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Five with GVPT Ties Contribute to New Book
Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform (University of Chicago Press, 2020) is an edited volume that just was published and features three chapters by people with GVPT ties: professor Kristina Miler, former GVPT professor Frances Lee, and three GVPT PhD alumnus: Casey Burgat, Charlie Hunt, and Jim Curry.
Master of Arts in International Affairs (MAIR) Now Accepting Applications for 2021 - 2022 Academic Year
This Fall 2020 semester GVPT and CIDCM launched the Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR). MAIR is a 4+1 Combined Program that is designed to provide advanced coursework and applied quantitative methods training for students seeking international careers as analysts in the public and private sectors as well as researchers in academia and think tanks.
Latino and ‘MillZ’ Views on Climate Change
While attitudes about climate change tend to be sharply divided along partisan lines, new research from the UMD Department of Government and Politics looks at the issue from the perspective of two social identities in the United States: Latinos and members of “MillZ”—a term researchers use to describe young adults categorized as members of the Millennial Generation or Generation Z.
UMD Research Shows COVID-19 Risk Reduces Comfort with In-Person Voting, Does Not Increase Comfort with Mail Balloting
The possibility of contracting COVID-19 reduces comfort voting in-person but does not increase comfort voting by mail, finds new research by GVPT Ph.D. Candidate Alauna Safarpour and CDCE Research Director Mike Hanmer.
