Rory Truex discusses how the U.S. government is actively disinvesting in China studies.

Based on rich data and exhaustively researched evidence, Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020 tracks the personal and political pressures behind presidential Supreme Court nominations and the

Jan Mueller discusses how the stalling tactic recently employed by Poland’s outgoing government is part of a worrying trend in democracies, whereby the incumbent party rigs the game before leaving

Melissa Lane’s 2023 monograph, Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political, has been feted this autumn with multiple book symposia and book launch events.

Jan Mueller pens an article for The Guardian predicting that a second Trump term would be far more autocratic than the first.

R. Douglas Arnold has been awarded the William G. Bowen Award by the Industrial Relations Section for his book, Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age

Professor Kristopher Ramsay delivered the 2023 Sidney Verba Lecture at Harvard University's Department of Government. His talk was titled "Conservation for Sale: International Bargaining over Payment for Ecosystem Services." Recent

Undergraduate student, Matej Sekulic, was granted funding from the Politics Department that gave him the opportunity to travel and conduct research for his senior thesis. Sekulic spent the summer in

You, a scholar in American politics, joined the department as an associate professor in July 2023.