Register   |  Login   Search

Featured Article

When Are Women More Effective Lawmakers Than Men?

  • Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman, and Dana E. Wittmer. Article first published online: 22 January 2013

Previous scholarship has demonstrated that female lawmakers differ from their male counterparts by engaging more fully in consensus-building activities. The authors argue that this behavioral difference does not serve women equally well in all institutional settings. Read more

Watch the MSNBC interview with Craig Volden.

Read the New York Times article citing this content.

Senate Restricts Funding for Political Science

In a CR, the Senate approved a measure limiting NSF funding for political science to research “promoting national security or the economic interests of the United States.” Read more…

Virtual Issue of the AJPS: NSF Funded Research II

AJPS Editor Rick Wilson has put together a FREE virtual issue that looks at important political science research funded by the National Science Foundation. Read more…

NSF Peer Review Under Scrutiny by House Science Panel

Science Insider, April 18--The new chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology suggests that every NSF grant application include a statement of how the research, if funded, "would directly benefit the American people." Read more…

Successful Once, Protesters May Hesitate To Return to Streets

News at Princeton, April 1, 2013--In a paper published online in January by the AJPS, "People Power or a One-Shot Deal? A Dynamic Model of Protest," authors Adam Meirowitz and Joshua Tucker try explain why do people who would protest to change the government in their country sometimes stay off the streets when the new government turns out to be just as bad. Read more…

New Virtual Issue on Electoral Geography

For a limited time, the AJPS and Wiley will make available free a virtual issue comprised of recent articles on redistricting, electoral geography, and political geography. Read more…

Need a Receipt?

To view your financial transactions and print a receipt, log into the MPSA website and click on your name at the top of the page. If you need assistance logging in, send an email to mpsainfo@mpsanet.org.

READ MORE NEWS...