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UPenn's Beta Tau chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, has been awarded a Best Chapter Award for 2023-2024
This is the twelfth time that the chapter has received this award, which is quite an achievement! These awards are intended to recognize local…
Read MoreEmeritus Professor Rogers Smith featured in new article about the Most Patriotic States in America
Professor Rogers M. Smith was featured in WalletHub's recent article about Most Patriotic States In America. You can find it here: https://wallethub.…
Read MoreProfessor Tariq Thachil wins 2024 Giovanni Sartori Book Award
Tariq Thachil’s book, Migrants and Machine Politics, coauthored with Adam Auerbach, was awarded the 2024 Giovanni Sartori Book Award from APSA’s…
Read More2023 David A. Lake Award for best paper awarded to professor Julia Gray and Ph.D. student Chloe Ahn
Political science professor Julia Gray and graduate student Chloe Ahn received the 2023 David A. Lake Award for the best paper presented at the 20023…
Read MoreProfessor Edward Mansfield elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024
Congratulations to Prof. Ed Mansfield, Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science and Christopher H. Browne Center director, who is one of five Penn…
Read MoreTwo graduate students receive Andrea Mitchell Center Fellowship for A24-25
Miranda Sklaroff and Yara Damaj, graduate students in Political Science, have been awarded the Andrea Mitchell Center Fellowship for the 2024-2025…
Read MoreGraduate Student Awards and Fellowships
Congratulations to the 5 Ph.D. students who have received a Dissertation Research Award for 2024-2025: Apurva Bamezai, Jason Hartwig, Nick Pangakis,…
Read MoreDean's Scholar Award presented to Ph.D. student Rashi Sabherwal
Congratulations to Rashi Sabherwal who was named Dean's Scholar, one of nine given out to graduate students from across all of the departments of…
Read MorePh.D. Student Sarah Gerstein receives Margaret E. Galey Award
The Browne Center for International Relations has awarded Political Science Ph.D. student Sarah Gerstein the Margaret E. Galey Award for 2024. The…
Read MorePh.D. Student Daniel Shapiro receives prestigious Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching
Congratulations to Political Science graduate student Daniel Shapiro for being awarded the prestigious teaching award. It was highly deserved!
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Penn’s Political Science Department is experiencing a renaissance. Over the past decade, our faculty has grown by 50%, an increase in quantity that has been matched by gains in quality. The strength of our faculty in each of four major subfields is being built with an eye to excellence embracing a variety of approaches and methodologies.
Featured People
John Lapinski
Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies
John DiIulio
Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society
Nancy Hirschmann
Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought
Michael C. Horowitz
Richard Perry Professor Director, Perry World House
Rudra Sil
Professor of Political Science SAS Director of the Huntsman Program
Matthew Levendusky
Professor Stephen and Mary Baran Chair in the Institutions of Democracy, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Beth Simmons
Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science
Books
The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
How political protests and activism have a direct influence on voter and candidate behavior
Our Common Bonds Using What Americans Share to Help Bridge the Partisan Divide
Our Common Bonds shows that—although there is no silver bullet that will eradicate partisan animosity—there are concrete interventions that can reduce
Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth
Since the 1990s, mainstream political parties have failed to address the problem of growing inequality, resulting in political backlash and the transformation of European party systems.
Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India
Why do poor people often vote against their material interests?
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left
Ernst Bloch was one of the most significant twentieth-century German thinkers, yet he remains overshadowed by his Frankfurt School contemporaries.
Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade
Winners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens ...