Political Science Student Association
POLSA is a group that brings IUPUI students together to learn and talk about politics. It is open to all students, regardless of their major or political affiliation, and organizes regular events and meetings at which visiting speakers make presentations, recent graduates talk about job possibilities, faculty and student panels debate critical issues of the day, or students just get together to share ideas.
Resources
News
NY Times, Washington Post, London Financial Times, BBC...
Political News
Politico, The Weekly Standard, Drudge...
Legislative News
Congressional Quarterly, CSPAN, The Hill, Role Call...
Featured Faculty Articles:
Bill Blomquist, Ph.D
Political Pitfalls of Integrated Watershed Management
Boundary definition, choices about decision-making arrangements, and issues of accountability will arise in any watershed and may help to explain why watershed management has more often taken polycentric organizational forms composed of subwatershed communities of interest. .
Johnny Goldfinger, Ph.D
The Value of Social Choice Theory for Normative Political Theorists
"By looking at democracy from a social choice perspective, new normative issues emerge that might otherwise remain dormant and the consideration of certain perennial problems and concerns is reinvigorated."
Top Articles:
Ethanol, schmethanolEveryone seems to think that ethanol is a good way to make cars greener. Everyone is wrong
This is Your Brain on Politics
IN anticipation of the 2008 presidential election, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to watch the brains of a group of swing voters as they responded to the leading presidential candidates.
Religion will play a big role in this century's politics. This special report on religion and public life by the Economist asks how we should deal with it.