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Transparency of research is a large concern in political science, and the practice of publishing links to datasets and other online resources is one of the main methods by which political scientists promote transparency. But the method cannot work if the links don't, and very often, they don't. We show that most of the URLs ever published in the American Political Science Review no longer work as intended. The problem is severe in recent as well as in older articles; for example, more than one-fourth of links published in the APSR in 2013 were broken by the end of 2014. We conclude that "reference rot" limits the transparency and reproducibility of political science research. We also describe practices that scholars can adopt to combat the problem: when possible, they should archive data in trustworthy repositories, use links that incorporate persistent digital identifiers, and create archival versions of the webpages to which they link.

Gender in the Political Science Classroom looks at the roles gender plays in teaching and learning in the traditionally male-dominated field of political science. The contributors to this collection bring a new perspective to investigations of gender issues in the political behavior literature and feminist pedagogy by uniting them with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The volume offers a balance between the theoretical and the practical, and includes discussions of issues such as curriculum, class participation, service learning, doctoral dissertations, and professional placements. The contributors reveal the discipline of political science as a source of continuing gender-based inequities, but also as a potential site for transformative pedagogy and partnerships that are mindful of gender. While the contributors focus on the discipline of political science, their findings about gender in higher education are relevant to SoTL practitioners, other social-science disciplines, and the academy at large

At head of title: The University of Nebraska. Department of Political Science and Sociology. ; "Select bibliography": p. [122]-184. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The academic labor market i1s a fact of life for all present and prospective academicians. Like some other important facts of academic life, it has remained largely unexamined. This article is an analysts of the academic labor market. While there are specific references to political science, they serve to illustrate the operations of the market in general. A reliable sociology orf knowledge is still in an embryonic stage of development. Even a sociology of the knowledgeable remains to be realized.1 American political scientists, many of whom are ahistorical, have devoted little attention to the history and sociology of political science as an academic discipline. As the authoTs of a pioneering work on the discipline noted, "most American political scientists are largely unfamiliar with the origins and early evolution of their discipline."2 To the extent that political scientists lack disciplinary self-consciousness, political science as an academic discipline remains underdeveloped.

Interviews are a frequent and important part of empirical research in political science, but graduate programs rarely offer discipline-specific training in selecting interviewees, conducting interviews, and using the data thus collected. Interview Research in Political Science addresses this vital need, offering hard-won advice for both graduate students and faculty members. The contributors to this book have worked in a variety of field locations and settings and have interviewed a wide array of informants, from government officials to members of rebel movements and victims of wartime violence, from lobbyists and corporate executives to workers and trade unionists

"January, 1921." ; Includes bibliographical references and index ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Bound with: The international trade situation / G.B. Roorbach (ed.) -- Taxation and public expenditures / Clyde L. King (ed.) -- The place of the United States in a world organization for the maintenance of peace / American Academy of Political and Social Science -- The revival of American business / C.H. Crennan (ed.)

This article reviews the major offerings of microcomputer software which have emerged in the growing field of global mapping, which includes fixed electronic atlas software, flexible desktop mapping software, and general education software incorporating maps. The sophisticated analytical capabilities evidenced in these products makes them of increasing value to the university community, particularly in the political and social sciences, as well as to the government and business community. Keywords: mapping, atlas, geography, cartography (computer and microcomputer).