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There are concerns about the rise of populism and erosion of democratic standards throughout the world. Examples include countries such as Hungary, Poland and Brazil, growing support for populist parties in western Europe, and recent development in the US. Populism has grown through new challenger parties, but also through capture of previously mainstream parties.

The 2020 US presidential election will take place amidst the background of a global pandemic, high unemployment, protests for racial justice, catastrophic wildfires wrought by climate change, and rising political polarisation. At stake is the direction of federal politics and policymaking for the next four years, as well as control of the Senate, the House of Representatives and a number of state offices. What can we expect from a Joe Biden administration or a second term of Donald Trump? In this panel discussion, four leading experts—Brian Klaas (Washington Post and UCL CUSP), Anne Joseph O'Connell (Stanford Law School), Colin Provost (UCL CUSP), and Sherrill Stroschein (UCL SPP)—will discuss politics, policy, and governance under Trump's first term and what this election may bring after Election Day.

THE AUTHOR PRESENTS A SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE PROCESS OF USING MODELS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE TO INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT, THE HISTORY, TECHNIQUES, AND TYPES TO THE BEGINNER IN THE FIELD.

A comment on Andrew Bennett, Ahron Barth, & Kenneth R. Rutherford's & Peregrine Schwartz-Shea's articles on methodological trends in political science instruction & scholarship (both, 2003) is concerned that the former excludes most political theory & the latter may have overstated the diversity of methodological training, although taken together, their findings ring true. It is argued, however, that the idea that quantitative methods are the only way to do political science, as signaled in their essays, is misleading. Their findings suggest that students must be offered many methodological choices. It is contended that students learn method best by doing & courses ought to require research projects utilizing qualitative methods rather than the easier to employ quantitative methods. The persistent structure of political science subfields (eg, American politics, comparative politics, international relations) is discussed in terms of how the discipline trains to hire & vice versa, perpetuating a division of labor in the discipline that lacks intellectual sense. Although conceding that this structure is organically generated rather than imposed from the top down, it is seen as time to consider pursuing a new structure. 2 References. J. Zendejas

Africanist contributions to political science that appeared in the early days of the discipline in the late 1950s have continued with the current generation of Africanists. Africanist research has been fundamental to modernization & cultural pluralism theories. It has contributed concepts like "clientelism," expanded qualitative methodologies, & highlighted issues underrepresented by Americanist scholars. Africanists do not believe that homogenizing political science benefits research or teaching. Africa's relative political marginalization provides an especially interesting counterpoint to Americanist content. It forces a confrontation between exogenous & endogenous definitions of culture that is a revived research frontier. 22 References. M. Pflum

In this concise but wide-ranging text, Alan Zuckerman introduces the reader to the various approaches to political explanation. He shows how researchers espousing different theoretical assumptions, levels of explanation, variables, and data come to offer conflicting accounts of the phenomena to be studied. He then introduces five paradigms of polit

John Micklethwait is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, and Adrian Wooldridge is political editor of the Economist, and author of their Bagehot column. In their latest book they analyse the disastrous failure of many western countries to control the Coronavirus, and what it exposes about the weaknesses of their systems of government. It is a wake up call to learn from the more successful responses of countries like Singapore or South Korea. What are the lessons in better government the west can now learn from the east? To discuss the UK's capacity to learn such lessons, and the likelihood of its doing so, they are joined by Philip Rycroft CB, former Head of the UK Governance Group in the Cabinet Office, Permanent Secretary in DExEU, and now Visiting Professor at Edinburgh University.