Stephen Chaudoin Department of Political Science chaudoin@illinois.edu 414 David Kinley Hall (678) 637-8392 University of Illinois www.stephenchaudoin.com Urbana, IL 61801 Education and Employment University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Asst. Prof. 2014-Present University of Pittsburgh, Asst. Prof. 2012-2014 Princeton University 2007-2012 Ph.D. in Politics Emory University, Atlanta, GA 2002-2006 M.A. in Political Science B.A. in International Studies and in Economics Summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa, 2005 Co-recipient of Elliot Levitas Award for best undergraduate in PS Research and Teaching Interests International relations, International political economy, International institutions, Formal and quantitative methods, the WTO, the ICC. Peer-Reviewed Publications 14. Financial Regulations, Networks, and Public Preferences with Meredith Wilf. Forthcoming at Foreign Policy Analysis. 13. How Hard to Fight? A Contest Experiment with Asymmetry and Value Shocks with Jonathan Woon. Forthcoming at Journal of Politics. 12. Do We Really Know the WTO Cures Cancer? with Jude Hays and Raymond Hicks. Forthcoming at British Journal of Political Science. 11. Science and the System: IPE and International Monetary Politics, with Helen Milner. 2017. Review of International Political Economy 24(4): 681-698. 10. Beyond Zeroes and Ones: The Effect of Income on the Severity and Evolution of Civil Conflict, with Christopher Stanton and Zachary Peskowitz. 2017. Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(1): 56-83. 9. Do WTO Disputes Actually Increase Trade? with Jeff Kucik and Krzysztof Pelc. 2016. International Studies Quarterly 60(2): 294 306. 8. How Contestation Moderates the Effects of International Institutions: the International Criminal Court and Kenya. February 2016. Journal of Politics 78(2): 557-571.
7. When is the Good News About Pro-Cooperation Lobbies Good News About Cooperation? with Johannes Urpelainen. April 2015. British Journal of Political Science 45(2): 411-433. 6. International Systems and Domestic Politics: Linking Complex Theories with Empirical Models in International Relations, with Helen Milner and Xun Pang. March 2015. International Organization 69(2): 275-309. 5. American Evangelicals and Domestic Versus International Climate Policy, with David Smith and Johannes Urpelainen. December 2014. Review of International Organizations 9(4): 441-469. 4. Audience Features and the Strategic Timing of Trade Disputes. September 2014. International Organization 68(4): 877-911. 3. Policies or Promises? An Experimental Analysis of International Agreements and Audience Reactions. January 2014. International Organization. 68(1): 235-256. 2. Ratification Patterns and the Limits of the International Criminal Court, with Terrence Chapman. International Studies Quarterly. Summer 2013. 57, pp. 400-409. 1. The Center Still Holds: Liberal Internationalism Survives, with Helen V. Milner and Dustin Tingley. International Security. Summer 2010. 35(1), pp. 75-94. Working Papers Public Reactions to International Legal Institutions: The ICC in a Developing Democracy. With Terrence Chapman. Presented at SPSA 2016, ISA 2016, MPSA 2016, CESS 2017, PEIO 2018. Revise and Resubmit at American Journal of Political Science. - Media coverage: Washington Post January 20, 2017 Research in Progress International Law in Real Time: The Philippines War on Drugs. Presented at MPSA 2017. Elections in the Lab with Sarah Hummel and Jonathan Woon. Presented at MPSA 2017, APSA 2017. NSF Grant Application, $300,000, Fall 2017. Political Contestation and Firm Behavior in Response to WTO Disputes. Presented at IPES 2014, MPSA 2015, APSA 2015. Does Measuring Mediators Moderate Treatment Effects? with Brian Gaines and Avital Livney. Revolutionizing Teaching and Research with a Structured Debate Platform with Jacob Shapiro and Dustin Tingley. Media and Other Publications People like the International Criminal Court as long as it targets other problems in other countries. With Terrence Chapman. The Washington Post January 20, 2017. The Hard Cases: Public Reactions to International Law, The Policy Space May 10,
2017. A Liberal International American Foreign Policy? Maybe Down but Not Out with Helen V. Milner and Dustin Tingley. H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Essay. 2017. The Contested State of U.S. Foreign Policy: Liberal Internationalism and American Politics with Helen V. Milner and Dustin Tingley. H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable 2(4) Essay. February 27, 2011. Teaching Awards 2013, College of General Studies, Students Choice Award, University of Pittsburgh. 2015, List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois. 2016, List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois. Classes: PS 583: Human Rights (Graduate, Illinois), Spring 2018. PS 596: Emerging Research and Politics Speaker Series (Grad., Illinois), Fall/Spring 2016 PS 280: Introduction to Int. Relations (Undergraduate, Illinois), Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017 PS 398: Strategy in Int. Relations (Undergraduate, Illinois), Spring 2015, Fall 2015 PS 582: International Political Economy (Graduate, Illinois), Fall 2014, Fall 2016 PS 2703: Formal Theory I (Graduate, Pitt), Spring 2014 PS 1503: Int. Organizations (Undergraduate, Pitt), Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013 PS 1514: Strategy in Int. Relations (Undergraduate, Pitt), Spring 2013, Spring 2014 PS 1581: Capstone Seminar in IR: International Courts (Undergraduate, Pitt), Fall 2013 Invited Talks University of Chicago, Political Science, April 2018 (scheduled). University of Wisconsin, April 2018 (scheduled). University of Southern California, January 2018. Princeton University, October 2017. London School of Economics, October 2016. University of Texas at Austin, April 2016. New York University, April 2016. UC San Diego, February 2016. Harvard University, IR Graduate Seminar, October 2015. FGV/EBAPE, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. March 2015. Rice University. March 2015. University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy. March 2014. SUNY Buffalo. October 2013. Grants and Research Awards Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Award, University of Illinois. $10,000. Awarded to five Assistant Professors, across the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Linowes Fellowship, Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois. $5,000. University of Illinois Research Board, $4,004 for Political Contestation and Firm Behavior in Response to WTO Disputes.
Conference Activity 2017 Selection and Election in the Lab. With Sarah Hummel and Jonathan Woon. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 2017. - Also presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco CA. August 2017. International Law and Patterns of Violence in the Philippines War on Drugs. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 2017. Interdependence, Networks, and Public Preferences Over Financial Regulations, with Meredith Wilf. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA. August 2017. Public Reactions to International Legal Institutions: The ICC in a Developing Democracy with Terrence Chapman. Presented at Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. October 2017. 2016 Not in My Backyard: An Experimental Assessment of Public Reactions to International Prosecutions in Kyrgyzstan. With Terrence Chapman. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. March 2016. Chicago, IL. April 2016. - Also presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia PA. September 2016. - Also presented at the Peace Sciences Society Annual Meeting, South Bend, IA. October 2016. How Do Developing Countries Stay Committed to Globalization, with Nita Rudra, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, San Juan PR, January 2016. - Also presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. March 2016 Chicago, IL. April 2016. Interdependence, Networks, and Public Preferences Over Financial Regulations, with Meredith Wilf. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA. March 2016. 2015 Do We Really Know the WTO Cures Cancer? presented at Political Economy of International Organizations, Berlin, Germany. January 2015. International Institutions and Contests Over Compliance presented at Comparative and International Political Economy of the Emergent Nations, FGV/EBAPE, Rio de Janiero, Brazil. March 2015. Political Contestation and Firm Behavior in Response to WTO Disputes presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 2015. - Also presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA. September 2015.
How Hard to Fight? A Contest Experiment with Value Shocks, with Jon Woon, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 2015. - Also presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA. September 2015. How Do Developing Countries Stay Committed to Globalization, with Nita Rudra, presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society, Stanford University, November 2015. Interdependence, Networks, and Public Preferences Over Financial Regulations, with Meredith Wilf, presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society, Stanford University, November 2015. 2014 Political Contestation and Firm Behavior in Response to WTO Disputes presented at the International Political Economy Society Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. October 2014. International Institutions and Contests Over Compliance presented at the Political Economy of International Organizations, Princeton, NJ. January 2014. - Also presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Toronto, ON, CA. March 2014. Chicago, IL. March 2014. - Also presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC. August 2014. Do We Really Know the WTO Cures Cancer? presented at International Studies Association, Toronto, ON, CA. March 2014. - Also presented at Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington DC. August 2014. 2013 Do We Really Know the WTO Cures Cancer? presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society, Clarement, CA. November 2013. Who s Afraid of WTO Disputes? presented at at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 2013. Promises or Policies? An Experimental Analysis of International Agreements and Audience Reactions presented at the Political Economy of International Organizations, Mannheim/Heidelberg, Germany. January 2013. 2012 International Cooperation, Legalized Dispute Settlement and Information Transmission to Domestic Audiences, presented at the Political Economy of International Organizations, Villanova, Philadelphia, PA. January 2012. When is the Good News About Pro-Cooperation Lobbies Good News About Cooperation? presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 2012. 2011
Political Agency and Dispute Settlement in International Organizations, presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. March 2011. - Also presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. November 2011. The Limits of an International War Crimes Regime, presented at the 3 rd Annual Conference of the Political Economy of International Organizations, Zurich, Switzerland. January 2011. Chicago, IL. April 2011. 2010 Information Transmission and the Strategic Timing of Trade Disputes, presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. November 2010. - Also presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. September 2010 Chicago, IL. April 2010. The Future of Liberal Internationalism, Participant in roundtable discussion with Robert Jervis, Helen Milner, Joshua Busby, Dustin Tingley, Peter Trubowitz, and Charles Kupchan, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC. September 2010. An Instrumental Variables Approach to the Effect of Economic Conditions on the Severity of Civil War, with Christopher Stanton and Zachary Peskowitz, Stanford GSB, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 2010. 2007 The Impact of Incumbency on Budget Deficits, with Jeffrey Kucik, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 2007. Service and Activities Participant, Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM). University of California, at Berkely. Summer 2010. Journal Reviewer: American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Organizations, Journal of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Political Science, International Interactions, Conflict Management & Peace Sciences, Foreign Policy Analysis, Economics & Politics, International Security, Political Research Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal of International Relations and Development, New Political Economy, The Latin Americanist. Book Reviewer: MIT Press. The Atlanta Urban Debate League, Emory University 2002-2007 New Jersey Urban Debate League, Newark, NJ. 2010 The Barkley Forum Debate Team, Emory University 2002-2006 A. W. Barkley Merit Scholar 2002-2006 Full, four-year debate scholarship to Emory for one H.S. senior