News
Yue Hou's papers featured in the Economist
The Economist featured two of Yue Hou's papers on ethnic bias in China. The article can be found here.
Read MoreBrendan O'Leary in The Economist
The Economist magazine’s frontcover story this week (Feb 15-21) is A United Ireland: Could It Really Happen? In its Briefing within, A Treatise on…
Read MoreInterview with Ian Lustick
An interview with Ian Lustick on duvarenglish.com can be found at https://www.duvarenglish.com/politics/2020/01/21/repeated-military-victory-over-…
Read MoreIan Lustick in The Forward
Ian Lustick's piece on the Weaponization of Anti-Semitism was featured in The Forward. The full article can be found here.
Read MoreA Treatise on Northern Ireland named a book of the year by the Irish Times.
Brendan O’Leary’s three-volume A Treatise on Northern Ireland is an Irish Times book of the year. The full list can be found here.
Read MoreGuy Grossman in the Washington Post
The Washington Post featured a story by Guy Grossman. The article can be found here.
Read MoreRudra Sil featured on a World Affairs Council event
Rudra Sil was recently featured on a World Affairs Council event alongside the venerable Trudy Rubin, long-time foreign affairs correspondent of the…
Read MoreProfessor Teele writes in the Washington Post
Professor Teele writes in the Washington Post about the gender submission gap by political science professors: https://t.co/oY0W1lmjSE
Read MoreHajer Al-Faham Named the Winner of the 2019 Byran Jackson Dissertation Research Award
Ph.D. Candidate Hajer Al-Faham is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Byran Jackson Dissertation Research Award. The Byran…
Read MoreMonkey Cage blog features a story by Julia Lynch
Monkey Cage blog on the Washington Post featured a story by Julia Lynch and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies director Lucio Baccaro: …
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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
Brendan O'Leary
Lauder Professor of Political Science
Jeffrey Green
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Rogers Smith
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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.
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
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 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 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.