Department News



Department Reviews and Rankings

A recent survey, published in the Nov/Dec 2005 issue of Foreign Policy, ranks our department in the top 10 International Relations schools for both academic and policy careers.  Results were based on feedback from scholars at over 1,100 schools nationwide.

Our department ranks as 6th in the world, according to a recent study completed at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The rankings were based on the number and impact of journal articles published by each university’s political science faculty. This study recognizes that our faculty publish in the best journals at an impressive rate and produce important research that significantly influences the field.

The most recent National Doctoral Program Survey ranked our department 1st in the nation in overall student satisfaction.  The rankings were based on answers from graduate students of leading institutions who were asked to grade their universities in areas such as the quality of information students received, mentoring, and the intellectual climate for study and research.

Our department placed 7th in the most recent U.S. News and World Report ranking of PhD programs across the country.  We also rank highly in each of the subfields: American politics - 6th, Comparative politics - 3rd, International relations - 6th, and Political Methodology - 7th. 


New Faculty

We are extremely pleased to have Professors Marisa Abrajano, James Fowler, and Sebastian Saiegh join the faculty this year.   Please join us in welcoming these talented scholars to UCSD.


Recent Awards, Fellowships, and Appointments

Professor David Lake has been elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006).  He also receive the 2005 Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.

Professor Keith Poole has been elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006).

Professor Darren Schreiber is the 2006 recipient of the best dissertation award from APSA's Political Psychology section (for his dissertation "Evaluating Politics: A Search for the Neural Substrates of Political Thought").

Professor Zoltan Hajnal was selected as a 2006/07 Hellman Faculty Fellow.

Professor Gary Cox has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research (2005). 

Professor Wayne Cornelius has been been awarded the Academic Senate's 2005 Distinguished Teaching Award.

Professor Steven Erie (with co-authors Gregory D. Saxton, and Christopher W. Hoene), was awarded the Best Article Award, The American Review of Public Administration for  "Fiscal Constraints and the Loss of Home Rule: The Long-Term Impacts of California's Post-Proposition 13 Fiscal Regime."  Profssor Erie also received the 2005 Chancellor's Associates Award for Excellence in Community Service.

Professor Alan Houston has been awarded two prestigious fellowships for 2005-06, one from the American Philosophical Society and another from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Professor Thad Kousser has been awarded the 2005 Alan Rosenthal Prize, which recognizes the best book or article in legislative studies written by a junior scholar that has potential value to legislative practitioners, for his book, Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism.

Professor Peter Smith has been appointed as the Education Abroad Study Director in Granada, Spain for 2006-2008.


Recent Faculty Books

William Bernhard, J. Lawrence Broz, and William R. Clark, editors,  The Political Economy of Monetary Institutions  (Cambridge: MIT Press 2003).


Katz, Jonathan N. and Gary W. Cox, Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Gibson, Elinor Ostrom, Krister Andersson, Sujai Shivakumar The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Foreign Aid (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

 

Erie, Steven P.,  Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development (Stanford University Press, 2004).
Erie, Steven P.,  Beyond 'Chinatown': The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California  (Stanford University Press, 2006).

 

Houston, Alan, ed., Franklin: The Autobiograpy and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Irons, Peter, Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision (Viking Press, 2002).
Kernell, Samuel and Gary C. Jacobson, The Logic of American Politics (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2002).


Kahler, Miles and David A. Lake, Editors, Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).
 

 

Kernell, Samuel, editor and author, James Madison: The Theory and Politics of Republican Government (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).
Kousser, Thad, Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2004).


Lijphart, Arend and Bernard Grofman, The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries (Agathan Press, 2002).
  Mares, David R., Latinoamerica: existe? (FLACSO-Chile, 2004).
Brady, David W. and Mathew D. McCubbins, Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress: New Perspectives on the History of Congress (Stanford University Press, 2002).


Lupia, Arthur and Mathew D. McCubbins, The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know? (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Strom, Kaare, Wolfgang Muller, and Torbjorn Bergman,  Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Strong, Tracy B., Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Politics of the Ordinary, Second Edition (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).

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