Frequent encounters build familiarity
PhD student Paige Bollen finds urban street networks that encourage encounters among strangers link to lower ethnic tensions and anti-immigrant hostility.
PhD student Paige Bollen finds urban street networks that encourage encounters among strangers link to lower ethnic tensions and anti-immigrant hostility.
MIT Center for International Studies and Security Studies Program offer new resources for modeling human behavior and decision-making in real-world scenarios.
Faculty leaders discuss the opportunities and obstacles in developing, scaling, and implementing their work rapidly.
Doctoral student Blair Read links rise of private education in India to local political competition, signaling potential erosion of public services.
A new MIT-wide effort launched by the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society uses social science and computation to address systemic racism.
New MISTI faculty director Evan Lieberman discusses the crucial role of international education for global solutions.
Low-wage workers, who vote infrequently, gain a participation boost when their salaries increase.
Senior Sihao Huang uses his background in physics and complex systems to inform his interdisciplinary approach to political science.
As Russia masses military equipment near Ukraine borders, experts in an MIT forum express concern about possible action and its consequences.
Pressman Awards inspire undergraduate engagement in politics and policy, and sometimes a complete pivot in direction.
The findings suggest voting by incarcerated people is unlikely to affect electoral outcomes, in contrast to some assumptions.
Political scientist Vipin Narang’s new book, “Seeking the Bomb,” makes sense of the complex history of nuclear weapons programs.
Political scientist Nazli Choucri discusses challenges and hopes for global coordination on climate issues — and the role of political science in the process.
Sihao Huang, William Kuhl, Tingyu Li, Giramnah Peña-Alcántara, Sreya Vangara, and Kelly Wu will pursue graduate studies in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Senior Max Williamson uses his background in computer science to tackle public policy issues in his home state and on a global scale.