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MPSA Roundtable: The Path to Full

hannah-busing-643544-unsplash This MPSA roundtable session on “MPSA Roundtable: The Path to…


You can trust the polls in 2018, if you read them carefully

By Josh Pasek, University of Michigan and Michael Traugott, University of Michigan File 20180910 123125…</p><hr /><p class=by mpsaadmin

Humanities for All: Political Science and International Relations

By Daniel Fisher, Project Director, National Humanities Alliance HFA-Bookcase.jpg As campuses across the country fill with the…


Blue is Black and Red is White? Affective Polarization and the Racialized Schemas of U.S. Party Coalitions

By Nicholas A. Valentino and Kirill Zhirkov  [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFMTdNxp57k] Affective polarization - the mutual partisan antipathy expressed by both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. - has increased dramatically over the last 30 years. Both real-life political processes…


Mentors play Critical Role in Quality of College Experience, New Poll Suggests

By Leo M. Lambert, Elon University; Jason Husser, Elon University, and Peter Felten, Elon University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In order to have a rewarding college experience, students should build a constellation of mentors.


Primary Elections: The Value of an Endorsement

Primary election By Chapman Rackaway of the University of West Georgia How involved should political party leaders get in…


Blue Wave, Red Wave; What Wave? No Wave

RedWaveBlueWave By Chapman Rackaway of the University of West Georgia Political scientists and pundits alike face a…


Spain's majority-female cabinet embodies women's global rise to power

By Susan Franceschet, University of Calgary and Karen Beckwith, Case Western Reserve University Gender-equal governments, which include the same number of men and women as ministry heads and in other cabinet posts, used to be the purview of woman-friendly Nordic countries and highly progressive…


Save the Swamp

By Michael A. Smith of Emporia State University The Trump Administration’s recent reversal on immigration policy regarding children has gotten me to thinking. What exactly does it mean to “drain the swamp?” First, let me share a bit of background about the current situation. In 1997, a court ruling…