Field-Of-Study: Political Science

Miriam A. Golden is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in government in 1983 from Cornell University, after undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her broad interests are in problems of political representation and accountability.

Daniel Diermeier is the IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice in the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences and the Director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship at the Kellogg School of Management. In addition, he holds faculty appointments at the Department of Political Science, the Department of Economics, the

Scott E. Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.  Scott has previously taught at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Iowa.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of

John R. Hibbing is the Foundation Regents University Professor of Political Science (with a courtesy appointment in Psychology) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he has taught since 1981.  He has been a NATO Fellow in Science, a Senior Fulbright Fellow, recipient of the Fenno Prize, principal investigator for nine National Science Foundation grants, and

James N. Druckman is the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is also an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. His research focuses on political-preference formation and communication. His recent work examines how citizens make political, economic,

John Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University.  He has taught previously at Michigan State University and the University of Minnesota.  He is interested in two general questions about politics:  how, when, and under what conditions does democracy work effectively and how and why do people make the political decisions

Eric Nelson is Professor of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history of political thought in early-modern Europe and America, and on the implications of that history for debates in contemporary political theory. Particular interests include the history of republican political theory, the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, theories

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University, a position she has held since 2001. She also began her teaching career at Yale, as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1977-79) immediately after receiving her Ph.D. there, but after two years as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the