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Professor Taylor Boas Awarded Major Grant
Taylor Boas, an Assistant Professor in the department, was recently awarded a major grant by the Experiments in Governance and Politics Network. The $300,000 grant will support an ambitious project with his colleague Daniel Hidalgo at MIT to evaluate “Accountability and Incumbent Performance in the Brazilian Northeast.”
Professors Christenson and Glick Win Best Conference Paper Award
Dino Christenson and David Glick, both assistant professors in the department, recently won the Pi Sigma Alpha award for the best paper presented at the 2014 Western Political Science Association Conference. The award recognizes their paper “Legitimacy, Ideology, and the Court’s Roller Coaster Week of Salient Decisions” which investigates how salient Supreme Court decisions affect how the public assesses the legitimacy of the Court.
Professor Min Ye Publishes Book with Cambridge University Press
Min Ye, an Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Pardee School and a member of the Graduate Faculty of Political Science recently published her book with Cambridge University Press. The book is titled, Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investment in China and India, and was published in August, 2014.
Professor Rosella Cappella Awarded Major Workshop Grant from International Studies Association
Rosella Cappella, an assistant professor in the department who focuses on International Relations, was just awarded a grant to support a large workshop by the International Studies Association. Along with Kaija Schilde from the Pardee School at Boston University and Norrin Ripsman from Concordia College, Cappella will organize a workshop titled “The Political Economy of National Security: A New Research Agenda of Military Power, War, and Peace in an Era of Austerity” prior to the International Studies Association annual conference next spring. The workshop will bring 29 scholars together from around the world to discuss issues related to economic crises, austerity, and increased financial globalization and how these issues connect to military power and international dispute resolution.
Professor Gerring Receives Major Award to Study Governance, Democracy and Development
Professor John Gerring has just received a major grant to investigate some of the most fundamental questions of government around the world. The project will test things like the conventional wisdom that when rulers obey the law, when they are accountable to the people, when personal security and property rights are guaranteed, and when capable bureaucracies are responsive to elected officials, good things will follow. Professor Gerring’s project addresses these issues by leveraging new data from the Varieties of Democracy project (V-Dem) that measure hundreds of aspects of democracy and governance – including electoral competition, the rule of law, civil liberty, inclusion, decentralization, and legislative power – at a very specific level for all sizeable countries in the world from 1900 to 2012. With this immense database at our disposal, the project team will test conventional ideas about the impact of these institutions on outcomes such as economic growth, infrastructure, health, and education over the past century.
Political Science Newsletter
The August 2014 Political Science Newsletter is available online here: http://www.bu.edu/cas/newsletter/polisci/8_14/. In it you will find a number of fascinating articles, including:
Professor Perez on Spanish Party Politics in Washington Post
Sopfia Perez, an Associate Professor in the department, recently wrote an article on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog. This blog is generally considered the leading source of bringing political science analysis to a wider audience. Perez discusses the sudden rise of Spain’s anti-austerity Podemos party and their increasing influence in Spanish politics.
Professor Christenson Receives Grant From Hariri Institute
Professor Dino Christenson, along with his colleague Luis Carvalho (Mathematics and Statistics) recently received a major grant from Boston University’s Hariri Institute for Computing. This grant will support their collaborative work into computational analysis of networks. This grant will allow for this exciting interdisciplinary collaboration between members of the Political Science and Mathematics and Statistics departments.
PO Poster Session a Success!
The BU Political Science community gathered together on Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 at the BU Castle to celebrate the accomplishments of nine Honors Program and BA/MA candidates. This poster session allowed students to communicate the results of their year-long theses with faculty, graduate students, family, and friends.
Check out more pics of the poster session here.
Professor Einstein Featured in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Political Polarization
Professor Katie Einstein recently shared her expertise on local politics and polarization at a one day conference called “Dividing Lines” at Marquette University Law School. The conference was co-sponsored by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Professor Einstein’s contributions were featured in the paper. Among other themes, Professor Einstein spoke about the potential for helping both cities and their suburbs by overcoming polarization at the regional level. She also emphasized how race and polarization are inseparable at the local level.
