Spotlight on CAPE

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award, formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs.

The Heinz I. Eulau Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best article published in the APSA journal Perspectives on Politics.

Former CAPE Postdoc Samuel Trachtman's article "Policy Feedback and Interdependence in American Federalism" was published in Perspectives on Politics.

Americans have long demanded — and regularly received — debt relief from legislatures. A forthcoming book by Emily Zackin and Chloe Thurston studies the US political economy of debt policy.

Jacob Hacker is building a new program at Yale focused on the American Political Economy.

"She can talk both science and political science with astonishing detail, nuance, and academic authority while translating it all for public consumption without dumbing it down."