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Paul M. Kellstedt announced incoming Editor-in-Chief for 2018 by the EPSA

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The European Political Science Association announced that Dr. Paul M. Kellstedt would be the incoming Editor-in-Chief of its flagship journal Political Science Research and Methods. To read more about Kellstedt’s achievement click here.

Dr. Paul M. Kellstedt  is a professor of political science at Texas A&M University. His fields of expertise are public opinion and political methodology. Prior to joining the Texas A&M University faculty, he taught at Brown University and the University of Minnesota. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1999), at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2008), and at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (2014).

 

Fuhrmann Research Cited In New York Times

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In a recent article on North Korea’s drive for nuclear arms, the New York Times referenced the research in Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy, by Todd S. Sechser and Matthew Fuhrmann. You can find the article here.

Matthew Fuhrmann is an associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University. He was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2016 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. During the 2016-17 academic year, he is a visiting associate professor at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. His research focuses on international relations, military power, nuclear proliferation, and armed conflict. He is the author of Atomic Assistance: How “Atoms for Peace” Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity (2012) and the coauthor of Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy (2017). He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Diego von Vacano named Arts & Humanities Fellow, and Visiting Presidential Professor

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Diego Van VacanoAssociate Professor Diego von Vacano is one of seven faculty members at Texas A&M University who were named Arts & Humanities Fellows for 2017. Each fellowship includes a three-year grant of $15,000 to support a scholarly or creative project.  Diego von Vacano, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, concentrates his research interests on political theory, political philosophy, the history of political thought, comparative political theory, and Hispanic/Latin American thought.

The Arts & Humanities Fellows Program is designed to stimulate interactions among scholarly and artistic faculty on our campus, across the nation and around the world while also recognizing extraordinary scholarship and creativity. This program creates a supportive environment for these faculty members so they may advance their work while they build, strengthen and sustain long-term relationships outside their chosen disciplines.

A peer-review panel selected each recipient based on merit and originality, professional qualifications, clarity, benefit to the public and the quality of the overall presentation. Fellowship applications were open to all Texas A&M faculty who engage in scholarship in the humanities or in creative work in the arts.

Additionally, Dr von Vacano has received a Presidential Fellowship to be an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University for 2017-2018. Visiting Presidential Professors are appointed as part of the Initiative for Faculty Excellence and Diversity. Approximately 10 exceptional scholars and practitioners who contribute to inclusive excellence are appointed each year during the initiative.

Can Applying Baseball Metrics to Presidents Predict Success?

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Cover of PS Political Science & Politics 50th Anniversary Issue“Presidents, Baseball, and Wins Above Expectations: What Can Sabermetrics Tell Us about Presidential Success? Why Ronald Reagan is like Bobby Cox and Lyndon Johnson is like Joe Torre” is the title of the cover article for the 50th anniversary edition of “PS”, the magazine of the American Political Science Association. Written by Texas A&M University Associate Professor Manuel P. Teodoro and Professor Jon R. Bond, the article adapts the Pythagorean Expectations (PE) formula as a tool to analyse presidential legislative success from Eisenhower to Obama. They also used Wins Above Expectations (WAE) as a second method of review.

It was determined that a parsimonious regression model and the PE formula were able to predict annual success with 90 percent accuracy. The estimates of WAE are uncorrelated. It was determined that regression analysis did not identify any president who systematically exceeded expectations, but using the sabermetric analysis indicated that Republican presidents have outperformed Democrats.

NBC News Publishes Article on Trump and Latin American Politics by Faculty Member

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Diego VonVacanoThe Washington Post has published an article on President Trump as the U.S.’s first Latin American president. Diego von Vacano, Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, is cited with the article. You can read the entire article on the Washington Post website.

Electoral College Piece in Washington Post

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EdwardsGeorge C. Edwards III, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies at Texas A&M, has written about recent debate regarding the Electoral College. The entire piece may be found on the Washington Post website.

Brian Barry Prize Awarded to Professor William Roberts Clark

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Texas A&M University political scientist William Roberts Clark, the Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts and head of the department of Political Science, is among the researchers recognized by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sociences.  Dr. Clark, along with Matt Golder and Sona N. Golder, both associate professors of political science at Penn State, received the Brian Barry Prize in Political Science for their study, “An Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Model of Politics.”  [Read more…]

Meier Presents Keynote Address

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MeierKeynoteEGPA-2016-Milagro-ElstakKenneth J. Meier presented the keynote address on “Public Administration in the US and Europe” at the annual meeting of the European Group for Public Administration in Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 26, 2016.

EGPA is a Regional Group of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences whose purpose is to strengthen contacts and exchanges among European specialists in Public Administration, both scholars and practitioners.