Political Science

This story originally appeared in Brookings' How We Rise blog and was republished with permission from Brookings Institute. Gabriel Sanchez is a Professor of Political Science at The University of New Mexico and is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for...

With the 2020 General Election on the horizon, New Mexico is among many states looking at how to continue developing free, fair, safe and secure election processes. “The public must perceive that voting is easy and accessible, while at the same time...

People of color are being disproportionately infected by the novel coronavirus, professor of computer science and biology at UNM Melanie Moses and...

A new study launched at the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has unique data showcasing behavioral pattern changes in communities. The National Panel Study of COVID-19 began in March and focuses on how different ethnicities and political party...

Rocky Cordova knew he wanted to go into politics ever since he ran his first campaign in elementary school. “I was ten years old,” he remembers. “But I never wanted to be the candidate, I just wanted to work with the candidate. I remember using markers...

COVID-19 continues to ravage Native American communities in the Southwest, taking lives at rates 19 percent higher than other racial or ethnic groups. In an effort to help those communities, the UNM Native American Budget and Policy Institute (NABPI), in...

As the nation faces unprecedented changes do to the COVID-19 pandemic, several important political questions are being debated across the nation. At the top of this list is whether states should postpone their primary elections, continue elections...

Makayla Grijalva is probably best known at The University of New Mexico for her work at Advance and the Daily Lobo. She’s skilled at multimedia story-telling through writing, shooting and editing video, photography, live video production, and web and...

The Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship selected UNM student Sall Ryan Ahmadian to represent New Mexico at the 2020 College Student Congress. The summer program in public policy selects 51 rising college seniors, representing each state and the District...

UNM student Joel Robinson is one of just 190 students selected from institutions across the country to be a 2020 Truman Scholarship Finalist. Robinson is a National Merit Scholar studying political science and economics with a focus on poverty and...