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 Harris Mylonas published "The Promethean Dilemma: Third-Party State-building in Occupied Territories" and "The Promethean Dilemma Revisited: A Response to Bardos, Christia, Gortzak &Siroky and Jenne" in Ethnopolitics Llewelyn Hughes published "Climate Converts: Institutional Redeployment and Public Investment in Energy in Japan," in Journal of East Asian Studies Brandon Bartels published "Political Justice? Perceptions of Politicization and Public Preferences Toward the Supreme Court Appointment Process" in Public Opinion Quarterly Henry Hale published "Two Decades of Post-Soviet Regime Dynamics" in Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization Evgeny Finkel published "Macro, Meso, and Micro Research on Genocide: Gains, Shortcomings, and Future Areas of Inquiry"in Genocide Studies and Prevention Evgeny Finkel published "The Authoritarian Advantage of Horizontal Accountability: Ombudsmen in Poland and Russia" in Comparative Politics Paul Wahlbeck published "The Origin and Development of Stare Decisis at the U.S. Supreme Court" in New Directions in Judicial Politics (Routledge) Lee Sigelman and Robert Goldfarb published "The Influence of Economics on Political Science: By What Pathway?" in the Journal of Economic Methodology Evgeny Finkel published "No More Colour! Authoritarian Regimes and Colour Revolutions in Eurasia" and "Russia and the Colour Revolutions" with Yitzhak M. Brudny in a special edition of Democratization that he co-edited Brandon Bartels published “Politics at the Checkout Line: Explaining Political Consumerism in the U.S.” with Benjamin J. Newman in Political Research Quarterly News GW international affairs programs and faculty rank high in Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) survey Llewelyn Hughes selected as the Inaugural Japan Studies Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington DC John Sides awarded NSF grant to study how Americans' attitudes toward African Americans and Muslims affect attitudes about political issues Elizabeth Saunders was awarded the APSA International History and Politics section's Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Award for her book "Leaders at War" Harris Mylonas named an Associate Editor at Nationalities Papers (the leading journal on nationalism, ethnicity, ethnic conflict and national identity in Central Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Caucasus, the Turkic world and Central Eurasia) Department excels in National Research Council political science rankings Martha Finnemore named university professor, George Washington University's highest faculty rank Harris Mylonas awarded membership to the Executive Committee of the Association for the Study of Nationalities Brandon Bartels awarded NSF grant to study the constraining capacity of law on the U.S. Supreme Court Susan Sell named to the editorial board of the Review of International Political Economy

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