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However, those with higher GPAs and political science majors improve more than others.
We conclude that Australian political science is strong where it has a long-standing engagement with the international political science community (for example, in international relations); where it regularly interacts with Australian government priorities (for example, in public administration); and where it involves the larger community (for example, public intellectuals).
We are convinced that the content of a political science course is well suited to develop student writing skills.
In particular, given the existence of our open and accessible political system, we argue that the introductory course taught as a general education requirement by nearly every political science department provides unique advantages for political science to justify itself as a relevant and necessary endeavor in comparison with most other academic disciplines.
Furthermore, the recent political pressure for political science programs to demonstrate their public worth might be alleviated by the scholarship in teaching and learning, which is more understandable to the public than traditional non-SoTL work.
The results suggest that PBL should be considered as a viable pedagogical tool in political science.
The author would show that the political scientist is not sufficiently aware of what science qua natural science has done since the 16th century; that such an awareness is desirable at both the practical and theoretical levels of political enquiry; and that our colleges are capable of providing such an awareness, although they do not presently do so.
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.
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01 Apr 2000
30 Citations
Further, it can also provide the foundation for a truly interdisciplinary social science, an explicit aim of the new political economy.
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Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger 
01 Jan 1994
499 Citations
It is an important addition to political science and essential reading for all in that discipline.