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BENEFITS RESULTING FROM POLITICAL SCIENCE FIELDWORK: DEVELOPING GOOD CO-WORKER RELATIONSHIPS, INTERPERSONAL SKILLS, CONFIDENCE IN ONE'S ABLITIES, THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE, & CAREER PREFERENCES. THOSE RECIEVING HIGHER LEVELS OF VARIOUS BENEFITS FOUND TO BE STUDENTS WHO SPENT MORE TIME ON THEIR STUDIES, HAD SPECIFIC GOALS FOR THE FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE HAD HIGHER LEVELS OF POLITICAL INTEREST & EXPERIENCE.

Recent years have seen a tremendous surge of public interest in partisan gerrymandering, including robust reform efforts and multiple high-profile court cases. Political scientists have played an important role in this debate, reaching an unusually high level of public engagement. Yet this public-facing period has to some extent obscured promising avenues for future research within the discipline. I review the history of political science and redistricting and describe how research on this topic has been shaped by the newfound interest. The goals of the law differ from those of political science, so research that focuses squarely on the former often misses opportunities to advance the latter. I lay out the contours of this difference and then suggest reframing the existing metrics of partisan gerrymandering to make them useful for more traditionally scientific questions. Finally, I offer some ideas about what those future questions might look like when reframed in this way.

This lecture was presented at the University of Sheffield on October
22, 2008, inaugurating the Graduate School of Politics; and at
Oxford University on October 16, 2008. I have retained the lecture
style for this publication, only making minor changes and additions
in the text.

A well-written and exciting historical account of the way in which regional science and the formation of the society associated with the field, Regional Science Association International, developed. It starts with the rise of Hitler, the advent of the Keynesian Revolution, the intense mathematization of economics and relates how an individual's creative thinking effectively combated the strong resistance of conventional social sciences. The text has been written by the founder of the Regional Science Association and current President of the North American Regional Science Council. It is of interest to regional scientists, economists, sociologists, urban- and regional planners, geographers, and transportation researchers.

This week we are looking at the Malvinas/Falklands War. Why did it happen? And what does it tell us about how dictators decide whether to launch military action?

This week we are taking a deep dive into online public shaming. Is shaming ever ethical? What are the consequences of public shaming? And how does OPS deprive an individual of due process?

Welcome to season 4 of UCL Uncovering Politics. This week we are examining the state of Russian politics, and its future, through a new book about the country's most prominent opposition activist, Alexei Navalny.