Jennifer Gandhi, a political scientist whose work in comparative politics focuses on authoritarian regimes and transitions to democracy, was recently appointed the Howard Wang ’95 Professor of Global ...

“Once one starts to think about” economic growth, “it is hard to think about anything else.” Those words, from the late economist Robert Lucas, explain why we’re so fascinated by international ...

International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique, Vol. 39, No. 1, Special Issue: State capacity, elections and the resilience of authoritarian rule (January 2018), pp ...

Dr. Kent Weaver is Professor of Public Policy, Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. His major fields of interest are American and comparative social policy, comparative political ...

Jingyuan “Juan” Qian studies comparative political institutions, power-sharing, and bureaucracy in both historical and contemporary contexts, with a regional focus on China and East Asia. His ongoing ...

Daniel Kinderman, PhD (Cornell University, 2011) joined the Department in 2011. He specializes in comparative and international political economy and corporate social responsibility (CSR), with a ...

The Department of Political Science and International Relations currently offers a Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) degree, which consists of coursework during the first six semesters followed by ...

Political science is a social science discipline focused on the study of political institutions, behavior, ideas, and the analytical methods used to examine them. The department’s work is structured ...

Comparative archaeology : a commitment to understanding variation / Robert D. Drennan ... [et al.] -- Approaches to comparative analysis in archaeology / Michael E. Smith and Peter Peregrine -- ...