Read and watch Professor Joseph White's testimony on May 24 to the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Budget & Appropriation Process Reform. This is an unusually bipartisan effort to improve how Congress does its work.
Faculty Activity and Accomplishments
Melting Arctic ice revamping world’s shipping routes—prompting China’s “Polar Silk Road” and study by CWRU political scientist
Rising temperatures are melting the Arctic ice, opening new shipping routes and prompting world powers to jostle for access and control.
In January, China announced intentions to establish a permanent presence in the Arctic—dubbed...
ROME, ITALY - Kelly McMann, Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Studies Program, was among nine researchers involved in the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project gathered in Rome, Italy, from across the Americas and Europe on October 17–19 to present their latest findings at the conference ”What Do We Know About Democratization After...
Professor Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, has been appointed to the editorial boards of two international journals. She has been appointed to the inaugural editorial board of the European Journal of Politics and Gender, the journal of the European Consortium...
Professor YuJung (Julia) Lee’s article, "Informing women and improving sanitation: Evidence from rural India,” has been published in the Journal of Rural Studies. Professor Lee is offering her “Politics and Government of India” course, POSC391, this semester.
Professor Kelly McMann was promoted to (full) Professor status in July 2017. Her achievements across her career to date – her books, Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014) and Economic Autonomy and Democracy: Hybrid Regimes in Russia and Kyrgyzstan (New...