Congratulations to Claudine Gay, longtime affiliate of the Center for American Political Studies, on being named the 30th president of Harvard University! Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), will assume the presidency on July 1, 2023. You can read more about Dean Gay and her many accomplishments…
CAPS Undergrad Fellow Selected as Rhodes Scholar
Congratulations to 2022 CAPS Undergraduate Fellow Amisha Kambath on being named a 2023 U.S. Rhodes Scholar! Read about Amisha’s planned studies at the University of Oxford in the Harvard Gazette….
CAPS affiliates awarded 2021 Herbert Kaufman Award
CAPS affiliates Dan Carpenter (former CAPS Faculty Director), Angelo Dagonel, Devin Judge-Lord, Christopher Kenny, and Jacob Waggoner and their co-authors Brian Libgober, Steve Rashin and Susan Webb Yackee, had their working paper, “Inequality in Administrative Democracy: Large-Sample Evidence from American Financial Regulation”selected as the winner of the 2021 Herbert Kaufman Award for best paper presented at the 2021 APSA Annual Conference. Congratulations to…
Harvey Mansfield at 90: A Conference on Major Themes of His Work
In recognition of his important contributions to our understanding of thinkers including Niccoló Machiavelli and Alexis de Tocqueville and on subjects such as political parties, liberalism, conservatism, and American constitutionalism, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Foundation for Constitutional Government are hosting a conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, July 6 celebrating Harvey Mansfield. The panels will feature former students…
Jacob Brown awarded Robert Noxon Toppan dissertation prize
Jacob Brown, CAPS Study of the American Republic Dissertation Research Fellow, 2020-21, has been awarded the Harvard Government Department’s 2022 Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for the best dissertation upon a subject of political science for his dissertation, “Partisan Conversion and Activation: The Behavioral Consequences of Geographic Polarization”….
Book Award for Dan Carpenter
Former CAPS Faculty Director Dan Carpenter’s book, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation 1790-1870, has been voted the winner of the 2022 J. David Greenstone Prize. The J. David Greenstone Award is given for the best book in politics and history published in the preceding two years. The award is given by the Politics and History Section of…
Announcing CAPS Fellows, 2022-23
CAPS FELLOWS PROGRAM The Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Fellows Program. The first five CAPS Fellows are drawn from incoming and current Harvard graduate students, from multiple disciplines, whose focus of study is American politics. This program will provide research funding, research assistance (RA) support,…
CAPS – Harris April 2022 Poll
Here are the topline results of the Harvard CAPS-Harris April National Poll: https://harvardharrispoll.com/topline-april/ And the crosstabs: https://harvardharrispoll.com/crosstabs-april/ This survey was conducted online within the United States from April 23-24, 2022 among 1,966 registered voters by The Harris Poll. The results reflect a nationally representative sample. Results were weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size,…
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
CAPS affiliates Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, co-authors of “How Democracies Die,” appeared on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell….
CAPS – Harris January 2022 Poll
Here are the topline results of the Harvard CAPS-Harris January National Poll: https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/January-2022_HHP_Topline.pdf Crosstabs:https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/January-2022_HHP_Crosstab.pdf This survey was conducted online within the United States from January 19-20, 2022 among 1,815 registered voters by The Harris Poll. The results reflect a nationally representative sample. Results were weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income, employment,…