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Political Science Now
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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 Samantha Chapa, covers the new article by Christopher F. Karpowitz, J. Quin Monson, Jessica R. Preece, and Alejandra Aldridge, Brigham Young University, “Selecting for Masculinity: Women’s Under-Representation in the Republican Party.“
In a recent APSR article, Karpowitz, Monson, Preece, and Aldrige disentangle the relationship between gender and sex to show that notions of gender, rather than sex, largely determine Re ..read more
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Migration and Citizenship Dissertation Workshop | Apply Here
Join Dr. Margaret Peters (University of California Los Angeles) and Juliette Tolay (Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg) will lead the workshop, for an in-person workshop held during the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting, on Wednesday, September 4, in Philadelphia, PA. All candidates must be pursuing their Ph.D. in political science.
Co-leaders:
Dr. Margaret Peters, University of California Los Angeles
Dr. Juliette Tolay, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg
Deadline: Sunday, May 19, 2024. Click here to apply →
Worksho ..read more
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Comparative & Multi-Method Approaches within Political Economy Research | Apply Here
Join us for an in-person workshop held during the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting, on Wednesday, September 4, in Philadelphia, PA.
Co-Leaders:
Dr. Javier Pérez Sandoval, University of Oxford
Dr. Elizabeth G. Pfeffer, Dartmouth College
Deadline: Sunday, May 19, 2024. Click here to apply →
Workshop Description:
Comparative scholars increasingly draw upon a variety of methods to investigate key questions raised by political economies across the global community. This “triangula ..read more
Political Science Now
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Black Politics in the United States | Apply Here
Join us for an in-person dissertation workshop on “Black Politics in the United States,” held during the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting, on Wednesday, September 4, in Philadelphia, PA.
Co-Leaders:
Dr. Periloux Peay, University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Jenn Jackson, Syracuse University
Deadline: Sunday, May 19, 2024. Click here to apply →
Workshop Description:
Many scholars of Black Politics find themselves at a troubling crossroads. There is currently a concerted effort at the local, state, and federal levels of government to underm ..read more
Political Science Now
1w ago
Dark Parties: Unveiling Nonparty Communities in American Political Campaigns
By Stan Oklobdzija, University of California, Riverside
Since 2010, independent expenditures have grown as a source of spending in American elections. A large and growing portion comes from “dark money” groups—political nonprofits whose terms of incorporation allow them to partially obscure their sources of income. I develop a new dataset of about 2,350,000 tax documents released by the IRS and use it to test a new theory of political spending. I posit that pathways for anonymous giving allowed interest groups to fo ..read more
Political Science Now
1w ago
Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships to individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts.
This year, the Guggenheim Foundation has announced their list of 188 appointees in the United States and Canada chosen from nearly 3,000 applicants working across 52 scholarly disciplines, included are the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows in Political Science:
Kosuke Imai, Professor of Government and of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Socia ..read more
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1w ago
Voice and Balancing in US Congressional Elections
By Till Weber, University of New York
If the median voter wrote the Constitution, every Tuesday would be Election Day. Consider the case of the United States: Halfway into a presidential term, congressional elections allow the people to adjust the course of federal policy. Two complementary mechanisms describe how this opportunity is embraced by centrists: a direct mechanism, which strengthens the out-party in Congress to “balance” the president’s policy impact, and an indirect mechanism, by which midterm voting serves to “v ..read more
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1w ago
Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy?
By Hannah S. Chapman, University of Oklahoma, Margaret C. Hanson, Arizona State University, Valery Dzutsati, Southern Illinois University, and Paul DeBell, Fort Lewis College
Scholars have expressed concern over waning support for democracy worldwide. But what do ordinary citizens mean by the term “democracy,” and how do their definitions of democracy influence their support for it? Using global cross-national survey data, this study demonstrates that individual variation in the understanding of democracy is ..read more
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1w ago
The Realignment of Political Tolerance in the United States
By Dennis Chong, University of Southern California, Jack Citrin, UC Berkeley Political Science, and Morris Levy, University of Southern California
Studies conducted between the 1950s and 1970s found that the principles embodied in the First Amendment constituted a “clear norm” endorsed by large majorities of community leaders and virtually all legal practitioners and scholars. This consensus has since weakened under the strain of arguments that racist slurs, epithets, and other forms of expression that demean social identities are an ..read more
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2w ago
Party Types in the Age of Personalized Politics
By Gideon Rahat, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Democracies in general and political parties in particular have undergone political personalization in recent decades. The power balance between politicians (one or many) and the team (the party as a collegial entity) has changed, and existing party typologies are no longer suited to the analysis of today’s democratic politics. Although some new personalized party types have been added, what is missing is a systematic attempt to contrast them with the collegial option. This article proposes a new cl ..read more