Political Science News
Dr. Schiff Shaping AI Policy As a subject matter expert in technology policy and AI governance, Assistant Professor Dr. Daniel Schiff led a workshop in Indianapolis on March 18th in collaboration with the Future Caucus to explore the growing need to consider AI in policymaking. The Future Caucus is a national, nonpartisan group that works with young policymakers in a bipartisan fashion, on Read more
Distinguished Scholar Award for Dr. Ann Marie Clark Prof. Ann Marie Clark has been awarded the prestigious Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Studies Association’s Human Rights Section. The award will be conferred at the 2025 International Studies Association Meeting in Chicago this week, where a panel discussion has been planned to honor her work. Clark's research has focused on norms and discourse in international relations, the theory and practice of international human rights, and the influence of non-governmental organizations on state behavior. Her work has explored global justice and the ways in which Read more
Purdue-Google AI Summit Political Science graduate students joined GRAIL lab colleagues and co-director Professor Daniel Schiff at the AI Summit hosted by Purdue and Google. Dr. Schiff moderated the "Uniting Education, Business and Government" discussion panel. The event Read more
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
Oxford Handbook of AI Governance Virtual Book Launch
The International Politics and Responsible Tech lab (iPART) and Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL) at Purdue invite you to a virtual book launch for the new Oxford Handbook of AI Governance. Read more
Interdisciplinary Foundations of Research Design
How do we make a valid causal inference or a good behavioral forecast? What are the standards for evaluating the measurements of key concepts for a research study? What does it mean for a finding to be "statistically significant"? These are the kinds of questions we will be exploring in this new course available to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. 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
Purdue Political Science is thrilled to welcome eleven new colleagues hired in the last two years including Andy Baker, Miram Barnum, Mollie Cohen, Jesse Crosson, Bryce Dietrich, Tyler Girard, Liana Eustacia Reyes, Daniel Schiff, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Minh Trinh, and Shan Zhou. 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