Government at Washington University in St. Louis

7 faculty and 30 courses in Government at Washington University in St. Louis.

Faculty

• Daniel Butler, Professor of Political Science h-index 26
  American Politics View All People
  Notable: “Do Politicians Racially Discriminate Against Constituents? A Field Experiment on State Legislators” (2011) · 544 citations
• Betsy Sinclair, Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science h-index 21
  American Methodology View All People
  Notable: “Redefine statistical significance” (2017) · 2,790 citations
• Dino P. Christenson, Professor of Political Science h-index 20
  Electoral Behavior Public Opinion Political Psychology Political Communication Interest Groups Survey Research Design Quantitative Methods Data Science View All People
  Notable: “Recruiting large online samples in the United States and India: Facebook, Mechanical Turk, and Qualtrics” (2018) · 582 citations
• Frank Lovett, Professor of Political Science h-index 18
  Notable: “Neorepublicanism: A Normative and Institutional Research Program” (2009) · 308 citations
• Matthew Hayes, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 18
  American Politics Racial and Ethnic Politics Political Psychology Political Representation View All People
  Notable: “Pitch Perfect: Vocal Pitch and the Emotional Intensity of Congressional Speech” (2019) · 151 citations
• Clarissa Rile Hayward, Associate Chair; Professor of Political Science h-index 17
  Notable: “Nobody to shoot? Power, structure, and agency: A dialogue” (2008) · 223 citations
• Taylor Carlson, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 11
  Political Behavior Political Communication Political Psychology American Politics Experiments View All People
  Notable: “What to Believe? Social Media Commentary and Belief in Misinformation” (2018) · 125 citations

Courses

• American Politics POLSCI 1000
• Introduction to Comparative Politics POLSCI 1100
• International Politics POLSCI 1200
• Introduction to Political Theory POLSCI 1300
• Introduction to Environmental Policy POLSCI 2000
• Civic Action Lab: Running for Political Office POLSCI 2099
• Data Science for Politics POLSCI 2400
• Reproducible Data Skills for Political Scientists POLSCI 2490
• Directed Research in Political Science POLSCI 2900
• Fast Fashion and the Environment POLSCI 3005
• Politics in Bureaucracies POLSCI 3009
• Gender, Politics, and Policy in the United States POLSCI 3014
• Computational Modeling in the Social Sciences POLSCI 3015
• African American Politics POLSCI 3016
• Topics in American Politics: The Supreme Court POLSCI 3025
• Civil Rights POLSCI 3027
• Constitutional Law POLSCI 3029
• Topics in International Politics POLSCI 3043
• The Politics of Privacy in the Digital Age POLSCI 3048
• United Nations Institutions and Processes POLSCI 3074
• Politics and Policymaking in the American States POLSCI 3076
• Race and Ethnicity in American Politics POLSCI 3080
• Gender and American Politics POLSCI 3081
• Civil War and Peace POLSCI 3095
• Politics of the European Union POLSCI 3096
• Political Psychology POLSCI 3104
• Money in Politics POLSCI 3110
• Business and Politics POLSCI 3160
• Gender and Politics in Global Perspective POLSCI 3161
• Sports, Policy, and Politics POLSCI 3172

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.