About the Department
The Political Science Department at the University of Florida is committed to training tomorrow’s leaders—in government, business, the law, and higher education. From making local governments work better to changing the way we think about the global community, from meeting the environmental challenge to developing a strong sense of ethics in the political arena, our faculty and students are addressing the most critical problems facing the country today. With broad-based undergraduate instruction and a variety of innovative programs at the graduate level, we also have been at the forefront of the internationalization of the curriculum at UF.
Department News
- Congratulations to Larry Dodd on the publication of his new book, Thinking about Congress. The book collects ten essays that Larry published on Congress between 1977 and 2005.
- Congratulations to Ben Smith on winning a national grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation to support his research on Kurdish nationalist movements.
- Undergraduate political science major, Dayme Sanchez, is featured as the Fall 2011 Head of the CLAS.
- Congratulations to Les Thiele on the publication of his second book this year, Working Toward Sustainability: Ethical Decision Making in a Technological World.
- An information session on the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) was held on Friday, October 28, at 11:45 am in the Conference Room.
- The UF Department of Political Science is now on Facebook! "Like" our page to receive updates about department events, new courses, and other information.
- On Monday, October 10th at 3 p.m. in Anderson 216, Ekrem Karakoc, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Montreal, gave a talk entitled, "The Democracy-Inequality Paradox." More information is available here.
- The PSGSC sponsored a workshop on journal publications on Wednesday, September 28, at 11:45 a.m. in Matherly 0018.

