Grad Student Taiyi Sun Publishes on State-Society Relations
Graduate student Taiyi Sun recently published an article in China Information, “Earthquakes and the typologies of state-society relations in China.” Abstract: The proliferation of civil society organizations after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and the 2013 Lushan earthquake in China has caught the attention of scholars in Chinese politics and disaster politics. Immediately after the earthquakes […]
Profs Kriner & Wilson Win Best BJPIR Article Award
Professors Doug Kriner and Graham Wilson recently won the award for Best Article published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations in 2016, for their article: The Elasticity of Reality and British Support for the War in Afghanistan. Abstract Building on recent efforts to bridge the elites/events dichotomy in the wartime opinion literature, […]
Advanced Programs Poster Session 2017
The BU Political Science community gathered together on Monday, May 17th, 2017 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. Below you can view the posters from the show: Beal’s poster Blankman’s […]
Grad Student Brian Smith Publishes on Security Communities
Graduate student Brian Smith recently published an article in Polity, “Friends in the State of Nature: John Locke and the Formation of Security Communities.” Abstract: This article explores an overlooked element of Locke’s international thought, namely that political communities emerge out of human sociability, friendship, and trust. The argument developed here diverges from both the […]
Prof Boas Promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Taylor Boas on his recent promotion to the rank of associate professor. Boas holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. During the 2017-18 academic year, he will be on leave from […]
Graduate Student Laura Blume Publishes on Narco-Assassinations
Laura Blume, a 4th year PhD candidate has recently published an article in the Journal of Politics in Latin America: “The Old Rules No Longer Apply: Explaining Narco-Assassinations of Mexican Politicians.” Between 2005 and 2015, organized criminal groups murdered 209 politicians in Mexico. This paper explains why. It argues that the two interwoven trends of […]
Articles by Profs Piston & Christenson in Political Behavior
The latest issue of Political Behavior contains not one but two articles by PO Faculty. In the first, “Who Votes for the Future? Information, Expectations, and Endogeneity in Economic Voting”, Dino Christenson and coauthor Dean Lacy explore how information and expectations moderate the effects of economic evaluations on presidential vote choice. In the second, “Explaining […]
Prof Palmer Publishes on Redistricting and Representation
Prof Palmer’s recent article, “Institutional Control of Redistricting and the Geography of Representation,” with Barry Edwards (University of Central Florida), Michael Crespin (University of Oklahoma), and Ryan Williamson (University of Georgia) in the Journal of Politics is now available online. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/690633 Abstract A number of states have empowered independent redistricting commissions (IRCs) to redraw legislative […]
Profs Kriner & Christenson on Presidential Power in Monkey Cage
Professors Kriner and Christenson recently wrote an article for the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage on the ability of Congress to check presidential power by leading public opinion. You can read it here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/02/16/congressional-critics-do-check-presidential-power-by-leading-public-opinion/ You can also read their related article in the American Journal of Political Science at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12298/abstract?campaign=wolearlyview
Prof Crawford Interviewed on Military Budget
Professor Crawford was recently interviewed by Democracy Now on the topic of Trump’s push for a historic military spending hike and which programs he might cut to pay for it. President Trump is heading to Capitol Hill tonight and is expected to outline part of his budget plan before a joint session of Congress. On […]