Professor Laura Tartakoff was interviewed on January 7, 2022 via Zoom by Dr. Garret Edwards for his CNN Radio Rasario program. Dr. Edwards is research director at Fundación Libertad, a private NGO. He asked Prof. Tartakoff to address democracy and populism in Latin America, the 2021 elections in Nicaragua...
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Congratulations to Professor Kathryn Lavelle, who has published the article "Regime, Climate, and Region in Transition: Russian Participation in the Arctic Council." Please click here to read the article.
Krysta Aulak (CWRU BA 2021) wrote the following op ed, which was published at https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2021/10/ohio-senate-bill-123-is-cruel-and-unusual-punishment-krysta-aulak.html. Ms. Aulak was a POSC minor, and is currently a candidate for an MS degree in the Health and the Public Interest Program at Georgetown University.
Congratulations to the seniors who presented their capstones last night!
Professor Kelly McMann and Daniel Tisch recently published “Democratic Regimes and Epidemic Deaths.”
Abstract: To what extent do particular regime types provide tangible benefits? During this era of declining faith in democracy globally and assertive alternatives to democracy, identifying democracy’s tangible benefits is particularly important. This paper reveals a benefit of democracy, relative to other regime types, in one issue area—epidemics. The paper demonstrates that democracy, compared to other regime types, lowers epidemic deaths in countries by approximately 70 percent, ceteris paribus…
The Department of Political Science joins with the American Political Science Association in expressing our horror and outrage at the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee, and many others. These recent cases are part of the history of police violence directed at...