The Future of Our Discipline: The Status of Doctoral Students in Political Science

Dolan, Julie; Kropf, Martha; O'Connor, Karen; Ezra, Marni

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“…Addresses and other information provided by the APSA, however, have been used in several previous surveys, including those by Euchner and Jewell~1989! ;Dolan et al~1997! ;and Fuerstman and Lavertu~2005!. 4.…”

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Faculty Training in Political Science: Results from a Survey of Department Chairs

Rothgeb

Spadafore

Burger

2007

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In recent years, increased attention has focused on how doctoral programs prepare graduate students to become faculty members at colleges and universities. One reflection of this interest is the development of such training programs as Preparing Future Faculty (PFF), which the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools founded in 1993. With financial support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Science Foundation, and the Atlantic Philanthropies, and with the participation of several professional associations, including the American Political Science Association, PFF has grown to include nearly 300 colleges and universities nationwide. In the recent past, 21 doctoral departments, including four from political science, have received funding for PFF. In addition to formal PFF programs, the literature on graduate education suggests that many doctoral departments have established their own training routines to assist graduate students as they prepare to teach and/or to assume faculty responsibilities.

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Faculty Training in Political Science: Results from a Survey of Department Chairs

Rothgeb

Spadafore

Burger

2007

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“…Pleschov a a and E. Simon findings of Rothgeb et al (2007) and Dolan et al (1997) who reported rates of 45% and 55%, respectively. However, the fact that half of institutions offering PhD programs do not provide teacher training of any kind is far from being satisfactory.…”

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Teacher Training for Political Science PhD Students in Europe Determinants of a Tool for Enhanced Teaching in Higher Education

Pleschová

Simon

2009

Journal of Political Science Education

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In this paper we examine the state of teacher training for political science PhD candidates in the European Union and make a comparison with the situation in the United States. We investigate the determinants of supply and demand of teacher training. On the supply side, we suggest that research orientation and quality assurance are factors that might enhance institutional willingness to provide training. On the demand side, we examine the influence of gender, career plans, year of study, and career status on student motivation to undergo teacher training. We find that about half of EU institutions offering PhD programs also provide some form of teacher training; this closely follows American trends. We also uncover that while research orientation has a significant positive effect on the willingness of universities to provide training in pedagogy, quality assurance does not. Of the four factors we put forward as potential influences on student demand for teacher training, only future plans have a significant effect. We argue that similarities in the situation of teacher training in the United States and the European Union make transatlantic dialogue in graduate education worthwhile. Moreover, the positive impact of teacher training on the quality of teaching and learning as well as the positive valuation of training by more than two-thirds of PhD students in our sample makes us conclude that teacher training should be more widely available.

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“…6, No. 2;2013 2008; Dolan et al, 1997;Erne, 2007, p. 307;Fowler et al, 2007;Garand & Graddy, 1999;Hix, 2004;Ishiyama, 2010;Kaba, 2011c;Katz & Eagles, 1996;Lopez, 2003;Mann, 1998;Masuoka et al, 2007ab;McCormick & Rice, 2001;Oprisko, 2012;Schmidt & Chingos, 2007;Sigelman, 2006). In a study entitled "Demographics and Publication Productivity of Ivy League Political Science Professors: Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale," finds that as of October 2005: "Of the 198 professors for whom data for university of graduation were available, 102 (51.5%) are from institutions in the Northeast and 39 (20%) are from the West…" (Note 3) According to Masuoka et al (2007b): "… in the early decades of the discipline, political science Ph.D. production was largely confined to institutions located in the Northeast and Midwest.…”

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Profile of Contributors to the American Political Science Review, 2010

Kaba¹

2013

JPL

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This study examines the profile of contributors of full-length articles to the American Political Science Review (APSR) in 2010. Of the 79 different contributors, almost 9 (86.1%) out of every 10 are men. Whites accounted for over 9 (93.7%) out of every 10 contributors. Full professors accounted for 35%, the highest rate, with assistant professors accounting for 31 percent. Yale University, Harvard University, University of Illinois-Champaign, Florida State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California-San Diego, and the University of Chicago, all employ 3 or more of these contributors. Almost 94% of the contributors have a Ph.D. Almost 89% of the contributors earned their terminal or highest degrees in political science/government. Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Rochester, the University of California-Berkeley, and Duke University, all conferred 4 or more terminal or highest degrees to these contributors. The study presents explanations for these results, focusing on the underrepresentation of women and minorities.Keywords: human progress, gender, race, university rankings, endowments, elitism IntroductionBy 2013, among the three sister social science disciplines of economics, political science and sociology, political science is now second to economics in terms of the total number of scholarly publications examining various aspects of their disciplines. A substantial proportion of these scholarly articles either focus only on the American Political Science Review (APSR) or along with other political science journals, or comparison of APSR with the top journals in economics, sociology and other journals in and outside of the social sciences. With its first issue published in 1906, the APSR has become the discipline's top ranked journal and one of the top ranked journals in and outside of the social sciences. Others have claimed that the APSR is the top ranked political science journal in the world. Scholars who publish in the APSR can be employed at the top ranked colleges and universities not just in the United States, but also the world. They can also get promoted and have the opportunity to earn higher salaries and benefits. They are among the scholars who get very large sums of research grants from governments or foundations. They have substantial influence over the U.S. federal government and other governments in the world. The APSR like the top economics journal in the U.S., the American Economic Review (AER) are known as international journals, which means that students and scholars, policy makers and other elites in the U.S. and abroad tend to read them and the authors that publish in them are from all over the world. So once one publish an article in the APSR, he or she can become internationally known, which benefits the institutions that employ them (Ballard & Mitchell, 1998;Breuning & Sanders, 2007;De Rond & Miller, 2005;Evans & Moulder, 2011;Finifter, 1998;Fisher et al., 1998;Garand et al., 2009;Garand & Graddy, 1999;Garand & G...

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The Future of Our Discipline: The Status of Doctoral Students in Political Science

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Faculty Training in Political Science: Results from a Survey of Department Chairs

Faculty Training in Political Science: Results from a Survey of Department Chairs

Teacher Training for Political Science PhD Students in Europe Determinants of a Tool for Enhanced Teaching in Higher Education

Profile of Contributors to the American Political Science Review, 2010

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