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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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Learn more about: Examining Women’s Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles

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Project Title:Examining Womens Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles Tessa Provins, University of Arizona Tessa Provins is an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She received her M.A. in economics from Stanford University in 2013.

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Should We Vote in Authoritarian Elections?

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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. Her work has been supported by, among others, the American Political Science Association, the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, and the Yan P.

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Learn more about: Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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The Effect of Protesters’ Gender on Public Reactions to Protests and Protest Repression

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This, I show, is because patriarchy-defiant women are viewed as more immoral, which renders their protest accounts less trustworthy when they clash with government propaganda seeking to legitimize repression. Read the full article.

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The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy

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Mitchell , Brigham Young University Populisms effects on democracy after populists gain control of government (hereafter, populist incumbents) are some of the best theorized and documented consequences. The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy By Kirk A. Hawkins and Grant A. Read the full article.