Political Science in the

American Political Science Association n Task Force Report, October 2011

Political Science

in the

21st Century

Report of the Task Force on Political Science in the 21st Century

Political Science

in the

21st Century

Report of the Task Force on Political Science in the 21st Century

October 2011

American Political Science Association

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Copyright ? 2011 by the American Political Science Association. All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-878147-39-4

Task Force On Political Science for the 21st Century

Task Force Members

Luis Ricardo Fraga, University of Washington, Co-Chair Terri E. Givens, University of Texas at Austin, Co-Chair

Dianne M. Pinderhughes, University of Notre Dame President, APSA, 2007-08

Manuel Avalos, University of North Carolina, Wilmington David Covin, California State University, Sacramento Frances Hagopian, University of Notre Dame Lisa Garc?a-Bedolla, University of California, Berkeley

Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University?Corpus Christi Vincent L. Hutchings, University of Michigan Michael A. Jones-Correa, Cornell University

Fae L. Korsmo, National Science Foundation, Federal Liaison Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley

Mark Q. Sawyer, University of California, Los Angeles Sherri L. Wallace, University of Louisville

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Acknowledgements

This report could not have been completed without the generous assistance of a number of individuals. We are thankful to all Task Force members for their insights and guidance. We are especially grateful to the chairs of our working groups: Lisa Garc?a-Bedolla, Research; Juan Carlos Huerta and Sherri Wallace, Teaching and Pedagogy; and Manuel Avalos, Access and Inclusion. Your leadership made the completion of the report possible.

We would like to thank Lucius Barker, Robert Putnam, and Theda Skocpol, former presidents of the APSA, for their careful reading of an earlier draft of our essay. This final report was greatly influenced by your insights and constructive critique.

We also acknowledge the financial support provided by Brian Humes, Program Director, Political Science, at the National Science Foundation. A grant from the NSF funded research assistance and production of the final report. We are also grateful to the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association for their support of our work. Your funding covered travel and other meeting costs that allowed us to come together on a number of occasions.

We are especially grateful for the support of Kimberly Mealy, Director, Educational, Professional, and Diversity Initiatives at the APSA. Her commitment and dedication to the profession no doubt makes us all better political scientists than we would otherwise be. We could not have completed this report without your administrative and professional guidance. We are also grateful for support provided by Michael Brintnall, Executive Director, APSA; Sean Twombly, Director, Member Services and Technology, APSA; and Shaunda Ragland, Program Associate, Educational, Professional, and Diversity Initiatives, APSA.

Finally, we want to acknowledge the critical work completed by a number of research assistants. Sergio Garc?a and Christopher Towler, University of Washington, were masterful in identifying, analyzing, and graphing data. Other research assistants who worked with us were: Ann Frost, University of Washington, and Javier de Paz, University of California Berkeley.

Luis Ricardo Fraga

Co-chair

Terri E. Givens

Co-chair

Dianne M. Pinderhughes

President, APSA, 2007-08

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