Congressional Fellowship Program

Colleen J. Shogan, New Library of Congress NIO Deputy Director, Shares Her Experiences & Advice for Women in Politics

Colleen J. Shogan has been named the deputy director of National and International Outreach, (NIO), at the Library of Congress. Shogan, previously the deputy director of the Library’s Congressional Research Service (CRS) since August 2012, […]

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Journals

Narratives of Fear in Syria

Wendy Pearlman Scholarship on Syria has traditionally been limited by researchers’ difficulty in accessing the reflections of ordinary citizens due to their reluctance to speak about politics. The 2011 revolt opened exciting opportunities by producing […]

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Career Paths

Career Paths Profile: Natalie Jackson

Natalie Jackson is Senior Polling Editor at Huffington Post, coordinating the Pollster section of the site. Her primary focus is on polling coverage and methodology, statistical methods, and using polls to forecast elections. Natalie has […]

APSA

The Fieldwork of Quantitative Data Collection

Francesca Refsum Jensenius,  Norwegian Institute of International Affairs For many political scientists, fieldwork means conducting focus groups in villages, attending campaign rallies, or interviewing political elites in government offices. When I present the mainly quantitative […]

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Podcast: Race and Class Inequality in Local Politics

The American Political Science Association’s Presidential Task Force on Racial and Class Inequalities in the Americas main goal was to interrogate the relationship between race and class in producing material, political, and social inequalities in […]

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PS: Political Science and Politics

An Interesting Bias: Lessons from an Academic’s Year as a Reporter

David Niven, University of Cincinnati Most rigorous studies conclude that there is no consistent partisan or ideological bias in the mainstream American news media. This suggests a natural but little-asked question: Why isn’t there more […]