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

Daniel Mattingly
Associate Professor Daniel Mattingly won the American Journal of Political Science Best Article Award for his article “How the Party Commands the Gun: The Foreign-Domestic...
Kenneth Scheve and Isabela Mares
Isabela Mares, Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Kenneth Scheve,  Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs, FAS Dean of Social Science,...
Nicholas Sambanis
Nicholas Sambanis, Kalsi Family Professor of Political Science and Lukas Reinhardt, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Krzysztof Krakowski, have an article in Comparative Political...
Egor Lazarev
Assistant Professor of Political Science Egor Lazarev has an article in Perspectives on Politics entitled “Imperial Legal Politics after the Age of Empires: How the Russian...
Joshua Kalla
Associate Professor Joshua Kalla has an article in American Politics Research entitled “Targeted Abortion Frames Do Not Mobilize Political Action-Taking.” Abstract: With the...
Shiro Kuriwaki
Assistant Professor Shiro Kuriwaki has an article in Science Advances entitled “Privacy violations in election results.” Abstract: After an election, should election...