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Welcome to the Department of Political Science at Rice University. This website is designed to provide information on our department members, their research, department activities, and our degree programs. We offer programs for students pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees with specializations in American Politics, Comparative Politics, or International Relations.
NSF grant allows Rice political scientist to pursue study of foreign-policy change after political transitions
Brett Ashley Leeds, the Albert Thomas Associate Professor of Political
Science, received a National Science Foundation grant to study the
often complex relationship between a nation's political change and its
foreign policy.
Political scientist wins grant to study effectiveness of economic sanctions
Rice's Clifton Morgan, the Albert Thomas Professor of Political
Science, received a grant from the National Science Foundation that
will allow him to study every case of economic sanctions around the
world for the last 65 years to see if the sanctions had their desired
effect.
Rice researcher examines campaign finance regulations in new 'laboratory'
Keith Hamm, professor of political science, has received funding from
the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to pursue
his work on how politicians, donors and lobbyists have reacted to
Connecticut's new standards since their implementation in the 2008
statewide election.