About The Government Department

These links present a brief history of the Government Department at Wesleyan and information on our faculty and faculty searches in progress. The political science links focus on official sources of information from governmental sources in the United States and nations around the world. Additional political science links on more specialized topics are available on the web sites of individual faculty.

The most common names for departments that study governmental affairs are Government, Political Science, Politics, and Public Affairs. The choice among these names typically has no important curricular implications.