I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification By Benny Geys, BI Norwegian Business School, Per Lægreid, University of Bergen, Zuzana Murdoch, University of Bergen, and Susan Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin-Madison This article challenges the common assumption that the partisan identification of bureaucratic elites is fixed over time. Building on principal-agent and organization theory, we hypothesize that bureaucratic elites may respond to political turnover by adjusting their partisan identification toward that of their (new) elected principals.

Rebeca J. Agosto Rosa is a Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As a political psychologist, she is interested in how identity, intergroup contact, and the media influence political attitudes and behavior. Her dissertation examines how Spanish-language content in the media shapes intergroup attitudes in the U.S., drawing attention to non-political media’s political consequences.

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Teaching Webinar: Guiding Principles for Advocating for Political Science Thursday, October 23, 2025 | 2:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. ET  Free Registration Join us for a training webinar on how you can be a more effective advocate for political science. Whether you are advocating from home, or making plans to advocate on Capitol Hill, this webinar aims to equip attendees with the necessary tools to advocate for research and education in support of the discipline of political science and to demystify the process of communicating with legislators and other decision-makers.

Traceability and Mass Policy Feedback Effects By Brian T. Hamel, University of North Texas Theory suggests that policy benefits delivered directly by government are most likely to affect the voting behavior of beneficiaries. Nearly every empirical study, however, analyzes a policy or program that meets this criterion. To address this limitation, I compare the electoral impacts of two New Deal-era employment programs—the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Public Works Administration (PWA)—which differed primarily in their traceability to government.

The APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship’s primary goal is to encourage and support the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure track junior faculty). Grants for the 2025 cycle were made to those individuals whose purposes most clearly match the goals of the Fund, and whose proposals most persuasively demonstrate capacity for successful completion.

By Michelle D. Deardorff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Allison Rank, University of Northern Iowa In late July, twelve political science educators gathered online to reflect on the challenge of teaching introductory American government courses at a time when trust in institutions is eroding, students’ habits around reading and participation are shifting, and faculty face new state mandates on required texts and assessments.

Citizens’ Preferences for Multidimensional Representation By Jack Blumenau, University College London, Fabio Wolkenstein, and Christopher Wratil, University of Vienna How do citizens want to be represented in politics? We investigate citizens’ multidimensional preferences regarding six conceptions of representation that are derived from political theory. Using original item batteries and a conjoint experiment, we elicit the relative importance of the dimensions and the types of representation people prefer on each dimension.

The 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, “Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times,” was held September 11–14, 2025, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This year, over 5,000 political scientists, scholars, and experts, along with more than 300 online participants, came together to share ideas, research, and innovations in the field. The meeting provided a vibrant space for advancing Civically-Engaged Research (CER) and highlighted the growing impact of community-centered approaches in political science.

Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline By Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University From 1965 to 2020, the National Science Foundation constituted the single largest funding source for political science research. As such, the NSF played a central role in defining the cutting-edge of our discipline. This study draws on historical records of the American Political Science Association to examine the political and administrative contexts that shaped the funding priorities of the NSF Political Science Program.

Applications are now open for the 2026-2027 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program! The fall application cycle provides financial support to undergraduate seniors, recent graduates, or other individuals who are currently in the process of applying to political science PhD programs for Fall 2026 admission. Fellows will receive $5000, disbursed over two years. Applications are due on October 26, 2025. Completed applications will include:

Varieties of State-Building: Ecology, Clientelism, and Bureaucratic Rule in Chile By Maximiliano Véjares, Johns Hopkins University Current research suggests that all states share a perpetual appetite for extraction and standardization. However, this research overlooks the fact that subnational regions present different appeals and challenges to ruling coalitions. While states seek to extend bureaucratic rule over peripheries with valuable assets and favorable geography, they might instead seek to preserve local patrimonial bastions when those areas offer substantial electoral support.

LGBTQ+ Victimization by Extremist Organizations: Charting a New Path for Research By Jared R. Dmello, The University of Adelaide, Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko, Georgia State University  Anti-LGBTQ+ narratives are deployed by extremist groups with contrasting ideologies, from Jihadis to right-wing extremists and QAnon to Incels (involuntary celibates). Using these different movements as case studies, this article highlights the convergence of ideologically conflicting extremist organizations around antiqueer sentiment.

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APSA is accepting applications to join the seventh cohort of the Public Scholarship Program fellows. This program offers remote part-time fellowships that introduces graduate students to the…

Multidimensional Diversity and Research Impact in Political Science: What 50 Years of Bibliometric Data Tell Us By Yuner Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University and Edmund W. Cheng, City University of Hong Kong We examine the changing patterns of knowledge production and diffusion in political science over the past five decades using a dataset of over 200,000 SSCI-indexed research articles from 1970 to 2020.

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A Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments By Joan Barceló, Christopher Paik, Peter van der Windt and Haoyu Zhai, New York University Abu Dhabi This article provides a global ranking of research productivity of political science departments. We collected data on 115,427 articles and 12,696 books—written in both English and other languages—from 5,586 faculty members in 178 departments in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and Africa.