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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 cost of debt-financed war: public debt and rising interest for Post-9/11 war spending
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A roadmap to nomination: the predicitive power of United States Attorney short lists
(2020-05-01)United States Attorneys are some of the most important actors in the American justice system. While strong research does exist about US Attorneys, it focuses primarily on their behavior in office, once they are already ... -
Migrant political transnationalism: a socio-political analysis of the electoral behavior of Brazilian expats
(2020-05)Why did Brazilians living in Massachusetts show their electoral support for Jair Bolsonaro with 86% of the vote while those in the home polity did so by only 55%? What makes the Brazilian immigrant predisposed to elect a ... -
Differently disadvantaged: the importance of intersectional nuance in candidate studies
(2020-05)Members of different disadvantaged demographic categories face distinct obstacles in running for office. For certain candidates, ambition is a very significant obstacle; for others, fundraising is a more substantial problem. ... -
The fight to vote: voter identification laws and their impact on voter turnout during the 2014, 2016, and 2018 elections
(N/A, 2020-05-04)"Voter identification (ID) laws were introduced into the American electoral system during the 1970s, but have garnered more widespread attention in recent years and have expanded to over 30 states as of 2018. Critics have ... -
'Descended from immigrants and revolutionists': how family immigration history shapes representation in Congress
(2019-09-20)Does recent immigrant lineage influence the legislative behavior of members of Congress on immigration policy? We examine the relationship between the immigrant background of legislators (i.e., their generational distance ... -
Politics in forgotten governments: the partisan composition of county legislatures and county fiscal policies
(University of Chicago Press, 2020-01-09)County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the policy effects of the partisan composition of county governments. Most counties in the ... -
Persuading the enemy: estimating the persuasive effects of partisan media with the preference-incorporating choice and assignment design
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-11-01)Does media choice cause polarization, or merely reflect it? We investigate a critical aspect of this puzzle: how partisan media contribute to attitude polarization among different groups of media consumers. We implement a ... -
Concentrated burdens: how self-interest and partisanship shape opinion on opioid treatment policy
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019-11)When does self-interest influence public opinion on contentious public policies? The bulk of theory in political science suggests that self-interest is only a minor force in public opinion. Using nationally representative ...
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