Political Science
Patrick Mulligan’s father may have transferred from University of ĢӰ Boulder to graduate from the University of Denver, but his continuing love for Buffs football paved the way for two generations of ĢӰ students.
Taxes, tariffs and trade, three things frequently in the headlines now, are the focus of the next Social Sciences Today Forum at the University of ĢӰ Boulder.
With help from five graduate students, two ĢӰ Boulder professors will conduct a careful study of what happens to citizen engagement when previously liberal democratic nations become more repressive.
Political science is the degree that Kreps earned from the University of ĢӰ Boulder in 1993. And it’s for that interest which Kreps, who passed away last April at the age of 45, is memorialized in the newly renovated Ketchum Arts and Sciences Building.
Four political scientists will offer their insights into the unexpected results of the 2016 elections, and what can we learn from them, in an event titled “The 2016 Elections: What Just Happened?”
Empowering local governments with forestry decisions can help combat deforestation, but is most effective when local users are actively engaging with their representatives, according to a new University of ĢӰ Boulder-led study.
The newly created American Politics Research Lab, housed in the Department of Political Science, has released its first pre-election study of Coloradans.
Five years after the Arab Spring uprisings rocked the Middle East, former Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril offered University of ĢӰ Boulder students a front-row perspective on the protests’ genesis, their shortcomings and the lessons the world should absorb in the coming decades.
Gail Nelson has advice for anyone pondering a career in intelligence in an extraordinarily complex 21st-century global landscape: Read, read, and then read some more, particularly classical literature and foreign-intelligence histories. And while you’re at it, become an expert in the geopolitics and cultures of one region in the world, says Nelson, who earned his PhD in political science in 1979 and has had a distinguished career in the intelligence community.
What can you do with a liberal-arts degree? Beth Cross, who graduated from ĢӰ-Boulder in 1986 with a BA in political science, has an answer: Become an entrepreneur. She did this in a big way, co-founding Ariat International, a company that specializes in high-performance equestrian footwear and apparel.