Oliver Williamson, the 2000 AAPSS Charlotte Perkins Gilman Fellow and 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences, died on May 21 of complications from pneumonia. He was 87. [...]
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages through a presidential election year, the one thing that is certain is uncertainty. Many experts predict that virus caseloads will rise and fall in the US in waves [...]
In a new book, Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump, AAPSS Fellow Joseph Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of [...]
In a March 30 conversation published on the Carnegie Mellon University website, criminologist and Academy Fellow Daniel Nagin discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the criminal justice [...]
AAPSS Fellow Kathleen Hall Jamieson is featured in a new HBO documentary, “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News.” Directed by Andrew Rossi and executive produced by CNN’s Brian [...]
The AAPSS Board has elected five distinguished scholars–Katherine Cramer, Eric Foner, Helen Milner, Mario Small, and Bruce Western–to be inducted as Fellows of the Academy. With the [...]
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) recently announced that AAPSS Fellow Robert Greenstein, the organization’s founder and president, will step down on December 31, 2020, after [...]
The National Academy of Sciences announced today that it will present its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal, to AAPSS Fellow and former AAPSS president Kathleen Hall Jamieson at an [...]
AAPSS Fellow Manuel Castells was recently appointed Minister of Universities by new Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Castells will oversee Spain’s 50 public universities, directing policy [...]
In a new book, Martha Minow, the AAPSS 2017 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, asks what forgiveness can achieve in this age of resentment. When Should Law Forgive? explores the complicated intersection [...]
