
Cornell's Department of Government is devoted to the study of how political power is shaped by institutions, and channeled and challenged by civic engagement, in local, national and international contexts. The faculty offers students a diverse field of study ranging from the analysis of the great texts of political philosophy to game theoretical approaches to politics, and from political economy to the examination of the behavior of decision makers and publics in the United States and other societies.
The government department offers students a variety of opportunities to engage with politics and political science, beginning in the classroom with the hands-on learning of different analytical approaches such as survey research, political psychology and the close reading of texts; with the chance to work one-on-one with faculty in the honors program or as research assistants; by participating in internships in Washington, D.C. through the Cornell in Washington Program; and drawing on the department's ties with programs across the College of Arts and Sciences with a focus on regions of the world, peace studies, and ethics and public life.
Associated Faculty
- Uriel Abulof
- Begüm Adalet
- Vivekinan Ashok
- Oumar Ba
- David Alexander Bateman
- Richard F Bensel
- Alexandra Blackman
- Susan Buck-Morss
- Valerie Jane Bunce
- Allen R. Carlson
- Ani Chen
- Alexandra E. Cirone
- Richard T. Clark
- Bryce Corrigan
- Peter K. Enns
- Matthew Anthony Evangelista
- Gustavo A. Flores-Macías
- Tiffany N. Ford
- Jason Frank
- Jill Frank
- Sergio I Garcia-Rios
- Ronald J. Herring
- Will Hobbs
- Laura Huber
- Steve Israel
- Sabrina Karim
- Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
- Peter J. Katzenstein
- Jonathan Kirshner
- Isaac Kramnick
- Sarah Kreps
- Mona Krewel
- Douglas L. Kriner
- Alexander G. Kuo
- Jeremy Ladd
- Adam Seth Levine
- Andrew Thomas Little
- Alexander Livingston
- Ceyhun (Jeyhun) Mahmudlu
- Joseph Margulies
- Patchen Markell
- Anil Menon
- Suzanne Mettler
- Jamila Michener
- Thomas Pepinsky
- Isabel M. Perera
- Rachel Beatty Riedl
- Kenneth Roberts
- Bryn Rosenfeld
- Diane S. Rubenstein
- Elizabeth Sanders
- Daniel Schade
- Martin Allen Shefter
- Vivienne Shue
- Anna Marie Smith
- Ella Street
- Sidney Tarrow
- Norman Uphoff
- Nicolas van de Walle
- Jeremy Lee Wallace
- Steven Michael Ward
- Christopher Robert Way
- Jessica Chen Weiss
- Xu Xin