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In Memoriam: Renowned Political Scientist and former APSA President, Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Passes Away

Political Science Now

He also completed an APSA Oral History Interview in 1993, where he shares his experiences in the discipline of political science. He was also President of the Policy Studies Organization and a Board Member of the Social Science Council. He returned to the faculty at Wayne State University in 1966, where he remained until 1969.

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PROOF POINTS: Pandemic relief money is flowing to class-size reduction but research evidence for it isn’t strong

The Hechinger Report

Georgetown University professor Marguerite Roza tracks school spending and she’s also seeing a new 2021 trend of schools’ hiring more teachers in order to reduce class size s. This wouldn’t be the first time that the federal government has spent gobs of money on smaller classes.

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Three Political Science Professors Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Political Science Now

Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships to individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located.

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

Anthropology News

By 2021, the state officially ended all remaining P2P lending platforms to curb risks from spreading to other financial sectors. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.

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Learn More About: Racial Justice as Human Rights: Support for Reform in American Policing

Political Science Now

in political science from the University of Chicago in 2021. Geneva Cole, College of William and Mary Geneva Cole is a postdoctoral scholar in race and ethnic politics in the department of government at William and Mary and an incoming assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona.

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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}

Steven V. Miller

> (2021). #> Social Science Quarterly* #> 93(5): 1202–17. #> External Territorial Threats and Tolerance of Corruption: A #> Private/Government Distinction.” Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> Social Science Quarterly* 100(1): #> 272–88. #>

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

Steven V. Miller

The guide I wrote in 2021 should communicate how you could minimally use the indicator argument in this function, though I’m doing what the package author recommends doing if you know you’re going to be renaming your columns anyway. If 2020 is not available, it will take 2021. If no data exist for 2021, it’ll take 2019.

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