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The New Research on Gender in Political Psychology Conference brought together new and experienced teachers with interests in gender politics. The conference session "Teaching Gender throughout the Curriculum" generated a great deal of discussion concerning the pedagogical practice of gender mainstreaming. Gender mainstreaming—the integration of gendered content into courses required for a major—was recognized as one of 11 recommendations for reforming the undergraduate political science curriculum in the 1991 APSA report "Liberal Learning an The Political Science Major: A Report to the Profession" (popularly referred to as the Wahlke Report). Little information is available on the prevalence of gender courses in the undergraduate curriculum, but the data that does exist suggest such courses are uncommon (Brandes et al. 2001). We found virtually no data on the practice of gender mainstreaming in political science and little data in the way of assessing the impact of gendered content when students are exposed to it. This absence of data suggests gender mainstreaming has not emerged as a serious priority for curricular reform.

Online political microtargeting involves monitoring people's online behaviour, and using the collected data, sometimes enriched with other data, to show people-targeted political advertisements. Online political microtargeting is widely used in the US; Europe may not be far behind. This paper maps microtargeting's promises and threats to democracy. For example, microtargeting promises to optimise the match between the electorate's concerns and political campaigns, and to boost campaign engagement and political participation. But online microtargeting could also threaten democracy. For instance, a political party could, misleadingly, present itself as a different one-issue party to different individuals. And data collection for microtargeting raises privacy concerns. We sketch possibilities for policymakers if they seek to regulate online political microtargeting. We discuss which measures would be possible, while complying with the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights.

South Africa joined the 'third wave of democracy' in 1994, when the country conducted its first democratic elections. Since then, much debate about the extent of democratic consolidation has taken place. The present article analyses the possibilities for consolidation of South Africa's democracy in terms of the indicators of political culture most often associated with democratic consolidation: political tolerance and trust. The research consists of a longitudinal analysis that uses quantitative data gathered since 1994. Divergent conclusions are reached. On the one hand, political tolerance is increasingly visible among South Africans. On the other, trust in institutions - government - is decreasing. (Politikon - www.tandf.co.uk/journals /DÜI)

The politics of public policy is a vibrant research area increasingly at the forefront of intellectual innovations in the discipline. We argue that political scientists are best positioned to undertake research on the politics of public policy when they possess expertise in particular policy areas. Policy expertise positions scholars to conduct theoretically innovative work and to ensure that empirical research reflects the reality they aim to analyze. It also confers important practical advantages, such as access to a significant number of academic positions and major sources of research funding not otherwise available to political scientists. Perhaps most importantly, scholars with policy expertise are equipped to defend the value of political science degrees and research in the public sphere.

AbstractHow "historical" is Canadian political science? This paper sets out to answer this question through an analysis of historically oriented articles that have appeared in this journal from its first volume, in 1968, to 2015. We suggest that historical research in this journal is at once enduring and uneven, a pattern that we then explore in more detail in a case study, spanning forty years, of historical articles that focus on the interconnected themes of the constitution, courts, and federalism. The unevenness of this pattern suggests that the intellectual and methodological foundation of "historical" Canadian political science may not be as firm as it appears. We therefore conclude with a description of some methodological and conceptual tools, originally fashioned within the historically oriented subfield of American political development in the United States, that Canadian political scientists might deploy to probe important and enduring questions of Canadian politics.

International audience ; L'analyse des conditions d'émergence de la gouvernance, et notamment de la gouvernance urbaine, passe par un repérage des migrations du terme à travers les champs disciplinaires (philosophie, économie, sociologie, science politique, sciences de gestion etc.) et institutionnels (entreprises, organisations internationales, gouvernements nationaux, pouvoirs locaux) qui l'ont utilisé. Les procédures de gouvernance répondent, avec plus ou moins de pertinence, à de multiples enjeux de l'action publique en contexte urbain, qu'ils se posent en termes de légitimité, d'efficacité ou de durabilité. La référence à la gouvernance révèle certains non-dits des mutations urbaines et traduit de profonds remaniements des représentations idéologiques et des conventions territoriales (au sens de l'économie des conventions). C'est précisément parce qu'il possède un fort potentiel idéologique que le concept a eu la fortune scientifique et pratique qu'on lui connaît.

International audience ; L'analyse des conditions d'émergence de la gouvernance, et notamment de la gouvernance urbaine, passe par un repérage des migrations du terme à travers les champs disciplinaires (philosophie, économie, sociologie, science politique, sciences de gestion etc.) et institutionnels (entreprises, organisations internationales, gouvernements nationaux, pouvoirs locaux) qui l'ont utilisé. Les procédures de gouvernance répondent, avec plus ou moins de pertinence, à de multiples enjeux de l'action publique en contexte urbain, qu'ils se posent en termes de légitimité, d'efficacité ou de durabilité. La référence à la gouvernance révèle certains non-dits des mutations urbaines et traduit de profonds remaniements des représentations idéologiques et des conventions territoriales (au sens de l'économie des conventions). C'est précisément parce qu'il possède un fort potentiel idéologique que le concept a eu la fortune scientifique et pratique qu'on lui connaît.

THE HISTORY OF THE DISCIPLINE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN WEST GERMANY IS AS CONTRADICTORY AS THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY ITSELF. LONG-TERM, MEDIUM-TERM, AND SHORT-TERM EFFECTS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE. LONG-TERM EFFECTS WERE EXERTED BY SCIENTIFIC TRADITIONS AND INTELLECTUAL STYLES THAT WERE FORMED BY EARLY AND FUNDAMENTAL DECISIONS IN THE GERMAN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. MEDIUM-TERM EFFECTS WERE THE RESULT OF THE NEED TO DEFINE AND ESTABLISH A NEW DISCIPLINE ALONGSIDE ALREADY-ESTABLISHED AND RELATED DISCIPLINES AND WERE THE RESULT OF THE DOMINANT ROLE OF AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE. SHORT-TERM EFFECTS ARE DUE TO THE CURRENT-AFFAIRS ORIENTATION OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND STEM FROM THE POLITICAL SYSTEM AND FROM INTERVENTIONS INTO THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.

We argue that political science blogs can link conversations among political scientists with broader public debates about contemporary issues. Political science blogs do this by identifying relevant research, explaining its findings, and articulating its applicability. We identify strategies besides blogging that individual scholars and the discipline could undertake to enhance its public profile. Adapted from the source document.