How Diversity Matters and Changes Institutions

Smole, Kristen; Sinclair-Chapman, Valeria

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“…Marginalized populations struggle at various stages of their personal and professional journey (Smole and Sinclair-Chapman 2022; Windsor, Crawford, and Breuning 2021). Although the proportion of women and URMs entering doctoral programs has been increasing over time (American Political Science Association 2021), the number of doctorates awarded to women and URMs did not increase substantially between 2000 and 2020 (National Science Foundation 2020).…”

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Reflections on an Institutional Journey Toward Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Political Science

Mitra,

Kapiszewski,

Kleinpaste

et al. 2023

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As the political and social challenges facing the world multiply, the discipline of political science requires better tools and creative approaches advanced by a more diverse set of researchers. Yet the discipline has struggled to recruit and admit to graduate programs, and retain as faculty, women and underrepresented minorities. Many individual faculty, departments, and universities have developed innovative programs and sought to create structural changes to address these gaps. This article presents the approach taken by the Department of Government at Georgetown University: launching a week-long Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute in 2022. We describe the Institute’s contours and structure, provide preliminary data on outcomes, and conclude by offering three ideas for expanding and advancing these types of initiatives across the discipline.

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Reflections on an Institutional Journey Toward Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Political Science

Mitra,

Kapiszewski,

Kleinpaste

et al. 2023

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“…An aging democracy urges us to think and deliberate legitimacy beyond sheer numerical majorities and instead negotiate ways of effectively increasing generational pluralism in politics. Contemporary research both in the field of business and public administration, as well as diversity politics, unanimously demonstrates that pluralism matters, that it makes for better decision making, and that it results in improved political efficacy (Evans 2016; Hunt, Layton, and Prince 2015; Smole and Sinclair-Chapman 2022; Williamson and Scicchitano 2015).…”

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The Aging Democracy: Demographic Effects, Political Legitimacy, and the Quest for Generational Pluralism

Buchmeier¹,

Vogt²

2023

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The political implications of population aging for democratic systems are fundamental. Questions of democratic legitimacy are raised as the political equilibrium between the generations is upended. Drawing on evidence from liberal democracies with a focus on Japan, the democracy with the oldest electorate, we identify and analyze three demographic effects on the political system: participation effects deriving from younger voters’ marginalization among the electorate; representation effects demonstrated by the dominance of elderly lawmakers inside the parliament and government; and policy effects manifesting in a preference for policies catering to an aging majority. By breaking down these key effects and contextualizing them in broader debates of political demography, we call attention to the normative repercussions of the interplay between demography and democracy and make a case for enhanced generational pluralism.

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How Diversity Matters and Changes Institutions

Abstract: Legislative politics was seen traditionally as a male-dominated subfield in political science. Do you think the landscape has changed or is changing? More broadly, how has your identity as a woman of color shaped the way you navigate the discipline?

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Reflections on an Institutional Journey Toward Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Political Science

Reflections on an Institutional Journey Toward Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Political Science

The Aging Democracy: Demographic Effects, Political Legitimacy, and the Quest for Generational Pluralism

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