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5/14/2012 - Congratulations to Maggie Peters, the winner of the 2012 Harold D. Lasswell Award of the American Political Science Association
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5/07/2012 - Kathy Walsh delivered keynote address at 2012 Niagara Foundation's Peace and Dialogue Awards Dinner
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5/07/2012 - Congratulations to our faculty, graduate and undergraduate students for their recent achievements and recognition
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5/01/2012 - Congratulations to our faculty and graduate students for their recent achievements and recognition
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4/23/2012 - Congratulations to our graduate students Evgeny Finkel and Dmitry Kelly
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5/18/2012 - Political Theory Workshop
1:00 PM Ogg Room
5/9/2012 - Comparative Politics Colloquium
1:30 PM Ogg Room
5/8/2012 - International Relations Colloquium
12:00 PM Ogg Room
5/7/2012 - American Politics Workshop
12:00 PM Ogg Room
5/4/2012 - Visiting Speaker
1:20 PM Ogg Room
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Lisa Martin. “Against Compliance,” in International Law and International Relations: Synthesizing Insights from Interdisciplinary Scholarship. Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Mark Pollack, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012)   
Lisa Martin, Beth Simmons. “International Organizations and International Institutions,” in The Sage Handbook of International Relations. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons, eds., 2d edition (London: Sage Publications Ltd., 2012), pp. 326-51   
Lisa Martin. Introduction to International Relations. Dubuque, Iowa: Great River Technologies, 2012   
Leticia Bode and Valerie Hennings. “Mixed Signals? Gender and the Media's Coverage of the 2008 Vice Presidential Candidates.” Politics & Policy 40, 2 (2012): 221-257   
Susan Yackee. “The Politics of Ex Parte Lobbying:  Pre-Proposal Agenda Building and Blocking During Agency Rulemaking.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 22 (2012): 373-393   
Ryan Owens, Ryan C. Black. “Consider the Source (and the Message): Supreme Court Justices and Strategic Audits of Lower Court Decisions.” Political Research Quarterly 65 (2012): 385-395   
John Zumbrunnen. Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship. University of Rochester Press, 2012   
Simon Haeder. "Beyond Path Dependence: Explaining Healthcare Reform and Its Consequences." Policy Studies Journal 40, S1 (2012): 65-86   
John Ahlquist, Erik Wibbels. "Riding the Wave: World Trade and Factor-Based Models of Democratization." American Journal of Political Science 56, 2 (2012): 447-64   
Barry Burden, Christopher R. Berry, and William G. Howell. "The Lives and Deaths of Federal Programs, 1971-2003," in Jeffrey A. Jenkins and Eric M. Patashnik, eds. Living Legislation: Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking (University of Chicago Press, 2012).   
Kenneth Goldstein, William Feltus, Michael M. Franz, and Travis Ridout. "Separation by Television Program: Understanding the Targeting of Political Advertising in Presidential Elections." Political Communication 29, 1 (2012): 1-23   
Ryan Owens, Justin Wedeking. Predicting Drift on Politically Insulated Institutions: A Study of Ideological Drift on the United States Supreme Court. Journal of Politics 74 (2012): 487-500