Political Science News

Spotlight: Purdue PhD Program Celebrates Recent Student Success and Milestones  "My time at Purdue was intellectually stimulating and set me up for success in my academic career” Janel Jett (PhD 2022, NCEC Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Harry S. Truman School of Government and Public Affairs)   -  Read more

The Department of Political Science is delighted to welcome Assistant Professor Benjamin Broman to the faculty! Dr. Broman is a political economist whose interests lie in the emergence and evolution of political institutions. Theoretically, he uses game theory to explore how institutional choices and changes can be driven by social pressures. Empirically, he leverages historical political economy data to study the political and economic development of the British Isles, especially during the early modern and industrial periods. Read more

“The Liar’s Dividend: Can Politicians Claim Misinformation to Evade Accountability?,” recently published research in the American Political Science Review by Dr. Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Dr. Daniel S. Schiff,  and Dr. Natália S. Bueno, is gaining attention from journalists and think tanks as they seek to understand the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on elections.  In a CNN interview with Michael Smerconish, Dr. Kaylyn Schiff Read more

The Department is excited to announce that Dr. Jesse M. Crosson received TWO Emerging Scholar awards at the 2024 American Political Science Association Meetings in Philadelphia. He is the winner of the 2024 APSA Legislative Studies Section Emerging Scholar Award and the 2024 APSA Political Organizations and Parties Section Emerging Scholar Award.  These awards reflect his exciting research agenda at the intersection of parties Read More

The Department is very pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Eddie Yang to the faculty! Dr. Yang recently completed his PhD at University of California San Diego holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University’s Kellog Center for Science of Science of Innovation where is working on projects that explore how policies and political institutions shape technological innovation. On one project, he is evaluating the impact of industrial policies on the semiconductor industry and how to use AI to facilitate policy-relevant research. Read More

The Department is delighted to welcome to faculty Dr. Brian Kogelmann, Associate Professor of Political Science and Philosophy!  Dr. Kogelmann brings a rich research agenda at the intersection of ethics and political economy.  He is particularly excited to be working on a project that explores the ethics of creative destruction: “AI is changing the world fast. Read More

Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics
Drawing on extensive original archival research, Dr. Swati Srivastava reveals the little-known stories of how this hybrid power operated at some of the most important turning points in world history: spreading the British empire, founding the United States, establishing free trade, realizing transnational human rights, and conducting twenty-first century wars. Read more

Purdue Political Science is home to new research labs and programs to support multi-field research collaboration among faculty, post-docs, graduate, and undergraduate students. Lab themes address complex questions about technology, governance, institutions of democracy, law, conflict, political attitudes, and political behavior. They advance new tools for research such as audio and video analytics, computational methods, latent-variable measurement, experimental methods, and causal inference. Read more

Professor Scudder's  new book, "The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation" asks: How should defenders of democratic life respond to threats to democracy?  Read more

Professor Kaylyn Jackson Schiff receives Best Dissertation in the Field of Public Administration Read more

Professor Ann Marie Clark traces the evolution of a new international human rights ethos developed by activists in language, law, and practice over the past 50 years in Demands of Justice: The Creation of a Global Human Rights Practice Read more

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Swati Srivastava  asks three interrelated questions: (1) How is private power expressed in global politics? (2) How does global private power interact with public power? (3) How can global private power be held accountable? Read more

Professor Melissa Will draws on her CIA background when speaking to a crowd of Purdue community members about the situation in Afghanistan.  Read more