The Red Wave Didn't Just Vanish
Government professor Sean Westwood and the Polarization Research Lab are featured in an op-ed about the midterm election results. Read the full 'The New York Times' opinion piece HERE!
[more]Government professor Sean Westwood and the Polarization Research Lab are featured in an op-ed about the midterm election results. Read the full 'The New York Times' opinion piece HERE!
[more]Control of Congress still in question, but Democrats avoid a "red wave."
[more]Prof Yusaku Horiuchi tells The New York Times, "When the weather is bad, then that actually means the social and maybe the psychological cost of going to the polling station goes up," about weather and voter turnout. -
[more]Bright Line Watch, a multi-university initiative whose co-directors include professors John Carey and Brendan Nyhan, surveyed Americans and political scientists about the state of democracy as the country approached its first national elections since the Jan.6 insurrection.
[more]The Department of Government is thrilled to announce that John Cho's '22 honors thesis Trade-offs in Asian American Political Representation has won the Jonathan B. Rintels 1927 Prize. The Rintels Prize recognizes an outstanding thesis in the Arts and Humanities & Social Sciences. About John's thesis, one of his advisors, Prof. Horiuchi, writes:
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