PS: Political Science and Politics

PS: Political Science & Politics provides critical analyses of contemporary political phenomena and is the journal of record for the discipline of political science reporting on research, teaching, and professional development.

Call for Papers: PS Special Issue on Forecasting the 2024 US Elections | Deadline: July 17, 2024
Forecasting of US elections has been a regular feature of PS since the 2004 contest.
This special issue follows in this tradition, but seeks to open up the field to a still more diverse set of contributions. View call for papers

Teaching Programming Skills in Methods Courses Is an Opportunity, Not a Burden

March 1, 2022 Comments Off

Teaching Programming Skills in Methods Courses Is an Opportunity, Not a Burden By Rob Williams, Washington University in St. Louis As political scientists have become more skilled in the tools of computational social science, we […]

Teaching Econometrics Dynamically with R-Shiny

February 28, 2022 Comments Off

Teaching Econometrics Dynamically with R-Shiny By Shawna K. Metzger, Michigan State University Teaching is a constrained optimization problem. There are numerous topics that we could cover in a given class, and for each of those […]

Teaching Bayesian Statistics

February 25, 2022 Comments Off

Teaching Bayesian Statistics By Diogo Ferrari, University of California, Riverside The questions discussed in this article are: What challenges emerge when teaching introductory-level Bayesian statistics to non-statistics graduate students who want to become well-informed users […]

Snowball Sampling and Facebook: How Social Media Can Help Access Hard-to-Reach Populations

February 24, 2022 Comments Off

Snowball Sampling and Facebook: How Social Media Can Help Access Hard-to-Reach Populations By Tomas Dosek, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru The snowball sampling method (SSM) is one of the most widely used methods to collect […]

Public Service Announcements and Promoting Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic

February 16, 2022 Comments Off

Public Service Announcements and Promoting Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic By Steven Greene, North Carolina State University, Marc Hetherington, Rahsaan Maxwell, Timothy J. Ryan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wearing face masks […]

Piled Modifiers, Buried Verbs, and Other Turgid Prose in the American Political Science Review

February 15, 2022 Comments Off

Piled Modifiers, Buried Verbs, and Other Turgid Prose in the American Political Science Review By Peter DeScioli, Stony Brook University and Steven Pinker, Harvard University Academic writing is notoriously difficult to read. Can political science […]

Integrating the Use of Statistical Software into Undergraduate Political Methodology Courses

February 14, 2022 Comments Off

Integrating the Use of Statistical Software into Undergraduate Political Methodology Courses By David S. Brown, University of Colorado, Boulder, Katherine V. Bryant, Westmont College, Andrew Q. Philips, University of Colorado It is widely recognized that […]

Gender Gap in Political Science: An Analysis of the Scientific Publications and Career Paths of Italian Political Scientists

February 11, 2022 Comments Off

Gender Gap in Political Science: An Analysis of the Scientific Publications and Career Paths of Italian Political Scientists By Marco Cellini, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the Italian National Research Council, […]