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Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power discussed the current state of democracy around the world, the rise of China, and U.S. efforts to promote democracy in a public […]

Former AAPSS Board Chair Heidi Hartmann, the Academy’s 2014 Charlotte Perkins Gilman Fellow, recently announced that she is stepping down as president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research [...]

An ANNALS Launch Event Co-Sponsored by AEI, Brookings, and AAPSS What do we know about the effectiveness of the many social welfare programs that constitute America’s social “safety net”?  How [...]

Watch a video recap of the evening here. On October 3, the AAPSS welcomed five eminent scholars as Fellows of the Academy at its annual gala dinner at the Willard […]

Esther Duflo, the AAPSS 2016 Sir Arthur Lewis Fellow whose work has helped transform antipoverty research and relief efforts, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She […]

Joan Petersilia, the 2018 AAPSS Thorsten Sellin Fellow, died of ovarian cancer on September 23 at the age of 68. Over her extraordinary 40-year career, she studied the performance of […]