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Journal of Political Science Education (JPSE) 2024 Best Article Prize

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The prize committee thought that the article was innovative, as it challenges our conceptions of valuable components of grading. The article focuses on how to assess learning gains through student effort and engagement as opposed to summative demonstration of knowledge only.

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De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Sign Partnership Agreement

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PRESS RELEASE De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Announces Partnership Agreement on New Political Science Professional Development Book Series WASHINGTON D.C. We are proud to publish these new Book Series together with the American Political Science Association.

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Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Robert Seddig, Passed Away

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Professor Seddig was a long-time political science faculty member at Allegheny College. He graduated cum laude in 1963 from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, with a major in government and international relations. program in Politics at Princeton University where he specialized in U.S. He then entered the Ph.D.

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Local Governance Falters Due to Uninformed Officials

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In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Adam Michael Auerbach, Shikhar Singh and Tariq Thachil, “Who Knows How to Govern?

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Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils

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Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils By Adam Michael Auerbach, Johns Hopkins University , Shikhar Singh , Duke University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to municipal authorities. Read the full article.

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In Memoriam: Dr. Boris E. Ricks, Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Passes Away

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Ricks was an Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Northridge, since 2008. in Political Science from the University of Southern California in 2003. Within the American Political Science Association, Dr. Ricks held a number of leadership and committee positions. Dr. Boris E.

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Same Old Story in Silicon Valley

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In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. In a recent fascinating APSR article by Alina Utrata, we are invited to reconsider these futuristic ambitions of outer space colonialism through a historical lens.