Anne Pitcher wins 2018 Dudley Seers Memorial Prize
May 14, 2018
Anne Pitcher won the 2018 Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for best article in The Journal of Development Studies for 2017. The article is “Party System Competition and Private Sector Development in Africa”, The Journal of Development Studies, vol. 53, no. 1 (2017): 1-17. Congratulations Anne!
Arun Agrawal elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 1, 2018
Arun Agrawal was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his research and teaching emphasize the politics of international development, institutional change and environmental sustainability. He has written critically on indigenous knowledge, community-based conservation, common property, resource governance, and environmental beliefs and identities. Congratulations Arun!
Yuen Yuen Ang named Carnegie Fellow
April 30, 2018
Yuen Yuen Ang was named to the 2018 class of Carnegie Fellows. Ang’s project proposes to study economic development from an unconventional perspective: how new markets emerge in poor, weak states despite constraints or by turning constraints into strengths — rather than by first achieving good governance in first-world forms.…
U-M ISR Center for Political Studies Faculty Associate Yuen Yuen Ang named Carnegie Fellow
April 26, 2018
Yuen Yuen AngANN ARBOR—Yuen Yuen Ang, a University of Michigan associate professor in political science, is among 31 recipients of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.The fellowship carries a $200,000 stipend, making it possible for recipients to devote up to two years to significant research and writing.“I am thrilled and honored to…
Christian Davenport elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 18, 2018
Christian Davenport was elected to the was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Davenport co-directs the Conflict Consotrium at the Center for Political Studies and is a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. His primary research interests include the conception, causes and after effects of…
Mara Ostfeld wins 2018 Lucius Barker Award
January 1, 2018
Mara Ostfeld has won the Midwest Political Science Association’s (MPSA) Lucius Barker Award for her paper, “The New Racial Realignment: Democratic Appeals to Latinos and White Support for the Democratic Party.” The Lucius Barker Award is given to the best paper on a topic investigating race or ethnicity and politics…
A record number of Americans viewed the 2017 solar eclipse
October 2, 2017
ANN ARBOR—Eighty-eight percent of American adults viewed the August total solar eclipse directly or electronically. This audience of 215 million adults is nearly twice the size of the viewership of recent Super Bowl football games.A national study of American adults conducted by the University of Michigan under a cooperative agreement…
Panel study finds more tolerance, less extremism in Egypt and Turkey
June 28, 2017
For more than a decade, PSC off-campus affiliate Mansoor Moaddel (University of Maryland) along with ISR’s Arland Thornton, Ronald Inglehart, and Mark Tessler have participated in surveys conducted in Islamic nations on ideological and attitudinal characteristics. In a 2016 wave of an NSF-funded panel study conducted in Egypt and Turkey,…
Don Kinder elected to the National Academy of Sciences
May 2, 2017
Donald Kinder was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his path-breaking contributions to the study of American politics. He has spend his professional career at the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research, which has been the academic home of many members of the National…
U-M professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences
May 2, 2017
ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan professor Donald Kinder is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates named to the National Academy of Sciences this year, the organization announced today.“It is most fitting that Don Kinder’s path-breaking contributions to the study of American politics have been recognized with election to the…