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From the very beginning, the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago has been a pioneer in the development of social scientific understandings of government and politics. 

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On NPR, Prof. Cathy Cohen discusses latest GenForward survey
Deadly Force book cover
Deadly Force explores when, where, and whom police shoot in America’s largest ci...
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Prof. Michael Albertus discusses how ‘land politics’ are at the root of our cost...
Photo of Professor James Robinson
Prof. James Robinson shares Nobel Prize for research on global inequality
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