PS: Political Science and Politics

Do Campaign Finance Reforms Insulate Incumbents from Competition? New Evidence from State Legislative Elections By Jordan Butcher and Jeffrey Milyo, University of Missouri Variations in state campaign finance regulations across states and over time provide […]

Did Women and Candidates of Color Lead or Ride the Democratic Wave in 2018? By Bernard L. Fraga, Emory University, Paru Shah, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Eric Gonzalez Juenke, Michigan State University Headlines touted […]

The State Legislative Elections of 2018: Symposium Introduction By Carl E. Klarner, klarnerpolitics.org This symposium consists of six articles that examine the 2018 state legislative elections. The first article by Adam S. Myers sets the […]

Succeeding as a Western Academic Working at a Newer Foundation University in a Developing Country By Joseph J. Kaminski, International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina This article discusses the two most important things that […]

Revisiting the Presence of Women in Political Science Journal Editorial Positions By Barbara Palmer, Baldwin Wallace University, Laura van Assendelft, Mary Baldwin University and Mary Stegmaier, University of Missouri In 2010, an analysis of the […]

Return to the Isle of Ted: Simulating the Collective Action Problem of Climate Change By Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern University in Qatar This article modifies the classic “Isle of Ted” simulation to teach students about […]

One Hundred Years of Instability: Sex, Law, and Transgender Rights By Anne Caldwell, University of Louisville Five years before the famous Seneca Falls Meeting in which a gathering of women demanded suffrage, Levi Suydam already […]

Standing on Their Shoulders: Suffragists, Women’s PACs, and Demands for Women’s Representation By Rosalyn Cooperman, University of Mary Washington and Melody Crowder-Meyer, Davidson College Although 2018 has been called another “Year of the Woman,” increases […]