鈥淚ncreasingly, people who work in and around politics are skillful with data,鈥� says Dean Matthew Auer. 鈥淧redictive analytics, understanding political risk, understanding voting patterns 鈥� all of these subjects 鈥� and many more 鈥� are steeped in data and information science. This is the heart of the MA track in Political Analytics.鈥�

Political decision-making and strategy have become increasingly reliant on data. The Political Analytics track provides hands-on training in data visualization, predictive modeling, and survey research methods. These skills are essential for professionals in political consulting, government affairs, and public leadership.

鈥淪tudents can launch their career with this Political Analysis track,鈥� says Shane Singh, Professor of Public and International Affairs and Co-Graduate Coordinator of Political Science & International Affairs. 鈥淚t prioritizes practical skills, professional experience, and data-driven decision-making in the world of policy and public affairs. And they can graduate in as little as one year.鈥�

The program integrates the disciplines of political science and international affairs, ensuring graduates have a comprehensive understanding of applied political analysis in both domestic and global contexts.

Program Highlights

• Real-World Experience: Engage in a political analytics practicum to gain hands-on experience in politics, international affairs, and political consulting.
• Advanced Analytics Training: Learn data-driven approaches, including predictive modeling and survey research, tailored for political analysis.
• Career-Ready Skills: Graduate with practical experience and a competitive edge in politics, public affairs, and beyond.
• Non-PhD Career Focus: Specifically designed for students aiming for practitioner-based careers rather than academic paths.
• Flexible Completion Timeline: Earn your degree in just one calendar year.

Who Should Apply?
This program is ideal for:

• Early- and mid-career professionals seeking expertise in data-driven decision-making, campaign analysis, and public affairs.
• Political consultants, legislative staffers, think tank professionals, government affairs specialists, and nonprofit leaders looking to enhance their analytical capabilities.
• Aspiring elected officials who want to leverage data analytics for strategic decision-making.

Take the Next Step in Your Career
If you鈥檙e ready to become a leader in the fast-changing worlds of political science and international affairs, apply now to the Political Analytics track at SPIA. Gain the skills, experience, and network needed to excel in today鈥檚 data-driven political environment.

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Over the course of his presidency, Obama appointed 55 appellate judges, 35 of whom were women and/or people of color, making the US Court of Appeals the most diverse it has ever been. As a judicial diversity scholar, political science professor Dr. Susan Haire, along with three colleagues, applied for a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to analyze the effect of increased diversity on courts. This grant allows Haire and her team to comb through data on judges and their opinions from each appeals court from 2009 to 2016, adding to an existing database of judicial opinions on cases that date back to the 1920s.

UGA connections run deep in this team, consisting of Drs. John Szmer (UNC Charlotte), Laura Moyer (University of Louisville), and Rob Christensen (BYU). Both Moyer, who specializes in judicial diversity and collegiality, and Szmer, who specializes in judicial process and diversity, were Haire鈥檚 former graduate students at UGA. Christensen, who specializes in public management and law, met Haire while he was a faculty member in the department of public administration and policy at UGA.

In March 2017, the team started collecting data with NSF support. Over the next two years, Haire, Moyer, Szmer, and Christensen assembled data on thousands of cases, including the opinion text and subsequent citations to those opinions. They are studying the gender and race of the judges, the tone (of both audio recordings and written statements using text analysis software), and the content of the opinions. In fall 2018, they presented preliminary findings showing that non-traditional judges (women and/or minorities) write significantly different opinions than their white, male counterparts.

Haire explains, 鈥淥pinions written by non-traditional judges were 15 percent longer. They were also more likely to ground their opinions in case law鈥elying more frequently on what we describe to be 鈥榮trong cites鈥� (where they quote from an existing precedent) when compared to opinions authored by white male judges.鈥� Moyer added that they hypothesize this is happening because judges from non-traditional backgrounds may feel they have more to prove.

Although Moyer mentioned writing much longer and more in-depth opinions could potentially have a negative effect by leading to faster burnout for the judges, she also revealed an unintended positive effect. 鈥淲riting thorough, well-written opinions increases the likelihood that those opinions could be referenced and cited in future cases.鈥� This indicates that the opinions written by female and non-white judges may be referenced more in the future, and thus, may craft the next wave of cited case law, setting a disproportionately high amount of precedence for the future. Moyer also explained that having more judges who write thorough opinions grounded in case law could also potentially change the norms and lead to all judges improving the quality of their opinions.

While the original timeframe of the grant is now ending, the team is expected to have the grant extended by six months to a year to explore new data on oral arguments. The team is proposing to examine patterns of interruption, to see if female judges are interrupted more than male judges, as well as to analyze their results in the context of imposter syndrome, a psychological pattern where individuals doubt their accomplishments and fear they don鈥檛 deserve the position they have. Once the data set is complete, it will be available online, free of cost.

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ABC News correspondent and UGA alumna Deborah Roberts听will give the 快猫短视频鈥檚 spring undergraduate Commencement address May 10 at 7 p.m. in Sanford Stadium.

Loch Johnson, Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the 快猫短视频, will deliver the spring graduate address on the same day at 9:30 a.m. at Stegeman Coliseum. Tickets are not required for either ceremony.

Since graduating from UGA in 1982 with a degree in broadcast news from the听, Roberts has risen through the ranks of television news, received numerous awards and been a regular reporter and contributor for programs such as 鈥淒ateline NBC,鈥� 鈥�20/20,鈥� 鈥淣ightline,鈥� and 鈥淕ood Morning America鈥� to name a few.

Born in the small town of Perry, Georgia, Roberts was one of nine children. She began her post-college career at WTVM-TV in Columbus, Georgia, and subsequently worked at WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she gained notice for her coverage of the state legislature.

Roberts further honed her reporting skills as bureau chief of WFTV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Orlando, from February 1987 to May 1990, where she also served as the station鈥檚 field anchor at the Kennedy Space Center and co-anchor of the weekend news.

In 1990, Roberts began her network career with NBC News as a general assignment correspondent. She covered stories in the Southeast from the Atlanta and Miami bureaus and was dispatched to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait reporting on the lead up to the Persian Gulf War. Roberts was later named a magazine correspondent for 鈥淒ateline NBC鈥� and reported from Barcelona during the 1992 Summer Olympic games, earning an Emmy nomination for this coverage.

In 1992, she received a 快猫短视频 Distinguished Alumnus Award, presented annually to recent graduates who have excelled rapidly in their professions.

Roberts joined ABC 20/20 in 1995. Since then her curiosity has taken her around the world, from Bangladesh to report on women鈥檚 maternal health to Africa where she has traveled extensively, telling stories about the HIV/AIDS crisis and an Emmy-winning report on a woman who discovered her long lost mother in an African village. Roberts has won numerous awards for her work including a Clarion award for coverage of abuse within the Amish community.

In 2006, Roberts delivered UGA鈥檚 Holmes-Hunter lecture, and in 2016 she presented an Alumni Seminar. Earlier this year, she participated in a panel discussion entitled 鈥淕rady Greats: A Conversation on the Enduring Values and Power of Journalism.鈥�

Johnson, who also holds the title of听, is an accomplished scholar in political science, with numerous awards for his teaching prowess and research.

During his career at UGA, Johnson authored more than 30 books and over 200 articles on intelligence agencies, foreign policy and national security. He served as editor of the journal听Intelligence and National Security听and as a member of the editorial boards of the听Journal of Intelligence History,听International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence,听听Intelligence and National Security听补苍诲听The听Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence, among many others. His latest book is entitled听Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States听(Oxford, 2018). Johnson was a driving force in the creation of the School of Public and International Affairs in 2001. In 2012, the fourteen universities that comprise the Southeast Conference selected him as the inaugural recipient of its now annual prize: 鈥淭he SEC Professor of the Year.鈥�

After receiving his doctorate in political science from the University of California at Riverside in 1969, he taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, California State University (San Francisco) and Ohio University, where he was tenured in 1974.

From 1975 on, Johnson also served as a political consultant and congressional staff member, pushing for increased oversight of intelligence agencies. He was Special Assistant to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which investigated the nation鈥檚 spy agencies and led to the establishment of oversight committees in the Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives to monitor intelligence activities.

Additionally, Johnson served on the staff of the Senate鈥檚 Committee on Foreign Relations, as staff director of the House Subcommittee on Intelligence Oversight and on the staff of the House Subcommittee on Trade and International Economic Policy.

He became a member of the UGA faculty in the听Department of Political Science听in 1979, becoming a full professor in 1985. He took a year鈥檚 leave from the university in 1995 to work on the Aspin-Brown Commission on Intelligence. He has also taught at Yale University and Oxford University as a Distinguished Visiting Professor, and he has presented addresses on national security and foreign policy topics at over 150 colleges and universities in North America, Europe, and New Zealand.

During his time at UGA, Johnson has been involved in both local and national politics, including writing Friend of the Court petitions in intelligence-related court cases, serving as a member of the Georgia State Board of Elections and leading the SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) campaign to finance a new Cedar Shoals High School and renovate public schools throughout Athens-Clarke County.

Johnson will retire at the end of the spring semester after more than 40 years at UGA.

For more information on UGA鈥檚 Commencement ceremonies, visit听

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