New faculty publication
Professors John Gerring and Max Palmer have just published this important article in the American Political Science Review. “Demography and democracy: A global, district-level analysis of electoral contestation” – pdf
Professor Martin’s book published
Professor Cathie Jo Martin’s most recent book has just been published by Brookings Institution Press. This important work (coedited with Professor Jane Mansbridge of Harvard) is Political Negotiation: A Handbook.
Fall 2015 Department Newsletter
Click here for the latest issue of the Political Science Department Newsletter featuring articles from Judith Swanson, Efraim Inbar, Helen Knowles, Irene Gendzier, Doug Kriner, and Katherine Einstein.
Professor Cathie Martin Interviewed in Washington Post on Denmark, Socialism, and Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders invoking Denmark and Democratic-Socialism has been a prominent part of the Democratic Party primary. Recently, the Washington Post devoted substantial attention to the question of whether Denmark is “socialist” or “business friendly.” To do so, it interviewed (at length) Cathie Jo Martin, a Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department (along with her […]
Updates from Graduate Alumni
Dennis Sullivan (Ph.D., 2016) is receiving his PhD from Boston University in January 2016 after successfully defending his dissertation on mechanisms providing indications and warning relating to intra-state conflict. Dennis received his M.A. (International Relations, Comparative Politics, and Security Studies) from Boston College in 2008 and his B.A. (Political Science and East Asian Studies) from […]
PO 313 — The Politics of the Wire — Named “Coolest” Class at BU by Boston.com
Recently, in its back to school guide on Boston University, Boston.com named the Political Science department’s “The Politics and Policy of HBO’s the Wire (PO 313) the “Coolest Class to Take” on campus. The class, co-taught by professors Katie Einstein and David Glick combines watching HBO’s show about urban life with readings from political science […]
Professor Palmer’s Work Published in the Journal of Politics
Max Palmer and his co-author (Benjamin Schneer of Harvard) have published “Capitol Gains: The Returns to Elected Office from Corporate Board Directorships” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/683206).
Professor Mayers Publishes in Diplomacy and Statecraft
The current issue of Diplomacy and Statecraft (September 2015) contains an essay by David Mayers, “Humanity in 1948: The Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” By approving prohibitions on genocide and embracing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations in 1948 sustained a theory premised on the centrality of […]
Two Faculty Members and a Ph.D. Student Publish Together in the APSR
Three members of the department — Professor John Gerring, Assistant Professor Max Palmer, and Ph.D. student Dominic Zarecki have an article together in the latest issue of the American Political Science Review (with a fourth colleague, Jan Teorell from Lund University). The article, titled “Demography and Democracy: A Global, District-level Analysis of Electoral Contestation” investigates […]
PhD Student, Brian Smith, Publishes Article
Brian Smith, one the of the department’s Ph.D students, has just published an article in one of the top journals in political theory. The article, titled “On Revolution: Arendt, Locke, and Republican Revision” appears in History of Political Thought (36:3 (2015) 560-579). Congratulations to Brian. Here is Brian’s abstract: When Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution was published […]