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

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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Professor Wendy Wong to receive one of five undergraduate teaching awards

November 4, 2011 — Professor Wendy Wong has been nominated and selected to receive one of five undergraduate teaching awards presented by the University of Toronto Students’ Union and the Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students. Each year undergraduate students have an opportunity to nominate instructors…
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PSAA Event Assesses Ontario Election

October 20, 2011 — From left to right - John Wright, Nelson Wiseman, Katherine Valiquette, Kerry Wicks, Bob Hepburn and Robin Sears. For the second year in a row, the Politi­cal Science Alumni Association (PSAA) put a spotlight on a recent election, pro­viding a treat…
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In the Press

Suburban boom signals need for transit upgrade, says Nelson Wiseman

February 9, 2012 — Article by Megan O’Toole, National Post Published February 9, 2012 “The supply is limited in Toronto for families looking for a backyard and picket fence, added University of Toronto political scientist Nelson Wiseman, and many of those flocking to the suburbs…
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The Iron Lady: More nightmare than politics

February 1, 2012 — Article by Mel Watkins, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science at the University of Toronto Published January 26, 2012, rabble.ca Both as a movie buff and a veteran leftie, I’ve been waiting to see The Iron Lady so I could write about…
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The Pragmatic and the Desperate

February 1, 2012 — Dissecting how Republicans choose their presidential candidates. Article by John Grant, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Published January 30, 2012, The Mark In the lead-up to the season of Republican presidential primaries, armchair and paid commentators worked hard to…
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Proposed ISP access law threat to privacy, say groups

February 1, 2012 — Article by Howard Solomon Published 27 Jan 2012, Network World Canada Pressure on Conservative government increases with the expected re-introduction of government bill giving police the ability to ask for subscriber information Privacy groups are increasing pressure on the Harper government to change…
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Recent Publications

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