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

How Are We Doing? Data Access and Replication in Political Science

May 23, 2016 Comments Off

How Are We Doing? Data Access and Replication in Political Science Ellen M. Key, Appalachian State University Data access and research transparency (DA-RT) is a growing concern for the discipline. Technological advances have greatly reduced the […]

Learn How to Manage a Business Research Pipeline

May 20, 2016 Comments Off

Managing Your Research Pipeline Matthew J. Lebo, Stony Brook University A researcher’s “pipeline” refers to the progression of papers from the idea stage to the publication stage. Tenure-track faculty and graduate students often are advised that […]

Meghan Pyle Reflects on her Bree Newsome Graphic on Cover of PS Journal

May 19, 2016 Comments Off

Meghan Pyle, graphic designer, shares her thoughts on the Bree Newsome graphic she created for the April 2016 cover of PS: Political Science & Politics: “The image I created for the cover of PS: Political Science & Politics highlights the symposium on […]

Lessons from a Decade of Replications at the Quarterly Journal of Political Science

May 16, 2016 Comments Off

Lessons from a Decade of Replications at the Quarterly Journal of Political Science Nicholas Eubank To allow researchers to investigate not only whether a paper’s methods are theoretically sound but also whether they have been […]

Encountering Your IRB 2.0: What Political Scientists Need to Know

May 13, 2016 Comments Off

Encountering Your IRB 2.0: What Political Scientists Need to Know Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea This essay corrects and updates one that was originally published in Qualitative & Multi-Method Research and, in a condensed version, […]

Gender, Teaching Evaluations, and Professional Success in Political Science

May 12, 2016 Comments Off

Gender, Teaching Evaluations, and Professional Success in Political Science Lisa L. Martin Evaluations of teaching effectiveness rely heavily on student evaluations of teaching. However, an accumulating body of evidence shows that these evaluations are subject […]

Pre-Law Advising and the Political Science Major

May 11, 2016 Comments Off

Pre-Law Advising and the Political Science Major: Evidence from Pre-Law Advisors Gibbs Knotts and Claire B. Wofford Political science is one of the most popular majors for law school applicants, and studies show that political […]

The Fieldwork of Quantitative Data Collection

March 24, 2016 Comments Off

Francesca Refsum Jensenius, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs For many political scientists, fieldwork means conducting focus groups in villages, attending campaign rallies, or interviewing political elites in government offices. When I present the mainly quantitative […]

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