Constantine Boussalis
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Constantine holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (World and Comparative Politics) and a M.A. in International Studies from Claremont Graduate University as well as a B.A. in Political Science from California State University, Los Angeles.
Research Interest
My research examines how political and social institutions influence prosperity, public health, and sustainable development. I am particularly interested in how government capacity and social capital help societies mitigate the effects of economic and environmental threats. Much of my work engages with the international and comparative political economy literature. I have written on such topics as foreign aid, health policy, international trade, foreign direct investment, and international migration. Extending my research on social institutions, I investigate the political behavior and policy preferences of social groups. Specifically, I employ experimental and survey approaches to study public support for contentious policies that require national sacrifice, such as foreign aid, regional integration, and environmental protection.
Publications
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Boussalis, C. & Coan, T.G., Signals of Doubt: Text-Mining Climate Skepticism
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Determining aid allocation decision-making: towards a comparative sectored approach in, Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015, [Peiffer Caryn, Boussalis Constantine]
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Constantine Boussalis and Travis G. Coan, Text-mining the signals of climate change doubt, Global Environmental Change, 36, 2016, p89 - 100
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Boussalis Constantine, Coan Travis G, Poberezhskaya Marianna, Measuring and modeling Russian newspaper coverage of climate change , Global Environmental Change , 41 , 2016, p99 - 110
