PS: Political Science and Politics

Monumental Decisions: How Direct Democracy Shapes Attitudes in the Conflict over Confederate Memorials by Tyler Johnson,  Kathleen Tipler, and Tyler Camarillo, University of Oklahoma Americans are engaged in a heated, sometimes violent, debate over the fate […]

Think Globally, Act Locally: Community-Engaged Comparative Politics by Amy Risley, Rhodes College This article describes how comparative politics specialists can adopt community-engaged strategies and other innovative pedagogies to emphasize local–global connections. It discusses a comparative […]

The Trust Is Gone: What Ideological Orthodoxy Costs Political Science by James E. Campbell, University of Buffalo, SUNY Like many of America’s knowledge institutions both within and outside of academia, political science is overwhelmingly liberal in its […]

The Nature and Consequences of Ideological Hegemony in American Political Science by J. Matthew Wilson, Southern Methodist University It is no secret that liberals and Democrats significantly outnumber conservatives and Republicans in American political science […]

Partisan Affiliation in Political Science: Insights from Florida and North Carolina by Lonna Rae Atkeson, University of New Mexico and Andrew J. Taylor, North Carolina State University Research suggests that the professoriate is highly skewed […]

Mapping Policy Issues: A Simple, Active-Learning Exercise for Critical Thinking by Richard Holtzman, Bryant University Many students in my undergraduate American politics courses struggle to see policy issues as complex. Too often, they get stuck […]

Learning to “Play the Game as Men Do”: How the General Federation of Women’s Clubs Brought Political Science to Women by Alixandra B. Yanus, High Point University Much has been written about efforts to expand […]

Intellectual Diversity at Religious Colleges by Josiah F. Marineau and Shawn Williams, Campbellsville University Higher education has increasingly faced accusations, often well-founded, that it is far less ideologically diverse than the rest of the United States.  In their contribution […]