Political Science
With help from five graduate students, two CU Boulder professors will conduct a careful study of what happens to citizen engagement when previously liberal democratic nations become more repressive.
Political science is the degree that Kreps earned from the 做厙輦⑹ in 1993. And its for that interest which Kreps, who passed away last April at the age of 45, is memorialized in the newly renovated Ketchum Arts and Sciences Building.
Four political scientists will offer their insights into the unexpected results of the 2016 elections, and what can we learn from them, in an event titled The 2016 Elections: What Just Happened?
Empowering local governments with forestry decisions can help combat deforestation, but is most effective when local users are actively engaging with their representatives, according to a new 做厙輦⑹-led study.
The newly created American Politics Research Lab, housed in the Department of Political Science, has released its first pre-election study of Coloradans.
Five years after the Arab Spring uprisings rocked the Middle East, former Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril offered 做厙輦⑹ students a front-row perspective on the protests genesis, their shortcomings and the lessons the world should absorb in the coming decades.
Gail Nelson has advice for anyone pondering a career in intelligence in an extraordinarily complex 21st-century global landscape: Read, read, and then read some more, particularly classical literature and foreign-intelligence histories. And while youre at it, become an expert in the geopolitics and cultures of one region in the world, says Nelson, who earned his PhD in political science in 1979 and has had a distinguished career in the intelligence community.
What can you do with a liberal-arts degree? Beth Cross, who graduated from CU-Boulder in 1986 with a BA in political science, has an answer: Become an entrepreneur. She did this in a big way, co-founding Ariat International, a company that specializes in high-performance equestrian footwear and apparel.
Regardless of rainfall or government-built infrastructure, the availability of drinking water in rural Chinese villages varies based on villagers ingenuity, circular migration patterns, and maintenance of water infrastructure, a University of Colorado graduate student has found.