Media Coverage and Op-Eds

Prof. John Wilkerson's LegEx Data Tool in UW News: New, UW-developed data tool tracks state legislative process, from first draft to final law 
February 21, 2020
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Conversation site, "Restoring the Reputations of Charities after Scandals"
February 14, 2020
Prof. Christopher Parker on Politico Magazine, "The New Rules: Racism can drive votes"
February 3, 2020
Prof. Anthony Gill on the AEIR site, "How to Teach the Benefits of Trade"
January 31, 2020
Prof. Christopher Parker interviewed in The Nation, "Donald Trump Is Not the Only Alleged Criminal Democrats Can’t Unseat"
January 31, 2020
Prof. Christopher Parker Interviewed on Pacifica Radio, "83% of African Americans Say Trump Is a Racist"
January 24, 2020
Prof. Aseem Prakash in Global Asia, "Delhi’s Air Pollution: A Failure of Democratic Governance"
January 17, 2020
Prof. Christopher Parker work quoted in the New York Times, "America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others"
December 10, 2019
Grad Students Dubeau and Mehta-Neugebauer in AAUP: "Data Snapshot: Graduate Students, Social Class, and Academia’s Promise"
November 21, 2019
Prof. Jake Grumbach in The Daily: "Why did Washington voters reject affirmative action — again?"
November 19, 2019
The Daily Highlights UW Center for Environmental Politics and Prof. Aseem Prakash
November 15, 2019
UW Book Notes: Political Scientist Megan Ming Francis to edit new series on Race, Ethnicity, Politics
November 8, 2019
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes: "U.S. Coal Bankruptcies Reveal The Future Of Alberta Tar Sands"
November 8, 2019
Prof. Anthony Gill on AIER site, "California’s Law on Paid Athletes Is Not a Free Market Reform"  
October 11, 2019
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Amazon's Climate Pledge: Greenwashing Or A Game-Changer?"
October 3, 2019
Prof. Christopher Parker on the Seattle Channel: Civic Cocktail: Combating White Supremacy
September 26, 2019
Prof. Christopher Parker in the Cambridge University Press: “Trump-ing Foreign Affairs: Status Threat and Foreign Policy Preferences on the Right”
August 21, 2019
Prof. Christopher Parker in a Crosscut debate, "Will Donald Trump win re-election? If not, who will stop him, and how?"
June 26, 2019
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Should the Judiciary Be Making US Climate Policy?"
June 25, 2019
Prof. Anthony Gill on the AEIR site, "Should Hikers Pay for Their Own Rescue?"
June 6, 2019
Prof. Prakash and polisci major Sarah Tucker on Forbes: "Are Climate Action Supporters Avoiding the Green New Deal Label?"
May 29, 2019
Prof. Scott Lemieux on City&State New York, "New York will get Trump’s tax returns"
May 24, 2019
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Are India's Political Parties Ignoring Climate Change?"
April 30, 2019
Prof. Margaret Levi Named Recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science
March 28, 2019
Scott Lemieux on the NBCNews Think site, "Democratic wins in 2020 won't change much if Mitch McConnell saves the filibuster "
March 25, 2019
Profs. Aseem Prakash and Nives Dolšak on Forbes web site, "Can The Socialism Label Hurt The Green New Deal?"
March 25, 2019
Prof. Susan Whiting, "Property Rights and Economic Development in China,” Penn Center for the Study of Contemporary China Podcast
March 19, 2019
The Daily reports on Guest Speaker Prof. Douglas L. Kriner, “Legislative-Executive Relations in the Age of Trump”
March 1, 2019
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Prof. Aseem Prakash in the High Country News, "What killed Washington’s carbon tax?"
January 23, 2019
Prof. Aseem Prakash on KUOW Radio's The Record, "Should politicians lead with climate?"
January 18, 2019
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill news site, "Can the climate movement survive populism? Lessons from 'yellow vest' protests"
December 12, 2018
Prof. Christopher S. Parker in the Review Symposium, "A Discussion of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die"
December 6, 2018
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
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill web site, "Read my lips: No new (carbon) tax"
November 14, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on the HuffingtonPost site, "If Liberal Billionaires Really Wanted To Change Politics, Here’s What They’d Do"
October 25, 2018
Center for Environmental Politics Debate Event Concerning I-1631 in the UW Daily
October 25, 2018
Prof. Christopher S. Parker talking, Trumpism in Europe: The American President Offers Hope to Growing Far Right Forces Overseas
October 19, 2018
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
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
Prof. Christopher S. Parker on The Hill web site, “There's a boost in black turnout, especially among black women voters”
August 29, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill web site, “Seattle’s smoky summers are becoming the new normal”
August 24, 2018
Prof. Jamie Mayerfeld on the Just Security web site, "Brett Kavanaugh and the Risk of a Return to Torture"
August 16, 2018
Political Science PhD Student Mathieu Dubeau on the NewPolitics Site, "Battleground Seattle: A Class of Classes and a Brewing Perfect Storm"
August 3, 2018
Lecturer Scott Lemieux on Vox, "6 myths about Roe v. Wade, debunked"
July 17, 2018
Prof. Christopher Parker on KQED radio San Francisco, "Racial Resentment and White Cultural Anxiety Fuel Support of President Trump, Studies Find"
July 17, 2018
International Coverage of "Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy" by Professor Victor Menaldo
July 12, 2018
Political Science Undergraduate Caleb Huffman Wins Library Research Award for "Fuel on the Flame: Open-Air Drug Markets and Homicide Clusters"
June 8, 2018
Megan Francis
Imagine you had a class with Distinguished Faculty Award Winner Megan Francis
June 5, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill news site, "What Amazon owes Seattle's homeless is a matter of debate"
May 23, 2018