In a recent op-ed published by The Washington Post, UCL Americas PhD candidate Josephine Harmon analyses how conservative legal elites have shaped gun laws at every level in the United States and identifies the role of conservative elites and legal activism in driving gun politics as part of a broader story.
Read the article in full on The Washington Post website here.
Josephine Harmon
Josephine is currently a PhD student at UCL Institute of the Americas. Her research project develops a theory of why political issues emerge in institutions, looking at the strategic co-ordination of interest groups. She develops this theory through a focused case study of US gun politics. Her wider specialisms are political behaviour, institutionalism, political ideation and issue formation, strategic rationality, interest groups and the role of beliefs in political decision-making. She is working under the supervision of Professor Gareth Davies and Dr Nadia Hilliard. Read more about her research here.
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Link to article 'The rise of the conservative legal movement reshaped gun politics' (The Washington Post)
Josephine Harmon | academic profile
Professor Gareth Davies | academic profile
Dr Nadia Hilliard | academic profile
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