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What is the role of descriptive research in Social Science? How can description, either on its own or in complementing causal work, contribute to the aims of Political Science? For the past 60 years, descriptive […]

The continued relevance of political science requires transforming the composition of the population of students pursuing doctorates in the discipline to include groups that are currently under-represented, thereby enabling the diversification of the professoriate. We […]

  The Covid-19 pandemic is a critical juncture in how knowledge is created and disseminated globally with different implications and outcomes for different geographies. It provides an opportunity to question how knowledge is gained or […]

The Expansions Initiative seeks to increase the diversity of the political methodology community and the field of political science. The goal of the initiative is to encourage undergraduate and master’s students from underrepresented minority groups […]

The Breaking the Barriers to Entry project seeks to host mid-career and non-traditional pre-graduates in a virtual summer workshop with the aim of socializing students into political science graduate programs.  Fourteen pre-graduates, selected through an […]

How should doctoral students and early career scholars be sensitized to the ethical concerns that attend research in communities under duress—among refugees, in conflict zones or autocracies? Drawing on work underway by an interdisciplinary team […]

Scope Conditions is a popular academic podcast showcasing cutting-edge research by emerging scholars in the broad field of comparative politics. Hosted by political scientists Alan Jacobs and Yang-Yang Zhou, Scope Conditions ranges widely across themes, […]