Steven Smith, the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Science, retires after 20+ years of scholarship at WashU.

Dan Butler's article "Top-Four Primaries Help Moderate Candidates via Crossover Voting: The Case of the 2022 Alaska Election Reforms" has been published in The Forum

Get to know Prof. Diana Z. O'Brien, Professor of Political Science and inaugural recipient of the newly established, endowed Bela Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship.

Get to know Betsy Sinclair, Professor of Political Science and incoming Chair of the department.

James L. Gibson’s article “Losing Legitimacy: The Challenges of the Dobbs Ruling to Conventional Legitimacy Theory” has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Political Science.

A&S highlights faculty retirements including Political Science faculty Randall Calvert and Steven S. Smith

Congratulations to David Carter, Dino Christenson, Matthew Gabel, Jacob Montgomery, and Betsy Sinclair on receiving seed grants from the Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences!

Noémi Neidorff, a longtime benefactor of Washington University in St. Louis and other cultural and educational institutions locally and beyond, has made a $3 million pledge to the university to endow the new Bela Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences.

By analyzing social media content generated across the globe, political scientists seek to understand the current wave of populist rhetoric flooding the internet and its threats to democracies.

"Transdisciplinary team to study political instability, health outcomes"

Congratulations to Mike Olson, whose article “Franchise Expansion and Legislative Representation in the Early United States” (co-authored with Stephen Ansolabehere and Jaclyn Kaslovsky) was awarded the 2023 Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize for the best article in volume 3 of the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy!

Diana O'Brien, Professor of Political Science, has been named as the inaugural recipient of the newly established, endowed Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship.