News
Interview with Ian Lustick
Ian Lustick was interviewed for The Real News Network. In his new book, “Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality,” Lustick…
Read MoreMonkey Cage features a piece by Julia Lynch
Julia Lynch wrote a piece with Scott Greer for The Monkey Cage on social policies for COVID-19. The article can be found here.
Read MoreYue 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
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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.
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Amy Gutmann
University President and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Jeffrey Green
Professor and Director of Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Nicholas Sambanis
Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Identity and Conflict
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.
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 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.
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 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