Faculty and Staff

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Prof. Anthony Gill Interviewed on EconTalk Podcast, "Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization"
November 13, 2025
NW Now
Prof. James D. Long on KBTC Northwest Now, "Free Speech Concerns"
November 10, 2025
Hannah Arendt
In Dark Times, A Call to Action: Teaching Hannah Arendt's Political Hope
November 5, 2025
Susan Whiting
From Classroom to Countryside: The Research Path of Political Scientist Susan Whiting
November 4, 2025
UW College of Arts&Sciences News: Aseem Prakash Recognized for Lifetime Achievement 
September 29, 2025
UW Political Science Faculty Brie McLemore
New Faculty: Brie McLemore
September 2, 2025
Prof. Aseem Prakash
Prof. Aseem Prakash Receives the 2025 John Gaus Award from APSA
August 20, 2025
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Prof. Aseem Prakash Awarded American Political Science Association "John Gaus Award"
June 4, 2025
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New Political Science Office Staff
May 20, 2025
APSA MENA
Prof. Asli Cansunar Wins American Political Science Association Middle East and North Africa Best Paper
May 16, 2025
Seattle Sunset
Prof. Aseem Prakash in The Daily (UW), "Tariffs create economic anxiety for Asian markets in Seattle"
May 14, 2025
New Professors in Political Science Department
May 13, 2025
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Profs. Aseem Prakash & Lance Bennett Featured in The Daily, "UW political scientists ranked among world’s best scholars for groundbreaking research"
May 8, 2025
Prof. Aseem Prakash
Profs. Aseem Prakash & Lance Bennett Named  "Best Political Science Scientists" by Research.com
April 28, 2025
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in The Seattle Times, "WA prepares to defend climate policies against Trump’s latest order"  
April 14, 2025
KOMO Question of the Day
Prof. Victor Menaldo Interviewed on KOMO News, "Incoming Tariffs Shock Stock Market"
April 10, 2025
Asli Cansunar
Prof. Asli Cansunar Cited in Turkish News Site bianet
April 10, 2025
Christopher Adolph
Prof. Christopher Adolph Ranked 1st in Recent Research Impact in PS: Political Science & Politics, "A Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments"
April 7, 2025
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Prof. Victor Menaldo on KUOW, "How Section 230 helped create the internet... and why it may go away"
April 1, 2025
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in Forbes, "How To Correct Three Climate Policy Failures"
March 18, 2025
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Prof. Victor Menaldo in The Los Angeles Times, "Opinion: What China’s DeepSeek breakthrough really means for the future of AI"
February 6, 2025
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in Forbes, "Vandalism Undermines Public Support For Climate Groups"
February 3, 2025
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Prof. Aseem Prakash and Kayla Morton in The Regulatory Review, "Protecting Climate Legislation Through Issue Linkage"
January 21, 2025
Congress
Prof. Victor Menaldo in The Conversation, "How constitutional guardrails have always contained presidential ambitions"
January 16, 2025
Generating Public Support For State Climate Policy During Trump 2.0
December 30, 2024
Tariffs and Goods
Prof. Victor Menaldo Op-Ed In The Seattle Times, "The fallout for WA of Trump’s tariff plan"
December 13, 2024
No on 2117
Prof. Aseem Prakash Interviewed in The Seattle Times, "Climate advocates finally won in WA. How? By not talking about climate"
December 11, 2024
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Prof. Victor Menaldo on Axios, "Washington state had the smallest rightward shift in 2024"
December 2, 2024
KOMO News
Profs. Long, Lemieux and Menaldo on KOMO News Town Hall, "Trump 2.0 The Washington Impact"
November 27, 2024
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in Forbes, "Bomb Cyclones, Electricity Outages And Climate Resilience"
November 25, 2024
KUOW
Prof. Sophia Jordán Wallace on KUOW's Soundside, "Exit polls, gender gaps, and religion: understanding Latino voting patterns in the 2024 election"
November 20, 2024
Voting
Prof. Sophia Jordán Wallace in The Seattle Times, "UW prof offers fresh take on exit polling"
November 18, 2024
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Prof. Victor Menaldo in The Columbian, "People over party: Reelected U.S. Rep. Perez bucks election trend with focus on working-class issues"
November 18, 2024
States Vote
Profs. Victor Menaldo and Mark Alan Smith Quoted in Axios, "Why Washington was the only state to shift blue in 2024"
November 14, 2024
TheConversation
Profs. Victor Menaldo and James Long Interviewed for The Conversation, "‘Inflation is radioactive’: Trump’s victory is part of a global populist wave of voters throwing out incumbents "
November 12, 2024
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in Forbes, "Washington Voters Favor Pollution Cap But Not Transitioning From Gas"
November 12, 2024
Prof. Victor Menaldo on KIRO News site, "Where did Democrats go wrong? Top lawmaker says party needs to ‘take a good hard look’"
November 8, 2024
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Prof. Victor Menaldo in The UW Daily, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and online at KCBS
November 4, 2024
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Prof. Victor Menaldo Opinion Piece in The Seattle Times, "Robust democracy’s checks and balances would stymie Trump"
November 1, 2024
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in Mother Jones, "The Energy Culture War Is on the Ballot in One of America’s Greenest States"
November 1, 2024
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in Forbes, "Hurricanes Helene And Milton Should Motivate Us To Bury Power Lines"
October 21, 2024
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Prof. Victor Menaldo in UW News Interview, "Q&A: New book shows how innovation inequality fuels America’s political divide "
October 15, 2024
Prof. James D. Long Featured in UW News, "How to Steal an Election: New UW course examines democracy’s vulnerability "
October 8, 2024
Department of Political Science: Democracy Discussions
October 7, 2024
Prof. Aseem Prakash in Forbes, "From Climate Purist To Climate Pragmatist: The Case Of Kamala Harris"
October 1, 2024
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Prof. Victor Menaldo on Axios Seattle, "Why lying by politicians is generally legal"
September 27, 2024
Gabriella Levy
Prof. Gabriella Levy Wins American Political Science Association (APSA) Best Dissertation Awards
September 12, 2024
Prof. Aseem Prakash in The Regulatory Review, "SBTi, Climate Pledges, and Share Prices"
September 9, 2024
Prof. Aseem Prakash on ABC News site, "The GOP has transitioned from climate denial to climate misrepresentation, experts say"
September 3, 2024
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in Forbes, "Climate Change As A Moral Trigger: Starbucks CEO And Corporate Jets"
September 3, 2024