Association Professor, Elliot Posner, was among the list of 2015 ACES Advanced Opportunity Award winners. According to the Daily, "ADVANCE Opportunity grants are competitive annual awards selected by the Opportunity Grant Oversight Committee, who reviewed a total of 36 proposals in 2015. Opportunity grants, first launched in 2004 under...
Faculty Activity and Accomplishments
What drives ordinary citizens to corruption?
Neither greed nor personal gain, necessarily, but desperation, concludes Kelly McMann, a political scientist in the College of Arts and Sciences and author of the recently released book, Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2014).
Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs, was appointed as a Wilson Center Global Fellow in the Global Europe Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The United States has a new plan to further reduce the amount of carbon pumped into the atmosphere, and this one has the Chinese saying they’ll try to pollute less, too, starting in 2030. Tomorrow morning at 9 on the Sound of Ideas, our local experts will talk about the U.S.-China climate accord, what it means here and abroad for the prospects of renewable energy and the coal industry.
This award is presented annually to a distinguished scholar in the field of public budgeting and financial management in honor of the lifetime accomplishments of Aaron Wildavsky.
Dr. Beckwith has made outstanding contributions to scholarship in a range of areas including social movements, mass political participation, parties and elections, women and politics, and comparative politics.