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Department of Political Science

The department periodically hosts Friday afternoon socials, where student and faculty discuss timely issues of politics and governance. Photo: Sofia Diaz.

Students in the “Education Reform in America: Politics and Policy” class took a field trip to Lower Merion High School. See what other classes the department offers. Photo: Holden Blanco '17.

CITYSCAPES poster session from POLS161: Global Political Economy: Race, Labor, Power, taught by Prof. Craig Borowiak. Students worked in groups over the course of semester to research a city of their own choosing and its relation to transformations in the global economy.
The Political Science Department offers a program of study that provides students with an opportunity to explore politics and government from multiple vantage points—at the grassroots, the nation-state, and the global community—and from a variety of theoretical, conceptual, comparative, historical, and experiential perspectives.

By Emma Gross; Image by UNICEF Within the International Criminal Court, the minimum age of criminal responsibility(MACR) is the age at which a person can

By Andrew Cadwallader, Chauncy Wadsworth, & Hassan Ayub Haverford College has always had a strong tradition of consensus voting. Plenary, one of our campus’s most

By Eli Kravinsky; Image from Journal of Democracy As Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine has dragged into the second year, optimism amongst the Western public has

During a summer internship sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Richter helped track hiring practices in academia and how they relate to careers in linguistics.

As a summer intern working with the Abolitionist Law Center’s probation and parole campaign, she has witnessed up close the injustice of the criminal legal system.

For her thesis, Bansal researched the impact of immigrant-led grassroots.

Rabins is working at three different farms across Italy as part of a self-designed internship supported by the Center for Career and Professional Advising.

The Haverford Political Science Major plans to use the fellowship to initiate a career in legal advocacy, social justice, and activism.

By Sara Fakhry ’26; Image by Human Rights Watch These are not easy times to be a Lebanese citizen. Lebanese people have watched their country

By Emil Turdukulov; Image by GettyImages March of this year marked the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Using the justification that Saddam Hussein