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

Political Science Now

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Fewer college students are majoring in liberal arts subjects like philosophy or English and political science, like you did, Jon. Kirk: Epstein is dean of the faculty at the small liberal arts college. Archivist: Great.

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MIT, Yale and other elite colleges are finally reaching out to rural students

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Austin Anthony/The Hechinger Report That not only contributes to the worsening divide between urban and rural America; it limits economic opportunity in rural places. More than 20 percent of the population lives in poverty; 40 percent of the 1,000 students at the high school are considered economically disadvantaged.