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The official Twitter feed of LSU's Department of Political Science administered by the Dept. Chair
Baton Rouge, LA
Joined May 2014
RT @LSUHSS: Congratulations to @Poli_LSU and @ManshipSchool Dr. Nichole Bauer, the @lsuresearch Rainmaker Emerging Scholar Award Recipient!….
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Notre Dame Law Professor to Deliver Constitution Day Lecture on Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court
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Research by one of our newest faculty members, Dr. Brian Hamel, was featured in today's edition of the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com
Recent research on racism, prejudice and politics suggests a broad range of possibilities.
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RT @hamelpolisci: I’m joining @LSU as Assistant Professor of Political Science this fall! I’m grateful to my family, friends, colleagues, a….
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Retiring LSU Professor Cecil Eubanks to be Honored with Conference and Festschrift. “Welcoming the Other: A Conference in Honor of Cecil Eubanks” to be held April 30 to May 1 .
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Upcoming Events sponsored by the Eric Voegelin Institute
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Assistant Professor Anna Gunderson has a new publication in Nature Human Behavior finding that the policy of giving local law enforcement access to military weapons and surplus equipment did not reduce crime as previous studies claim.
www.nature.com
Nature Human Behaviour - Studies of transfers of surplus military equipment to police have argued that they reduce crime. Gunderson et al. reanalysed US federal data and replicated key studies....
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LSU Ph.D. graduate in Political Science, Dr. Mileah Kromer (Associate Professor of Political Science at Goucher College), is featured in this story.
www.baltimoremagazine.com
The survey is highly respected in state politics and journalism circles.
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LSU Ph.D. graduate in Political Science, Dr. Stella Rouse (Associate Professor at the University of Maryland), was interviewed on the PBS News Hour last night about her new book, The Politics of Millennials. Watch the segment here: .
www.pbs.org
The U.S. has more than 72 million millennials, adults who were born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s. This year, millennials surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation of adults. And...
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Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Anna Gunderson who is the recipient of this year’s Mooney Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation on state politics ("Why Do States Privatize their Prisons? The Unintended Consequences of Inmate Litigation”). Congratulations!.
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Public event today on Teaching Civics sponsored by the Voegelin Institute:
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Assistant Professor Jeong Kim will be receiving the Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award at this year's Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Her 2019 paper is titled: "The Gendered Effects of Direct Democracy on Political Efficacy". Congratulations Dr. Kim!.
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Dr. Anna Gunderson is quoted in Vox:.Private prisons face an uncertain future as states turn their backs on the industry via @voxdotcom.
www.vox.com
States are passing laws abolishing private prisons and businesses are cutting ties with the facilities. And private prison companies are planning for a future in which their core service is illegal.
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Congratulations to Dr. Nichole Bauer on her latest research published in the Journal of Politics:
www.journals.uchicago.edu
Existing empirical research finds that female candidates have higher levels of qualifications for political office compared to male candidates. An untested assumption behind this finding is that...
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Dr. James R. Stoner has coordinated a partnership between LSU and Southern University to host the civics education group iCivics. See press release from the National Endowment for the Humanities:.
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Mark your calendars for our first public event this year in the Hubert H. Humphrey Lectureship -- Dr. Rebecca Morton will be speaking on October 23 at Hill Memorial.
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