Political Science News and Events

Rasmussen's book Fears of a Setting Sun featured in NY Times article

Professor Dennis Rasmussen's book, "Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders," was featured in the New York Times article, "George Washington Feared for America and Other Truths About the Founders We’ve Frozen in Time."

July 28, 2021

See related: Government, United States

Reeher Discusses NY Congressional Redistricting in Daily Star

Read more in the Daily Star article, "New Yorkers get chance to weigh in before new political maps take shape."

July 22, 2021

See related: Congress, New York State

Campbell Quoted in Guardian on the Death of Haiti's President

Horace Campbell, professor of political science, was quoted in The Guardian article, "What do we know about investigation into the assassination of Haiti’s president?"

July 22, 2021

See related: Crime & Violence, International Affairs, Latin America & the Caribbean

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Seva Gunitsky | Autocratic Resilience in the Age of AI

September 25, 2026, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

Eggers Hall, 341

Seva Gunitsky (Univ. of Toronto) will discuss three AI governance strategies—panopticism, discourse management and agency alignment—and link them to old institutional tradeoffs in closed regimes.
Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato

September 28, 2026, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

Virtual

Ezequiel González-Ocantos (Oxford Univ.) will discuss how the transnational bribery investigation spread throughout Latin America, paralyzed economies, upended elections and collapsed governments.

Political Science Department

100 Eggers Hall