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

Journals

An APSA Fellow’s Journey from Down Under to the Hill

August 17, 2016 Comments Off on An APSA Fellow’s Journey from Down Under to the Hill

The latest virtual issue of PS features articles written by alumni of the Congressional Fellowship Program (CFP) from 2010 to 2015. The CFP fellows serve yearlong placements in congressional and executive offices, and they chronicle […]

APSA

Teaching Race and Revolution: Doing Justice to Women’s Roles in the Struggle for Civil Rights

August 12, 2016 Comments Off on Teaching Race and Revolution: Doing Justice to Women’s Roles in the Struggle for Civil Rights

By Rosalyn Cooperman (University of Mary Washington), Melina Patterson (University of Mary Washington) and Jess Rigelhaupt (University of Mary Washington) This paper describes a freshman seminar, Race and Revolution, which examines the Civil Rights Movement with an emphasis on […]

APSA

Standard Operating Procedures: A Safety Net for Pre-Analysis Plans

August 12, 2016 Comments Off on Standard Operating Procedures: A Safety Net for Pre-Analysis Plans

By Winston Lin (Columbia University) and Donald P. Green (Columbia University) “Fishing” and “file drawer” problems undercut the credibility of published empirical research. The fishing problem is that with unlimited discretion in data analysis, researchers may consciously or […]

APSA

The Virtues of Engendering Quantitative Methods Courses

August 9, 2016 Comments Off on The Virtues of Engendering Quantitative Methods Courses

By Tània Verge (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Although the ways in which research questions are selected and the data is collected and analyzed often lead to gender-biased and incorrect conclusions, quantitative methods courses are generally taught in a […]