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In the wake of a violent insurrection in Washington D.C. which interrupted, but did not derail, the U.S. Congress counting […]

In the videos below, a trio of media professionals along with the former dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, offer their savvy takes on these questions and more.

An award that honors enduring contribution from a political science text this year has gone to ‘ Politics in the American States.’

Robert Axelrod, a political scientist at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, is one of […]

Competing associations. A funding drought. Smaller travel budgets. Royalty streams drying up. Surely the future for academic associations is grim. Steven Rathgreb Smith, the executive director of the American Political Science Association, certainly sees challenges all around. But the former president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action and one-time editor of the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly also knows a thing or two about how to snatch opportunity from adversity.