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Tina Nabatchi Receives National Award for Co-Edited Book on Public Administration

Mikayla Melo

ASPA recognizes Pathways to Positive Public Administration for its lasting contribution to the field.

April 20, 2026

Dunaway Quoted in Bloomberg Article on Political Independents and Partisanship

Because the parties are weaker, when candidates run, they don't anymore try to please the party and to stay in good graces with the party, because the party can't give them as much as they used to in terms of helping of helping forward their political careers,” says Johanna Dunaway, professor of political science and research director of the Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship.

February 23, 2026

Political Climate’s Role in Association Between Political Conservatism, COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Rachel E. Dinero, William B. Monti, Brittany L. Kmush
The article, co-authored by Associate Professor of Public Health Brittany Kmush, was published in PLOS One.
February 18, 2026

Griffiths Quoted in Newsweek Article on Growing Support in Some States for Seceding from the US

“The key factor driving this interest in secession is polarization. Whether it is the Red-State secessionists, the BlueExiters, the California Independence Party or the Texas Nationalists, they all point to unstoppable polarization and political dysfunction as the reason secession is necessary,” says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science.

February 17, 2026

Ekbia Weighs In on the Rise in Election-Related Activities of Big Tech Companies in CNN Article

“The recent surge in election-related activities of big tech companies such as Palantir and OpenAI can be understood as preemptive measures against potential fallouts from the election,” says University professor Hamid Ekbia. “Palantir, in specific, is in a vulnerable position because of recent revelations about its heavy involvement with ICE activities.”

February 14, 2026

Reforming Primary Elections: Voters, Campaigns, and the Future of Congressional Politics

Robert G. Boatright, Richard Barton

Maxwell School alumnus and Assistant Teaching Professor Richard Barton ’15 M.A. (PSc) has co-edited a book that examines how primary elections have changed over the past decade and why they often yield extreme or unpopular candidates. 

February 10, 2026

Brockway Weighs In on Response to Renee Good’s Death in HuffPost Article

“This is not ideological conservatives versus ideological liberals. This is not even Democrats versus Republicans,” says Mark Brockway, assistant teaching professor of political science. “What it is is something much, much more unwieldy and difficult to understand.”

January 12, 2026

Gadarian Speaks With The Cincinnati Enquirer About 2028 Presidential Bids

“There are just so many things that have happened in the last six months in this presidential administration that to think that we know what the issues will be in 2028 and who the players will be—I think it's just asking too much,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking.

November 17, 2025

Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election

Selim Erdem Aytaç, Daniel McDowell, David A. Steinberg

Co-authored by Professor of Political Science Daniel McDowell, the study was published in the British Journal of Political Science.

November 10, 2025

Faricy Quoted in Frankfurter Rundschau Article on Trump, US Economy

In order to persuade Trump's loyal MAGA camp to critically question the economy, the country would have to fall into a deep, prolonged recession, according to Christopher Faricy, associate professor of political science. In addition, there is a need for “more uniform reporting” in the media, which attributes the economic crisis to Trump's policies, he says.

November 6, 2025

Griffiths Piece on Worsening Political Polarization, National Divorce Published in The Conversation

“There is no way to disentangle red and blue America without tremendous violence. Additionally, a large and increasingly ignored percentage of Americans hold moderate views,” says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science. “There is no doubt that polarization in America is a problem that is getting worse, but a national divorce is simply not the solution.”

October 31, 2025

The ‘Great Divide’: Understanding US Political Polarization

Johanna Dunaway, research director at Syracuse University's Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship and a political science professor, explains how partisan viewpoints, news consumption and misperceptions fuel America's divisions.

October 24, 2025

McDowell Discusses His Research on Immigrants’ Partisan Preferences in PsyPost Article

“Immigration attitudes are not immune to strategic electoral thinking and hyper-partisanship,” says Daniel McDowell, Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of International Affairs. “For many Americans, our study shows that the desirability of immigration depends not just on cultural or economic factors, but also whether voters believe migrants have the same partisan preferences that that they do.”

October 21, 2025

Reeher Discusses the Government Shutdown With LiveNOW from FOX and Daily Kos

“President Trump is planning—at least he's saying he's going to do this, and he seems to be taking steps towards doing this—to very aggressively use this moment of a shutdown to make further changes in government, to remove more federal workers, to rescind funding that's been appropriated,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.

October 3, 2025

Griffiths Article on a National Divorce in America Published in The Hill

“The truth is that a national divorce would require a dangerous unmixing and re-sorting of Americans. Imagine trying to draw a new map that is coherent yet still satisfies the greatest number of people,” writes Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science.

September 26, 2025

PhD Candidates’ Work Recognized by American Political Science Association

Jingding Wang, Hannah Radner and Nicholas D’Amico were honored in recognition of their research on citizenship, government and politics.

September 23, 2025

Brockway’s “The Shadow Gospel” Reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books

“This is a transcendent, boundary-breaking work about ‘the need to recognize, decode, and resist demonological messages,’” says Peter B. Kaufman, associate director of development at MIT Open Learning.

September 21, 2025

Gadarian Speaks With NBC News About the Policy Divide Between Blue and Red States

“States are supposed to be a laboratory for experimentation. What’s interesting about this moment is that [some] states are now a laboratory for what they perceive to be a hostile federal government,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking.

September 20, 2025

Gadarian Quoted in Christian Science Monitor Article on Gov. Newsom’s Challenges to President Trump

“They have their own constituencies that they are there to represent, but also they have the ability to capture media attention and be very clear and forceful, because they don’t have to deal with Trump in the Washington policymaking arena,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking.

September 19, 2025

Griffiths Speaks With HuffPost About Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Call for a National Divorce

The “idea that irreconcilable differences justify secession ignores the violent history of such efforts, including the Civil War, and overlooks the reality that Americans are deeply intermixed—politically, geographically and ideologically,” says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science. 

September 18, 2025

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