Dan Butler's article "Top-Four Primaries Help Moderate Candidates via Crossover Voting: The Case of the 2022 Alaska Election Reforms" has been published in The Forum

Get to know Prof. Diana Z. O'Brien, Professor of Political Science and inaugural recipient of the newly established, endowed Bela Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship.

Get to know Betsy Sinclair, Professor of Political Science and incoming Chair of the department.

Joseph Silagi, May 2023 graduate with a degree in political science and in mathematics and computer science from Arts & Sciences, shares his passion for data and running.

James L. Gibson’s article “Losing Legitimacy: The Challenges of the Dobbs Ruling to Conventional Legitimacy Theory” has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Political Science.

A&S highlights faculty retirements including Political Science faculty Randall Calvert and Steven S. Smith

Congratulations to David Carter, Dino Christenson, Matthew Gabel, Jacob Montgomery, and Betsy Sinclair on receiving seed grants from the Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences!

Noémi Neidorff, a longtime benefactor of Washington University in St. Louis and other cultural and educational institutions locally and beyond, has made a $3 million pledge to the university to endow the new Bela Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences.

A new partnership between the Weidenbaum Center and Harvard University will give social scientists at WashU the opportunity to receive constructive, anonymous feedback on their research at any stage. The program aims to improve scholarship and speed its publication.

By analyzing social media content generated across the globe, political scientists seek to understand the current wave of populist rhetoric flooding the internet and its threats to democracies.

"How Presidents Persuade Facts, Feelings, and the Language of Presidential Power" has been selected as the Presidents and Executive Politics Best Graduate Paper for 2023

Jeremy Siow and Ben Noble won first and second place in the social science category.