The NYU Department of Politics is one of the best political science departments in the world. Faculty members are at the cutting edge of their research fields and are deeply committed both to training the next generation of political scientists and to applying their knowledge in significant real world settings.

The department has expertise in many different substantive fields, but it is distinctive as a political science department whose members share a concern for confronting theoretically rigorous models with high quality empirical data, analyzed in methodologically sophisticated ways.

Michael Laver, Chair