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Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and International Affairs Vernon Greene, who passed away on Oct. 10 at the age of 77, saw the aging process as much more than a person getting old, and his vision helped build Syracuse University’s…

Does “faith-based” include people without a religious faith? Mark Brockway is a faculty fellow in religion and political science at Syracuse University. Brockway wrote a research-based piece for The Washington Post’s politics blog, Monkey Cage, in which he discusses how…

This week, Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home, and his wife was injured in the attack. Haitian authorities have begun to arrest and detain suspects. Some have been killed. The assassination has thrown the country into further…

According to Sara Swann at The Fulcrum, “Virginia is the first Southern state to adopt its own voting rights act: Almost eight years after the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Virginia has…

In his new book, “Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders” (Princeton University Press), Syracuse political science professor Dennis Rasmussen examines why many of America’s founding fathers—George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, to name a few—were…

Thomas Keck, the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics and professor of political science in the Maxwell School, wrote an op-ed for Syracuse.com titled “What’s the point of impeachment? ‘To lay down a marker for history.’” Keck,…

Thomas Keck, professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was interviewed by The Christian Science Monitor for the story “Four impeachments, zero removals: Signs of cracks in Constitution?” Keck, an expert in Constitutional law and U.S. politics, says that…

In their new book, “The Other Side of the Coin: Public Opinion toward Social Tax Expenditures” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021), Syracuse University professor Christopher Faricy and Bucknell University professor Christopher Ellis examine how public opinion differs between two types of…

Margaret Thompson, associate professor of history and political science in the Maxwell School, was quoted in the Associated Press article “Analysis: US to hit 200k dead; Trump sees no need for regret.” Thompson, who studies American government and politics, says…

Shana Kushner Gadarian, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was interviewed for the CBS Sunday Morning piece “Why did COVID-19 become partisan?” During the pandemic, Gadarian worked with colleagues to survey American attitudes towards COVID-19. The team…