Public Scholarship Program

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Our fellows write public-facing, accessible summaries of cutting-edge political science research. Recent articles covered include work on how new technologies have changed the way we track human rights violations and the effects of electoral quotas on minority populations.

Public Scholarship Program

Call for Applications: The APSA Public Scholarship Program

January 27, 2020 Comments Off on Call for Applications: The APSA Public Scholarship Program

APSA is accepting applications to join the second cohort of the Public Scholarship Program fellows. This program offers remote part-time fellowships that introduces political science graduate students to the intellectual and practical aspects of presenting academic […]

American Political Science Review

A Roundtable on Cathy Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness at 20

November 11, 2019 Comments Off on A Roundtable on Cathy Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness at 20

This year, participants in APSA’s Public Scholarship Program attended the APSA Annual Meeting and wrote reflections on the panels they attended. In this piece, Maryann Kwakwa writes about the roundtable “Cathy Cohen’s ‘The Boundaries of […]

American Political Science Review

Taking the Temperature of the Global Crisis in Democracy

October 3, 2019 Comments Off on Taking the Temperature of the Global Crisis in Democracy

This piece, written by Adam B. Lerner, covers Christopher Claassen’s, University of Glasgow, new article, In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion  What explains the ‘crisis in democracy’ sweeping across the Western world? […]

American Political Science Review

How Power Dynamics Hinder Problem-Solving between Allies

August 20, 2019 Comments Off on How Power Dynamics Hinder Problem-Solving between Allies

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Maryann Kwakwa, covers the new article by Robert Powell, […]