Professor Margit Tavits' 2022 paper, "Can Policy Responses to Pandemics Reduce Mass Fear?" is now available for Open Access in the Journal of Experimental Political Science by the Cambridge University Press.

The two-year grant will help three political scientists at Washington University analyze millions of political social media posts and survey democratic citizens.

Congratulations to Taylor Carlson for winning with 2023 PolNet Best Book Award for "What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America", co-authored with Jaime Settle of the College of William and Mary!

His work, "The Role of District Magnitude in When Women Represent Women," is co-authored with Patrick Cunha Silva of Loyola University Chicago.

Reeves co-authored the paper with Jon Rogowski, titled "Democratic Values and Support for Executive Power."

Amy Gais writes that her students judge women writers much more harshly than male writers—and considers what can be done about it.

Margit Tavits and Efrén Pérez have been selected as the winners of the Robert E. Lane Award for their book Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion. 

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

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 new partnership between the Weidenbaum Center and Harvard University will give social scientists at WashU the opportunity to receive constructive, anonymous feedback on their research at any stage. The program aims to improve scholarship and speed its publication.

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"