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On July 1, while Americans prepared to celebrate the Fourth, Canadians celebrated Canada Day and, this year, the 150th anniversary of the British North America Act 1867. In...
Kate Baldwin, newly named as the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, focuses her research on political accountability, state building, and the...
Professor David Mayhew was part of a three person panel at the National Constitution Center discussing “What Happened to Congress?”.  Speaking with Josh Chafetz, author of...
Professor Frances Rosenbluth has been awarded the Lex Hixon ’63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences. “Frances Rosenbluth, the Damon Wells Professor of...
David Mayhew has yet another editorial piece in the Washington Post Monkey Cage.  “Two Factors Help A President Get A Lot Done in 100 Days:  Trump Has Only One.”  Read it...
What kind of job has America’s routinely disparaged legislative body actually done?  In The Imprint of Congress, the distinguished congressional scholar David R. Mayhew...
Mayesha Alam, a first year graduate student in our Ph.D. program, has just been selected as one of the 30 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans recipients! “The...