DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Program Area(s):  Comparative Politics; Methods

Regional Specialization(s):  Middle East; Europe

Dissertation Title:

Causal Inference Under Endogenous Network Evolution

Dissertation Committee:  Seawright, Jaye (Chair); Tipton, Beth; Libgober, Brian

Research Interest(s): Causal inference; Applied statistics; Human-AI interaction; AI-assisted decision-making; Social network analysis; Computational social science

Conference Presentation(s):

• “Do Transitions Spread? Impact of Transitions on Contiguous Party Politics” (with Fırat Kimya), Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, April 2024.
• “Rebel Cooperation Revisited: The Impact of Shared Long-Term Goals in Fragmented Movements” (with Başak Taraktaş), Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, April 2024.
• “Shifting Alliances Among Minority Nationalists: How Elites Choose to Participate in Secessionist Insurgency” (with Başak Taraktaş), European Sociological Association Conference, August 2021.

Publications: 

• Ademi, Ubeydullah, and Fırat Kimya. 2026. “From Transition to Diffusion: Impact of Democratic Transitions on Neighboring Party Politics.” Political Studies, OnlineFirst. DOI: 10.1177/00323217251412065.
• Ademi, Ubeydullah, and Fırat Kimya. 2024. “Democratic Transition and Party Polarization: A Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design Approach.” Party Politics 30(4): 736–749. DOI: 10.1177/13540688231171689.