A few week ago, UC Berkeley and the Political Science Department had to cancel their Spring 2020 Commencement events as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Then, the University of Blockeley was created in Minecraft. UC Blockeley is the version of the campus built by some very creative UC Berkeley students in the game Minecraft. On May 16th, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. there will be...
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Rachel Strohm, a PhD candidate, recently had her article "A novel idea: integrating urban and rural safety nets in Africa during the pandemic" publish in The Coversation. The peice discusses using rural migration to take some of the pressure off Africa's overstrained urban social safety networks during the crisis. You can read the ful article here, https://theconversation.com/a-novel-idea-integrating-urban-and-rural-sa…
In March, at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society in New Orleans, Dylan Miars, a sophomore political science and global studies double major, presented the paper " Rawls on Majority Rule: A Case Study of Majority Rule as a Philosophical Non-Primitive". Drawing on multiple writings by John Rawls, its basic argument is that claims (that Rawls' conceptions of reflective equilibrium...
See full article below : Allison Grossman (2020): How can African governments persuade citizens to follow coronavirus guidelines?: Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/17/how-can-african-gove…
Political Science is pleased to announce Varsha Sarveshwar as the 2020 recipient of the Departmental Citation. The Departmental Citation is an award honoring an outstanding graduating Political Science undergraduate. Political Science would also like to acknowledge Nicolas Friedlich and Jack Sadler as finalists for the Departmental Citation. We are proud of you and excited for all 2020 graduates!
In the lastest edition of the Boston Review, called On Anger, features an article by Professor Desmond Jagmohan, 'Anger and the Politics of the Oppressed.' To learn more about the winter eddition of the Boston Review featuring Professor Jagmohan's artilce follow this link, http://bostonreview.net/forum-xiii-winter-2020.
Published on January 6th 2020, an essay by New Political Science Assistant Professor Desmond Jagmohan titled “Between Race and Nation: Marcus Garvey and the Politics of Self-Determination” is now available. To check it out follow this link, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0090591719897569.
In a recently edition of The Economist, 5th year Poltical Science PhD student Carlos Schmidt Padilla's research was cited in an article about the effects transnational gangs arriving in El Salvador. For the full story click here, https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/01/11/a-new-study-suggest…. Please note you will need a subcription to The Economist to read the full-article.
See full article below: Cecilia Hyunjung Mo (2019): How Teach for America Affects Beliefs about Education: Connecting Classroom Experience to Opinions on Education Reform https://www.educationnext.org/how-teach-for-america-affects-beliefs-edu…
Professor Emeritus David Vogel wins the Lynton Keith Caldwell Best Book Award from the organized section on Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics of APSA for 2019. The Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize is given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years. https://www.apsanet.org/MEMBERSHIP/Organized-Sections/Organized-Section…