Social Sciences

The program, co-led by the new Tobin Center, is part of the university’s ongoing effort to invest in policy-oriented social science and data-driven research.

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and deeply ingrained social behaviors and biases are a factor, says SOM’s Michael Kraus.

Democracy is the courageous way to have a country. A cult of personality is a cowardly way of destroying one.

Edited by Jack Tsai, associate professor of psychiatry (Oxford University Press)

Using the 2011 uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt as case studies, Elizabeth Nugent is writing a book on how legacies of repression affect democratic transitions.

A new study suggests that White Americans with liberal views use language that makes them appear less competent in an effort to get along with minorities.

In a close election, we’ll never really know who “really” won. We’ll just know that the second, error-filled count decided.

Stephen L. Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law (Henry Holt and Co.)

David W. Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of History (Simon & Schuster)

Thirukodikaval Nilakanta “T.N.” Srinivasan, the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale, died on Nov. 11 in Chennai, India. He was 85.