PoliSci Blog

You can’t repeal regret’: targeting men for mobilisation in Ireland’s abortion debate Abstract This study explores how social movement organisations involved in the abortion debate in the Republic of Ireland attempted to appeal to men in their campaign messages before the 2018 referendum on the Eighth Amendment concerning abortion. We scrape social movement organisations’ Twitter …

2021 Indiana General Assembly features several bills that would preempt local government decision making by Dr. Bill Blomquist Although the need to pass a state government budget and issues involving CoVid-19 response are rightly expected to dominate the current session of the Indiana General Assembly, another and perhaps surprising flurry of legislative activity has involved …

When I teach my class “Political Parties and Interest Groups” (POLS Y301), one of the areas that students are always most interested in is whether money spent lobbying Congress and other parts of the federal government makes a difference. In the article “The Influence of Corporate Lobbying on Federal Contracting” my co-authors Thomas Holyoke (Fresno …

By Professor Erin M. Engels, JD, IUPUI Pre-Law Advisor Are you considering law school?  The Law School Admission Council (LSAT) collects data on law school applicants and admissions.  An analysis of the 2020 data about IUPUI students provides some helpful guidance for those applying in the future. Last year 87 IUPUI students applied to attend …

    The Department of Political Science is happy to announce our new Fall Washington D.C. Internship initiative. Now you have the opportunity to live and work in Washington D.C. during the fall semester, while earning at least 12 credits toward your degree. Turbo charge your resume and career with another one of the great …

Amanda Friesen, Associate Professor of Political Science, and co-principal investigator Jordan Mansell, a post-doctoral researcher at Western Ontario University, have been awarded Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection grant. With this award, they will bring together scholars across North America to attend and present at a workshop entitled “Science in Politics: Methodological Innovations …

Don’t miss Dr. Dusso’s interview “Yes, social media companies can legally ban the president,” by reporter Erica Finke for WSBT.

By Alex Workman As a child, I would watch out the car window as we passed the Harding Street power station spew out smoke from its huge stacks. The ominous clouds of pollution scared me since I knew that the dangerous smoke was being put into the same air that we all breathe. As a …

Check out Dr. Friesen’s great presentation on her recent work: “Slimy worms or sticky kids: How caregiving tasks and gender identity attenuate disgust response”

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