Politicians and interest groups think that lambasting the other party helps win elections. They may be right. But, in a recent article, Tim Ryan, Assistant Professor at UNC, and David Brockman, Assistant Professor at Stanford, show how these attacks might also have … Read more

The UNC Department of Political Science is pleased to host this distinguished speaker series in conjunction with POLI 203: Race, Innocence, and the End of the Death Penalty. The speakers will address one of the most important policy puzzles our … Read more

As many people know, most recently from the presidential primary debates, Americans are backing away from harsh criminal justice policies. In the debates, both Democrats and Republicans have consistently and uniformly suggested that mass incarceration has gone too far. That includes … Read more

The experience of war, observers agree, has changed Ukraine in profound ways. This is not the same country as before the revolution, either in its boundaries or its population. Some observers even claim that President Putin has inadvertently become a … Read more

Do countries react to economic crises with more protectionist or more liberal trade policies? Read more…

Can candidates use non-campaign advertising to help them to win elections? Using the example of North Carolina Commissioner of Labor Cherie Berry – who has her picture placed in every elevator in the state – Jacob Smith and Neil Weinberg … Read more

UNC Assistant Professor Chris Clark and CU- Boulder Assistant Professor Jeff Harden find that it is much more important to Americans that their political preferences are represented by a group of legislators, even if that group does not include their own … Read more

Having completed her Ph.D. at Yale, Lucy Martin is thrilled to join the UNC faculty as an assistant professor of political science. Also trained as an economist with a master’s degree from Yale, Lucy’s research focuses on the political economy … Read more

Joshua Jansa, a Ph.D. student in political science in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has received a grant to support his research from the Horowitz Foundation. Jansa’s project is “Laboratories of Inequality: The Politics of Economic Development Subsides and the … Read more

The Board of Governors of the 17-campus University of North Carolina has selected UNC Associate Professor Terry Sullivan, for a 2015 Award for Excellence in Teaching. Sullivan is one of 17 recipients, nominated by special committees on their home campuses … Read more