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Mark K. McBeth

Professor of Political Science | Director of the MPA Program

Office: Graveley Hall 304, North Wing, 3rd floor

(208) 282-2740

markmcbeth@isu.edu

Fields: Public Administration, US Politics

 

D.A. 色花堂app, 1992

Dr. Mark K. McBeth has been on faculty in the Department of Political Science since January, 1995. His research focuses on the Narrative Policy Framework, environmental policy, public administration, and pedagogy.

An edited book on the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), Narratives and Policy Processes: Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework in Public Policy Analysis (co-edited with Michael D. Jones and Elizabeth A. Shanahan) is being published in summer 2022 as an open access book from Montana State University Press. He is a co-author  on the NPF chapter in the fifth edition of Sabatier and Weible's Theories of the Policy Process appearing in 2022. He is also a co-author on a NPF chapter in Methods of the Policy Process published in 2022. His most recent research has appeared in Review of Policy 色花堂app, Policy Studies Journal, World Affairs, Policy & Politics, Journal of Borderland Studies, Journal of Political Science Education, PS: Political Science and Politics, Teaching Public Administration, and the Journal of Public Affairs Education

In his post-doctoral career, Mark has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on twenty-three grants and contracts. Mark is also a co-author (with Randy S. Clemons) of Public Policy Praxis: A Case Approach for Understanding Policy and Analysis (4th edition, Routledge, 2020), a book that has been on the textbook market since July, 2000 and is now in its fourth edition.

In 2020, he was recognized as a “Distinguished 色花堂apper” at ISU. In 2011 and 2015, he was recognized as an "Outstanding 色花堂apper" at ISU. In 2005, he was recognized as a "Distinguished Teacher" at ISU and was recognized as a “Master Teacher” in 2001.

 Courses Recently Taught

  • Public Organizational Theory
  • Intergovernmental Relations
  • Public Policy Analysis
  • Public Personnel Management
  • College Teaching Seminar
  • Introduction to Politics and Critical Thinking
  • Introduction to Public Administration 
  • Public Administration Ethics

For more information, on Dr. McBeth’s publications go to his:

Google Scholar page,

and 

色花堂appGate page,  

 

Donna Lybecker

Donna L. Lybecker

Professor of Political Science | Graduate Director

Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

(208) 282-3331

donnalybecker@isu.edu

Fields: International Relations, Environmental Politics, and Comparative Politics

 

Ph.D. Colorado State University, 2003

Donna L. Lybecker joined the Department of Political Science in 2007. Her teaching and research focus on Comparative Politics and International Relations, emphasizing Environmental Politics, Borders, and Latin America. In particular she looks at the shifting role and perceptions of the US-Mexico border, water issues among the Western states and more recently the role language and narratives play in policy development. 

Courses Recently Taught:

  • Introduction to International Relations
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • Environmental Politics and Policy
  • The Politics of Borders
  • The Politics of Central America
  • Politics of Developing Nations
  • Seminar in Global Politics
  • Seminar in Philosophy of Social Science

Dr. Lybecker has published in academic journals such as Policy Studies Journal, Review of Policy 色花堂app, Environmental Politics, and Politics & Policy, and co-authored two books, Great Debates in Environmental History with B. Black (2009), and Cases in International Relations: Pathways to Conflict and Cooperation with G. Hastedt and V. Shannon (2014). She was named the Distinguished Teacher at ISU in 2013 and received the Outstanding Service Award in 2017.

Outside of ISU, Dr. Lybecker is an Associate Editor for the and an Editorial Board Member for . In addition, she is the Chair of the Selection Committee for .

 

Select Publications (* denotes graduate student co-author)

    1. Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, Callie Dance*, and Clint Cooper*. 2024. “Which Fish is a Deviant? The Social Construction of Fish Species in Greater Yellowstone.” Journal of Political Science and Public Opinion. Vol. 2(2): 113. doi:
    2. Francisco Lara-Valencia, Irasema Coronado, Stephen Mumme, Christopher Brown, Paul Ganster, Hilda García, Donna Lybecker, Sharon Megdal, Rosario Sanchez, Alan Sweedler, Robert G. Varady, Adriana Zuñiga-Teran.  2023. “Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Achieving Water Sustainability and Resilience Through Cross- Border Cooperation.” Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol 38, Issue 2: 323-334. DOI: 
    3. Mark K. McBeth, Donna L. Lybecker, and Jessica M. Sargent.  2022. “Narrative Empathy: A Narrative Policy Framework Study of Working-Class Climate Change Narratives and Narrators,” World Affairs, Vol 185, Issue 3: 471-499.
    4. Erika Allen Wolters, Donna L. Lybecker, Francis Fahy, and Monica L. Hubbard. (2020). Willingness to support environmental actions and policies: A comparative study. The Social Science Journal, 21(3), 333-338. .
    5. Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and Jessica M. Sargent*. 2022. “Agreement and Trust: In Narratives or Narrators?” Chapter 4 in Narratives and the Policy Process: Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework. Edited by Michael D. Jones, Elizabeth Shanahan, and Mark K. McBeth. Bozeman, Montana State University. Pp. 90-112.
    6. Mark K. McBeth, Donna L. Lybecker, and Jessica M. Sargent*. “Narrative Empathy: A Narrative Policy Framework Stud of Working-Class Climate change Narratives and Narrators,” World Affairs (forthcoming Fall 2022).  Available online first (July 28, 2022)
    7. Donna L. Lybecker. 2020. “Old West, New West, and the Next West,” Chapter 1 in The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands, Ericka Wolters and Brent Steel, eds. University of Oregon Press.  3-15.
    8. Wolters, Erika Allen, Donna L. Lybecker, Frances Fahy, and Monica L. Hubbard. 2019. “Willingness to support environmental actions and policies: A comparative study,” Social Science Journal. (Available online 31 May 2019:
    9. Li Huang, Felix Hiefent Liao, Kathleen A. Lohse, Danielle M. Larson, Michail Fragkias, Donna L. Lybecker, Colden V. Baxter. 2019. “Land conservation can mitigate freshwater ecosystem services degradation due to climate change in a semiarid catchment: The case of the Portneuf River catchment, Idaho, USA,” Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 651 (Part 2): 1796-1809.

    Associate Professors

    Shin Kue Ryu

    Shin Kue Ryu

    Associate Professor of Political Science | Political Science Chair

    Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

    (208) 282-2487

    shinkueryu@isu.edu

    Fields: Public Administration, Public Policy, Political Economy, and Comparative Politics

     

    Ph.D. George Mason University, 2016

    Shin Kue Ryu’s research interests include politics and sustainable development goals, strengthening public sector capacity building in developing country contexts, and infrastructure development implementation frameworks. His specific interests include expansion of equal access to government services in development country contexts, water and sanitation infrastructure policies in Asia and the Pacific countries, and the role of politics in achieving sustainable development goals.

    Dr. Ryu was the principal researcher for WaterAid’s comparative sanitation case studies of Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea. The research serves to demonstrate that universal access to sanitation can be achieved within a single generation. A research that was much needed in light of the failing to meet the Millennium Development Goal on sanitation, which signaled a need to depart from the status quo. The research has been cited as a solution to Asia’s challenge on sanitation by the Asian Development Bank’s flagship report, the Asian Water Development Outlook 2016.

    Dr. Ryu also brings professional experience of having worked at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC. His experiences involve being the researcher for the World Bank’s Public-Private Partnership Reference Guide 2.0 and Delivering Universal and Sustainable Water Services: Partnering with the Private Sector – Guidance Note. He is also the co-author of OECD Public-Private Partnerships: The Relevance of Budgeting publication, which was presented at the OECD Senior Budget Officials Meeting.

    Interests in his research has often translated to invited talks, as he has been a special guest presenter at Asian Development Bank, Korea Environmental Institute, and Sungkyunkwan University’s Water Institute among others. In 2017, he will be speaking at the World Toilet Association to deliver a plan on how to tackle the global sanitation challenge.

    Dr. Shin Kue Ryu received his PhD from the Schar School of Policy and Government in George Mason University, where he also received the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award for his dissertation. He received his MSc from Queen Mary University of London and his MA from Washington University in Saint Louis. He also received his BA from Washington University in Saint Louis.

    Edward F. Kammerer, Jr.

    Edward F. Kammerer, Jr.

    Associate Professor of Political Science | Pre-Law Adviser聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽

    Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

    (208) 282-2799

    edwardkammerer@isu.edu

    Fields: Public Law, US Politics

     

    Ph.D. Northeastern University, 2014

    Dr. Edward Kammerer joined the Political Science Department in 2019. He taught previously at Northeastern University, Skidmore College, and Occidental College. His research and teaching interests are centered on the role of the court system in public policy change, with a particular focus on LGBT rights. He is particularly interested in the role of framing and storytelling in the arguments litigators use in the courts. He also researches political science pedagogy, with a particular focus on simulations in the classroom.

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    Assistant Professors

    Colin Johnson

    Colin Johnson

    Assistant Professor of Political Science

    Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

    (208) 282-2540

    colinjohnson@isu.edu

    Fields: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Politics of Migration

     

    Ph.D. Brown University, 2017

    Colin Johnson joined the Department of Political Science in 2019. His research focuses on political demography, international migration, and ethnic conflict in post-communist Eurasia, with fieldwork experience in the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. His work investigates how migration affects sociopolitical dynamics at the local and national levels in both sending and receiving societies. He is particularly interested in how emigration affects sending societies' perception and pursuit of collective futures. In 2023, he was selected as a Kazakhstan Futures Fellow in an interdisciplinary policy research program funded by the U.S. Embassy in Astana and administered by the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs.
    Courses Recently Taught:
    • Introduction to Comparative Politics
    • Introduction to International Relations
    • Recent US Foreign Policy
    • Theories of Political Economy
    • Migration and Refugees
    • Russian Politics
    • Human Security
    • International Security
    • Revolution and Secession
    • Senior Seminar
    • World Politics
    In 2022, Colin received the Benny Award for Faculty Member of the Year. Prior to ISU, he was a UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

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    Adjunct Faculty

    Thomas Eckert

    Thomas E. Eckert

    Adjunct Lecturer

    Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    thomaseckert@isu.edu

    Emeritus Faculty

    • Dr. Mary Jane Burns
    • Dr. Richard H. Foster, Jr.
    • Dr. Victor (Butch) Hjelm
    • Dr. Doug Nilson
    • Dr. Ralph Maughan
    • Dr. Sean Anderson

     

    Graduate Student Instructors

     

    Choudhury Amir Hamza

    Office: Graveley Hall 316, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    choudhuryamirhamz@isu.edu

     

    Mohamed Echkaou

    Office: Graveley Hall 314, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    mohamedechkaou@isu.edu

     

    Rachel Nielsen

    Office: Graveley Hall 316, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    rachelchild@isu.edu

     

    Md Masud Un Nabi (Shuvo)

    Office: Graveley Hall 316, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    mdmasudunnabi@isu.edu

     

    Christopher Amrobo Enemuwe

    Office: Graveley Hall 314, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    christopheramrobo@isu.edu

     

    Miranda Marquit

    Office: Graveley Hall 302, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    mirandamarquit@isu.edu

     

    Jason Kindree

    Office: Graveley Hall 314, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    jasonkindree@isu.edu

     

    Tristan Jugler

    Office: Graveley Hall 314, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    jugltris@isu.edu

     

    Jake Knievel

    Office: Graveley Hall 301, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    jakeknievel@isu.edu

     

    Mst. Umme Hasnat Tulok 

    Office: Graveley Hall 302, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    mstummehasnattulo@isu.edu

     

    Sadie McMorris

    Office: Graveley Hall 301, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    sadiemcmorris@isu.edu

     

    Alisha Dalley

    Office: Graveley Hall 301, North Wing, 3rd Floor

    alishadalley@isu.edu