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…
PhD Alumni Newsletter June 2017
https://gov.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/gov/files/gov-june-2017.pdf?m=1498663556…
Daniel Koss’s dissertation has been selected for the Walter Dean Burnham Best Dissertation Award of the section on History and Politics of the American Political Science Association
Daniel Koss’s dissertation, Where the Party Rules: Party-Based Authoritarianism and the Reach of the Chinese State has been selected for the Walter Dean Burnham Best Dissertation Award of the section on History and Politics of the American Political Science Association….
Yue “Iza” Ding’s dissertation has been selected for the Best Dissertation Award of the Section on Urban and Local Politics of the American Political Science Association
Yue “Iza” Ding’s dissertation, Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China, has been selected for the Best Dissertation Award of the Section on Urban and Local Politics of the American Political Science Association. …
Why liberal democracy only dies when conservatives help – The Washington Post / Wonkblog – an article featuring Professor Daniel Ziblatt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/17/why-liberal-democracy-only-dies-when-conservatives-help/?utm_term=.c9f893f7786b&wpisrc=nl_wonk&wpmm=1…
American Exceptionalism Isn’t a Modern Idea by Paul Peterson in the Wall Street Journal
American Exceptionalism Isn’t a Modern Idea Alexis de Tocqueville concluded in the 1830s: “The situation of the Americans is entirely exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be put in the same situation.” https://gov.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/gov/files/05_02_17_wsj_american_exceptionalism_isnt_a_modern_idea.pdf?m=1493997482…