Graduate Student Bo Feng Wins the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

Bo Feng, PO PhD candidate, won the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2023) for his dissertation project “Strategic Allocation of Discretionary Power in Authoritarianism: Political Control, Politicians’ Preferences, and Policy Trade-offs in China.” His dissertation will examine how Chinese political elites allocate discretionary power to subordinates.

Graduate Student Sam Gerstle Published In Defense Studies

Graduate student Sam Gerstle has been published in the journal Defense Studies. His article “American Arms and Industry in a Changing International Order”, co-authored with Professor Rosella Cappella Zielinski and others, can be found here.

PO Alumnus Jaewook Lee Wins APSA Best Paper Award

Jaewook Lee, recent PhD grad (GRS ’23), won the Best Paper Award on Social and Economic Inequality in the APSA Class and Inequality Section (2023) for his paper “Luddite or Technophile? – Policy Preferences for Governing Technology-Driven Economic Change.”