This volume brings together original essays by scholars working on a diverse range of empirical issues, but whose work is in each case informed by a "historical institutional" approach to the study of ...

This article argues that Simeon's insistence on the value of explicit comparison within individual studies of public policy needs to remain central even in historical institutionalist approaches which ...

The major in government provides a broad introduction to the art, and science, of politics—that is, of the mechanisms by which human beings solve collective problems and pursue the common good. The ...

Admission to the PhD program has been paused for the 2025-2026 academic year. The Brandeis doctoral degree program in politics aims to prepare scholars, teachers, and policy analysts of the highest ...

Our graduate program in political science reflects changes in the discipline, shifts in the political landscape, and the additional new faculty who have expanded the depth and breadth of our offerings ...

Policymakers in democratic systems are expected to respond to the issue preferences of citizens and fulfill their electoral mandate as this responsiveness is central ...

India’s fast growing economic and socio-political importance on the world stage has led to speculation and shifting expectations about how it can and will shape the global order. This Collection is ...