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Nevertheless, their overview represents an American view of political science, which is hardly surprising as more than 75 per cent of living political scientists are American.
Political science should draw upon other disciplines and subdisciplines such as political psychology, cultural studies, rhetorical analysis, and social anthropology in order to understand how mediated relationships are inscribed into political institutions and exchange.
Women now receive political science degrees in record numbers, but female representation among political science faculty still lags behind that of many other disciplines.
Political science majors have relatively high unemployment rates in their 20s, however, and may end up in very different occupations than they imagined when they chose political science.
It is also argued that metrics-led assessment subjects political science to ‘Gradgrinding’ on two fronts: that political science departments amount to less than the sum of their parts, and the audit culture strips the discipline of its humanism.
This is striking, given the deep political divides that exist between groups of individuals described in the political science literature.
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And I contend that the political project requires no more than what other academic fields even in science studies are already providing.
Such a genuinely interdisciplinary collaboration between political science and psychology could result in a theory of political decision-making which truly belongs in the realm of political cognition.
This essay argues that political science today needs to give higher priority to studies of the processes, especially the political processes, through which conceptions of political membership, allegiance, and identity are formed and transformed.
Thus, how a political science major is structured is posited to be related to student learning.