The Mass. U.S. Senate Race 

Political Science Professor Marc Landy weighed in on campaign styles in the ongoing race for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts in an interview with NECN.

Voice and Equality Honored

Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics, co-written by Moakley Professor of Political Science Kay L. Schlozman, has won the 2012 American Association for Public Opinion Research Book Award, which recognizes "influential books that have stimulated thinking about the substance and study of public opinion." 

Emancipation of Europe's Muslims

The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims by Political Science Associate Professor Jonathan Laurence, who recently chaired a working group on ethnic minorities and foreign policy convened by the Secretary General of the British Commonwealth, is "perhaps the subtlest and most solidly researched analysis of European policies toward Islam," according to a review in Foreign Affairs, and "establishes firm ground for hope" that the cycle of exclusion and violence will be defused.

The Muslim-American muddle

A decade after 9/11, America has reached a political and intellectual stalemate regarding the Muslims in its midst, writes Political Science Professor Peter Skerry. National Affairs

She made a difference

Angela Donkor, a Political Science major, is among the "Class of 2012 Seniors to Remember." This select group of graduating students exemplify what's best about Boston College.

The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady. Princeton University Press, 2012.

The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims: The State's Role in Minority Integration by Jonathan Laurence. Princeton University Press, 2012.

Arisotle's Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins, University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Kant and the Limits of Autonomy (Harvard University Press, 2009), by Susan Meld Shell.