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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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Export or perish: can internal devaluation create enough good jobs in southern Europe?
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A Europe of creditor and debtor states: explaining the north/south divide in the Eurozone
(Taylor and Franis, 2019-04-29)The divide in the Eurozone between a small set of core economies with strong international financial positions (North) and a set of debtor states that show periodic vulnerability in international financial markets (South) ... -
Does race affect access to government services? An experiment exploring street-level bureaucrats and access to public housing
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2017-01-01)While experimental studies of local election officials have found evidence of racial discrimination, we know little about whether these biases manifest in bureaucracies that provide access to valuable government programs ... -
Mayors, partisanship, and redistribution: evidence directly from U.S. mayors
(SAGE, 2016-11-28)Policymakers and scholars are increasingly looking to cities to address challenges including income inequality. No existing research, however, directly and systematically measures local political elites’ preferences for ... -
Recruiting large online samples in the United States and India: Facebook, Mechanical Turk and Qualtrics
This article examines online recruitment via Facebook, Mechanical Turk (MTurk), and Qualtrics panels in India and the United States. It compares over 7300 respondents—1000 or more from each source and country—to nationally ... -
City learning: evidence of policy information diffusion from a survey of U.S. mayors
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2019-03-01)Most studies of policy diffusion attempt to infer the processes through which policies spread by observing outputs (policy adoptions). We approach these issues from the other direction by directly analyzing a key policymaking ... -
Study and discussion questions on Machiavelli's The Prince
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PO590 Readings in political theory: great speeches
(2018-09-09)Syllabus for Fall, 2018 seminar course. -
Final paper for PO391 / PH453
(2018-09-03)Final paper topics and specifications for PO391 / PH453 (Fall, 2018) -
BU Hub PO391 Classical to early modern political theory / PH453 Theories of society
(2018-10-28)BU HUB Syllabus for PO391 cross-listed as PH453, for Fall, 2019 and subsequent years. The learning outcomes of this course pertain to three BU Hub General Education Requirement categories: Philosophical Inquiry and Life’s ...
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