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PSCI's Professor Ken Bickers spoke Kyra Buckley on KUNC about the upcoming election and what may be at stake for Colorado, and the choices for congress. You can read the full article here, Or listen to the interview here.

Professor Sarah Sokhey's book, The Political Economy of Pension Policy Reversal in Post-Communist Countries (Cambridge University Press)), won the Ed A Hewett Book Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe from the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Click here...

Dr. Anand Sokhey sat down with Nick Forster and Jean Dubofsky for the eTown's PurpleState podcast. Listen to it here .

Professor Sven Steinmo has just written a new online publication (co-authored with Bo Rothstein) which argues that the Left’s “Identity Politics” help explain the rise of populism in Europe (and America?). Read the article.

Professor Jennifer Wolak just published an article in The Political Behavior. It can be found here.

“People tend to discount the effect that Hillary Clinton probably had on the number of women running for office,” said Christina Ladam, a CU Boulder political science graduate student and the study’s lead author. “There’s strong support for the idea that she may have served as a symbolic role model...

The Department of Political Science is excited to introduce Dr. Clara Park this year! “I was always interested in International Relations and Economics, and specifically the intersection of those two fields.” Dr. Clara Park double majored in Government and Economics from Cornell, then went to graduate school at UC Berkeley...

Dr. Steinmo has taken a novel path to publishing his latest book, "The Leap of Faith" through Oxford University Press. The book focuses on why citizens in some countries are more willing to pay taxes than in other countries, and includes research funded by The European Research Council (ERC). As...

"Sometimes Michaele Ferguson’s classes are going too smoothly, and there’s a real need for a riot or maybe just a bit more heckling. The heckling is real, the riots just acknowledged, and they are part of an innovative teaching method called Reacting to the Past , which was initiated at...

"After an astonishing 27 years at odds, in June, Macedonia and Greece reached a dramatic breakthrough in negotiations over what’s known as the Macedonia naming dispute . The dispute was, yes, over the former Yugoslavian nation’s name — but over much more as well, as we’ll see below. And after...