Government

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

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Campus address: Batts Hall (BAT) 2.116, phone (512) 471-5121, fax (512) 471-1061; campus mail code: A1800

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program, Department of Government, 158 West 21st Street A1800, Austin TX  78712

E-mail: gov-gpo@austin.utexas.edu

URL: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/government/

Facilities for Graduate Work

With more than sixty full-time or jointly appointed members, the Department of Government is one of the largest political science faculties in the country. The department houses important research centers, including the Public Policy Institute and the Policy Agendas Project. The department’s research resources include excellent computer facilities and an extensive collection of machine-readable social science data.

Students in the department also take advantage of many of the University’s research facilities and programs, including the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and Centers for East Asian Studies; Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and Middle Eastern Studies. Many other units provide institutional support for political scientists, including the Brazil Center, the Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, the Center for European Studies, the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, and the South Asia Institute.

The University has one of the largest academic libraries in the United States, with many collections of value for research in government and politics; these include the Benson Latin American Collection, the Grattan collection on Australia, the Woodrow Wilson collection, the Tobenkin collection on the Russian Revolution, the Jaffe collection on political radicalism, and a variety of special materials on southern and western Americana, Southwestern history and politics, India, East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the British Commonwealth. The library system also includes the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the Harry Ransom Center, and the Tarlton Law Library. The campus is the site of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, an invaluable resource for the study of twentieth-century politics.

Areas of Study

All candidates for graduate degrees are expected to develop a broad competence in the discipline as a whole as well as expertise in specific areas. The program offers specialized instruction in the following fields: American politics, comparative politics, formal theory, international relations, methodology, political theory, public law, and public policy.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester of 2013.

Jeffrey Bruce Abramson Bethany L Albertson Zoltan D Barany Catherine Boone Daniel M Brinks Jason M Brownlee Bruce Buchanan II J Budziszewski Jason P Casellas Terrence L Chapman Henry A Dietz David V Edwards Zachary S Elkins James M Enelow Michael G Findley Gary P Freeman James K Galbraith Terri E Givens Kenneth F Greene Benjamin G Gregg Roderick P Hart Juliet A Hooker Wendy A Hunter Gary J Jacobsohn Stephen A Jessee Bryan D Jones David L Leal Sanford V Levinson Tse-Min Lin

Robert C Luskin Patricia Maclachlan Raul L Madrid Aloysius P Martinich Eric L Mcdaniel Patrick J McDonald Robert G Moser Scott James Moser Lorraine S Pangle Thomas L Pangle Ami Pedahzur H W Perry Jr Tasha S Philpot Lucas A Powe Jr David F Prindle Brian E Roberts Victoria E Rodriguez Thomas K Seung Daron R Shaw Bartholomew H Sparrow Devin A Stauffer Sean M Theriault Peter Trubowitz Jeffrey K Tulis Rachel Wellhausen Kurt G Weyland Michael Scott Wolford Samuel G Workman