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Hirschmann 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…
Read MoreConnecting students with Indigenous leaders: A new Penn Global seminar taught by Tulia Falleti
Tulia Falleti's undergraduate seminar PSCI 313 People of the Land: Indigeneity and Politics in Argentina and Chile has been featured in Penn Today.…
Read MoreAlvin Z. Rubinstein Award
The Department of Political Science has selected Audrey Jaquiss as the recipient of the Alvin Z. Rubinstein Award for the 2020-2021 academic year. …
Read MoreGuy Grossman selected to join National Academy of Science Evidence committee
Guy Grossman has been selected to join an ad hoc National Academy of Science Evidence committee entitled "Advance Reform in the Global Security and…
Read MoreHajer Al-Faham Publishes Research in Perspectives on Politics
Political Science PhD Candidate Hajer Al-Faham has recently published a peer-reviewed article “Researching American Muslims: A Case Study of…
Read MoreRithika Kumar awarded APSA DDRIG
Rithika Kumar has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) by the American Political Science Association. More…
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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
Michael C. Horowitz
Richard Perry Professor Director, Perry World House
Michael Jones-Correa
President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration (CSERI)
Avery Goldstein
David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations
Rogers M. Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science; President, American Political Science Association, 2018-2019
Anne Norton
Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor
Jeffrey Green
Professor and Director of Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
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 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 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.
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.