SFSU Political Science

Tonight at 7pm on KALW radio, Professor McDaniel will be discussing tomorrow's CA primary election. Tune in!

This article in the Atlantic refers to research about the unintended consequences of ranked-choice voting by SF State Political Science Professor Jason McDaniel http://www.theatlantic.com//ranked-voting-donald-t/476670/

Jason McDaniel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, is quoted in this new column by E.J. Dionne about Donald Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com//3f93792a-f6a6-11e5-8b23-53

Today at Salon.com, Jason McDaniel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, shows that racist attitudes towards Blacks and Muslims significantly predict support for Donald Trump. http://www.salon.com//yes_trumps_secret_weapon_is_racism_/

Professor Katherine A. Gordy's book on Cuban socialist ideology came out last June. http://www.amazon.com/Living-Ideology-Cuba-Soc//0472052616

Another link from Professor Andrei Tsygankov: http://www.russia-direct.org//will-russia-be-able-build-fu

A link from Professor Andrei Tsygankov: http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/pressure-on-russia

Deadlines for paper proposals to APSA and the Caribbean Philosophical Association annual meetings coming up on December 15th.

Professor Katherine Gordy reviewed George Ciccariello-Maher's book We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Bolivarian Revolution in the journal Contemporary Political Theory. http://www.palgrave-journals.com//ncu/full/cpt201420a.html

Professor Gordy published an article on 19th century Argentine liberal Domingo Sarmiento and 20th century Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui in Postcolonial Studies. http://www.tandfonline.com///10.1080/13688790.2013.869377 Abstract:Twentieth-century Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui wanted to give a Peruvian and indigeneous face to socialism in his country. He embraced Marxism as a method, but its application meant challenging many of its temporal and spatial assumption...s. The encounter of European ideas with the Latin American experience was itself theoretically productive. It is paradoxical then that when defending his project, he evoked the name of the unabashedly Euro-centric nineteenth century Argentine liberal Domingo Sarmiento, whose 1845 book Facundo, or Civilization and Barbarism embraced European ideas a the source of progress in Argentine and associated all that is indigenous with barbarism and backwardness. However, in spite of Sarmiento's explicit celebration of European ideas, the text itself is filled with examples of how European ideas fail to take root in Argentine and thus illustrates how the local overwhelms the universal. In revealing the limits and inadequacy of European theory, its calls, albeit unintentionally, for a new theorizing that Mariátegui would later take up. Both theorists then suggest that the practice of theory be understood as emerging from and gaining autonomy from orthodoxy via sustained engagement with the local, which then leads to generalizing anew. See more

From Professor Andrei Tsygankov: Check out this article in European Security: Freedom House’s ratings of Russia as a securitization of democracy (co-authored with David Parker) http://www.tandfonline.com///10.1080/09662839.2014.968775

Check out this recent post by Professor Andrei Tsygankov: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk//why-russias-strong-state-politica/

Update from Professor Andrei Tsygankov: "It was a pleasure to be a part of this Finno-German project on emotions in Russian foreign policy. Many thanks to the organizers Tuomas Forsberg, Regina Heller, and Reinhard Wolf. The results are in just published special issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/0967067X