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of Ebola Political Science & Politics in political science while exploring this year's theme: Ruxandra Paul and Ken Sherrill, guest editors The Global Politics of Climate Change: ies Challenge for Political Science Diversit Reconsidered: Robert O. Keohane, 2014 James Madison Award Lecture Politics & Political Science in the 21st Century Living Accountability: Hot Rhetoric, Cool Political Science & Politics Theory, and Uneven Practice PS JANUARY 2015, VOLUME 48, NUMBER 1 Barbara S. Romzek, 2014 John Gaus Award Lecture
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Questions? Inspection Copies? Email us at [email protected] CONTENTS January 2015, Volume 48, Number 1
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION 1 Phillip Ardoin and Paul Gronke
SPOTLIGHT The Politics and Policy of Ebola Paul Gronke 3 Introduction Ruxandra Paul and Kenneth Sherrill, guest editors 4 AIDS, Ebola, and Politics Kenneth Sherill and Carolyn M. Somerville 5 Mobilizing around A(nother) Plague Meredith L. Weiss 6 Perceptions about Ebola in America: Othering and the Role of Knowledge about Africa Kim Yi Dionne and Laura Seay 7 Emotions and the Politics of Ebola Logan S. Casey 8 Ebola, Anxiety, and Public Support for Protective Policies Bethany Albertson and Shana Gadarian 9 Infecting the Constitution Julie Novkov 10 Help or Hate? Angelia R. Wilson 11 The World Health Organization and Responses to Global Health Emergencies Jeremy Youde 12 What Accounts for the World Health Organization’s Failure on Ebola? Joshua Busby and Karen A. Grépin 13 Human Security, Humanitarian Response, and Ebola Maryam Zarnegar Deloff re 14 Intersectionality and Ebola Olena Hankivsky 15 Ending Ebola: A Moving Target Ruxandra Paul
SPECIAL TO PS 19 The 2014 James Madison Lecture: The Global Politics of Climate Change: Challenge for Political Science Robert O. Keohane 27 The 2014 John Gaus Award Lecture: Living Accountability: Hot Rhetoric, Cool Theory, and Uneven Practice Barbara S. Romzek
SYMPOSIUM Research and Undergraduate Teaching: A False Divide?
35 Introduction James N. Druckman, guest editor
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39 Learning through Research: Using Data to Train Undergraduates in Qualitative Methods Colin Elman, Diana Kapiszewski, and Dessislava Kirilova 44 Teaching What We Don’t Know Nancy Luxon 48 How Collaborations with Undergraduates Improve Both Learning and Research: With Examples from International Development Experiments Skye Herrick, William Matthias, and Daniel Nielson 53 Merging Research and Undergraduate Teaching in Political Behavior Research James N. Druckman 58 Challenges to, and Suggestions for, Merging Research and Teaching in Undergraduate Regional Public Universities Juan Carlos Huerta 61 Experience and (Civic) Education Ben Berger
SYMPOSIUM Big Data, Causal Inference, and Formal Theory: Contradictory Trends in Political Science?
65 Introduction William Roberts Clark and Matt Golder, guest editors 71 No! Formal Theory, Causal Inference, and Big Data Are Not Contradictory Trends in Political Science Burt L. Monroe, Jennifer Pan, Margaret E. Roberts, Maya Sen, and Betsy Sinclair 75 Can Big Data Solve the Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference? Rocío Titiunik 80 We Are All Social Scientists Now: How Big Data, Machine Learning, and Causal Inference Work Together Justin Grimmer 84 Drawing Inferences and Testing Theories with Big Data Jonathan Nagler and Joshua A. Tucker 89 All Else Equal in Theory and Data (Big or Small) Scott Ashworth, Christopher R. Berry, and Ethan Bueno de Mesquita 95 Analyzing Big Data: Social Choice and Measurement John W. Patty and Elizabeth Maggie Penn 102 The Discipline of Identifi cation Luke Keele
FEATURES 107 Race and the Tea Party in the Old Dominion: Split-Ticket Voting in the 2013 Virginia Elections M. V. Hood III, Quentin Kidd, and Irwin L. Morris 115 Legislative Explorer: Data-Driven Discovery of Lawmaking Nicholas Stramp and John Wilkerson 120 Argo and Zero Dark Thirty: Film, Government, and Audiences Michelle C. Pautz
THE PROFESSION 129 Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis of the Effi cacy of Open Access Publishing in Political Science Amy Atchison and Jonathan Bull ii PS • January 2015 Contents
138 When Winning Is Really Losing: Teaching Awards and Women Political Science Faculty Charity Butcher and Timothy Kersey 142 Major Competition? Exploring Perceptions of International Studies Programs among Political Science Department Chairs H. Gibbs Knotts and Jennifer S. Schiff
THE TEACHER 149 Overcoming Barriers to Heterogeneous-Group Learning in the Political Science Classroom Ryan T. Moore 157 Teaching Theory, Writing Policy: Integrating Lessons from Foggy Bottom into the Classroom Bidisha Biswas and Agnieszka Paczynska 162 Where’s the Diplomacy in Diplomacy? Using a Classic Board Game in “Introduction to International Relations” Richard Arnold 167 The Democratic Syllabus Susan McWilliams 171 Using Tablet Devices and Social Media in a Course about the 2012 US Election Campaign Paul R. Brewer, Ralph J. Begleiter, Katherine Anderson, and Meredith Isaacs 176 Uncle Wuffl e’s Refl ections on Political Science Methodology A Wuffl e
PEOPLE 183 Spotlights, with news about Robert Axelrod, Sylvia Bashevkin, Howard Gillman, Graham Allison, James S. Fishkin, and others 185 Awards, including National Science Foundation Political Science Awards, 2013, 2014 188 Books by Our Readers 189 In Memoriam, with tributes to Gerard Braunthal, James MacGregor Burns, Franco Mattei, and George Modelski
ASSOCIATION NEWS 193 Executive Director’s Report 196 APSA’s Financial Operations, 2013–2014 202 Meet the APSA Offi cers and Council 206 Request for Proposals for Editor, American Political Science Review 207 12th Annual APSA Teaching and Learning Conference 208 DA-RT Workshop Off ered 210 2014 Report of the Committee on Professional Ethics, Rights, and Freedoms 212 Briefs 214 Center Page: Domestic Politics and Nuclear Negotiations Dinshaw Mistry 215 Congressional Fellowship Program: An APSA Fellow’s Journey from Down Under to the Hill Jonathan Swan 217 International 219 Organized Section Update 243 Gazette: Council Meeting Minutes from August 2013 and April 2014 253 APSA Contributors
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DEPARTMENTS EDITORS: Phillip Ardoin, 183 People Appalachian State University Paul Gronke, 193 Association News Appalachian State University and Reed College 217 International MANAGING EDITOR: Barbara Walthall
243 Gazette EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Drew Meadows Celina Szymanski
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