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
Statewide poll finds Texans worried, McCain and Cornyn enjoying leads
A statewide survey produced by members of the UT-Austin Government Department found Texans focused on economic concerns and expressing very negative views about the country's direction.
Prof. Henry Dietz Recognized in Peru for Longtime Service and Dedication.
Prof. Kenneth Greene Wins 2008 Best Book Award from APSA
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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