science, Minor in Computer Science, 2003
  • University of Michigan, MA in Political Science, 2006

• Grants

  • Gerald R. Ford Fellowship Research Grant, 2011
  • Horace H. Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, 2010
  • Gerald R. Ford Fellowship Research Grant, 2010

• Presentations

  • October 2011, "Propaganda and its Consequences for Crisis Diplomacy." Annual Meeting of the Peace Science Society International, Los Angeles
  • April 2011, "Radio Free USA: Elite Framing of Public Policy Issues and its Implication for Democratic Security Behavior." Presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago
  • September 2010. "The Wages of Sin: Asset Pricing of Defense Firms and the Manipulation of Public Opinion on Con ict." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.

• Dissertation Title

  • Propaganda and its Consequences for Crisis Diplomacy

• Dissertation Chair

  • Jim Morrow

• Dissertation Committee

  • Ted Brader, Allan Stam, Mike Traugott (Communication Studies)