Announcements

Professor Steve Kautz on Lincoln

February 06, 2012

On Monday, February 20, at 5:00 pm, Michigan State Professor Steve Kautz will speak at The Political Philosophy Colloquium.

Spring Talk Schedule

February 01, 2012

Here is the current schedule for the Spring 2012 Professionalization and Research Talks, held on Friday:

Ben Kleinerman Lectures on Judicial Supremacy

November 09, 2011

The Department of Political Science at Michigan State University

presents a lecture co-sponored by the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy:

Judicial Supremacy and the Politics of the Constitution.

New LeFrak Forum Program

October 26, 2011

The LeFrak Forum and Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy in the Department of Political Science present a program on

Modern Jewish Thought: On Franz Rosenzweig and Gershom Scholem Co-Sponsored by the Jewish Studies program at Michigan State University.

Political Philosophy Colloquium Events

October 19, 2011

The Political Philosophy Colloquium

presents

the Fall 2011 Schedule of Lectures

Reinvigorating Public Service in Michigan

October 19, 2011

Attention MPA, MPP, Political
Science and Public Administration
Students!!

Prof. Reckhow Co-Authors Brookings Report on Philanthropy and Suburban Poverty

July 25, 2011

As Suburban Poverty Grows, Regional Philanthropies Need to Help Hold the Social Safety Net Together

New Brookings report recommends philanthropies shift focus and expand their regional support

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rising poverty in America's suburbs is challenging regional philanthropies to re-focus their activities to support growing needs outside cities, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

The report, Building a Regional Stronger Safety Net: Philanthropy's Role, provides the first indepth analysis of the distribution of philanthropic grants in several metro areas, particularly in their suburbs.

Private Money, Public Schools

May 11, 2011

Assistant Professor Sarah Reckhow has been invited to speak at a conference for education journalists at the Columbia Journalism School. Her talk on May 14 will include findings from her research on major foundations and urban school reform. More information about the conference is available here.

Change and Continuity in the 2008 and 2010 Elections

January 12, 2011

A series that Paul Abramson (MSU), John Aldrich (Duke) and David Rohde (Duke) began with their study of the 1980 elections, available March 15, 2011.