Journals

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 […]

Reverse Research Design: Research Design in the Undergraduate Classroom By Phillip M. Ayoub, Occidental College Teaching research design is a core component of a political science curriculum. In our pedagogy, we often do two things […]

Reorienting Latino Representation Research in an Era of Democratic Reckoning By Walter Clark Wilson, University of Texas at San Antonio Of the many reckonings brought about by recent social and political upheavals, two that should […]