Politics

Recently declassified archival materials offer new insight into the reasons behind the changing dynamics of transatlantic relations since the 1970s, according to Thomas Alan Schwartz, co-editor of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter. Read More

The recent vote in Congress on health care reform – with only one Republican lawmaker voting yes – provides more evidence of the growing polarization between the parties and the fundamentally different understandings of right and wrong that continue to pull the two major political parties further apart, according to Vanderbilt University political scientist Marc Hetherington. Read More

A little respect could go a long way to preserving democracy in America, says Vanderbilt professor Bob Talisse in his new book. Read More

Kim McMillan, former majority leader in the Tennessee House of Representatives, is the second in a series of Tennessee gubernatorial candidates to address students in Vanderbilt University's "Introduction to American Government and Politics" class. Read More

Stephen Hadley, who served as the principal White House foreign policy adviser under former President George W. Bush, will speak at Vanderbilt University Law School on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at noon. Read More

Shelby County District Attorney General Bill Gibbons will be the first in a series of Tennessee gubernatorial candidates to address students in Vanderbilt University's "Introduction to Politics" class. Read More

Watch video of a Sept. 30 talk by Dhavan V. Shah, an expert on the social psychology of media influence on political judgment. Read More

Vanderbilt University Professor of Political Science Bruce Oppenheimer spoke about the continued increase in presidential power at the expense of Congress during the university's annual Constitution Day program on Sept. 23. The event took place in Flynn Auditorium of Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Ricardo Lagos, a former Chilean president whose administration achieved strong economic growth while adopting democratic and social reforms, will address current issues facing Latin America during an Oct. 1 lecture at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Vanderbilt University political scientist Bruce Oppenheimer will discuss the continued expansion of presidential power and its impact on Congress during the school's annual Constitution Day program on Sept. 23. Read More

Contributors to The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" will gather on Sept. 16 for a panel discussion on the topic "Is America Postracial?" Read More

Katherine Carroll, an assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, will describe her experiences in Iraq during a Sept. 17 lecture in the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Read More

Watch video of Elizabeth Zechmeister, assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, speaking about terrorist warnings affecting political attitudes. Read More

Watch video of Elizabeth Zechmeister, assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, speaking about terrorist warnings affecting political attitudes. Read More

When citizens in the United States and Mexico are confronted by terrorist threats, they cope in ways that can put significant stresses on the nations' democracies, according to research by political scientists at Vanderbilt and Claremont. Read More

A Vanderbilt University political scientist's study of President Obama's appointments during his first six months in office finds some agencies are receiving significantly more qualified presidential appointees than others. Read More

Vanderbilt University Distinguished Professor of Political Science John Geer will spend fall 2009 at Harvard University as a Fellow of the prestigious Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Read More

Alex N. Dragnich, an expert on Yugoslavia and Serbia and prolific author who taught for more than a quarter-century at Vanderbilt University, died Monday in Bowie, Md. He was 97 and died of pneumonia. Read More

The controversy over President Obama's birth certificate will not go away as long as he refuses to release sealed records, including the original birth certificate, according to Carol Swain, professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University. Read More

James Fraser, associate professor of human and organizational development, will testify before the Congressional Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity July 29 at 9 a.m. CT on the topic of public housing. U.S. Subcommittee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) invited Fraser to testify. Read More