PS: Political Science and Politics

Reducing Bias in Wikipedia’s Coverage of Political Scientists By Samuel Baltz, University of Michigan One in five political scientists with biographies on Wikipedia are women and almost half are American. Biases on Wikipedia can cause […]

Reclaiming Our Time and Labor: Contesting and Reframing Productivity Narratives in Political Science By Jenn M. Jackson, Syracuse University, and Melina Juárez Pérez, Western Washington University Many emerging scholars from the barrios, hoods, fields, reservations, […]

Racism and Inequality in Congress By James R. Jones, Rutgers University–Newark Typically, we look at lawmakers and the laws they pass to understand race and racism in the Capitol. This expansive literature provides invaluable insight […]

Race and Symbolic Politics in the US Congress By Bryce J. Dietrich, University of Iowa, and Matthew Hayes, Rice University The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., often is invoked to justify political positions […]

Public Approval, Policy Issues, and Partisanship in the American Presidency: Examining the 2019–2020 Trump Impeachment and Acquittal By Meena Bose and Craig M. Burnett, Hofstra University Although much of the United States undoubtedly was aware […]

Political Science at the NSF: The Politics of Knowledge Production By Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently replaced its long-standing Political Science Program with two new programs: the Security and […]

Perceptions of Academic Departmental Climate by Men and Women and the Effects of Such Perceptions on Research Productivity By Kim Quaile Hill and Patricia Ann Hurley, Texas A&M University We demonstrate how men and women […]

Networking 101 for Graduate Students: Building a Bigger Table By Seo-Young Silvia Kim, American University, Hannah Lebovits, University of Texas–Arlington, and Sarah Shugars, New York University Although the importance of networking often is emphasized to […]