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Five Yale Political Science Professors win a total of seven awards this year. Five of Yale University’s Department of Political Science professors have won a total of seven American Political Science Association awards this year. Congratulations...	Tariq Thachil awarded APSA’s 2015 Leon Epstein Award for the best book on political organizations and parties. Tariq Thachil’s book, Elite Parties, Poor Voters (Cambridge, 2014) has received its second American Political Science Association award, the 2015 Leon Epstein Award for...	Seeing like a State by James Scott wins its second and third APSA prizes. James Scott has been awarded two APSA prizes this year for his 1999 book Seeing Like A State. The 2015 Aaron Wildavsky Award, given by the Public Policy section of the...
Eitan Hersh's new book, Hacking the Electorate, is now available. Eitan Hersh’s new book, Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters, has been published and is now available. Hacking the Electorate is the most comprehensive...	Adria Lawrence awarded 2015 David Greenstone Book Prize of the Politics and History Adria Lawrence has just been awarded the 2015 J. David Greenstone Book Prize of the Politics and History section of APSA for her book “Imperial Rule and the Politics of...	John Roemer's newest book, "Sustainability for a Warming Planet", is now available. Human-generated greenhouse gas emissions imperil a global resource: a biosphere capable of supporting life as we know it. What is the fair way to share this scarce resource...
Vesla Weaver Wins APSA 2014 Best Book in Urban Politics Vesla Weaver, Assistant Professor Political Science and African American Studies, Yale University, has just won the 2014 Best Book in Urban Politics award given by APSA, for...