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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…