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…
Eliza DeCubellis ’17 Wins Hoopes Prize
Eliza DeCubellis ’17 has won the Hoopes Thesis Prize for her thesis “Activism Under Authoritarianism: Breaking Ground on Domestic Violence in China.” Congratulations!…
Eliza DeCubellis ’17 Wins Hoopes Prize
Eliza DeCubellis ’17 has won the Hoopes Thesis Prize for her thesis “Activism Under Authoritarianism: Breaking Ground on Domestic Violence in China.” Congratulations!…
PhD student, Jinyan Zang is a 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship recipient
https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/jinyan-zang…
Danielle Allen Discovers New Copy of Declaration of Independence in British Archive (New York Times)
A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces. Head-Scratching Ensues. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/arts/a-new-parchment-declaration-of-i……
Torben Iversen has been elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects 228 National and International Scholars, Artists, Philanthropists, and Business Leaders https://www.amacad.org/content/news/pressReleases.aspx?pr=20274…
Asia Stewart ’18 named as a 2017 APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) Scholar.
Asia Stewart ’18 has been named as a 2017 APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) Scholar. Congratulations! The Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI), now in its 31st year, is an annual, intensive five-week program held at Duke University. It is designed to introduce to the world of doctoral study in political science those undergraduate students from under-represented…