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Professor Kimberly Smith awarded the Forest History Society’s 2020 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
5 October 2020Kimberly Smith, Professor of Environmental Studies and Political Science, received the Forest History Society’s Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for 2020 for her recent book, The Conservation Constitution: The Conservation Movement…
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Professor Emeritus Steven Schier and Professor Christina Farhart Weigh in on Political Analyst Job Market Trends
11 September 2020Zippia.com presents expert’s opinions on where the job market for Political Analysts is heading, as well as how young graduates entering the industry can be adequately prepared. Professors Schier and…
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Professor Rich Keiser’s article “Subverting the American dream,” published in Le Monde Diplomatique.
9 September 2020Prof. Rich Keiser’s article “Subverting the American dream,” about the new white flight from Asian American excellence in US high schools was published in the French and English versions of…
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Assistant Professor Summer Forester’s Publication in Politics & Gender
4 August 2020Summer Forester’s article, “Anti-democratic and Exclusionary Practices: COVID-19 and the Continuum of Violence,” (co-authored with Cheryl O’Brien, San Diego State) was accepted for publication in Politics & Gender as part of the Cambridge Coronavirus Collection.
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Professor Richard Keiser’s Article and Interview with Le Monde Diplomatique
13 July 2020Richard Keiser, Professor of Political Science and American Studies, wrote an article “Being black and poor in Minneapolis,” on American policing and reform efforts in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, published in the July issue of Le Monde Diplomatique. Read the full article, and hear Professor Keiser’s podcast interview with that publication’s George Miller.
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POSC 213 Research Project
19 June 2020In the spring of 2020, students enrolled in the Political Psychology of Mass Behavior (POSC 213 taught by Melanie Freeze) constructed an online experiment to explore the effectiveness of various public messages regarding the COVID-19 crisis.
The online survey experiment examined how partisan source cues influence people’s evaluations of actual governor public announcements (released on governor websites or twitter feeds). Public health and policy announcements are important sources of information for the public, but it is unclear whether public health messages originating from partisan sources are fully received by the public as politicization of the pandemic may undermine the effectiveness of these announcements. We also investigated the impact of and health (lives) and economic (livelihood) cost frames regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on individual emotions and policy attitudes.
The class explored these research questions through an online survey experiment conducted on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk subject pool. The experiment was designed as a 2 X 3 between-subjects factorial experiment that manipulated the partisanship of the source cue for a set of public announcements about COVID-19 responses produced by governors (non-partisan vs partisan source cue provided) and the content of a passage that emphasized the health costs of COVID-19 (lives), the economic costs of COVID-19 (livelihoods), or presented a neutral message about socks in the control condition.The research manuscript is still being revised with the goal of publication, but you can watch this short video to learn more about our research project and preliminary findings.
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POSC 122 Podcasts
1 June 2020Politics in America is a podcast that brings academic studies to life with interviews, relevant statistics, and stories. We invite you to listen as Carleton students unpack complex political science…
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Professor Al Montero, Frank B. Kellogg Professor of Political Science, interviewed for El Salto newspaper Outside link
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A project that started out as a class research experience in POSC 226 (Political Psychology) taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Melanie Freeze has recently been published in the one of the leading journals of political behavior. While all POSC 226 students were involved in the study design and implementation, six students (and now Carleton alumni), Mary Baumgartner, Peter Bruno, Jacob R. Gunderson, Joshua Olin, Morgan Quinn Ross, and Justine Szafran, provided valuable contributions as co-authors for the resulting article that was written and subjected to a great deal of revision in the post-class period.
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POSC 100, 205/305 and 223 Podcasts
18 November 2019Professor Barbara Allen’s POSC 100 (Governing with the News), POSC 205/305 (News Media & Democratic Electoral Processes) and POSC 223 (Lab in Electoral Politics) classes have embarked on an original…