PS: Political Science and Politics

Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science by Amy L. Atchison, Valparaiso University Open-access (OA) advocates have long promoted OA as an egalitarian alternative to traditional subscription-based academic publishing. The argument is simple: OA gives everyone […]

Reference Rot: An Emerging Threat to Transparency in Political Science by Aaron L. Gertler, Independent Scholar and John G. Bullock, University of Texas at Austin Research is trustworthy only to the extent that it is transparent—that […]

Reading and Writing Constructivist Research in American Political Science by Michael J. Struett, North Carolina State University Peer review is the essential gatekeeping process that determines what counts as high quality political science research yet, as […]

George C. Edwards III Symposium by Justin S. Vaughn, Boise State University, with contributions from George C. Edwards, Texas A&M University; Karen Hult, Virgina Tech University; William G. Howell, University of Chicago; Richard Waterman, University […]

The Puzzle of Obama’s “Small-Ball” Strategy: Caution, Retrenchment, and Realism by  Scott Waalkes, Malone University Politicians always campaign in poetry and govern in prose. Obama’s foreign policy began similarly with lofty aims yet ended modestly. […]

Of White Whales, Obamacare, and the Roberts Court: The Republican Attempts to Harpoon Obama’s Presidential Legacy by Christopher P. Banks, Kent State University [@cpb_banks] Presidential legacies are shaped by retrospective historical judgments that grow from political successes, failures, […]

Bringing African Voices into the Undergraduate African Politics Classroom by Megan Hershey, Whitworth University Many African politics courses rely heavily on readings authored by North American and European scholars. Scholarly and primary sources written or created by […]