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Hajer Al-Faham Awarded AAUW Fellowship
Hajer Al-Faham has been named a 2021 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellow. Each year, this prestigious fellowship is…
Read MoreConnecting students with Indigenous leaders: A new Penn Global seminar taught by Tulia Falleti
Tulia Falleti's undergraduate seminar PSCI 313 People of the Land: Indigeneity and Politics in Argentina and Chile has been featured in Penn Today.…
Read MoreAlvin Z. Rubinstein Award
The Department of Political Science has selected Audrey Jaquiss as the recipient of the Alvin Z. Rubinstein Award for the 2020-2021 academic year. …
Read MoreGuy Grossman selected to join National Academy of Science Evidence committee
Guy Grossman has been selected to join an ad hoc National Academy of Science Evidence committee entitled "Advance Reform in the Global Security and…
Read MoreHajer Al-Faham Publishes Research in Perspectives on Politics
Political Science PhD Candidate Hajer Al-Faham has recently published a peer-reviewed article “Researching American Muslims: A Case Study of…
Read MoreRithika Kumar awarded APSA DDRIG
Rithika Kumar has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) by the American Political Science Association. More…
Read MoreAshley Gorham receives tenure-track offer from Hamilton College
Ashley Gorham (PhD, 2019), a recent graduate of the theory program and currently on a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton, has received yesterday a…
Read MoreTulia G. Falleti publishes in the Journal of Politics
Tulia G. Falleti publishes “Invisible to Political Science: Indigenous Rights and Demands in a World in Flux,” in the Journal of Politics encouraging…
Read MorePenn Global Seminars offering PSCI 313: People of the Land in Spring 2021
The Political Science department is offering a new Penn Global Seminar in the spring focused on Indigenous communities in Latin America despite COVID…
Read MoreNew book published by Michael Jones-Correa
Michael Jones-Correa has recently published a book, Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants. The 2016 election of…
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Books
The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China
This book addresses the long-standing puzzle of how China’s private sector manages to grow without secure property rights.
Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade
Winners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens fo
The Substance of Representation Congress, American Political Development, and Lawmaking
Lawmaking is crucial to American democracy because it completely defines and regulates the public life of the nation.
The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It
To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis―dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years.
The Shadow of Unfairness: A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy
In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a worl