The American Political Science Association (APSA) recently established a Task Force on New Partnerships that works to stimulate more civically engaged research (CER) in political science. This project aims to offer a foundation for the continual development of CER as well as the roles that political scientists can and should play in co-producing knowledge with people outside of academia to address contemporary and pressing public problems. Through two working meetings – one that will that outline the working contours of CER and another that focuses on the development of processes that center problems deemed as important by marginalized and often exploited/over-researched groups – we will initiate discipline-wide discussions about the reach, relevance, and rigor of CER and its practical and normative implications for scholarship, teaching, and service.
