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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 R. Stoner, Department Chair
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FALL 2012 POLI SCI COURSES Click Here
Congratulations to sophomore Rosalie Haug, recipient of the Bertrand A. Odinet, Sr., Scholarship for undergraduates majoring in Political Science
Congratulations to rising senior Kristen Carroll, recipient of the first James Bolner Outstanding Student Award for Undergraduate Majors in Political Science.
Congratulations also to graduate student Jen Richard, who has received the Paul Grosser Memorial Undergraduate Teaching Award for 2012.
Ping Xu has accepted an offer to join the faculty in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island as a tenure-track assistant professor, starting in the fall of 2012.
Congratulations to Kate Bratton, Kit Kenny, and Chris Weber, who have just been awarded a grant of $104,911 for their project, "The Dynamics of Social Influence: A Longitudinal Look at Socially Structured Disaster Response." This will allow them to conduct a follow-up survey to the one they did last summer through their Rapid Response NSF grant.
Congratulations to Dustin Howes, who has been awarded an ATLAS grant for 2011-12.
Bill Clark has been named book review editor of The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review.
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Recent study ranks the Department 10th in country for research productivity.
NEWLY PUBLISHED RESEARCH:
Sullivan, Jas M., and Ashraf M. Esmail. 2012. African American Identity. New York: Lexington Books.
Weber, Christopher, and Matthew Thornton. April 2012. "Courting Christians: How Political Candidates Prime Religious Considerations in Campaign Ads." The Political Journal 74 (2): 400-414.
Howes, Dustin E. March 2012. "Torture Is Not a Game: On the Limitations and Dangers of Rational Choice Methods." Political Research Quarterly 65 (1): 20-27.
Gregg, Samuel, and James R. Stoner, Jr. 2012. "Natural Law and Property Rights." In Natural Law, Economics, and the Common Good, ed. Samuel Gregg and Harold James. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic.
Howes, Dustin. January 2012. "Terror In and Out of Power" European Journal of Political Theory. 11(1): 25-58.
Sullivan, Jas, and Jonathan Winburn. 2011. THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS: RACE AND REPRESENTATION IN THE PELICAN STATE. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Weber, Christopher, Johanna Dunaway, and Tyler Johnson. June 2011. “It’s all in the Name: Source Cue Ambiguity and the Persuasive Appeal of Campaign Ads.”Political Behavior.
Ondercin, Heather L., and Daniel Jones-White. 2011. "Gender Jeopardy: What is the Impact of Gender Differences in Political Knowledge on Political Participation?"
Social Science Quarterly, Volume 92, (3).
Berringer, Andrea C.S. 2011. "Possible Framework for Climate Change IDP's: Disaster and Development Induced Displacement and Resettlement Models and their Integration." The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, Volume 2 (4):
Bratton, Kathleen A. and Stella M. Rouse. 2011. "Networks in the Legislative Arena: How Group Dynamics Affect Cosponsorship." Legislative Studies Quarterly
36(3): 423-460.
Matt Fowler, Wayne Parent, Pete Petrakis, Summer 2011. "The Old South in the 2008 Presidential Election." American Review of Politics, Volume 32, pp. 83-103.
Davis, Belinda C., Michelle Livermore & Younghee Lim. 2011. "The Extended Reach of Minority Political Power: The Interaction of Descriptive Representation, Managerial Networking, and Race." The Journal of Politics 73 (2): 494-507
Garand, James C. and Micheal W. Giles. 2011. "Ranking Scholarly Publishers in Political Science: An Alternative Approach." Political Science & Politics 44 (2): 375-383.
Mulcahy, Kevin. 2011. "The Cultural Policy of the Counter-Reformation: The Case of St. Peter's." International Journal of Cultural Policy (Routledge) 17 (2): 131-152.
Kirby Goidel, Wayne Parent and Bob Mann. 2011. "Race, Racial Resentment, Attentiveness to the News Media, and Public Opinion
Toward the Jena Six" Social Science Quarterly 92 (1): 20-34.
Dunaway, Johanna. 2011. “Institutional Influences on the Quality of Campaign News Coverage.” Forthcoming, Journalism Studies (February 2011, special issue on the media as an institution).
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