Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard professors and authors of “How Democracies Die,” believe the polarization in the U.S. over issues involving race, religion, and culture could threaten democracy. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/01/the-rising-pressures-on-american-democracy/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020180130…
The Harvard Gazette article on ‘The Space Between Us’
Ryan Enos talks about his new book “The Space Between Us,” in which he explores how geography shapes politics and how members of racial, ethnic, and religious groups think about each other. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/01/new-book-explores-the-impact-of-geography-on-politics-psychology-behavior/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020180124b…
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the authors of the new book ‘How Democracies Die,’ join Morning Joe to discuss why they write in their book about the danger of leaders ‘who subvert the very process that brought them to power.’
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the authors of the new book ‘How Democracies Die,’ join Morning Joe to discuss why they write in their book about the danger of leaders ‘who subvert the very process that brought them to power.’ http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-eroding-credibility-of-us-institutions-authors-of-how-democracies-die-1139688003679?v=a…
What Donald Trump has in common with Napoleon III – The Boston Globe an article by Cheryl Welch
https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/10/17/what-donald-trump-has-common-with-napoleon-iii/qnX812fKJeRneVsLX8A1JM/story.html…
Sheena Greitens’ (PhD graduate) 2016 book, “Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence” is the co-winner of the 2017 International Studies Association’s annual “Best Book” Award.
Sheena Greitens’ (PhD graduate / Assistant Professor University of Missouri / Harvard Academy Fellow 2017-18) 2016 book, “Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence” is the co-winner (along with Jessica Stanton’s book (“Violence and Restraint in Civil War: Civilian Targeting in the Shadow of International Law”) of the 2017 International Studies Association’s…
Matthew Blackwell is the winner of this year’s Gosnell Prize for his paper “Instrumental Variable Methods for Conditional Effects and Causal Interaction in Voter Mobilization Experiments”
Matthew Blackwell is the winner of this year’s Gosnell Prize for his paper “Instrumental Variable Methods for Conditional Effects and Causal Interaction in Voter Mobilization Experiments”. The Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology is awarded for the best work in political methodology presented at any political science conference during the preceding year….
Voting-roll vulnerability Study points to potential security weakness in many online registration systems Harvard Gazette article
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/09/study-points-to-potential-vulnerability-in-online-voter-registration-systems/ For as little as a few thousand dollars, online attackers can purchase enough personal information to perhaps alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new Harvard study. Dubbed “voter identity theft” by study authors Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, research analyst Ji Su…
Ranjit Lall PhD candidate has been awarded a Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science in the Emerging Researchers category
http://www.bitss.org/people/ranjit-lall/ 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Ranjit Lall is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research interests are in the area of international political economy, with a focus on international institutions, global governance, financial regulation, and quantitative methods. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a…
The following Phd students were named as 2017-2018 APSA Minority Fellowship Program recipients
The following Government Department Phd students were named as 2017-2018 APSA Minority Fellowship Program recipients. http://www.apsanet.org/mfp/2017_2018 Kaneesha Johnson Pamela Adaugo Nwakanma Shannon Parker…
APSA Announces the 2017-2018 APSA Minority Fellowship Program, Spring Cycle Recipients
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce that Kaneesha Johnson, a first year PhD student at Harvard University, has been named as a 2017-2018 APSA Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Fellow, Spring Cycle. Kaneesha Johnson (RBSI 2015) is a PhD student in the department of government at Harvard University. In the summer of 2015 Johnson…