When someone mentions a “banana republic,” they’re referring to a small, poor, politically unstable country that is weak because of an excessive reliance on one crop and foreign funding. The ...

You will begin your studies with fundamental courses in contemporary political science and the historical foundations of modern politics. At the upper-division level, you will study a broad range of ...

These quotes have been selected from the essay “Science and Self-Respect: Periyar on Modern Science” by Senthil Babu D which seeks to understand the place that modern science occupied in Periyar's ...

Political Science majors study the institutions and processes of domestic and international governance and decision making, their underlying ideas and ideologies, political opinion and political ...

This past April, thousands of academics, researchers, and students descended upon Chicago for the Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). Among the presenters were ...

Welcome to The Political Science Department, part of the Social Science Division of the College of Arts & Sciences. We have over 700 majors and the largest entering class of the Social Sciences.We ...