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The University of California, Irvine (UCI) ranks among the top research universities
in the nation and provides an active university environment and a continued commitment
to excellence and achievement. The Department of Political Science has attained a
reputation for producing the very best innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Faculty are engaged in the study of such key questions as the politics of advanced
and democratizing societies, international cooperation and peace, the politics of
racial and ethnic minority groups, and the origins of altruism and morality and their
impact on world politics.
The department also has a very innovative Ph.D. program with strong interdisciplinary
emphases. Graduate students can pursue concentrations in democracy studies, international
relations, political economy/public choice, political psychology, and race and minority
politics. The Ph.D. program in Political Science offers big payoffs to our graduate
students due to the extended range of inquiry an interdisciplinary program affords.
news
Lynch named Fulbright Scholar
February 22, 2019
Honor supports six-month residence in Finland and research on ties between religion and humanitarian work
Coming together
February 21, 2019
Political science doctoral student Stacey Liou pursues award-winning research on public assembly
Southern California response to Trump's emergency declaration? See you in court, Mr. President
February 14, 2019
Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies, in the Orange County Register, Feb. 14, 2019