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Statement of Principles, and Moving Forward

Harvard  University Department of Government Jennifer Hochschild, Chair Statement of Principles, and Moving Forward Recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education have reported allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct by Professor Jorge Dominguez, a faculty member in our department. We in the Department of Government were appalled to hear of these concerns and to…

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…

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….

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…