MU faculty members are showing up in the press as Election Day approaches.
Bill Horner talks voter fatigue with the Kansas City Star.
Al Roberts comments on the mood of the electorate in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Marvin Overby, Cooper Drury, and Peverill Squire traveled to St. Louis and Kansas City in October to discuss current election trends and policy with alumni and community members.
HEC-TV St. Louis has their presentation here.
Hear what students and faculty have to say about their experiences with the Kinder Institute at MU.
Justin Dyer and Micah J. Watson (Calvin College) have published a new book, C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law.
Read the New York Times Review here
Professor Moises Arce has been appointed Chair of the Department of Political Science. Arce joined the faculty at MU in 2006.
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series:Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence, published by Cambridge University Press.
From Newsy.com: For decades, black voters have been squarely in the Democratic Party. But it wasn't always that way — it took more than a century for that party alignment to take hold. We teamed up with Dr. Marvin Overby from the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy to narrow down key events that led to the black vote turning blue...
For the LSE Africa blog, Hangala Siachiwena and Michael Wahman discuss four key factors that could determine the outcome of the 2016 Zambian elections.
Interim Dean Pat Okker has selected A. Cooper Drury as a new associate dean of A&S. Drury currently serves as chair of the Department of Political Science.
Most people who have attended the University of Missouri are familiar with the Gaines Oldham Black Culture Center or have heard of Lloyd Gaines, the first African-American to apply to the MU law school, which denied his application. Until now, however, few have been aware of the legal battles Gaines and the NAACP waged to guarantee equal rights decades before the civil rights movement gained steam.