Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Michelle Torres!  She has been selected to receive a 2018 Association of Women Faculty Graduate Student Award.

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Michelle Torres!  She has been selected to receive a 2018 Association of Women Faculty Graduate Student Award.

2006 Graduate Ryan Vander Wielen (Associate Professor, Temple University) has been chosen to be one of the APSA Congressional Fellows for next season. Congratulations Ryan!

Why has economic inequality risen dramatically over the past few decades even in democracies where individuals could vote for more redistribution? We experimentally study how individuals respond to inequality and find that subjects generally take from richer and give to poorer individuals.

Congratulations to Professor David Carter and his coauthors Rachel Wellhausen (Texas) and Paul Huth (Maryland). Their paper, "International Law, Territorial Disputes, and Foreign Direct Investment" has been accepted at International Studies Quarterly.

Washington University in St Louis Earns Top Ranking for Political Science & Government Program

Professor Andrew Reeves' and co-author Jon Rogowski's, former Washington University professor, paper "The Public Cost of Unilateral Action" is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science. You can view it in advance of publication here: http://www.andrewreeves.org/papers/constraints.pdf

Congratulations to Professor Matt Gabel! His paper, "Political Ideology, Confidence in Science, and Participation in Alzheimer Disease Research Studies," co-authored by Jonathan Gooblar, Catherine M. Roe, Natalie J. Selsor, and John C. Morris, has been published in Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders (2018).

Graduate student, Jeong Hyun Kim, has accepted a tenure track position in political science at Louisiana State University.

Graduate student, Jeong Hyun Kim, has accepted a tenure track position in political science at Louisiana State University.

Congratulations to Professor Keith Schnakenberg! He won the Gordon Tullock Prize from Public Choice for the best paper published by a junior scholar in 2017.

Graduate student, Jonathan Homola, has accepted a tenure track position in the political science department at Rice University.