• The graduate program in Political Science encourages the study of a variety of substantive concerns, methodological approaches, and research skills.
  • Among the department's special areas of strength are the United States politics and political behavior (legislative politics, public opinion and voting, parties and interest groups, and judicial process); political and social theory; international relations and peace science; the politics of western and eastern Europe, Latin America, and South Asia; international conflict; international political economy; democratization; social movements; political culture; and gender and politics.