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Political scientists explore the concerns and issues that animate public life. Using both humanistic and scientific approaches, we study how political communities attempt to reconcile the claims of justice, power, liberty, and authority.
Drawing on history, law, economics, psychology, sociology, and philosophy, political science is a broadly based social science that shares the traditional aims of liberal arts education while attempting to come to grips with the major public issues of our time.
Upon graduation, political science majors qualify for careers in both the public and private sectors, in local, state, and federal government, and in business, education, journalism, international organizations, and practical politics. They also pursue postgraduate study in law and public administration, as well as graduate study in political science, among other disciplines.
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Department chair: David Mayers
Campus address: 232 Bay State Road
Phone: 617-353-2540
Fax: 617-353-5508
Website: www.bu.edu/polisci
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The relationship between unions and people’s populist beliefs
(2022-05)This study asks, “Do unions affect people’s draw to populism and the politicians that they vote for?”. To answer this question, I interviewed custodians from Union 32BJ Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and ... -
Measuring whether political elites or members of the public lead ideological shifts and polarization in the United States
(2022-05-03)This thesis considers the relationship between public and elite opinion and explores the causes of polarization in American politics. In the first part of the thesis, I review theories that explain potential sources for ... -
Influences on rhetoric in qualified immunity cases: race, gender, and political ideology of Circuit Court judges and Supreme Court justices from 1982-2021
(2022-05-03)[When writing the Constitution, many of the Founders worried about the government having too much power over the country’s citizens. To ensure the privacy and security of the country’s citizens, the Founders decided to ... -
Land of the freeholder: how property rights make local voting rights
(Now Publishers, 2021)A large body of research documents the dominance of homeowners in local politics. There has been little scholarship, however, on the role that voting institutions have played in empowering homeowners from the inception of ... -
What goes up, must come down? The asymmetric effects of economic growth and international threat on military spending
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Twenty years after leave none to tell the story, what do we now know about the genocide of the Tutsi In Rwanda?
(Manchester University Press, 2020-05-01)In 1999, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published an extensive account of genocide in Rwanda, Leave None to Tell the Story. Based on interviews and archival work conducted ... -
Race and place based discrimination against Housing Choice Voucher holders in Greater Boston
(2021-05-01)The Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCV), formerly called Section 8, is one the largest federally funded housing programs in the country. One goal of the program is to give families who live in areas with a high concentration ... -
An analysis of U.S.-China arms race dynamics
(2021-05)The current dynamics of the U.S.-China great power competition has been accompanied by a series of military adaptations by both nations. Within the past three decades, China has substantially altered their military’s force ...
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