PS: Political Science and Politics

Faculty Perceptions of Political Science PhD Career Training By Loleen Berdahl, University of Saskatchewan, Jonathan Malloy, Carleton University and Lisa Young, University of Calgary Political science PhD programs typically train students for academic careers. But […]

Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Explaining Youths’ Relative Absence in Legislatures By Aksel Sundström, University of Gothenburg and Daniel Stockemer, University of Ottawa This article conceptualizes the relative absence of youth in legislatures, a feature we perceive […]

Broadening the PhD Pipeline: A Summer Research Program for HBCU Students By Claire L. Adida and David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego, Fatemeh Shafiei, Spelman College and Matthew Platt, Morehouse College Over the […]

Are We There Yet? Perceptions of Racial Progress Among Racial Minorities By Stacey Greene, Rutgers University Given the transition from a society built on racialized slave labor and settler colonial genocide, current conditions in the […]

A Symposium on Power, Discrimination, and Identity: Introduction and Commentary By Ismail White, Princeton University and Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, Wake Forest University Race continues to divide America deeply. One’s race can be seen as a […]

Explaining Increased Contestation in the 2018 State Legislative Elections By Adam S. Myers, Providence College State legislative elections in the United States have long exhibited relatively low contestation rates. Between 2002 and 2016, for example, […]