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Domestic, Comparative and Global Social Policy

We share an interest in social policy, at urban, local, national, international and global levels and both American and comparative contexts. Faculty in this cluster use many different methods to study topics such as US childcare and education policy, health policy in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, gender, race and family policy in the US and global institutions, science and technology policy, and global/transnational human security policy - among other issues!

Scott Blinder

Scott Blinder's research focuses on public opinion toward and perceptions of immigration, and more broadly on issues of racial, ethnic, and gender identities in political behavior in the US and Europe. His work examines both the sources of political attitudes and perceptions (for example, in media coverage) and their impact...Read more

My teaching and research interests include the politics of war law, transnational advocacy networks, protection of civilians, humanitarian disarmament, and the role of popular culture in global human security policy. I have a particular interest in the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security. I work with...Read more

Carlene J. Edie

Carlene J. Edie has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1989. She received her PhD from UCLA. Her principal research interests have been in the areas of comparative political economy with a focus on the Anglophone Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. She is...Read more

My research interests lie at the intersection of the politics of race and ethnicity, public opinion, and political behavior. More specifically, my work examines the impact of changing demographics and shifts in the sociopolitical incorporation of racial minorities on the contours of American race relations, campaigns, policy preferences, and...Read more

I am a Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

My research revolves around struggles over race, representation, and civil and voting rights, and their consequences for politics and policymaking in the United States. I have written extensively on inequality in representation, voting rights politics,...Read more

Dr. Robinson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University in political science and did a postdoctora​l training in social epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Robinson's interest range between Black politics...Read more

Dr. Rowen's research focuses on the use of law to redress mass atrocity and aid vulnerable groups. She is the founding director of UMass' Center for Justice, Law, and Societies, www.umasscjls.org and a research affiliate with the UMass Center of Excellence for Specialty Courts. Dr. Rowen's current projects examine relationships between immigration...Read more