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Mark also explores and critiques the field of political science through symposia on academic conferences, ideology in the classroom, and ideology within the discipline. He is an Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy at Georgetown University. Randal Ellsworth is a Senior Instructional Designer at AllenComm.
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Local Governance Falters Due to Uninformed Officials
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AUGUST 29, 2024
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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De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Sign Partnership Agreement
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
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.
In Memoriam: Dr. Boris E. Ricks, Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Passes Away
Political Science Now
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
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.
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils
Political Science Now
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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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Sarah Rozenblum Receives the 2024 Leonard D. White Award for “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? The Role of Scientific Advice in Covid-19 Vaccine Policy in France and the United States”
Political Science Now
AUGUST 6, 2024
White Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration. Citation from the Award Committee: The research presented by Sarah Rozenblum in “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? The Leonard D.
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Using a Smart Board to teach federalism in American National Government
APSA Educate
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
u) Active learning is an important component of classrooms as it helps students reinforce information after listening to a professor’s lecture (Lang 2021). By Elizabeth Dorssom (DorssomE@lincolnu.ed
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Corrupt Politicians Work Less but Support Regime More
Political Science Now
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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. However, engaging in corrupt behavior also poses a trade-off, because their self-enrichment leads to a pile of compromising information, or “kompromat.”
Dorothy Kronick and John Marshall Receive the 2024 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for “Collateral Censorship: Theory and Evidence From Venezuela.”
Political Science Now
JULY 25, 2024
Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best paper presented at the previous year’s Annual Meeting. Citation from the Award Committee: In their paper, “Collateral Censorship: Theory and Evidence From Venezuela.” The Franklin L.
Insights from a Political Recruitment Drive on Building a Diverse and Capable Party Base
Political Science Now
OCTOBER 14, 2024
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Since then, it has successfully formed governments in New Delhi and Punjab in addition to winning some seats in the Indian Parliament’s lower house ( Lok Sabha ).
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NOVEMBER 15, 2024
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. In a new article in the American Political Science Review , Lucas G. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Lucas G.
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Call for Applications: APSA MENA Workshop Fellows | Deadline: September 22, 2024
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AUGUST 28, 2024
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a call for applications from early-career scholars who would like to participate in a one-week in-person research development workshop, “The Politics of Identity in the Middle East and North Africa.” Selected fellows will be contacted by mid-October.
Alice Xu Receives the 2024 Harold D. Lasswell Award for “Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities”
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Lasswell Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public policy. Alice Xu is an Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice and Department of Political Science (secondary appointment).
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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. “ Drastic reforms in American politics marked the United States Progressive Era. The tribes refused.
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In contrast, informational, indirect exposure to the reform among the general public produced no attitudinal change. These results show that direct exposure to progressive social policy can weaken sexist attitudes, providing governments with a practical and effective tool to reduce harmful biases. Read the full article.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2024
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Short Course: Building Sustainable Cities: Provision, Implementation and Management
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APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Now Accepting Applications
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In Memoriam: Remembering Black Power Movement Philosopher, Author, and Political Scientist, Charles V. Hamilton
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This obituary is by Sam Roberts excerpted from The New York Times Credit: Jack Manning /The New York Times Charles Vernon Hamilton was a political scientist, civil rights leader, and the W. Sayre Professor of Government and Political Science at Columbia University. Hamilton , Washington Informer Dr. Charles V.
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Call for Editors: State Politics & Policy Quarterly (SPPQ) Journal
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FEBRUARY 8, 2024
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A Reconsideration of an Old Analysis from 1968 (i.e. Students: You Can Do This, and Do This Better)
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Thus, I’ve started scanning old journals in political science and international relations for some advice. His primary dependent variable is the extent of control (as a percentage) of the province by the South Vietnamese government. It is nice that reading Mitchell (1968) informs a bit of context here. Province Govt.
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On data analysis and process tracing, we begin by considering the informal manner in which many scholars proceed; more important, we survey the growing number of techniques (e.g., Instructor Bios: Andrew Bennett is Professor of Government at Georgetown University. These three courses are complementary and can also be taken separately.
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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Political science. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. He’s coauthor of the book “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America.” Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
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Why are wealthier students getting lower prices than their low-income peers?
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MARCH 27, 2023
Historic trends in net price by income and other information about universities and colleges nationwide are available in the Hechinger Report’s newly updated Tuition Tracker tool. The college said the information it had submitted to the federal government was incorrect, but did not respond when asked to provide the correct figures.
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Adjusting/Adapting Assignments for Flexibility and Engagement in Online Instruction
MPSA
JUNE 11, 2020
California State University, Chico, Political Science Online instruction, especially with students who are unfamiliar with online learning, requires balancing teaching across the familiar to the unfamiliar so that assignments are challenging but also support/reinforce what students already know. By Diane E. Schmidt, Ph.D.,
Clarifying the “People Like Me”: Racial Efficacy and Political Behavior
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JULY 9, 2024
Chan , Loyola Marymount University Political efficacy, or a sense of confidence that “people like me” can understand politics and receive responsiveness from government, is central to the study of political behavior. This limits our ability to infer how efficacy informs political participation.
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Taming the Poisson Model: A Tutorial
Steven V. Miller
DECEMBER 27, 2023
These are a unique case of discrete dependent variables that are left-bound at 0, can only be integers, and have only an informal bound on the right by probability. However, they present a unique opportunity because, if you were patient and diligent, you can extract some cool information from these models. Here’s a table of contents.
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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 4, 2020
Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up. The university overspent its budget by millions of dollars in each of the last five years.
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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local
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DECEMBER 4, 2020
By 2019, Ayers had helped impoverished Perry County reach an 86 percent college-going rate (57 students), the highest in the state, according to government figures. Government and Politics exam. The foundation’s results in several small, rural counties are eye-popping.
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Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}
Steven V. Miller
JANUARY 12, 2022
Rather, here’s the question as a restatement of the problem how does one create a “reading list” in the syllabus in a seamless way that elegantly communicates the pertinent information (i.e. The default here is “american-political-science-association.csl”. Check Pandoc’s user guide for more information here.
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What do Philadelphia’s students want? More college counseling
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 22, 2019
Nor did she understand how to identify schools that would allow her to major in zoology and prepare for her dream job as a veterinarian, but where she could also explore her interests in political science and film. Her mother, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, had never been to college and didn’t know how to help.
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As economy rebounds, state funding for higher education isn’t bouncing back
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 Related: Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college. grade-point average, and give a commencement speech in May. Music and French majors were suspended.
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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s. Out of a population of 3.2
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Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Related: Colleges provide misleading information about their costs. One is that there’s no limit to how much the federal government will lend to graduate students to pay for school — they can borrow up to the entire cost of a program.
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Member Spotlight: Dr. Elizabeth I. Dorssom, Lincoln University of Missouri
Political Science Now
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Dorssom APSA Member since April 2020 Assistant Professor of Political Science Lincoln University of Missouri How did you learn about APSA? I earned a Political Science Ph.D My primary research agenda investigates the impact of resources on politics and policy. Meet Dr. Elizabeth I. I earned a B.A.
Member Spotlight: Dr. Matthew Stein, College of Southern Nevada
Political Science Now
JUNE 5, 2024
Matthew Stein APSA Member since 2018-Present Instructor in the Department of Social Sciences College of Southern Nevada How did you learn about APSA? The (amazing) chair of the political science department, Robin Kolodny, ensured that doctoral students and candidates had APSA memberships. To both groups, I am eternally grateful.
Are Educators a Natural Fit for Public Office? These Candidates Think So
ED Surge
AUGUST 27, 2024
Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher. The step from public teacher to public office holder is, for many, intuitive, says Kelly Siegel-Stechler, a senior researcher at Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
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