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Next July, Cleveland will host the 2016 Republic National Convention, where state delegates will select the party’s presidential candidate. It will mark the third time the convention has been held in Cleveland—the first since 1936.And before the city ramps up to host an estimated 50,000 people next summer, Republican...
The most recent issue of the APSA journal PS: Political Science and Politics (July 2015) features Professor Karen Beckwith’s article “State, Academy, Discipline: Regendering Political Science” (pp. 445-449). Her article appeared as part of the Symposium on How Political Science Can Be More Diverse, organized by Professors Carol Mershon...
The most recent issue of the APSA journal Perspectives on Politics (June 2015) includes work by Professors Kathryn Lavelle and Karen Beckwith. See Philip Wallach’s (Brookings Institution) review of Professor Kathryn Lavelle’s book, Money and Banks in the American Political System (pp. 542-544) and Professor Beckwith’s review of Drude...
We announce, with some pride and sadness, that Professor Jessica Green has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at New York University, and has resigned her position here in the Department of Political Science at CWRU.
We wish Professor Green all the best in...
What really happens at a political convention?Crain’s Cleveland Business: Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Justin Buchler, associate professor of political science, discussed the many political activities that can be expected to take place at 2016’s Republican Party convention. “This is a real...