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”….
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…
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,…
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,…
CAPS affiliates Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, co-authors of “How Democracies Die,” appeared on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell….
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,…
Round up of recent news and publication from CAPS Affiliates: Danielle Allen has a new book, Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus, coming out Feb. 16, 2022. Dan Carpenter’s most recent book, Democracy by Petition (Harvard University Press, 2021), was selected as one of The Five Democracy Books from 2021 You Must Read by Democracy Paradox. Prof. Carpenter has a paper, “The Popular Origins…
On view at the Harvard Art Museum – Sept. 17, 2021-Jan. 16, 2022. Includes works by two artists who have previously shown at CAPS, Stephen Tourlentes, and Oscar Palacio. Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 Devour the Land shines a light on the unexpected and often hidden consequences of militarism on habitats and well-being…
The midterms, a forward look to 2020, views on Congress and the Russia investigation are addressed in the November 2018 poll by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard (CAPS) and The Harris Poll. The poll was conducted November 26-27, 2018 among 1,407 registered voters. Political Climate and Midterm Response President Trump’s approval rating…
CAPS is pleased to present the work of Joanna Tam in a solo exhibition, American Studies, 2019. On view are works from Tam’s Athletes Study (An Imported Edition), a series of photographs from 2013 wherein Tam mimicks the facial expressions and gestures of foreign born professional athletes as they stand for the U.S. national anthem before their…
