Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Can Greater Transparency Lead to Better Social Science?
The political science journal Comparative Political Studies is experimenting for one special issue in which articles will be judged based on reviewers’ evaluations of what authors intend to do rather than what they report as their findings.
How Do You (Successfully) Gamify a Course?
Some people say college is already a game — but a poorly designed one. Political scientist Mika LaVaque-Manty is bringing game logic into his introductory courses, a winning effort that was honored at this year’s APSA annual conference.
CASBS Director Earns PoliSci’s Riker Prize
The latest winner of the William H. Riker Prize continues a tradition of mixing CASBS fellows with Riker Prize awardees.
PoliSci Publishing Has a Need for Speed
Editors of the recently launched journal Research and Politics argue publishing in political science requires a reboot. Time lags in conventional publishing and the limited accessibility of articles can undermine researchers’ attempts to maximize the impact of their work.
Can Political Scientists Keep Reporters Honest?
Might adding some working political scientists into legacy media outlets help curb the use of misleading headlines and made-up trend stories in scoop-hungry news coverage?
King and Crewe’s Book of ‘Blunders’ a Paddy Prize Winner
‘The Blunders of Our Governments,’ co-authored by the president of the Academy of Social Sciences, Ivor Crewe, and fellow political scientist Anthony King, has been named the Practical Politics Book of the Year in Britain’s annual Paddy Power Political Book Awards.
Pluralism’s Ringmaster: Robert Dahl, 1915-2014
Robert Dahl, one of the founders of American political science and the theorist of pluralism, has died at age 98.
How Scholars Can Be Strategic Communicators
As academics, we are not usually trained – or even encouraged – to seek an audience for our research beyond the world of peer review. This leaves us ill-equipped for the policy world, a competitive place in which scholars enjoy few advantages. To bring our ideas and findings into the policy arena, we must adopt a style of engagement that enable us to compete effectively with these other groups for the attention of decision-makers.
