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

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Task Force Report Offers Timely Insight

March 11, 2016 Comments Off on Task Force Report Offers Timely Insight

Political science provides key insights to inform public understanding of current events. APSA’s Task Force on Public Engagement—released summer of 2015—speaks directly to this issue. Called Let’s Be Heard!, the report discusses the vast potential […]

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Scientific Literacy in Undergraduate Political Science Education: The Current State of Affairs, an Agenda for Action, and Proposed Fundamental Benchmarks

March 10, 2016 Comments Off on Scientific Literacy in Undergraduate Political Science Education: The Current State of Affairs, an Agenda for Action, and Proposed Fundamental Benchmarks

Kim Quaile Hill, Texas A&M University; Rebekah Myers, Texas A&M University Political science is falling behind a broad movement in the United States that seeks to reform the teaching of scientific literacy in undergraduate education. […]

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The Political Scientist as a Blogger

March 7, 2016 Comments Off on The Political Scientist as a Blogger

John Sides, George Washington University In November 2007, I helped found a blog, The Monkey Cage, with two of my colleagues, David Park and Lee Sigelman. This site joined a nascent political science blogosphere that […]

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Publishing as a Graduate Student: A Quick and (Hopefully) Painless Guide to Establishing Yourself as a Scholar

March 4, 2016 Comments Off on Publishing as a Graduate Student: A Quick and (Hopefully) Painless Guide to Establishing Yourself as a Scholar

Timothy S. Rich, Western Kentucky University Graduate students seldom know how to navigate the publishing process, yet a growing expectation is that new hires are capable of immediately producing publishable research as well as teaching. […]

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Political Science as a Vocation, by Robert O. Keohane

March 1, 2016 Comments Off on Political Science as a Vocation, by Robert O. Keohane

Robert O. Keohane, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University This lecture was presented at the University of Sheffield on October 22, 2008, inaugurating the Graduate School of Politics; and at Oxford […]

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How To Be a Peer Reviewer: A Guide for Recent and Soon-to-be PhDs

February 25, 2016 Comments Off on How To Be a Peer Reviewer: A Guide for Recent and Soon-to-be PhDs

Beth Miller, University of Missouri, Kansas City; Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin; Ron Rogowski, University of California, Los Angeles; Dustin Tingley, Harvard University; Rick Wilson, Rice University Peer review is central to political science. In […]

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Restructuring the Social Sciences? A Reflection from the Editor of Perspectives on Politics

February 25, 2016 Comments Off on Restructuring the Social Sciences? A Reflection from the Editor of Perspectives on Politics

Jeffrey C. Isaac, Indiana University, Bloomington Gary King’s “Restructuring Social Science: Reflections from Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science” (PS: Political Science and Politics 47(1)165–73) is an honest reflection on King’s experience as founder of a successful […]