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Learn more about: Examining Women’s Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles

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Project Title:Examining Womens Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles Tessa Provins, University of Arizona Tessa Provins is an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She received her M.A. in economics from Stanford University in 2013.

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The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy

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Mitchell , Brigham Young University Populisms effects on democracy after populists gain control of government (hereafter, populist incumbents) are some of the best theorized and documented consequences. The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy By Kirk A. Hawkins and Grant A. Read the full article.

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Three Political Science Professors Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located. His history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, Contesting Democracy, was published by Yale University Press in the summer of 2011. His book Was ist Populismus?

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Eric Schickler Receives the 2024 Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award

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Since 1997, he has been associated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he has chaired the Department of Political Science and served as co-director of the Institute of Government Studies. David Greenstone Award from the APSA Politics and History Organized Section. He has also received the Philip E.

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As economy rebounds, state funding for higher education isn’t bouncing back

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It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 Whether in response to the students’ arguments or not, the state did, in fact, raise spending for higher education for the coming 2016-2017 year, by 2.5

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

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Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Political science. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. He’s coauthor of the book “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America.”

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

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That’s in part because the net price, or the amount students actually pay after discounts and financial aid, has increased nearly twice as fast for graduate as for undergraduate programs in the 10 years ending in 2016. The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6

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