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Joshua Kalla: Political pros no better than public in predicting which messages persuade A new study by Yale political scientist Josh Kalla shows that experts performed little better than chance in identifying effective political messaging. Political campaigns...	Akhil Reed Amar Awarded Barry Prize Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Reed Amar ’84 has been awarded one of 10 Barry Prizes from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. The prize comes...	Kevin Elliott: "What Is It Like To Be a Partisan? Measures of Partisanship and Its Value for Democracy" Kevin J. Elliott, Lecturer in Ethics, Politics, & Economics, has an article in Perspectives on Politics entitled “What Is It Like To Be a Partisan? Measures of...
Joshua Kalla: "Can we trust political polling?" The Yale video series Rose Walk and Talk interviewed Associate Professor in Political Science Joshua Kalla, asking the question “Can we trust political polling?” Abstract:...	Egor Lazarev has received several awards for State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya Assistant Professor of Political Science Egor Lazarev has received several additional awards recently for his book State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in...	Daniel Mattingly: "China’s Soft Sell of Autocracy Is Working And America’s Efforts to Promote Democracy Are Failing" Associate Professor Daniel Mattingly has an article in Foreign Affairs magazine entitled “China’s Soft Sell of Autocracy Is Working And America’s Efforts to Promote Democracy...
Egor Lazarev awarded the 2024 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize Assistant Professor of Political Science Egor Lazarev received the 2024 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize for best first book by a Yale ladder faculty member for State-...