Professor Taylor Boas Publishes Book (with Cambridge) on Presidential Campaigns in Latin America
Taylor Boas, Assistant Professor of Political Science, recently published his book, Presidential Campaigns in Latin America with Cambridge University Press. Boas focuses on the strategies that presidential candidates in new democracies use. He argues that they learn and adopt strategies through “contagion” such that a distinctive campaign strategy develops in each country as candidates follow whatever the […]
Undergraduate Harsh Gupta Presents at WPSA Conference
Harsh Gupta, a senior in the department and member of the advanced programs, recently presented work from his thesis at the Western Political Science Association’s annual meeting. Gupta presented work about the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act case that he is working on with Professors Christenson and Glick. Specifically, he looks at whether the […]
New Faculty Publication
The International History Review has published an article by David Mayers. “Destruction Repaired and Destruction Anticipated: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the Atomic Bomb, and U.S. Policy 1944-46.” A link to the article can be found here.
New Faculty Publication
Professor Max Palmer has just published another important scholarly article: “Does the Chief Justice Make Partisan Appointments to Special Courts and Panels?” The article has just been published by the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. In the paper, Palmer analyzes appointments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the court that oversees all domestic surveillance for national […]
PhD students publish article in “Congress and the Presidency”
For your reading pleasure, take a look at the lead article in the most recent volume of Congress and the Presidency. “Mr Worldwide: International Affairs and the American Post-Presidency.” This is the work of two of the department’s distinguished Ph.D. students, Anshul Jain and Greg Winger. Congratulations to both authors on this important essay. Congress […]
PhD Student Publishes Article in Foreign Affairs Journal
Yasser El-Shimy, of the Ph.D. program, has (with Professor Nathan Brown of George Washington University) just published a most impressive article in the influential journal Foreign Affairs. The essay is: “Did Sisi Save Egypt? The Arab Spring at Five.” Here is a link to the article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/egypt/2016-01-25/did-sisi-save-egypt
Professor Crawford’s timely opinion essay on WBUR’s cognoscenti
WBUR’s cognoscenty recently featured an important and timely piece by Professor Neta Crawford. A link the the article can be found below. http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2016/01/21/civilian-casualties-iraq-syria-us-war-on-isis-neta-c-crawford
Join Us at the BU Data Science (BUDS) Day
The Data Science Initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing is proud to announce the inaugural BU Data Science (BUDS) Day on January 22nd, 2016. Co-Chaired by professors Christenson (Political Science) and Ishwar (ECE), the day will feature talks from researchers across BU — from social sciences, humanities, law, business and medicine — to engineering, […]
BA/MA Student Article Publication
Alison Dorsi, a BA/MA student in last year’s class, has published an excellent article in the Journal of Politics and International Affairs: “Remedy’s Rhetoric: Differences in the Banking Crises of Ireland and Cyprus.” https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/294242566?access_key=key-TntREJNGnLrRNN8l2VlI&allow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll
PO Grad Student publication
Ahmet Tekelioglu, one of PO’s outstanding graduate students, has had an article published re. religious pluralism and relations between Muslim, Catholic, and secular communities. This important article is featured on the Contending Modernities Project blog. The article nicely summarizes Ahmet’s research in Los Angeles (alongside Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area) for the Contending […]