Faculty and Staff

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Prof. Christopher Parker in a Crosscut debate, "Will Donald Trump win re-election? If not, who will stop him, and how?"
June 26, 2019
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Should the Judiciary Be Making US Climate Policy?"
June 25, 2019
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Prof. Anthony Gill on the AEIR site, "Should Hikers Pay for Their Own Rescue?"
June 6, 2019
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Prof. Prakash and polisci major Sarah Tucker on Forbes: "Are Climate Action Supporters Avoiding the Green New Deal Label?"
May 29, 2019
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Prof. Scott Lemieux on City&State New York, "New York will get Trump’s tax returns"
May 24, 2019
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Are India's Political Parties Ignoring Climate Change?"
April 30, 2019
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Prof. Margaret Levi Named Recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science
March 28, 2019
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Scott Lemieux on the NBCNews Think site, "Democratic wins in 2020 won't change much if Mitch McConnell saves the filibuster "
March 25, 2019
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Profs. Aseem Prakash and Nives Dolšak on Forbes web site, "Can The Socialism Label Hurt The Green New Deal?"
March 25, 2019
Letter from the Chair, Spring 2019
March 25, 2019
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Prof. Susan Whiting, "Property Rights and Economic Development in China,” Penn Center for the Study of Contemporary China Podcast
March 19, 2019
Nives Dolšak and Aseem Prakash
Partners in Public Scholarship
March 18, 2019
"Tipping Points" Poster, by Tony Gill
Tony Gill on Tipping
March 18, 2019
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in the High Country News, "What killed Washington’s carbon tax?"
January 23, 2019
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on KUOW Radio's The Record, "Should politicians lead with climate?"
January 18, 2019
John Wilkerson, Department Chair
Letter from the Chair
January 9, 2019
Caitlin Ainsley, Assistant Professor
Faculty Profile: Assistant Professor Caitlin Ainsley
January 9, 2019
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill news site, "Can the climate movement survive populism? Lessons from 'yellow vest' protests"
December 12, 2018
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Prof. Christopher S. Parker in the Review Symposium, "A Discussion of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die"
December 6, 2018
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Prof. Christopher Parker on the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog, "Which motivates independents to get politically involved: Pocketbook issues or fear that Trump is hurting democracy?"
November 27, 2018
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill web site, "Read my lips: No new (carbon) tax"
November 14, 2018
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on the HuffingtonPost site, "If Liberal Billionaires Really Wanted To Change Politics, Here’s What They’d Do"
October 25, 2018
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Prof. Christopher S. Parker talking, Trumpism in Europe: The American President Offers Hope to Growing Far Right Forces Overseas
October 19, 2018
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Obituary: William Jay Gore
October 15, 2018
John Wilkerson, Department Chair
Letter from the Chair
October 15, 2018
Meera Roy, Director of Academic Services
Staff Profile: Meera Roy, Director of Academic Services
October 15, 2018
James Long conducting research
Faculty Profile: Associate Professor James Long: Combatting Electoral Fraud
October 15, 2018
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Prof. John Wilkerson on Legbranch site, "Machine learning improves our understanding of how laws are made and who deserves credit for them"
October 5, 2018
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Prof. Jamie Mayerfeld on the Lawyers, Guns & Money web site, "Kavanaugh and the question of torture"
September 21, 2018
Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy
Interview with Prof. Victor Menaldo about new book Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy
September 4, 2018
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Prof. Christopher S. Parker on The Hill web site, “There's a boost in black turnout, especially among black women voters”
August 29, 2018
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill web site, “Seattle’s smoky summers are becoming the new normal”
August 24, 2018
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Prof. Jamie Mayerfeld on the Just Security web site, "Brett Kavanaugh and the Risk of a Return to Torture"
August 16, 2018
Prof. Mark A. Smith
Seeking Truth in an Age of Cynicism and Political Polarization: Professor Mark Alan Smith talks about his new undergraduate course Pols334 for Autumn 2018
August 8, 2018
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Political Science PhD Student Mathieu Dubeau on the NewPolitics Site, "Battleground Seattle: A Class of Classes and a Brewing Perfect Storm"
August 3, 2018
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Lecturer Scott Lemieux on Vox, "6 myths about Roe v. Wade, debunked"
July 17, 2018
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Prof. Christopher Parker on KQED radio San Francisco, "Racial Resentment and White Cultural Anxiety Fuel Support of President Trump, Studies Find"
July 17, 2018
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International Coverage of "Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy" by Professor Victor Menaldo
July 12, 2018
Megan Francis
Imagine you had a class with Distinguished Faculty Award Winner Megan Francis
June 5, 2018
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill news site, "What Amazon owes Seattle's homeless is a matter of debate"
May 23, 2018
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Professor Victor Menaldo inThe New York Times Opinion, "Why Are So Many Democracies Breaking Down?"
May 9, 2018
Professors Whiting, Ainsley, and Caporaso
Trump, Trade, Tariffs panel discusses undesirable outcomes of trade wars
May 5, 2018
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Professor Christopher Parker Lecture on C-SPAN, The Great White Hope: Donald Trump, Race, & The Crisis of American Politics
May 2, 2018
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Prof. Victor Menaldo in The Seattle Times, "Crony capitalism and protectionism are the despot’s way"
April 23, 2018
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Scott Lemieux in the LA Times, "If Democrats sweep the House this fall, blame Paul Ryan's rich-on-poor class warfare"
April 23, 2018
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Huffington Post, "The Climate Change Hypocrisy Of Jet-Setting Academics"
April 12, 2018
Megan Ming Francis
UW political scientist Megan Ming Francis named fellow with NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall Institute
March 9, 2018
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Prof. Christopher Parker at Town Hall Seattle with Arlie Russell Hochschild on her book, "Strangers in Their Own Land"
February 28, 2018
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Polisci Lecturer Scott Lemieux: The GOP Is Scared of a Fair Fight
February 26, 2018
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Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Washington Post Monkey Cage blog, "The Oxfam scandal shows that, yes, nonprofits can behave badly. So why aren’t they overseen like for-profits?"
February 23, 2018