Dr. Kirstin Birkhaug teaches Introduction to American Politics, State and Local Government, and all upper-level political theory courses, including American Political and Social Thought, Ancient and ...

Pre-eminent historian J.G.A. Pocock, whose erudite presence has towered for generations at the intersection of intellectual history, history of political thought, and history of law, died in Baltimore ...

Are you an aspiring lawyer? Or, are you interested in a career as a government official? Perhaps you’re simply interested in learning about Western politics and how our political landscape became what ...

Retired Professor Robert K. Faulkner, a longtime faculty member in the Boston College Political Science Department who was a universally respected scholar of modern political philosophy and American ...

A central concept in early modern political thought, especially in England, is the notion of the "state of nature." Thomas Hobbes and, one generation later, John Locke, use it as the "clean slate" or ...