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PhD Student Constantin Manda on UNDispatch: "Why Do Journalists Keep Getting Arrested in Tanzania?" “Constantine Manda is a Tanzanian national and a PHD candidate in the department of political science at Yale University. If you have 20 minutes and want to learn why...	Bruce Russett Receives Marquis Who's Who Humanitarian Award Professor Bruce Russett, Dean Acheson Research Professor of International Politics and Professor of International and Area Studies in the MacMilllan Center, Yale University,...	Professor Elisabeth Wood named 2020 APSR co-editor The American Political Science Association has announced a new editorial team to lead the American Political Science Review (APSR), starting June 1, 2020. The APSA Council...	Public invited to Professor Shapiro’s ‘Power and Politics’ DeVane Lectures How did we get from the huge euphoria that followed the fall of communism in the early 1990s to our present politics of fear and resentment, and what are the prospects going...
Isabela Mares appointed the Wolfers Professor of Political Science Isabela Mares, recently named as the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, focuses her research on a range of topics in comparative politics and political economy,...	Selected Works of David Mayhew The works of David Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Yale University, have been collected and organized into a website available to both scholars...	Assistant Professor Elizabeth Nugent: "How the death of Egypt’s former president shows changing politics" Assistant professor Elizabeth Nugent is the author of a piece on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, titled “How the death of Egypt’s former president shows changing politics...