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 […]
A Regulated Free Press – Compromise or Contradiction?
Lord Hunt, Chair of the Press Complaints Commission, and Angela Phillips, Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Coordinating Committee for Media […]
The Politics of Dissent
Recently, The Independent published a brief piece on the ‘slave-like’ working conditions of PhD students at UK universities. This sounds dramatic, but it’s hardly news – the problem has been around for years. The question arises why dissent did not emerge earlier and more forcefully.
What Can We Do About the Economy?
In a time of ongoing crisis, with millions in the U.S. facing unemployment or underemployment, it’s time to get radical. A new […]
Wanted: Papers on Executive Pay, Work/Life Benefits, More
Do you have a paper to submit? Compensation & Benefits Review wants to hear from you. Benefits of Publishing in This Journal […]
Political Science Serving the Public Interest
On May 9, the House of Representatives adopted a provision that would preclude the National Science Foundation (NSF) from supporting research in the field of political science.
What Happens When Workers Speak Out?
Research has shown that employees dissatisfied with working conditions inevitably will communicate their dissent–whether to a superior or only to a coworker–despite […]
Teaching Internet Ethics
Apparently Luka Rocco Magnotta made videos of himself killing cats and eating parts of his murdered victim, making the videos available online. […]
SAGE opposes the Flake Amendment
Recently, the US House of Representatives passed off an amendment offered by Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that would prohibit funding for the Political Science Program with the National Science Foundation. If enacted into law, this amendment would set an extraordinary and disturbing precedent in which Congress chooses which scientific disciplines should be funded and not funded within the NSF’s research portfolio.
