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Law and Public Policy: A Gap Between Theory and Teaching?

Law and Public Policy: A Gap Between Theory and Teaching? By Edward F. Kammerer, Idaho State University and Neenah Estrella-Luna, Salem State University The realization that policy and law are tightly intertwined dates at least to de Tocqueville’s observation that, […]

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Theorizing Risk and Research: Methodological Constraints and Their Consequences

Theorizing Risk and Research: Methodological Constraints and Their Consequences By Geoffrey Swenson, University of London and Kate Roll, University College of London Conflict, postconflict settings, and other risky research sites are important with wide-ranging policy implications. Microlevel, field-based research […]

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Professors’ Politics and Their Appeal as Instructors

Professors’ Politics and Their Appeal as Instructors By Jason Giersch, University of North Carolina at Charlotte As more universities view students as customers and as more critics accuse universities of political bias, it is important to learn […]

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Research Impact Through Matchmaking (RITM): Why and How to Connect Researchers and Practitioners

Research Impact Through Matchmaking (RITM): Why and How to Connect Researchers and Practitioners By Adam Seth Levine, Cornell University Researchers and practitioners increasingly want to learn from one another and work together to solve problems. This article […]

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Exploring Bias in Student Evaluations: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

Exploring Bias in Student Evaluations: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity By Kerry Chávez, Texas Tech University and Kristina M. W. Mitchell, San Jose State University Research continues to accumulate showing that in instructor evaluations students are biased against women. This article […]

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Best Practices for Normalizing Parents in the Academy: Higher- and Lower-Order Processes and Women and Parents’ Success

Best Practices for Normalizing Parents in the Academy: Higher- and Lower-Order Processes and Women and Parents’ Success By Leah C. Windsor, University of Memphis and Kerry F. Crawford, James Madison University Our research on bias in family formation is rooted […]