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Graduate Student Awards
Chloe Ricks has been named a CTL (Center for Teaching & Learning) Fellow for 2022-23. Tyler Leigh has also been named a CTL Fellow for 2022-23.…
Read MoreIra H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching
Rudra Sil has been awarded the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching. The Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching…
Read MoreTeaching Awards for Abigail Dym and Nicholas Dias
Abigail Dym has received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students while Nicholas Dias has been awarded the Penn Prize for…
Read MorePenn students, Indigenous Leaders from Argentina and Chile, and CLALS Director, Tulia Falleti produce the film: Gente de la tierra: Indigeneidad y política en Argentina y Chile (People of the Land: Indigeneity and politics in Argentina and Chile)
CLALS Director and Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Tulia Falleti, in collaboration with Mapuche and other Indigenous…
Read MorePenn Placements 2021-2022
Congratulations to all our recent and soon-to-be Ph.D.'s who will be starting off in new positions this coming Fall (or in some cases already started…
Read MoreHirschmann Named Segal Professor in American Social Thought
Nancy J. Hirschmann has been appointed Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought. Read more here.
Read MoreAPSA's Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award
Sumitra Badrinathan's paper "Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India" has been awarded APSA's…
Read MoreCouncil on Foreign Relations invites PWH Director Michael Horowitz to be senior fellow
Penn professor and Perry World House Director Michael Horowitz has been appointed as a senior fellow of the David Rockefeller Studies Program in the…
Read MoreAPSA's Information Technology & Politics section award
Guy Grossman's article "Information Technology and Political Engagement: Mixed Evidence from Uganda" with Macartan Humphreys and Gabriella Sacramone-…
Read MoreHajer Al-Faham Awarded AAUW Fellowship
Hajer Al-Faham has been named a 2021 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellow. Each year, this prestigious fellowship is…
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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
Roxanne Euben
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences
Edward D. Mansfield
Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science; Director, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics
Marie Gottschalk
Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Brendan O'Leary
Lauder Professor of Political Science Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Honorary Professor of Political Science Queen's University Belfast
John DiIulio
Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society
Amy Gutmann
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science University President 2004-2022
Michael C. Horowitz
Richard Perry Professor Director, Perry World House
Books
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 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 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 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 Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
How political protests and activism have a direct influence on voter and candidate behavior