The event celebrates 10 years of attracting leading scientists, engineers and scholars from around the world to collaborate with Texas A&M’s outstanding faculty and students.
At the Encaenia ceremony, degrees will be awarded to Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, Sir Lenny Henry, Dr Mo Ibrahim, Professor William Chester Jordan, Dr Jane Lubchenco, Professor Theda Skocpol, Professor Susan Solomon, Bernard Taylor and Wim Wen
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David D. Laitin, Stanford University, is this year’s recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize, known by many as the ‘Nobel Prize in Political Science’. Professor Laitin is awarded the prize for his “original and objective explanation of how politics shapes cultural strategies in heterogeneous societies.”
David Laitin is an influential comparative politics scholar, recognised for his research on the relationship between culture and politics. Laitin has made ‘culture’, often the junk drawer of political science studies, studiable and concrete by identifying various cultural components of a nation’s inner life: language, religion, art and literature or family life. Central to his thinking is that these cultural components do not have to easily reinforce each other or pull in the same direction. These ‘spheres’ can co-exist without coinciding. Laitin’s fieldwork experience spans diverse contexts from Somalia and Nigeria to Catalonia in post-Franco Spain, post-Sov
It s time to rank the vote in Delaware and across America | Opinion Eric Morrison and Kristin Brownlee, Special to the USA TODAY Network
Election 2020: Discussing turnout for Delaware s historic vote
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There exists in Delaware and in all of America a growing movement to enact ranked choice voting (RCV). Locales and states are enacting RCV at an exponentially growing rate. Many folks have questions about ranked choice voting including how it works, why it’s so good for democracy, where it currently exists, and who endorses it.
Here’s how RCV works. Instead of picking one candidate, you rank multiple candidates in order of preference with no requirement to include a candidate in your rankings if you don’t support them at all. Let’s say there are five candidates running for Governor Smith, Jones, Gonzalez, Brown, and Williams. I have preferences amongst three of the candidates, but I don’t like two of them at all. In the voting