Co-sponsored by Division 54: Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics
In-Person Roundtable
Participants:
- (Chair) Kamal Sadiq, University of California, Irvine
- (Presenter) Kristen Renwick Monroe, University of California, Irvine
- (Presenter) Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University
- (Presenter) C. Daniel Myers, University of Minnesota
- (Presenter) Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine
Session Description:
Twenty-five years ago, many of us opened our emails to find a disgruntled e-mail message signed by one “Mr. Perestroika.” The message initially went to seventeen recipients who quickly forwarded it to others, and soon the Perestroika revolt became a major movement calling for change in the American political science community.
The panel proposed here will present data assessing the success of this movement. Did it accomplish what it needed to? What remains to be done? Most importantly, what does it tell us about the nature of political science, methodological pluralism and diversity, the process of publishing scholarly work, and graduate education in the discipline?
Data come from a snowball sample of political scientists obtained in early 2025. Several participants in the initial movement, recent APSA officers, and young scholars discuss the findings from these data.
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