MPSA Blog
Voting Can Be Hard, Information Helps
By Melody Crowder-Meyer, Shana Kushner Gadarian, and Jessica Trounstine
When Los Angeles…
What 18,000 Declassified Documents (and a Computer) Reveal About the Credibility of Signals During Crises
By Eric Min of Stanford University
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, left, and U.S. President John F. Kennedy sit in the…
Foster Care Privatization: How an Increasingly Popular Public Policy Leads to Increased Levels of Abuse and Neglect
Foster care in the United States is dramatically influenced by federal and state…
In Retrospect: Tips for First-Time MPSA Attendees and Presenters
By Charmaine N. Willis of University at Albany, SUNY
Diffusion by Any Means Necessary
By Harold “Harry” Young of Austin Peay State University
Members of the "GRAD SCHOOL: What to Expect at a…
Reflections on the #MPSA18 Mentoring Reception
On the second day of the 76th Annual Conference, MPSA held a mentoring reception for which graduate students, PhD recipients in non-academic positions, junior, mid-career, and contingent faculty could select volunteer mentors for small group mentoring to discuss their current research and…
More Bridging, Less Bonding: New Views of Social Capital
(or, Why I am Going to Watch Roseanne)
by Michael A. Smith of Emporia State University
Social…
Finger on the Pulse: Alive and Kicking at MPSA 2018
By Harold "Harry" Young of Austin Peay State University
At this year’s MPSA conference, I was…
Politics and Ontology in Thucydides' story of Alcmaeon
By Borden Flanagan of American University
The story of Alcmaeon, in an emphatically unnecessary digression, frames…
The Public Expert: How Academics Can Break the Ivory Tower Stereotype #MPSA18
By Alex Ellison In the professional development track at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago, IL, there were a couple of sessions on using social media in academia and sharing research in more easy-to-digest ways with the general public. In higher education, there is…