Professor Doug Kriner Wins Neustadt Award
Professor Doug Kriner, along with a former faculty member of the department, Andrew Reeves, were awarded the Richard Neustadt award at the 2016 American Political Science Association conference. The award recognizes the best book in American presidential studies. Kriner and Reeves won it for their book, “The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality” […]
Professor Rosella Cappella Zielinski Publishes New Book on War Financing
Professor Rosella Cappella Zielinski has recently published, with Cornell University Press, her book, How States Pay for Wars. “Armies fight battles, states fight wars. To focus solely on armies is to neglect the broader story of victory and defeat. Military power stems from an economic base, and without wealth, soldiers cannot be paid, weapons cannot be procured, […]
Professor Virginia Sapiro Honored With APSA’s Frank Goodnow Award
Last Wednesday, Professor Virginia Sapiro was named the 2016 winner of the Frank Goodnow award for distinguished service by the American Political Science Association. This award is “granted each year to a person for distinguished service to the profession and the American Political Science Association. Its intent is to honor a person or organization for […]
Graduate Students Present at Political Networks Conference
Two of the Department’s graduate students presented fascinating work at the 2016 Political Networks Conference at Washington University. Sahar Abi-Hasan presented on Interest Group Composition and Dissensus on the U.S. Supreme Court and Seulah Choi presented on International Status and Its Impact on Voting Success in the UN General Assembly.
Political Science Commencement 2016
On May 15th, the 2016 Political Science graduates walked the stage of Metcalf Hall during another successful commencement ceremony. Pictured above are some of the Advanced Programs (Honors and BA/MA) students and their faculty advisors: Professors Glick, Kriner, Christenson, Palmer and Einstein with BA/MA students Harsh Gupta, Melissa Morel, Robert Pressel, Maria Hardiman, Emily Claffey, […]
Honors & BA/MA Poster Session
The BU Political Science community gathered together on Monday, May 9th, 2016 at the BU Castle to celebrate the hard work of the Honors and BA/MA students. The annual poster session allows students to communicate the results of their advanced program theses with faculty, graduate students, family, and friends in a fun and casual atmosphere. […]
Advanced Programs 2016 Poster Session
The BU Political Science community gathered together on Monday, May 9th, 2016 to celebrate the accomplishments of the 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. It was quite the show! Justin-Ryan Abueg View his poster […]
PoliSci Undergraduate Wins Sassano Award
Robert Pressel, a PO BA/MA student graduating this year, was selected to receive the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences. The award recognizes his outstanding work and writing in his thesis on the effect of ideological extremism on congressional primary challenges (advised by Prof Christenson). […]
Professors Einstein and Glick Publish on Race and Public Housing in AJPS
Assistant Professors Katherine Einstein and David Glick recently published an article about race and access to information about public housing in the American Journal of Political Science. The article, titled “Does Race Affect Access to Government Services? An Experiment Exploring Street-Level Bureaucrats and Access to Public Housing” using an field experiment / audit design to test […]
Ph.D. Candidate Jillian Jaeger Publishes Article in SPPQ
Jillian Jaeger, a Ph.D. candidate in the department recently published an article in State Politics and Policy Quarterly, a top subfield journal. In this solo piece – “Securing Communities or Profits? The Effect of Federal-Local Partnerships on Immigration Enforcement” — Jaeger evaluates local government’ immigration enforcement activities and compares ideological and resource based explanations. She […]