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Assistant Professor Dion Farganis co-authors book on Supreme Court nominations

sspray — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:40:00 +0000

Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate: Reconsidering the Charade by 51�� Assistant Professor of Political Science Dion Farganis and co-author Justin Wedeking, of the University of Kentucky, is an analysis of U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings from 1955-2010. The authors’ coded more than 11,000 questions and answers from Senate Judiciary Committee hearings to assist us in better understanding whether nominees are growing more or less candid with their responses to questioning during Senate confirmation hearings.

The text, published by the University of Michigan Press, adds significantly to our understanding of the advice and consent role of the Senate by systematically evaluating the exchanges between nominees and members of the Senate over the course of more than a half century.

Rutland-Spitzer scholarship winners in political science

sspray — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:35:00 +0000

Rising juniors Nicole Molinari, Shannon Temlak and Mary Rouse will share this year’s Rutland-Spitzer Scholarship in Political Science for their outstanding academic achievement in the political science major.

Greg Honan awarded Isabella Canon Scholarship

sspray — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:30:00 +0000

The Department of Political Science and Policy Studies awarded this year’s Isabella Canon Scholarship to rising senior Greg Honan.

Honan is an Honors student and Lumen Prize winner majoring in political science. Earlier this year, he started the highly successful Politics Forum to bring students, faculty and community members together for non-partisan political discussions on important issues of the day.

Honan will be studying in London during the fall semester.

Department of Political Science and Policy Studies honors outstanding students

sspray — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:10:00 +0000

The Department of Political Science and Policy Studies honored several outstanding students this past week.

Greg Nantz was chosen as this year’s most outstanding student in political science. Parker Tobin was chosen as the outstanding student in graduating with a public administration major. Graduating senior Catherine Bell was awarded the department’s Rudolf T. Zarzar Award for Political Theory.

Matthew Weidenfeld honored for Outstanding Journal Article

sspray — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:41:00 +0000

His article, “Comportment, not cognition: Contributions to a phenomenology of judgment” appears in the May 2011 issue of the publication.

The judges’ citation for the award was as follows:

“This article offers an original and persuasive phenomenological perspective from which to understand the politics of judgment, partly displacing, but also complementing, more traditional conceptions of what we do when we exercise (political) judgement. Weidenfeld’s argument undermines over-intellectualist approaches to political science, and points to new areas of study of political experience and the way in which we arrive at good (political) judgement.”