The George Washington University Political Science Department is a nationally recognized program with emphases in American Politics, Comparative Politics, and International Relations. Faculty and graduate student research is cutting edge and takes advantage of the Department's Washington location to leverage data and resources unique to this national and world capital. Publications Henry Hale published "The Uses of Divided Power" in Journal of Democracy Lee Sigelman published "Does 'Civic Duty' 'Solve' The Rational Choice Voter Turnout Puzzle?" in Journal of Theoretical Politics Jim Lebovic published The Limits of U.S. Military Capability: Lessons from Vietnam and Iraq (Johns Hopkins University Press) Bruce Dickson published Allies of the State: Democratic Support and Regime Support among China's Private Entrepreneurs (Harvard University Press) Emmanuel Teitelbaum published "Measuring Trade Union Rights through Violations Recorded in Textual Sources: An Assessment" in Political Research Quarterly Elizabeth Saunders published "The Army You Have: The Determinants of Military Mechanization, 1979-2001" in International Studies Quarterly Lee Sigelman published "Private Security and Democracy: Lessons from the US in Iraq" in Security Studies Brandon Bartels published "Sensationalism and Sobriety: Differential Media Exposure and Attitudes Toward American Courts" in Public Opinion Quarterly Robert Adcock published "Political Science" in The History of Postwar Social Science (Cambridge University Press) News Steve Balla was named Visiting Scholar at the Leo Koguan Institute for Business and Government, Peking University School of Government Harris Mylonas and Henry Hale received support from the Executive Vice President for Academic Affair's Endowment Payout funds for an interdisciplinary network of scholars who are doing the most innovative, cutting-edge work on ethnic politics Stephen Kaplan won the APSA Political Economy Section's Mancur Olson award for best dissertation Medlir Mema received a Guest Scholarship for Ph.D. Studies at the Swedish Institute for 2010-2011 Joseph O'Mahoney was awarded a Loughran Foundation Dissertation Research Grant for research at Oxford University Llewelyn Hughes received a Summer Faculty Research Grant from the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and a GW-CIBER grant for 2010-2011 Enze Han was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, for 2010-2011 Craig M. Kauffman was awarded the Inter-American Foundation's Grassroots Development Fellowship for 2010-2011 for his research on the role of transnational actors in promoting local governance reforms regarding environmental management in Ecuador. Bruce Dickson won the 2010 Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Teaching Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching Sigelman Fund Established Department Named #1 Public Law Program