Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
The Politics of Attacking Political Science
As a political scientist, I find it curious that my discipline has been singled out as being particularly wasteful of federal research dollars. How did we join welfare queens and spotted owls as convenient punching bags, things that must not be aided by taxpayer money during lean times?
One Step Closer to Restoring Government Chief Social Scientist Post
The Campaign for Social Science has welcomed a Government announcement on the 4th of March, 2013 that it will set up the post of What Works National Advisor to oversee six evidence centres for areas of social policy.
Why Study Social Science
We study social science because social phenomena affect people’s lives in profound ways. If you want to start with Cantor’s focus—physical illness and death—then social phenomena are tremendously important.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
The prominence of Mafia in Southern Italy hinders the implementation of victim–offender mediation From European Journal of Criminology Celebrating 50 years: Information Science at […]
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
The Republican war on Social Science, Natural Science and Social Science combine, and more on your weekly overview of Social Science News.
Super Bowls, Super Storms, and the Olympics: How They Affect Cities and Corporations
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome András Tilcsik of the University of Toronto and Christopher Marquis of Harvard University, whose article […]
social science sites of the week
This week Italian elections. The Italian political science association provides free access to its English language journal Political science This includes articles […]
Social Science’s Dangerously Low Profile, and How to Fix It
“We are now in a situation where science, technology, engineering and maths – the STEM subjects – were about 15 to 20 years ago….there was a lack of public understanding of what they contributed to society and its development”
