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Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game

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Lets Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game By Michelle M. Buehlmann , University of North Dakota, Grand Forks In Lets Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game , Dr. Buehlmann argues that government shutdowns are the crisis in a negotiation strategy, commonly called brinkmanship.

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Using Social Media in American Government Classes to Encourage Political Engagement and Media Literacy

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Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 2 Reflections By Elizabeth Dorssom ( mdorssome@lincolnu.edu ) College classrooms are often awash with screens, revealing a generation of students who grew up immersed in technology.

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

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The committee also thought that the pedagogy analyzed in the article lends itself to application in many different classes, modalities, and educational environments and thus has the potential to be of interest to a wide audience and have broad impact. He is an Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy at Georgetown University.

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Teaching U.S. Constitutional Design: The Case of the “Genovian Revolution”

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The simulation is designed to foreshadow key concepts in American government and politics. The Journal of Political Science Education is an intellectually rigorous, path-breaking, agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on teaching and pedagogical issues in political science.

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Using Strategic Games to Illustrate Environmental Policy Concepts for Undergraduates

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We develop a sequence of three games enforcement, emissions trading, groundwater governance to illustrate core concepts in environmental policy. We also offer a general framework to help instructors design their own policy simulation games.

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Perspectives on Politics: Call for Papers – Political Science and the University

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In this call for papers of Perspectives on Politics , we invite political scientists to use their expertise to explain what is and ought to be happening at institutions of higher education. How does university education shape political attitudes and behavior? How does higher education change gender norms?

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Considering Edtech in Political Science Teaching: Data Literacy, Privacy Rights, and the Role of Government in Regulation

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Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 Reflections By Janet L.