Introduction

Building on its historical strength, Yale is a leader in research and teaching in contemporary Political Science. The Department is home to around 45 faculty, whose scholarship and teaching span across the subfields of Political Science and the countries of the world. The undergraduate major is among the largest on campus, and the graduate program produces Ph.D. students who have taken leadership positions in the discipline. 

Many Political Science faculty also play active roles in related programs at Yale, such as the Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics; Directed Studies; the Institution for Social And Policy Studies; and the MacMillian Center. The Department also sponsors numerous seminars, lectures, and conferences that are open to all members of the Yale community.

News

Matthew Dahl
PhD Candidate Matthew Dahl has an article in the Journal of Legal Analysis entitled “Large Legal Fictions: Profiling Legal Hallucinations in Large Language Models”. Abstract...
Matthew Dahl
PhD Candidate Matthew Dahl has a new preprint in the online journal arXiv entitled “Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools”....
Sam Zacher
Graduate Student Sam Zacher has an article in Political Research Quarterly entitled “What Forms of Redistribution Do Americans Want? Understanding Preferences for Policy...
Oona Hathaway
Professor of Political Science and Executive Editor of Just Security Oona A. Hathaway (Just Security Bio) has an article on the Just Security website entitled “Transparency...
Gregory Collins
Dr. Gregory Collins, lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University is an awardee of the Heritage...
Eliza Oak
Graduate School student Eliza Oak has an article (with Andrew hall) on the a16zcrypto website entitled “DAO research: A roadmap for experimenting with governance”. Abstract:...