News
Professor Edward Mansfield elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Ed Mansfield, Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science and Christopher H. Browne Center director, who is one of five Penn…
Read MoreTwo graduate students receive Andrea Mitchell Center Fellowship for A24-25
Miranda Sklaroff and Yara Damaj, graduate students in Political Science, have been awarded the Andrea Mitchell Center Fellowship for the 2024-2025…
Read MoreGraduate Student Awards and Fellowships
Congratulations to the 5 Ph.D. students who have received a Dissertation Research Award for 2024-2025: Apurva Bamezai, Jason Hartwig, Nick Pangakis,…
Read MoreDean's Scholar Award presented to Ph.D. student Rashi Sabherwal
Congratulations to Rashi Sabherwal who was named Dean's Scholar, one of nine given out to graduate students from across all of the departments of…
Read MorePh.D. Student Sarah Gerstein receives Margaret E. Galey Award
The Browne Center for International Relations has awarded Political Science Ph.D. student Sarah Gerstein the Margaret E. Galey Award for 2024. The…
Read MorePh.D. Student Daniel Shapiro receives prestigious Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching
Congratulations to Political Science graduate student Daniel Shapiro for being awarded the prestigious teaching award. It was highly deserved!
Read MoreThree Political Science graduate students receive competitive DCF award
Congratulations to our graduate students Jason Hartwig, Audrey Jaquiss, and Chloe Ricks on being awarded the highly competitive Dissertation…
Read MoreDaniel M. Smith publishes research on legacies of wartime destruction
Professor Daniel M. Smith has published a new article in The Journal of Politics on the long-term socioeconomic legacies of the 1945 firebombing of…
Read MoreDaniel M. Smith contributes to new volume on Historical Political Economy (HPE)
Professor Daniel M. Smith has published a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Historical Political Economy (HPE) is the…
Read MoreNic Dias quoted in the New York Times!
Joint ASC-PSCI Ph.D. student Nic Dias had his work and thoughts quoted in the November 15th edition of the New York Times by Tom Edsall in an opinion…
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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.
Events
American Politics Workshop Series
Eric Schickler, UC Berkeley
Featured People
Daniel Gillion
Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt Presidential Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Tulia Falleti
Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies; Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics; Tri-Chair of the Faculty Senate.
Beth Simmons
Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science
Michael C. Horowitz
Richard Perry Professor Director, Perry World House
Books
Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth
Since the 1990s, mainstream political parties have failed to address the problem of growing inequality, resulting in political backlash and the transformation of European party systems.
The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought
Refreshing and lucid, Goldman reconstructs hope as a necessary condition for social and political engagement, reinvigorating the possibility of utopia in the process.
Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade
Winners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens ...Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left
Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries.
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II
A breathtakingly original work offering the most ambitious and broad-ranging interpretation to date.
Stable Condition: Elites' Limited Influence on Health Care Attitudes
Stable Condition is an illuminating examination of the limits of elites’ influence and the forces that shaped public opinion about the Affordable Care Act. The book demonstrate