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Ceremony honors two celebrated teachers and a former Yale College dean Words like “amazing,” “superb,” and “fantastic” are understatements when it comes to describing Frances...
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Walter Shapiro has a piece in the Opinion section on RollCall.com. “The conventional wisdom creeps in on little cat feet. Over the last few months, the political community...
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The Department of Political Science at Yale University congratulates Seyla Benhabib, who has been awarded an Honorary Degree from the School of the Social Sciences of the...
David Mayhew has an article on the StartingPoints website. “Congress In the Light of History”. What should we expect of a separation-of-powers regime interlaced with tough...
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Mara Revkin’s article in the Washington Posts’s Monkey Cage, How Militants in Iraq and Syria Recruit and Use Children, is a deep look into the recruitment and use...
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Yale’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has selected our colleague and friend Frances Rosenbluth as this year’s recipient of the William Clyde DeVane Award for Distinguished...
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The department mourns the loss of Charles Edward Lindblom, former Chair and one of the giants of the modern field of Political Science. He died January 30th 2018 at age 100,...