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

Political Science Now

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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OPINION: Here’s an old-fashioned, win-win idea to get students engaged before this fall’s election

The Hechinger Report

This new initiative has emerged from the institute’s mission to help young people become more informed about and engaged with local government and the issues affecting the community where they go to school. The work of local government directly affects the lives of those in their communities.

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How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?

The Hechinger Report

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. It’s a lot more challenging to be able to concentrate and fully deliver,” said Gallardo, 20, who is a junior majoring in political science, and the first in his family to go to college. “I It’s just a very unpredictable time.”.

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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

The Hechinger Report

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. Hope Perry, college access counselor for The Ayers Foundation Scholars Program, in the library of Summertown High School in Lawrence County, Tennessee.

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

The Hechinger Report

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. That does not include athletic facilities, dorms, dining halls, libraries or labs. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up.

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State Terror and Long-Run Development: The Persistence of the Khmer Rouge

Political Science Now

The regime implemented a campaign of violence to reorganize society, yet governing elites varied across the communist ideological spectrum. My findings add a novel pathway to the library of mechanisms which explain why historical coercion undermines development. I argue repression can undermine development by delimiting human capital.

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Political Scientists Beyond the Academy: An NCAPSA-APSA Virtual Roundtable

Political Science Now

(EST) | Register Here This virtual roundtable brings together five political science practitioners with decades of combined experience charting careers in government, higher education administration, polling and research firms, think tanks, and foundations. Senate and as a senior executive at the Library of Congress.