Professor Jesse Rhodes' recent paper was quoted in a Washington Post article concerning Obama's Presidency and partisanship in Washington. Professor Rhodes discusses Obama's agenda, focusing on how "traditional Democratic priorities" challenged the drive for a post-partisan Washington, D.C. The Post article goes on to analyze the basic tendencies of the Obama administration and the differences between rhetoric and reality in the era of Obama's Washington.

The Political Science Department is pleased to announce that the Best Thesis Award for 2010 is awarded to Michael Gaubinger, for his thesis titled, "A Roadmap for Prevention: Water Scarcity, Political Stability, and Terrorism in Yemen." Laura Reed supervised the thesis and Peter Haas served as a second reader.

Associate Professor Brenda Bushouse was an invited speaker at the University of Colorado, Denver at an event featuring Elinor Ostrom,  2009 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics.  The presentation was part of a symposium on the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework developed by Ostrom and colleagues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University.  Papers from the symposium will be published in a special issue of the Policy Studies Journal.