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‘Looking to China for lessons on helping the poor’ The Harvard Gazette article

Nara Dillon’s work in China seeks lessons from the country’s successful battle against poverty that might be applied elsewhere. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-china-connection-highlighted-by-president-bacow-visit/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%203-18-19%20(1)…

Professor Sidney Verba The Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government at Harvard University passed away on Monday, March 4th 2019

Professor Sidney Verba The Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government at Harvard University passed away on Monday, March 4th 2019.  He served as Director of the Harvard University Library for twenty-four years. At Harvard, he had also been chair of the Department of Government, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate…

Soichiro Yamauchi, PhD Candidate is co-winner for Best Poster Award at the joint conference of the 6th Asian Political Methodology Meeting and the second annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science

We are pleased to announce two co-recipients of the Best Poster Award atthe joint conference of the 6th Asian Political Methodology Meeting and thesecond annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Quantitative PoliticalScience, which was held at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, on January5 and 6, 2019. (The award is sponsored by the Japanese Journal…

Government Department Climate Survey Report

The Inclusive Climate Subcommittee of the Climate Change Committee released the findings of the Government Department Climate Survey fielded in October 2018. Read more: https://gov.harvard.edu/government-department-climate-survey…

“Primary Elections and Candidate-Centered Campaigns” has been named the Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award winner from the 2018 conference.

“Primary Elections and Candidate-Centered Campaigns” has been named the Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award winner from the 2018 conference. The SPSA presents this award annually to the best paper presented at the previous year’s meeting.  The paper is by Professor James Snyder, Jaclyn Kaslovsky (PhD Candidate), Michael Olson (PhD Candidate), and Professor Shigeo Hirano (Columbia)….

One election winner: the pollsters / The Harvard Gazette

Harvard’s Political Analytics Conference last week included “Measuring & Mapping the Midterms,” a panel featuring Nate Cohn and Amanda Cox of The New York Times’ column The Upshot and moderated by Kirk Goldsberry of ESPN (far left). https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/11/one-election-winner-according-to-harvard-conference-the-pollsters/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020181121…