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Generation Z voters could make waves in 2018 midterm elections
By Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Tufts University Unlike the much-studied millennials, we don’t know much about Generation Z, who now make up most of the 18- to 24-year-old voting bloc. These young people started first grade after 9/11, were born with the internet, grew up with smartphones and social…
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
Humanities for All: Political Science and International Relations
By Daniel Fisher, Project Director, National Humanities Alliance
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
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
By Chapman Rackaway of the University of West Georgia
Political scientists and pundits alike face a…
Contributing Political Science Knowledge to our Collective Conscious
Post by Royal G. Cravens, Bowling Green University This post originally appeared on the Wiki Education blog. Dr. Royal G. Cravens, III is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bowling Green State University. He recently participated in our Wikipedia Fellows pilot, an opportunity for…
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…