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Rithika 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…
Read MoreDawn Teele's article published in American Political Science Review
Dawn Teele's article, "To Emerge? Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women's Decisions to Run for Office", has been published in American Political…
Read MoreUniversity of Pennsylvania Political Science Department Statement on the Police Killing of Walter Wallace in West Philadelphia, on October 26, 2020
October 29, 2020 Our political science department and community is deeply troubled by the killing of Walter Wallace Jr. at the hands of the…
Read MoreRudra Sil's book is the main subject of a symposium just published in ...
Rudra Sil's book - a coedited volume titled Comparative Area Studies: Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications (Oxford University…
Read MoreGuy Grossman Receives PolNet's Best Conference Paper Award
PolNet has announced this year's winner of the Best Conference Paper Award, awarded to the best paper on political networks presented at a conference…
Read MoreDawn Teele's new book
After the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, a large cohort of women emerged to run for office. But women are still far less likely than men to seek…
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Penn’s Political Science Department is experiencing a renaissance. Over the past decade, our faculty has grown by 50%, an increase in quantity that has been matched by gains in quality. The strength of our faculty in each of four major subfields is being built with an eye to excellence embracing a variety of approaches and methodologies.
Featured People
Guy Grossman
Professor Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), 2019-2020 resident fellow
Nancy Hirschmann
Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences
Roxanne Euben
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences
Michael Jones-Correa
President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration (CSERI)
Rogers Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science; President, American Political Science Association, 2018-2019
Nicholas Sambanis
Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Identity and Conflict
Ian Lustick
Bess W. Heyman Professor, Political Science Department
Books
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.
Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India
Why do poor people often vote against their material interests?
The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
How political protests and activism have a direct influence on voter and candidate behavior
The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship
For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the People's voice.
The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics
The Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power.