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There is something queer (by which we mean strange) going on in the scholarly practice of political science. Why are political science scholars continuing to disregard issues of gender and sexuality-and in particular queer theory-in their lecture theatres, seminar rooms, textbooks, and journal articles? Such everyday issues around common human experience are considered by other social scientists to be central to the practice and theory of social relations. In this article we discuss how these commonplace issues are being written out of (or, more accurately, have never been written in to) contemporary political science. First, we present and discuss our findings on citation practice in order to evidence the queerness of what does and does not get cited in political science scholarship. We then go on to critique this practice before suggesting a broader agenda for the analysis of the political based on a queer theoretical approach. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay covering a book by S.M. Gavrilova, Politischeskaia istoria sovremennoi Italii (1945-2011) v trudakh rossiiskikh uchenykkh.

A review essay on books edited by Edna Ullman-Margalit, The Kaleidoscope of Science & The Prism of Science (The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Vols. I & II, respectively; Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1986 [see listings in IRPS No. 46]). These volumes bring together highly diverse papers, greatly enhanced by their printed commentaries. Here, papers related especially to European ideas are summarized, including David Kohn's reconstruction of Charles Darwin's theoretical reasoning, & Martin Rudwick's account of a dispute among British geologists in the 1830s. Amos Tversky wrote on the "conjunction fallacy," in which people view a conjunction as more probable than either of its components. Of special interest in the second work are Frank Manuel's study of the role of scientists in European utopias, G. A. Cohen's restatement of Karl Marx's historical materialism, & Emanoel Lee's description of differential efforts in medicine during the Boer War. A. Waters

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Teach It Forward: Gender in the Political Science Classroom and Beyond / Ekaterina M. Levintova and Alison Kathryn Staudinger -- Part One: National and Institutional Trends -- 1. Gendering the Political Science Classroom While Mainstreaming Gender in the Discipline: Understanding the Barriers and Exploring Solutions / Ingrid Bego -- 2. Divergent? Gender and Methodological Diversity in Recent Political Science Dissertations / Rina Verma Williams and Laura Dudley Jenkins -- 3. Gendered Representation in Political Science Textbooks / Daniel Mueller -- 4. Gender Mainstreaming and Political Science Teaching in New Zealand: Still a Work in Progress / Jennifer Curtin -- 5. Student Perceptions of Gender in Political Science Teaching and Advising / Ekaterina M. Levintova -- Part Two: Classroom Evidence and Solutions -- 6. Getting to No: The Need for Gender-Conscious Pedagogy in Service-Learning Courses / Daisy Rooks -- 7. Class Format, Gender, and Student Attitudes toward Political Participation / Sara Rinfret and Michelle Pautz -- 8. Beyond Gender Neutrality in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Classroom / Alison Kathryn Staudinger -- 9. Thinking through Movement: Embodied Learning as Feminist Pedagogy for the Social Sciences / Valerie Barske -- Gender Forward: Momentum for the Future / Ekaterina M. Levintova and Alison Kathryn Staudinger -- Index.

I examine why contemporary social scientists on the political left are relatively pessimistic about the public arena and its trajectory. To develop an answer, I explore subsidiary questions: What is the evidence of social scientists' left pessimism? Why is left pessimism not the only plausible stance? Why is left pessimism problematic, and surprising? Why does it nonetheless occur? How can social scientists counter left pessimism?My evidence comes mainly from research on American racial and ethnic politics, and on the societal use of genomic science. I explain left pessimism as a result largely of the trajectory of social science research since the 1960s, and of the loss of faith in revolutionary inspiration after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I call on social scientists to reinvigorate optimistic visions, perhaps especially in a political era fraught with dangers to liberal democracy.

Only since 1939 have political scientists, as such, had much chance to gain entrance into the permanent federal civil service. This opportunity came as the result of two well-timed phenomena: (1) the demand of a number of federal agencies for young men and women educated in certain branches of political science, and (2) the United States Civil Service Commission's announcement of the Junior Professional Assistant examination, which included an optional called "Junior Administrative Technician." This combination of happy circumstances, however, did not solve all the problems of the young political scientist or clarify all the requirements for federal employment; so, at the 1939 meeting of the American Political Science Association a committee was appointed to study the question.

This book attempts to fill the void in literature for undergraduate and graduate students in the Third World, particularly Nigeria. Primarily intended for introductory courses in political science and, specifically, Nigerian government, the material covers such areas as the foundations of political science, political thought, political systems, and world order