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Welcome to LSU's Department of Political Science. The Department is home to over 500 undergraduate majors and over 50 graduate students. They study with 30 faculty who are well known scholars in a wide variety of fields and who are amongst the most honored teachers at this university. We provide a vibrant place to study and a perfect place to prepare for an active role in politics. Please browse our website to learn more about us. For example, see what we teach under "Courses" and what we write under "Research." If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
James Stoner, Department Chair
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Yale Political Scientist Bryan Garsten will deliver a lecture called, "Who Speaks for the People? A Problem of Democratic Leadership," on November 12th at 3:00pm in Hill Memorial Library.
A new course is being taught for the spring semester, Political Science 2030, will be cross-listed with Mass Communication called "Civic Engagement, Youth, and Media," The course will be taught by Professor Regina Lawrence and Michael Xenos.
Professor Kevin Mulcahy has once again been named a Fulbright Specialist, and in that capacity will lecture at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania in October.
Congratulations to Johanna Dunaway, who has been awarded an ATLAS grant for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Congratulations to Heather Ondercin, who was granted a summer research fellowship from the College of Arts and Science.
Congratulations to Dr. William Clark who The College Senate has unanimously elected for President for the year 2009-2010.
Congratulations to Dr. Kate Bratton, who has been awarded an ATLAS grant for the 2009-2010 academic year for her study of “Legislative Networks: Determinants and Consequences.”
Congratulations to Kaitlyn Sill on a LSU dissertation year fellowship, whose award was announced by the Graduate School late last week.
Heather Ondercin has been selected by the College of Arts & Sciences to receive the Robert Udick Distinguished Undergraduate Award "in recognition of superior undergraduate instruction."
Dr. Chris Weber was awarded APSA Political Communication section award for the best graduate student paper presented at the 2007 APSA meeting. The name of the paper is "Emotional Campaigns: The Role of Discrete Emotions in Political Advertising."
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Recent study ranks the Department 10th in country for research productivity.
Newly Published Research
Howes, Dustin E. 2009. Toward a Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Politics. State University of New York Press.
Lawrence, Regina G. and Melody Rose. 2009. Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics and the Media on the Campaign Trail. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Garand, James C., Micheal W. Giles, Andre Blais, and Iain McLean. 2009. "Political Science Journals in Comparative Perspective: Evaluating Scholarly Journals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom." PS Political Science & Politics. 42 (4): 695-717.
Branton, Regina P., and Johanna Dunaway. 2009. “Spatial Proximity to the US-Mexico Border and Local News Coverage of Immigration Issues.” Political Research Quarterly 62(2): 289-302.
Branton, Regina P., and Johanna Dunaway. 2009. “Slanted Newspaper Coverage of Immigration: The Importance of Economics and Geography.” Policy Studies Journal 37(2): 257-27.
Stoner, James. 2009. “Who Has Authority over the Constitution of the United States?” In The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism, eds. Steven Kautz, Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Pp. 95-111, 270-72.
Xenos, M.A. and Becker, A.B. (2009). Moments of Zen: Effects of The Daily Show on Information Seeking and Political Learning. Political Communication, 26(3):317-332.
Sandoz, Ellis. 2009. "The Philosopher's Vocation: The Voegelinian Paradigm." The Review of Politics 71(1): 54-67.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan, and David Cingranelli. 2009. "IMF Programs and Human Rights, 1981-2003." Review of International Organizations. 4(1): 47-72.
David Sobek. 2009. The Causes of War. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Dunaway, Johanna. 2008. "Markets, Ownership, and the Quality of Campaign News Coverage," In Journal of Politics 70 (4): 1193-1202.
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