Welcome to The Department of Government
The department is distinguished by the breadth and quality of its faculty, students, and curriculum. It is the largest department in the College of Liberal Arts and is home to 2200 majors and 115 Ph.D. students. Nationally recognized for its quality, the Department has fifty professors, a dozen joint and emeritus professors, ten lecturers, and more than fifty teaching assistants. The Department houses the Public Policy Institute research unit. Through some 200 courses each year, the Department offers undergraduate and graduate studies in an array of fields: American Political Institutions and Processes, Comparative Politics, Formal Theory, International Relations, Methodology, Political Theory, and Public Law. Its graduates go on to careers in virtually every profession and have become leaders in politics and diplomacy, education, law, business, medicine, the arts, and in a great many governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Current News
Prof. Henry Dietz Named 2008 Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellow
Si Se Puede: Politicians Court Latino Voters
Modern U.S. political rhetoric generally holds that elected leaders should "look like America." But, while national demographics are changing rapidly, the face of the government is slow to follow.
Politics in the Pews
Researchers explore the role of religion in mobilizing African American and Latino voters
Prof. Bartholomew Sparrow Joins 2008-2009 Class of Fellows at the Woodrow Wilson Center
Prof. Daron Shaw Publishes a Book of "Unconventional Wisdom"
The Rhetorical Presidency by Professor Jeffrey Tulis is Subject of Symposium
Jeffrey Tulis published The Rhetorical Presidency twenty years ago, but it continues to make waves.
Recent Books by Government Department Faculty
A number of Government Department faculty published books during 2007.
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