American Government and Politics
Politics and national institutions in the United States including the presidency, Congress, parties, voting, and policy processes.
The effects of political culture and institutions in different political systems around the world, how political processes and structures vary across counties, and the historical development of these processes and structures.
Political relations between nation-states including international history and politics, security, diplomacy, foreign policy, conflict, intelligence, and terrorism.
Research methods, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and formal theory as they relate to political science research.
Political Science Education and the Profession
Political science undergraduate and graduate education, teaching strategies, administrative structures, and the profession of political science.
Philosophical conceptions of appropriate standards for political decision making, including the genealogy of political ideas, democratic theory, legitimacy, identity, ethics, and social justice.
Politics of Gender
Women and politics, how gender operates in political institutions, historical and contemporary feminist theory, and gender policy.
Bureaucracy and organizational behavior, governmental decision making, urban politics, state politics, and federalism and intergovernmental relations.
Public Law and Courts
How legal systems influence and are influenced by politics and society, constitutional law and theory, criminal justice, judicial politics, the Supreme Court, public law, and international law.
Public Opinion and Voting Behavior
Political behavior, political parties and organizations, electoral behavior and systems, public opinion, representation, political psychology, and political communication.
The substance of policies including social, economic, and environmental policies, the procedures of policy making, and the relationship between political processes and policy outcomes.