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Home Press Releases 8/11/11 APSA Announces 2011 Awards 10/1/10: Election Forecasts Favor Republican Gains in Midterm Elections 8/6/10: American Political Science Association Announces 2010 Awards 7/1/10: Can Governments Prevent Terrorism while Also Respecting Human Rights, or Must Authorities Trade Off Some Human Rights to Reduce Terrorism? 8/27/09: APSA Annual Meeting Will Convene Outside U.S. For First Time Sept. 3-6 8/24/09: APSA Announces 2009 Awards 7/20/09: Professional Lobbyists: Pragmatic Operatives or Just Another Partisan Resource? 5/12/09: Dr. Paula D. McClain, Director of the APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, Receives NSF Grant 5/6/09: Study Finds Policy Changes During Obama Presidency Will Likely be More Significant Than During Clinton, Reagan, or first FDR Administrations 4/22/09: APSA Announces Participants for summer 2009 Workshop on "Elections and Democracy" in Accra, Ghana 3/12/09: Why Should Iowa Remain the First Presidential Primary? Because it is More Representative Than You Might Think. 2/12/09:  Workshop Leaders, Theme for Summer 2009 APSA Workshop in Africa Selected 12/19/08: Study Compares the Racial Consciousness of Black and Asian Americans 12/09/08: A Post-Election Analysis of Canada's 2008 Federal Election 10/21/08: Election Forecast Predicts Democrats Will Gain 3 Seats in Senate, 11 in House 10/16/08: 6 of 9 Presidential Election Forecasts Predict Obama Will Win 2008 Popular Vote      | View video of panel at  National Press Club | Advisory: Task Force Report on Global Inequality Discussed on Capitol Hill 7/10/08:  Task Force Report Examines "Persistent Problem" of Global Inequality Download the Report Visit the Task Force website Things You Didn't Know About Global Inequality but Should 6/27/08: APSA Revises Site Selection Policy for Meetings, 2012 Annual Meeting to Stay in New Orleans 6/26/08: Why Do People Vote? Genetic Variation in Political Participation 4/23/08: Spouses as Campaign Surrogates: New Study Examines Strategic Appearances by Candidates' Wives in 2004 Election 4/11/08: APSA Announces AfricaWorkshops 3/13/08: How Social Pressure Increases Voter Turnout--Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment 3/3/08: Long-Term Cycles in American National Electoral Politics Found to Occur More Rapidly than Previously Believed 2/4/08: The Importance of Being Early: Presidential Primary Front-Loading 1/10/08: APSA Offers Expert Sources for Journalists on 2008 Primaries, Election 12/12/07: The Effect of "In Your Face" Political Television on Democracy 11/5/07: Political Scientists Examine Voter Confidence in Electoral Administration, Make Recommendations 10/31/07: Voter Turnout in U.S. Elections Not Increased by Early Voting Measures 10/23/07: What China Will Want--The Future Intentions of a Rising Power 8/22/07: Political Scientists Convene in Chicago for World's Largest Gathering on the Study of Politics 8/01/07: APSA Announces 2007 Awards 7/26/07: Parental Qualities Found to Significantly Affect the Civic Competence of Adolescents 7/23/07: New Study Explores Impact of the Voting Rights Act on Election of Non-White Officials 6/19/07: American Political Science Association Creates Expert-Locator Service for Journalists 5/4/07: The State of the Editorial Political Cartoon: An APSA Symposium 3/30/07: Why Hispanic Immigration is Not a Threat to American Identity 2/22/07: How Campaign Contributions Improve Policy Analysis in Congressional Committees 1/24/07: New Study--Mexican Political Polarization Limited to Elites Despite Contested 2006 Election 12/12/06: "Lessons Learned" Highlighted as Global Politics of HIV/AIDS Examined in New Research 12/8/2006: Political Scientist Receives National Social Science Dissertation Award   11/28/06: American Political Science Association Marks Centennial of its Flagship Journal, APSR   10/17/06: Political Scientists' Models Predict Democratic Takeover of House of Representatives in 2006 Midterm Elections 9/29/06: New Survey: Insecurity, Xenophobia Extremely High in Iraq 9/27/06: Study Explores Political Disorganization among Muslims in Europe 9/19/06: Study Assesses Impact of Economic Status for U.S. Minorities 9/6/06: Excellence in Scholarship Recognized at Annual Meeting of Political Scientists 8/22/06: 102nd APSA Annual Meeting Examines the Role of Power in Politics 7/28/06: The Myth of the Security Mom and Other Insights from "Gapology" 6/23/06: Scholars Examine Immigration and American National Identity 6/8/06: Explaining the Decision to Run for Congress--Why Candidates Enter US House Races 5/10/06: Political Scientists Recently Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4/25/06: 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Awarded to Robert Putnam 2/27/06: Media Advisory--Conference on the Crisis of Polling at the University of Minnesota 1/3/06: Exploring the Limits of Presidential Power after 9/11 Earlier Press Releases