B.A. in Government

The faculty in the Department of Government reflects the intellectual diversity of political science today. Consisting of more than 50 scholars, the faculty conducts graduate teaching and research across the fields of American and comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and public and comparative law. Some faculty members are specialists in public policy, formal theory, research methods, and political behavior. The department is home to the Policy Agendas Project, a major resource for teaching and research in the social sciences. Supported by the department's Irma Rangel Public Policy Institute, there is a large concentration in racial and ethnic politics, and another in gender politics. Many faculty work at the intersections of politics with economics, history, law, philosophy, and sociology. Faculty in the large comparative politics section cover most areas and countries of the world, working closely with the University's Title VI centers for Latin America, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe/Eurasia, and South Asia, and with other centers for Australian and New Zealand, East Asian, European, Mexican and Mexican-American, Asian-American, and African and African-American studies.