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About the Department
Alexander Sahn ’13 and Andrew Shindi ’13 win Hoopes Prize for outstanding senior thesis. Congratulations!   Alexander Sahn, “Mainstream Party Convergence and the Radical Right: Anti-Immigration and Protest Voting in Context”   Andrew Shindi, “The Inadvertent Inheritors of the Moon and Stars: Accidental Presidents and the Vice Presidency”  
Digitizing a movement - Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/05/digitizing-a-movement/?utm...
Foreign Affairs article by Ph.D student Yuri Zhukov Trouble in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea - The Coming Dash for Gas in Foreign Affairs
Stability amid revolution in China Ph.D student Daniel Koss http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/stability-amid-revolution/...
Washington Post OpEd - Professor Ryan Enos "How the demographic shift could hurt Democrats, too" How the demographic shift could hurt Democrats, too  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-demographic-shift-could-hurt-democrats-too/2013/03/08/de82ab38-8128-11e2-a350-49866afab584_story.html
Letting Religion In - Speakers at Veritas Forum argue for faiths' role as part of open discussions - Prof. Michel Sandel Harvard’s justice guru Michael Sandel and Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago Divinity School convened at the Vertias Forum to explore whether religion has a role in public life. In his remarks, Sandel suggested that a public discourse that disregards moral and religious...
The Unheavenly Chorus (Princeton University Press) that is co-authored by Professor Sidney Verba, Kay Schlozman, and Henry Brady just won two of the top 2012 awards given by the Association of American Publishers  
Prof. Paul Peterson op-ed in the Washington Times PETERSON: Trying to nudge the Constitution out of place, Are Americans obsessed with founding documents
Aurel Braun, Visiting Professor from the University of Toronto, has been awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal   Aurel Braun, Visiting Professor from the University of Toronto, has been awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for the reasons the Governor-General and the nominator outline below.  It was particularly gratifying regarding his work at the International Centre for Human Rights and...
The Global Classroom - Harvard Professor Michael Sandel has opened his wildly popular “Justice” class to the world. (Harvard gazette article) Harvard Professor Michael Sandel