Political Science News and Events
Thompson discusses presidential leadership survey on NewsChannel 9
Margaret Susan Thompson was interviewed on NewsChannel 9 about the 2017 C-SPAN Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership. On Abraham Lincoln topping the list she says, "We wouldn't have presidents 17 through 45 if we didn't have Abraham Lincoln.
February 21, 2017
Op-ed by ESF/SU academics supporting carbon tax to ease climate change
"In response to the climate crisis we face, our leaders must not continue to merely say 'no' to climate policies proposed by others, or to hope, as we have for decades, for an unforeseeable technological breakthrough that will render fossil fuels uneconomical," write eleven scientists and professors from SUNY ESF and Syracuse University.
February 20, 2017
Taylor comments on recent Russian actions in Voice of America
Brian Taylor, professor of political science, says "We should not try to read too much into this without more evidence." Read more in the Voice of America (VOA) article, "Russian Actions Seen as Challenging Trump Administration."
February 16, 2017
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