Research Interests

My research focuses on the domestic determinants and consequences of interstate conflict and on political competition. With domestic determinants of interstate conflict, I am interested in the effect of civil conflict, peaceekeeping, violent nonstate actors, domestic institutions, and public opinion on interstate conflict processes. With domestic consequences of interstate conflict, I am interested the effect of interstate conflict on civil conflict processes, peacekeeping, voting behavior, public opinion, and foreign policy party issue ownership perceptions. I also have research interests regarding how parties compete over and manage issue ownership over foreign policy.

Publications

2) Kopp, Heather M., Bryce W. Reeder, and Thorin M. Wright. 2023. “International Conflict Involvement, Domestic Repression, and the Escalation of Civil Conflict.” Political Research Quarterly 76(4): 2004-2017.

1) Rudy, Michael, and Heather M. Kopp. 2021. “Quality and Quantity: Government Quality, Capitalist Peace, and Dispute Escalation.” Midsouth Political Science Review 21: 57-88.