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Guy 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…
Read MoreBook co-written by Guy Grossman selected as the winner of the 2019 Best Book in Experimental Research by the Experimental Research Section of APSA
Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Best Book in Experimental…
Read MoreGuy Grossman in Penn Today
A new study co-authored by Guy Grossman has been featured in Penn Today: Do political beliefs affect social distancing?
Read MoreCongratulations Class of 2020!
Graduation Program for May 18, 2020
Read MoreAlvin Z. Rubinstein Award
The Department of Political Science has selected Mikhail Strokan as the recipient of the Alvin Z. Rubinstein Award for the 2019-2020 academic year. …
Read MoreTariq Thachil Named Director of CASI
Steven J. Fluharty, Dean and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, has announced that Tariq Thachil has been…
Read MoreBrendan O’Leary’s A Treatise on Northern Ireland Won the James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for the best book in History & Social Science
Brendan O’Leary’s A Treatise on Northern Ireland has won the James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for the best book in History & Social Science from the …
Read MoreInterview 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.
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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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Diana Mutz
Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, Director, Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics
Rogers Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science; President, American Political Science Association, 2018-2019
Edward D. Mansfield
Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science; Director, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics
Anne Norton
Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor
Books
The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
How political protests and activism have a direct influence on voter and candidate behavior
Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India
Why do poor people often vote against their material interests?
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 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