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Walter Shapiro on RollCall.com Opinion: A Message for Midterm Poll Jumpers 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...	Seyla Benhabib awarded Honorary Degree from the School of the Social Sciences of the University of Geneva 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 on StartingPoints: "Congress In The Light Of History: 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...
Mara Revkin: How militants in Iraq and Syria recruit and use children 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...	Professor Frances Rosenbluth recipient of the William Clyde DeVane Award for Distinguished Teaching and Scholarship. 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...	Professor Charles Lindblom passes away at the age of 100. 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,...
Stephen Skowronek has a new publication available. The Policy State: An American Predicament Policy is government’s response to changing times, the key to its successful adaptation. It tackles problems as they arise, from foreign relations and economic affairs to...