Congratulations to Ada Johnson-Kanu, recent @UCMercedPolisci graduate, for receiving the American Political Science Association's Race and Ethnic Politics Section’s Best Dissertation...
Political Science Professors Andrew Shaver of UC Merced and Yang-Yang Zhou of the University of British Coumbia have been awarded the 2022 APSA Migration & Citizenship Section Best...
The Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching for Senate Faculty award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level. This is a very...
The mission of the Political Science program is to push forward the boundaries of the discipline, and train graduate and undergraduate students to consume and produce sophisticated modern empirical and theoretical research. The rigorous methodological graduate training that students receive at UC Merced places them at the leading edge of the social sciences. We use a unique approach to graduate training, focused on Political Institutions & Political Economy (PIPE) and Political Cognition & Behavior (CAB), guaranteeing that students will have a comprehensive and creative understanding of politics. We believe in interdisciplinary research, crossing boundaries and finding new frontiers, so students are also encouraged to work with faculty from other disciplines such as cognitive science, psychology, economics, sociology and philosophy to enrich their education.
