Journals
Five Laws of Politics
The author presents five laws of politics. (1) All governments, certainly in dictatorships but also in democracies, can count on the votes of only a minority of the electorate, even if in democracies that […]
Articles by APSA
APSA
Ad Hoc Committee on Governance Reform requests member feedback on new draft APSA bylaws
Update: Visit this link for discussion on the 2016 bylaws. Following the schedule approved by the APSA Council, the Ad Hoc Committee on Governance Reform has posted a new set of draft bylaws for the […]
Journals
A Forgotten Minority? A Content Analysis of Asian Pacific Americans in Introductory American Government Textbooks
Introductory American Government textbooks pay little attention to Asian Pacific Americans. Asian Pacific Americans, who comprise more than five% of the US population, are given an average of 1.13 pages (or 0.19 %) per textbook. […]
Journals
The 2011 Debt Ceiling Controversy and the 2012 US House Elections
Can incumbent members of Congress benefit electorally from floor votes that can directly harm the economy? In one prominent case, the answer was yes. This article considers how a key legislative vote–the August 2011 vote […]
Journals
Research Preregistration in Political Science: The Case, Counterarguments, and a Response to Critiques
The need for transparency in political science research is as clear now as it ever has been. To address this concern, this article presents the current debate on the practice of preregistration in political science, […]
Journals
PS: Political Science & Politics-how to address discrimination in political science
The release originally appears on the Cambridge website The latest issue of PS: Political Science & Politics turns the spotlight on diversity in political science with a collection of articles that addresses diversity within political science […]
APSA
APSAnet.org Maintenance
Update for July 9 I haven’t updated this in a bit so here’s a short one if people are still following this. Thousands of people have been able to activate their account through the emails […]
APSA
Welcome to PoliticalSciencenow
There’s been a great deal of discussion about what we want PSNow to be. Actually, that discussion is still happening. We want this to be a place where people can easily share content and interact […]