Boston University Department of Political Science

Patronage networks and multitasking incentives: Evidence from local officials’ responses to public crises in China’s centralized bureaucracy Multitasking agency problems affect government performance. While governments can give high-level authorities discretion to monitor agents’ multitaski…

Congratulations to BU Poli Sci PhD Candidate Bo Feng on his newest publication in World Development! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails Criminology has long grappled with the relationship between race/racism and the criminal justice system. In this article, we build on past critiques and demonstrate how scholars of the criminal legal....

Congratulations to BU Poli Sci PhD candidate Chas Walker on his new publication in Criminology. Chas & his co-authors apply the sociological theory of racialized organizations to criminal legal organizations using evidence from recent ethnographies of police, courts & jails.

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Congratulations to BU Political Science faculty member Jacob Brown on being named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow! www.bu.edu/polisci/2025...

Check out BU Political Science Grad student Zara Albright's new publication in Latin American Politics and Society! Read her take on China's development finance in Latin America and the Caribbean here: doi.org/10.1017/lap....

Using tax dollars to block new housing is bad policy - The Boston Globe More than a dozen communities have been accused of ‘weaponizing’ the sale of public land to stop housing development.

Based on the research of our very own Katherine Levine Einstein and Maxwell Palmer www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/25/o...

RFK Jr.’s pivot to Trump is a journey taken by many populists swept along the left-to-right alternative media pipeline How to explain Kennedy’s slide from lefty skepticism into full MAGA? A scholar of populism found some answers in his appearances on alternative podcasts like ‘Breaking Points’ and ‘Joe Rogan.’

New from @BU_PoliSci ‘s @rachelhmeade. Commentary about RFK Jr and the alternative media ecosystem. theconversation.com/rfk-jr-s-piv...

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