The Department of Political Studies
The Department of Political Studies is committed to continuing its traditions of academic excellence through its commitment to strong research and innovative teaching. Building on the national and international reputations of former professors R. MacGregor Dawson, Frank Underhill and Norman Ward, the Department has broadened its early focus on Canadian institutions into a study of modern governance and public policy, from a Canadian, comparative and international perspective; this includes the critically important perspective of Aboriginal peoples.
We live in a time of rapid and transformative change, in which people’s lives are shaped increasingly by global forces and norms. The Department of Political Studies has thus identified "Governance in a Global Era" as a key theme around which to build a research focus. Faculty and students conduct research on how governing institutions and processes in Canada and around the world are affected by major global forces such as race, ethnicity and culture, new patterns of international trade and economic organization, democratization, development, ideologies, religious movements, terrorism, innovative technologies, the opening of the Circumpolar North, and the aspirations of Indigenous peoples.
Recent News
USSU Recognizes Faculty with Teaching Excellence Awards
posted March 22, 2012
Left to right: Glorie Tebbett, Donald Story, Lorin Elias, George Keyworth, Karla Griffin
The University of Saskatchewan Students' Union (USSU) recognized five faculty members from the College of...
Taking the Pulse of a Province
posted March 19, 2012
By Kirk Sibbald
Communications Officer
College of Arts & Science
(this article appeared in On Campus News, March 16, 2012)
Few and far between are research...
Women in the Legislature - In the News!
posted March 14, 2012
The students participating in the Women in the Legislature program had the opportunity to visit the Legislature yesterday, 13 March 2012. Here is the story from the Star...
The StarPhoenix: Confronting attitudes about aboriginals
posted March 1, 2012
The following article details the the 2011 Saskatchewan Election Study by the Johnson Shoyama graduate school of public policy, with support from Social Sciences Research Laboratories.
Confronting...
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