Thesis presentations by the Government Department Honors Students of the Class of 2018 will take place in 215 Silsby Hall. All are welcome to come!
The schedule for presentations is as follows:
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
1:00PM-2:00PM: Alyssa Heinze, “Is gender all that matters? The impact of women leaders' intersectional identities on political performance in India”
Friday, May 18, 2018
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[more]"Professor Brendan Nyhan has been named a Carnegie Fellow in recognition of his research on increasing media trust and countering misinformation in the era of fake news. He is one of 31 scholars and writers chosen this year by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to support significant research, writing, and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
Carnegie provides up to $200,000 with each fellowship to...
[more]Sabyne Pierre ’20 has been awarded a 2018 Newman Civic Fellowship by Campus Compact, which will provide her with training and resources to advance social change. Read more in this Dartmouth News article.
Prophets, whether false or true, are a profound challenge to any society. It is said that a prophet is honored everywhere except in his or her own country. Why are prophets so dangerous? Why do they provoke such conflict? Prophets: you can’t live with them or without them.
Professor James Bernard Murphy of the Government Department will lead an intensive, daylong intellectual retreat in the Hanover Inn for a small group of Dartmouth students to discuss the life, the trial, and the...
[more]Visiting Professor Bernard Avisha authored an article in the New York Times titled 'Hamas and the Mass Protests in Gaza'. Read more here.
Wentworth Professor John Carey co-authored the Washington Post analysis article "The threat of impeachment can push presidents out the door. But there’s a catch." Read more here.
Katie Clayton '18 (Government and French major) presented her poster, "The Moderating Influence of Social Contact on Perceptions of Immigrants in France," at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association on April 5, 2018 in Chicago. This poster is based on her Government Honors Thesis supervised by Professors Jeremy Ferwerda and Yusaku Horiuchi.
Professor Sean Westwood's paper, "Projecting Confidence: How the Problematic Horse Race Confuses and Demobilizes the Public" was cited in reports by Pew and the Washington Post.
Abstract: Horse race coverage in American elections has shifted focus from late-breaking poll numbers to sophisticated meta analytic forecasts that often emphasize candidates' probability of victory. We place this "probabilistic...
[more]Senior Government and QSS major, Alexander Agadjanian along with his co-author published their aritcle, "Democrats are Changing Their Minds About Race, and the Youth are Leading the Way," in New York Magazine.
Congratulatons to Professor Jeremy Ferwerda, whose latest article "Improving Refugee Integration Through Data Driven Algorithmic Assignment" will be featured on the front cover of Science.
Abstract:
The continuing refugee crisis has made it necessary for governments to find ways to resettle individuals and families in host communities. Bansak et al. used a machine learning approach to develop an...
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