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Restructuring the Social Sciences: Reflections from Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science

March 21, 2016 Comments Off

Gary King The social sciences are undergoing a dramatic transformation from studying problems to solving them; from making do with a small number of sparse data sets to analyzing increasing quantities of diverse, highly informative […]

Knowing When to Scale Back: Addressing Questions of Research Scope in the Field

March 18, 2016 Comments Off

Akasemi Newsome Despite extensive preparation and familiarity with field sites, researchers can face questions of scope during the implementation of their research design. It may be difficult or impractical to visit all the country cases […]

Data Collection, Opportunity Costs, and Problem Solving: Lessons from Field Research on Teachers’ Unions in Latin America

March 17, 2016 Comments Off

Christopher Chambers-Ju As I prepared to leave Mexico, my efforts to access an important dataset for my dissertation became increasingly desperate. A newspaper article mentioned that the Mexican teachers’ union endorsed nearly 2,000 political candidates […]

Positionality, Personal Insecurity, and Female Empathy in Security Studies Research

March 15, 2016 Comments Off

Vasundhara Sirnate, University of California, Berkeley “He is a very nice man. There is no need to be scared or worried,” said Mr. Saikia1 , the driver of the car that was carrying me to a […]

Navigating Fieldwork as an Outsider: Observations from Interviewing Police Officers in China

March 14, 2016 Comments Off

Suzanne E. Scoggins, University of California, Berkeley Understanding how foreign governments operate is a cornerstone of political science fieldwork, but gaining access to representatives of the security state is difficult, particularly for foreign researchers. Scholars seeking […]

Task Force Report Offers Timely Insight

March 11, 2016 Comments Off

Political science provides key insights to inform public understanding of current events. APSA’s Task Force on Public Engagement—released summer of 2015—speaks directly to this issue. Called Let’s Be Heard!, the report discusses the vast potential […]

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Political Science as a Vocation, by Robert O. Keohane

March 1, 2016 Comments Off

Robert O. Keohane, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University This lecture was presented at the University of Sheffield on October 22, 2008, inaugurating the Graduate School of Politics; and at Oxford […]

Diversifying the Academy: How Conservative Academics Can Thrive in Liberal Academia

February 29, 2016 Comments Off

Robert Maranto and Matthew Woessner Researchers have long recognized that higher education is dominated by professors whose politics are well to the left of the American political center. The cause and implications of this ideological […]

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