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The data presented here were initially compiled as part of a background report for the May 19–20, 1980, meeting for oversight review of the NSF Political Science Program. These data on proposed loads, funding levels, and success rates are from the Foundation's proposal information data base. In sharp contrast to the criteria by which proposals submitted to the Program are reviewed, my goal here is purely desriptive. No attempt at explanation is ventured here beyond indicating a few specifics that seem important in interpreting changes in the data series.

The use of visual text, such as film, documentary or current affairs program, can play a powerful role in teaching courses where human interaction and motive are central to academic explanation. The place of three such texts, Cajun Country, Jonestown, the Life and Death of People's Temple, and Frontline Diaries, Apartheid's Children in teaching a political science course, is evaluated positively.

PEOPLE WHO TAKE PART IN ACTS OF CIVIL DISPOBEDIENCE OR POLITICAL VIOLENCE AR E DISCONTENTED ABOUT SOMETHING. THAT IS A TRUISM. THE INTERESTING RESEARCH PROBLEM IS TO IDENTIFY PARTICULAR KINDS OF DISCONTENT THAT ARE ASSOCIATED SYSTEMATICALLY WITH AGGRESSIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR-DISCONTENT THAT OPERATES AS A 'PRECONDITION' OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN CONTRAST TO DISCONTENT THAT IS PECULIAR TO PARTICULAR GROUPS AT PARTICULAR TIMES AND PLACES AND SERVES ONLY AS A 'PRECIPITANT' OF AGGRESIVE BEHAVIOUR. DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES A MULTITUDE OF STUDIES USING AGGREGATE, DATA HAVE INVESTIGATED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIVIL STRIFE AND VARIOUS SOCIOECONOMIC VARIABLES POSTULATED TO PRODUCE DISCONTENT. DISCONTENT THAT FUNCTIONS AS A GENERAL CAUSE OF CIVIL STRIFE HAS BEEN ASSUMED TO ARISE FROM SUCH CONDITIONS AS INEQUALITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF LAND OR INCOME;1 VARIOUS PATTERNS OF CHANGE OVER TIME IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS;2 DISEQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, ESPECIALLY AN IMBALANCE BETWEEN HIGH EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND LOW OCCUPATIONAL STATUS;3 AND THIS IS AN ADUMBRATED LISTING. BUT THE MACRO-LEVEL TESTING OF HYPOTHESES IN WHICH DISCONTENT IS A HYPOTHETICAL UNMEASURED VARIABLE HAS YIELDED AMBIGUOUS AND CONTRADICTORY RESULTS.

This textbook provides an overview of the political science discipline and is suitable for introductory courses at the undergraduate level. In Part I, the book covers important themes for political science undergraduate majors, such as defining politics, ideologies, institutions of governance, concepts in democracy, and public law. Part II provides an overview of the major subdisciplines in political science: political theory, international relations, comparative politics, American politics, public policy and public administration, and methods. This textbook serves as an excellent resource in courses such as Introduction to Political Science or Orientation to Political Science ; https://scholars.fhsu.edu/all_oer/1000/thumbnail.jpg

R for Political Data Science: A Practical Guide is a handbook for political scientists new to R who want to learn the most useful and common ways to interpret and analyze political data. It was written by political scientists, thinking about the many real-world problems faced in their work. The book has 16 chapters and is organized in three sections. The first, on the use of R, is for those users who are learning R or are migrating from another software. The second section, on econometric models, covers OLS, binary and survival models, panel data, and causal inference. The third section is a data science toolbox of some the most useful tools in the discipline: data imputation, fuzzy merge of large datasets, web mining, quantitative text analysis, network analysis, mapping, spatial cluster analysis, and principal component analysis. Key features: Each chapter has the most up-to-date and simple option available for each task, assuming minimal prerequisites and no previous experience in R Makes extensive use of the Tidyverse, the group of packages that has revolutionized the use of R Provides a step-by-step guide that you can replicate using your own data Includes exercises in every chapter for course use or self-study Focuses on practical-based approaches to statistical inference rather than mathematical formulae Supplemented by an R package, including all data As the title suggests, this book is highly applied in nature, and is designed as a toolbox for the reader. It can be used in methods and data science courses, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. It will be equally useful for a university student pursuing a PhD, political consultants, or a public official, all of whom need to transform their datasets into substantive and easily interpretable conclusions.

ABSTRACTIn face of the ongoing discrepancy between the number of political science PhD graduates and the availability of permanent academic positions, in this article we consider attitudes of faculty members towards options to address this issue. Based on a survey of faculty members in PhD-granting political science programs at English-speaking Canadian universities, we find considerable support for both reducing the number of PhD students admitted and reforming curriculum to ensure graduates cultivate skills transferable to non-academic environments. At the same time, faculty members are inclined to believe that PhD students themselves should shoulder the greatest responsibility for career preparation.

ABSTRACTThis article describes a course designed to help political science majors formulate career goals, apply for internships and full-time positions, and eventually succeed on the job. Students benefit from exposure to guest speakers representing a range of careers and from collaborations with other campus institutions (e.g., the career center and graduate programs). Additionally, students produce job-market materials that highlight how their education has prepared them for life and work. Offering a similar professional-development course can help departments to increase enrollments and majors by increasing students' confidence in the career prospects associated with their major.

"This book represents a pioneering effort to offer an up-to-date overview of the state of the field of "Chinese political studies." It assesses the field's past, present, and future, emphasizing the role of Chinese scholars in transforming it both from within and outside of China. In the process, this book discusses the most hotly-debated problems, challenges, opportunities, achievements, and directions in terms of its disciplinary and intellectual developments. The book focuses on the epistemologically-oriented debate, i.e., the serious tensions between scientific, universalistic, positivist traditions on the one hand and particularistic, historical and contextual traditions in the study of Chinese politics on the other. The book also deals with the ontologically-oriented debate between scientific knowledge and local knowledge, i.e., between scientification/westernization (ke xue hua/xi fang hua) and indigenization (ben tu hua) of Chinese political studies, and thus their influences on the study of Chinese politics."--Publisher's website

Political science offers a valuable and developing set of insights into how politics works. The challenge for the discipline, however, is that it is methodologically and culturally ill equipped to adopt a solution-oriented approach. This article makes the case for a shift in focus and points to political science work that takes the challenge of designing politics as its intellectual focus. It identifies key features of a design-oriented political science and points to examples which suggest that it is a neglected path for political science rather than an impossible road down which to travel.