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The mission of the Political Science Department is to foster the goals and concerns of the CSUSM Mission Statement by providing innovative and interdisciplinary undergraduate education in the field of political science to a student body across a variety of diversities and experiences. The Political Science Department seeks to produce informed, empowered citizens who will contribute to their national and global communities.
Senior Seminar PSCI 494b
Interested in doing an internaship for your Senior Capstone? Go to this page for information on Internships Senior Seminor PSCI 494b.
Internship in Politics
Interested in working as an intern for the California state government in Sacramento? Check out the Sacramento Semester Program to learn how you can get course credits while gaining political experience! Financial assistance is available.
For information on the program, attend the zoom information session held by the Internship Program Director at Sac State, Dr. Jaime Jackson on Wednesday, September 22nd @ noon. Register here.
The campus application deadline for the 2021 Sacramento Semester Program is November 5th, 2021.
Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Xiaoye She’s book Understanding Local Agency in China’s Policy Reform examines evolving roles of local agency in social policy in post-reform China. Using a subnational comparison approach, the book illustrates how local governments have actively coordinated their policies in economic and social realms, and how they have identified new ways to cope with growing top-down political pressure. The book contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature that examines political economy of social policy in non-western and authoritarian political systems.
Dr. Meshack Simati's new book, Post-Election Violence in Africa, explores the effect of the judiciary on the incidence of post-election violence by political actors across Africa and within African countries. It examines how variation in judicial independence can constrain or incentivize election violence among democratizing states.