Journals

Undergraduates in New Hampshire for the First-in-the-Nation Primary By Elliott Fullmer, Randolph–Macon College In 2016 and 2020, I led travel courses to Manchester, New Hampshire, where students participated in the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary. For […]

The Trump Effect: How 2016 Campaign Rallies Explain Spikes in Hate By Ayal Feinberg, Texas A&M University–Commerce, Regina Branton and Valerie Martinez-Ebers, University of North Texas The 2016 Trump campaign held more than 300 rallies. […]

Teaching the Hidden Curriculum in Political Science By Elena Barham and Colleen Wood, Columbia University The “hidden curriculum” in academia represents a set of informal norms and rules, expectations, and skills that inform our “ways […]

Studying Legislatures at the Intersection of Gender and Race: The View from the 114th Congress By Kelly Dittmar, Rutgers University–Camden, Catherine Wineinger, Western Washington University and Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University–New Brunswick Whereas the racial or […]

Small-Scale Civic Engagement with Big Impacts By William O’Brochta, Louisiana Tech University Students’ civic values, academic performance, social attitudes, and cognitive development significantly improve as a result of taking courses with civic engagement components (Yorio […]

Sexual Harassment and Assault During Field Research By Stacey L. Hunt, Auburn University Political scientists have recently taken great strides to expose and address sexual harassment and assault in our academic departments and professional conferences. […]

Seven Suggestions for Teaching Quantitative Methods By Elina Schleutker, University of Freiburg With the increase of data availability, knowledge about quantitative methods is more important than ever. Indeed, students need quantitative methods to understand quantitative […]