About the Department

The Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto ranks among the world's best. It provides an ideal setting for students and learners at all levels to engage with novel ideas, thorough scholarship and creative research in all of the discipline's subfields, as well as in an array of interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. As a community of established and emerging scholars -- teachers and students -- we are uniquely positioned to draw upon a Canadian perspective as well as the university's intellectual buzz and the city's cultural diversity, to address the most enduring questions of politics, locally and internationally.

More than ever, our mission is to encourage our students to think broadly, critically, and internationally about the core features of democratic and global citizenship. We do this with a faculty that includes award-wining teachers, building on a legacy of famously gifted instructors -- the likes of Harold Innis and C.B. Macpherson, Alan Bloom, Tom Pangle, and Janice Stein. With a history going back to the 1880s, the department now has a total faculty complement of over sixty across the three campuses of the University of Toronto.

News and Announcements

Ran Hirschl awarded prestigious Killam Research Fellowship

February 22, 2012 — Hirschl recognized for comparative constitutional scholarship Article by Elaine Smith, U of T News Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2012 University of Toronto professor Ran Hirschl of the Department of Political Science and the Faculty of Law has been named the recipient of one of…
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Remembering Richard Gregor

February 21, 2012 — Richard Gregor, Professor emeritus and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, 1924-2012 Those whose time in the departments of Political Economy and Political Science overlapped with that of Richard Gregor retain a vivid memory of this colleague, who left us on January…
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Undergraduate Award Reception

January 9, 2012 — The Annual Undergraduate Award Reception was held on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 in the Political Science Lounge and celebrated the award recipients from the 2010-2011 academic year. One of the awards is the Pollara Book Prize, which is awarded to the…
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Alanna Krolikowski Awarded Sylvia Ostry Doctoral Fellowship in International Policy

January 9, 2012 — Alanna Krolikowski, who is completing her doctoral dissertation in Political Science, has won the inaugural Sylvia Ostry Doctoral Fellowship in International Policy.  She is also affiliated with the Asian Institute.  The fellowship is supported by an endowment gift from Dr.…
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Professor Ran Hirschl is recipient of the 2011 Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory and will deliver the Julius Stone Address in 2012

November 28, 2011 — The Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney is honouring University of Toronto Professor Ran Hirschl with the 2011 Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory and have invited Professor Hirschl to…
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Janice Stein reappointed as director of Munk School

November 15, 2011 — The Munk School of Global Affairs is celebrating the news that University Professor Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation, has been reappointed to lead the Munk School for a two-year term beginning July …
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In the Press

Aurel Braun weighs in on Khaled Meshaal’s stepping down

February 21, 2012 — Has outgoing Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal brought about a new, more peaceful, face to the organization? Article by Ross Johnston, The National Post Published on February 17, 2012 “From what we see from the outside, there is a suggestion that there may be…
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Janice Stein: Iran, State of Play (TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin)

February 14, 2012 — Janice Stein interviewed on where things stand in the international dispute over Iran’s nuclear…
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The Quebec Question for the next generation

February 14, 2012 — Former politicians, policy experts explore today’s outlook at U of T conference Article by Kelly Rankin, U of T News Posted Monday, February 13, 2012 “…The former premiers shared their perspectives on events such as the Meech Lake Accord and the 1995 Quebec…
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Over-regulation of cyberspace risks infringing on human rights

February 13, 2012 — Director of U of T’s Citizen Lab addresses Faculty of Information’s iConference Article by Irene Poetranto, U of T News In our quest to shape and regulate cyberspace, we risk subverting the global commons of information we have created, and by extension,…
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