Diversity Fellowship Program

Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Jessica Reese, University of Maryland

Jessica Reese is a distinguished Ph.D. student in government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She specializes in racial and ethnic politics within the American political landscape, leveraging her Bachelor of Science in […]

Journals

Three Fallacies Undermining Participatory Constitution Making

Three Fallacies Undermining Participatory Constitution Making By Yanina Welp, Albert Hirschman Democracy Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute In recent years, many emerging actors (e.g., new social movements and parties) associate democratic problems with representative institutions. Accordingly, […]

Diversity Fellowship Program

Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Isabelle Z Jensen, University of Maryland

Isabelle Jensen is a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland. Her main field is American politics, and her subfield is methods. Isabelle is interested in disabled people as a political group; particularly, how the […]

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Applications Now Open for the APSA 2024 Fund for Latino Scholarship

APSA 2024 Fund for Latino Scholarship- Applications Due June 15th  The Fund for Latino Scholarship encourages and supports the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure track junior faculty). Applications […]

Journals

Measuring Democratic Backsliding

Measuring Democratic Backsliding By Andrew T. Little, University of California, Berkeley, and Anne Meng, University of Virginia Despite the general narrative that the world is in a period of democratic decline, there have been surprisingly […]

Journals

The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition

The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition By Richard L. Fox, Loyola Marymount University, and Jennifer L. Lawless, University of Virginia When we uncovered a large gender gap in political ambition in the early 2000s, […]