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How Gender Alters the Costs of Political Toxicity.

Political Science Now

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 Jack Wippell, covers the new article by Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen, “Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity.”

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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

The Hechinger Report

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I Marine Corps as an intelligence analyst, and is now a sophomore at Brown University, studying political science. I was an awful student,” said Aimee Chartier, now a sophomore political science major at Brown University. “I

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Short Course: Interpretive Process Tracing (QMMR C)

Political Science Now

We begin, meta-theoretically and conceptually, by building on the practice turn in sociology and political science. We start with ethnography and political ethnography, viewed by many as the ‘gold standard’ for accessing social practices.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

With her undergraduate degree in sociology and political science, “I couldn’t get anything more than serving jobs — not to dis on serving jobs,” said Jackie Vazquez-Aldana, a second-year law student at St. With her undergraduate degree, “I couldn’t get anything more than serving jobs,” says Vazquez-Aldana.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Political science. Andrew Koricich: There are a lot of rural institutions that have sort of been struggling for a while, and you drop the Covid pandemic in the middle of that, which, you know, I think we’ve seen documented so many ways that the rural impacts were just qualitatively different than they were in urban areas.

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

Political Science Now

For data collection, we consider the typical ways in which process tracing gathers evidence on the observable implications of causal mechanisms, including archival work, document analysis of secondary sources, various field methods (interviews, political ethnography, ethnography), and surveys.

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Urban Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

Ethnographies are generally characterized by participant observation, a qualitative method that relies on the anthropologist as a recorder and interpreter living among the people studied within their cultural setting, and the process by which he/ she learns about local social, political, and economic life.