APSA Educate
- Civic Engagement Beyond the Ballot February 5, 2021Joanna Kenty, PhD, The Citizens Campaign A lot is going to change, both in politics and in higher education, in 2021. At The Citizens Campaign, we have undertaken a groundbreaking new initiative to meet the fierce urgency of … The post Civic Engagement Beyond the Ballot appeared first on APSA.
- Politics in the Era of Global Pandemic: A Survey Course for Everyone December 4, 2020The Covid-19 pandemic is a global event unlike any other experienced in the contemporary era. It’s size, scope, reach, and implications are enormous, ongoing, and unequal. Outcomes—from how people all over the world will live their daily lives to whether … The post Politics in the Era of Global Pandemic: A Survey Course for Everyone […]
- CALL FOR PROPOSALS: PEDAGOGICAL PARTNERSHIPS November 30, 2020CALL FOR PROPOSALS: PEDAGOGICAL PARTNERSHIPS To support professional collaborations and produce cutting-edge teaching resources. Proposals for grants up to $15,000 DEADLINE: January 5, 2021 at 12:00 midnight EDT. The American Political Science Association seeks proposals from members for projects that … The post CALL FOR PROPOSALS: PEDAGOGICAL PARTNERSHIPS appeared first on APSA.
- Using Work-Study Internships to Promote Civic Education & Student Leadership Development November 20, 2020Elizabeth A. Bennion, Indiana University South Bend, ebennion@iusb.edu This essay was originally published in the Political Science Educator’s Spring 2020 issue. As American Democracy Project Director at Indiana University South Bend, I plan dozens of events and engage hundreds … The post Using Work-Study Internships to Promote Civic Education & Student Leadership Development appeared first […]
American Political Science Review
- PSR volume 115 issue 2 Cover and Back matter March 31, 2021
- Notes from the Editors March 31, 2021
- PSR volume 115 issue 2 Cover and Front matter March 31, 2021
- Gone For Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash, and US Presidential Voting March 16, 2021Globalization and automation have contributed to deindustrialization and the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs, yielding important electoral implications across advanced democracies. Coupling insights from economic voting and social identity theory, we consider how different groups in society may construe manufacturing job losses in contrasting ways. We argue that deindustrialization threatens dominant group status, leading […]
PS: Political Science & Politics
- Medicare for All, Some, or None? Testing the Effects of Ambiguity in the Context of the 2020 Presidential Election March 12, 2021Political scientists have long contemplated whether candidates are better off taking more ambiguous policy positions. Taking advantage of a lack of clarity in Senator Kamala Harris’s healthcare position, I use an original survey experiment to apply these theories to the case of the 2020 presidential election. I find that ambiguity offers Harris little to no […]
- Whither the Political Science Major? Curricular Design and Program Learning Outcomes at 110 US Colleges and Universities March 12, 2021
- PSC volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Back matter March 12, 2021
- Learning through Peer Reviewing and Publishing in the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics: Twenty Years Later March 12, 2021The Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics (PSAJ), sponsored by the Pi Sigma Alpha National Honor Society, was founded in 2001 at Purdue University. After 20 years, much has changed in undergraduate research and publishing, but the benefits of producing a peer-reviewed journal remain the same. Undergraduate research has increased in prominence, and the […]
Journal of Political Science Education
- “You Hafta Push”: Using Sapphire’s Novel to Teach Introduction to American Government August 21, 2020“You Hafta Push”: Using Sapphire’s Novel to Teach Introduction to American Government by Christine Pappas, East Central University Using fiction in the classroom can dramatize public policy issues and political science concepts, therefore, making them […]
- The Professor, Pluralism, and Pedagogy: A Reflection August 20, 2020The Professor, Pluralism, and Pedagogy: A Reflection by Michelle D. Deardorff, Jackson State University This essay discusses concrete approaches for faculty to use when teaching a student body whose demographics and cultural backgrounds are significantly […]
- Teaching the Arab World and the West…As an Arab in the West August 19, 2020Teaching the Arab World and the West…As an Arab in the West by Samer Abboud, Arcadia University How do the subjective experiences of faculty and students shape the classroom and the study of global politics? […]
- What’s in a Name…or a Face? Student Perceptions of Faculty Race August 19, 2020What’s in a Name…or a Face? Student Perceptions of Faculty Race by Jeanette Morehouse Mendez, Oklahoma State University & Jesse Perez Mendez, University of Central Florida Utilizing Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a conceptual framework, […]
Political Science Now
- Are Asian Americans a Meaningful Political Community? April 13, 2021Are Asian Americans a Meaningful Political Community? By Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara, Loan Le, Institute for Good Government and Inclusion and San Francisco State University, Okiyoshi Takeda, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sara Sadhwani, […]
- Whither the Political Science Major? Curricular Design and Program Learning Outcomes at 110 US Colleges and Universities April 12, 2021Whither the Political Science Major? Curricular Design and Program Learning Outcomes at 110 US Colleges and Universities By Maureen Feeley, University of California, San Diego and Renée Van Vechten, University of Redlands The American Political […]
- Forced Experimentation: Teaching Civic Engagement Online Amid Covid-19 April 9, 2021Forced Experimentation: Teaching Civic Engagement Online Amid Covid-19 By Taiyi Sun, Christopher Newport University Challenges from COVID-19 were especially severe for teaching classes about civic engagement and organizing. Students who were previously instructed to practice […]
- The Political Science Undergraduate Major and Its Future: The Wahlke Report—Revisited April 9, 2021The Political Science Undergraduate Major and Its Future: The Wahlke Report—Revisited By Steven Rathgeb Smith and Meghan McConaughey, American Political Science Association The undergraduate major in political science has been one of the most popular […]