In Sunday’s Washington Post, Ezra Klein remarked that the annual gathering of most of America’s leading academic political scientists, the American Political Science Association (APSA), came and went ...

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If you went to college, there's a good chance you took a political science course. If you work in politics, you probably majored in poli sci and maybe got a graduate degree as well. If you're really a ...

Drawing on a systematic review of 2,401 scientific articles, Hugo Bonin shows how ‘liberal democracy’ has shifted from a contested analytical concept to a defensive catchphrase. The more the term ...

Jennifer Gandhi, a political scientist whose work in comparative politics focuses on authoritarian regimes and transitions to democracy, was recently appointed the Howard Wang ’95 Professor of Global ...

If you were not one of them, you might think that political scientists follow political events, propose hypotheses designed to explain them, and collect data to test those hypotheses. Alas, or so ...

The study drew on 30 years of research productivity in political science’s top scholarly journals. FSU’s faculty ranked 16th in per capita productivity and 30th in total publications. “APSA’s findings ...

In August 2020, amid COVID-19 lockdowns, George Floyd protests, and conspiracy theories that the entire U.S. electoral system was a sham, the University of Chicago political scientist John Mark Hansen ...