Academy of Political Science

The Academy of Political Science is an American non-profit organization and publisher devoted to cultivating non-partisan, objective analysis of political, social, and economic issues. It is headquartered in The Interchurch Center in New York City. Its current President is Demetrios James Caraley.

Columbia University founded the Academy of Political Science in 1880 to foster cooperation between Columbia University Law School and the Columbia University Graduate School of Political Science. In 1886 the Academy of Political Science began publishing the Political Science Quarterly.

In 1910 the Academy of Political Science incorporated in New York State as a non-profit organization with open membership to all who would pay dues and it enjoyed the financial support from private foundations.

Half a century ago, the Academy was one of only a handful of organizations that could be relied upon to produce non-partisan, analytical studies. The Brookings Institution was another one. The Academy also had annual dinners which were newsworthy events that were attended by important politicians, diplomats, scholars, and intellectuals.

In 1921, President Warren G. Harding spoke to 1,400 men and women at a luncheon of the Academy of Political Science in the Hotel Astor declaring his intention for a drastic reorganization of government and radical cutting of expenditures asserting that Federal, State and municipal Governments had been "spending without a thought of the morrow". In 1932, Walter Lippmann spoke at Academy's annual dinner about liberalism. "The great concern of the liberal spirit" he told the guests, "rests at last upon the conviction that at almost any cost men must keep open the channels of understanding and preserve unclouded, lucid and serene their perceptiveness of truth." In 1940, then-Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson used the Academy's annual dinner to deliver an important pro-preparedness, pro-helping Britain speech. In 1946, then-Secretary of State George C. Marshall delivered a major dinner speech, also widely covered by the press, in favor of the Marshall Plan of aid to Western Europe. Vice-President Richard Nixon also attended the Academy's annual dinner in 1959.

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