PS: Political Science and Politics

Teaching Trump: Why Comparative Politics Makes Students More Optimistic about US Democracy by Hannah Baron, Brown University Robert A. Blair, Brown University, and Shelby Grossman, University of Memphis  How does learning about democratic erosion in other countries shape opinions about […]

Academic Censorship in China: The Case of The China Quarterly by Mathew Y. H. Wong, Education University of Hong Kong and Ying-ho Kwong, University of Hong Kong Alongside other types of censorship in China, “academic censorship” refers to […]

Psychological Underpinnings of Post-Truth in Political Beliefs by Rose McDermott, Brown University Although both the idea and the reality of so-called fake news or disinformation campaigns long precede the Trump administration, discussions about the frequency, intensity, and […]

Why Do Students Enroll in Political Science Courses? by Jonas B. Bunte, University of Texas at Dallas Why do students enroll in political science courses? Jonas Bunte conducted an experiment to find out. The experiment involved visiting […]

The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield by Hannah June Kim, University of California, Irvine and Bernard Grofman, University of California, Irvine Using a unique database we created that contains Google Scholar citation […]

Balance Is a Fallacy: Striving for and Supporting a Life with Integrity by Renée A. Cramer, Drake University, Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd, Rutgers University and Taneisha Means, Vassar College The expectation for managing complex professional and personal lives is to find […]

Providing Promotion Pathways That Reflect Changing Faculty Workloads by C. Scott Peters, University of Northern Iowa The workload of faculty is changing to incorporate many tasks that are important to the institution: adopting ‘high-impact practices’ to improve […]