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Welcome to the Department of Political Science. Our faculty currently has research and teaching interests in the fields of political behavior and institutions, public policy, international relations, comparative politics, political theory, and methods. However, we frequently emphasize intersections across fields and across disciplines. Many of our faculty have expertise and interests in more than one field. Several also have formal appointments in disciplines such as Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, Economics, African American Studies, Communication, and Sociology. We also have relationships with Psychology and Economics with whom we have dual masters programs, Women's Studies, the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, the Purdue Global Policy Research Institute, the Latin American Studies Center, and the Asian Studies Center. The Purdue Political Science Department emphasizes an interdisciplinary outlook. Aside from its strengths in political institutions, the department also is especially noted for work in the areas of race, ethnicity, gender, and class, in environmental and climate change policies, and in civic norms and social ties relating to crisis situations.
Rosalee A. Clawson, Department Head and Professor
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Katie Cahill-Rincón is the recipient of the 2013-2014 Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI) Graduate Student Research Fellowship. The GPRI fellowship will be used to fund six months of Katie's research in India and Bangladesh. While she is there, Katie plans to conduct interviews with political elites and members of international organizations regarding accountability for childhood immunization programs. The data Katie collects will be included in her dissertation, "The Politics of Social Good Distribution: Childhood Immunization in India and Bangladesh". You can follow Katie's trip through her online blog, "Research for Beginners: My journey through India and Bangladesh" at www.researchforbeginners.org.
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Faculty Books
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The Constituent
The Political Science Department Newsletter
Pi Sigma Alpha
Political Science majors have the opportunity to become a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society. PSA is the only honor society for college and university students of government in the United States. The Purdue University Delta Omega chapter organizes many activities throughout the year, including faculty and student colloquia, law school forums, resume workshops, and an end-of-the-year initiation cookout!
Fall 2013 Course
POL 429: Builing Democratic Institutions
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