Political Science News and Events
Bybee featured in Watertown Daily Times article on SCOTUS nominee
"He’s no Kennedy," Keith Bybee, professor of political science, says of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. "To the extent Kavanaugh disagrees with Kennedy...you’ll see the court change."
Gadarian quoted in NY Times article on gender gap in voting
"One of the things that I think that women are responding to in this current political moment is both a realization of past wrongs and the real threat of a loss of status," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.
Keck weighs in on SCOTUS nominee on Capitol Pressroom, WAER
Tom Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, says the nomination of Kavanaugh is part of a "generation-long effort to stack the Supreme Court."
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Seva Gunitsky | Autocratic Resilience in the Age of AI
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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.
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Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato
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Ezequiel González-Ocantos (Oxford Univ.) will discuss how the transnational bribery investigation spread throughout Latin America, paralyzed economies, upended elections and collapsed governments.