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Amel Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Political Science, has published Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice (2012 Cambridge University Press). 

You have two more weeks to make your year-end, tax-deductible donation in support of Political Science and Legal Studies. With your support, we can continue to offer our undergraduate research engagement program, host career-networking events for our majors, and provide much-needed financial relief for our students.

You may have recently heard the name Derek Khanna in the news.

Peter Haas, Professor of Political Science, explained the "lessons learned from nonstate global environmental governance" at the Conference on Global Climate Change Policy Without the United States at Yale Law School November 9-10, 2012.

If you are one of the hundreds of UMass students who attempted to get tickets to this year’s Scott Brown/Elizabeth Warren Senate Debate in Springfield, you know first-hand how fast tickets sell out, and how in-demand seats are for such political events. 

Now imagine you were competing for a seat with the entire US population at one of the presidential debates. The odds of snagging a ticket seem infinitely less likely, don’t they?

However, Aaron Wecker ’12 (Political Science) was able to do just that. And for him, it is all a part of networking.

Seven Political Science and Legal Studies majors have been selected to receive the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences annual Study Abroad Scholarship Awards. These awards will allow these students to spend the Spring 2013 semester abroad in South Africa, Chile, Scotland, Argentina, Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Italy!

Congratulations to the following students:

Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. The National Academy was chartered by Congress to provide non-partisan expert advice and serves as an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization to assist government leaders in building more effective, efficient, accountable, and transparent organizations. 

AMHERST, Mass. – UMass Poll’s exit poll from today’s Massachusetts election shows that the gender gap helped propel Elizabeth Warren to victory in a competitive race against incumbent Senator Scott Brown. The poll shows that women voters preferred Warren to Brown by a margin of 20%, while men split evenly between the two candidates. Brown was also faced with an electorate that looked much different than the one that elected him to office in 2010.

Lori Chau (Political Science) and Christine Howe (Legal Studies) are among fifteen University of Massachusetts Amherst students studying abroad this fall with Gilman Scholarships in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.

These results place UMass Amherst fourth in the U.S. behind the University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State and University of California, Santa Barbara.

Political Science Professor Peter Haas was one of five experts invited to introduce the United Nations Environment Programme's Global Environmental Outlook 5 (GEO 5) Report to representatives from international organizations, government, and academia at a workshop September 21, 2012. The workshop, "Designing Global Governance for Sustainability," was organized by the Center for Governance and Sustainability at UMass Boston.

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