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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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Short Course: Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Case Studies & Comparative Research (QMMR B)

Political Science Now

Instructor Bios : Andrew Bennett is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the co-author, with Alexander George, of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Science (MIT Press, 2005), and co-author, with Jeffrey T. Tasha Fairfield is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics.

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Meet Yifan (Flora) He, 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantee

Political Science Now

Yifan (Flora) He is a PhD candidate at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, with a research focus on land and natural resources governance in the Global South using causal inference methods and geospatial tools.

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Congratulations to the Political Science Scholars Elected into the 2024 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program

Political Science Now

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. Cornell Professor of Political Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Does Social Media Increase Political Polarization?

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

Instructor Bios: Andrew Bennett is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the co-author, with Alexander George, of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Science (MIT Press, 2005), and co-author, with Jeffrey T. Tasha Fairfield is Associate Professor in Development at the London School of Economics.

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Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})

Steven V. Miller

NA #> 2 Afghanistan AF AFG 2015 71.5 6.06 #> 8 Albania AL ALB 2015 100 -8.60 Convert a Panel to a Cross-Section (From “Easiest” to “Still Easy (but with Five More Lines of Code)”) The data created above and assigned to an object called rawData is what we’d call a “panel” in the social sciences. 0.662 NA 89.5

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