Department of Politics at Princeton University

Dept. of Politics Job Market Handbook

Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller, The Academic Job Search Handbook

Paul Gray and David Drew, What They Didn’t Teaching You in Graduate School

John A. Goldsmith, et al., A Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career

 

Jon Gould and Scott Keeter, “No Second Chance at Making a Good Impression: Peril and Possibility in the Campus Visit,” PS 36 (2003): 791

Robert Axelrod, “Tips for an Academic Job Talk,” PS 18 (1985): 612

A. Wuffle, “Uncle Wuffle’s Advice on Job Talks,” PS 39 (2006): 883

Ron Hassner, “Trial by Fire: Surviving the Job Talk Q&A,” PS 41 (2008): 803

 

Richard Fox, “Developing a Dissertation Prospectus,” PS 34 (2001): 849

Peter May, “Constructing the Prospectus,” PS 34 (2001): 843

Sara Benesh, “The Key to a Successful Prospectus,” PS 34 (2001): 853

Jeffrey Knopf, “Doing a Literature Review,” PS 39 (2006): 127

                                                                                                             

Robin Derricourt, An Author’s Guide to Scholarly Publishing

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book

Symposium: A Guide to Publishing Your First Book, PS 38 (2005): 745

Sandy Thatcher, “Dissertations into Books? The Lack of Logic in the System,” Against the Grain (April 2007): 76 (www.against-the-grain.com)

Charles T. Myers, “A Short Tour of Book Publishing for Political Scientists,” PS (2004): 489

Cambridge University Press, Guidelines for the Manuscript Reader

Cambridge University Press, Editorial Procedures

Required Readings: APSA Guide to Professional Ethics, Rights and Freedoms http://www.apsanet.org/media/PDFs/ethicsguideweb.pdf

APSA Style Manual http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPSA.html

Princeton guide to academic integrity http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/intro/index.htm

Princeton academic regulations in Rights, Rules and Responsibilities

 

John Hardwig, “The Role of Trust in Knowledge,” The Journal of Philosophy 88 (1991): 693

J. Couzin, “Truth and consequences: After making a difficult decision to turn in their advisor for scientific misconduct, a group of graduate students is trying to recover,” Science 313 (2006): 1222-1226.

C Raymond, “Allegations of plagiarism of scientific manuscript raise concerns about intellectual theft,” Chronicle of Higher Education , July 19, 1989.

Chronicle of Higher Education Special Report on Plagiarism, December 17, 2004

Ben R. Martin, “Keeping Plagiarism at Bay – A Salutary Tale,” Research Policy 36 (2007): 905

Kevin T. McGuire, “There Was a Crooked Man(uscript): A Not-So-Serious Look at the Serious Subject of Plagarism,” PS 43 (2010): 107

Miguel Roig, “Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing,” http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/plagiarism/

Daniel Hemel and Lauren Schuker, “Prof Admits to Misusing Source,” Harvard Crimson, September 27, 2004 http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/9/27/prof-admits-to-misusing-source-harvard/

David Henige, “Discouraging Verification: Citation Practices across the Disciplines,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 37 (2006): 99.

Richard Van Noorden, "Political Science's Problem with Research Ethics," Nature (June 29, 2015) http://www.nature.com/news/political-science-s-problem-with-research-ethics-1.17866    

 

 

Required Reading:

Charles Lindblom, “Another State of Mind,” APSR 76 (1982): 9

Rogers Smith, “Political Science and the Public Sphere in the 21^st Century,” Public Sphere Forum (2011) http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/smith-political-science-and-the-public-sphere/

 

Robert Dahl, “The Behavioral Approach in Political Science: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Protest,” APSR 55 (1961): 763

Theodore Lowi, “The State in Political Science: How We Became What We Study,” APSR 86 (1992): 1

Rogers Smith, “Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political Science,” Daedalus 126 (1997): 253

Robert Putnam, “The Public Role of Political Science,” Perspectives on Politics 1 (2003): 249

Jonathan Cohn, “Irrational Exuberance,” The New Republic (Oct. 25, 1999): 25

Jeffrey Isaac, “Social Science and Liberal Values in a Time of War,” Perspectives on Politics 2 (2004): 475

Wilson Carey McWilliams, “Political Arts and Political Sciences,” in Power and Community, ed. Philip Green and Sanford Levinson (New York: Random House, 1969).

Sheldon Wolin, “Political Theory as a Vocation,” APSR 63 (1969): 1062

James Bryce, “The Relations of Political Science to History and to Practice,” APSR 3 (1909): 1

Gabriel Almond, “Separate Tables: Schools and Sects in Political Science,” PS 21 (1988): 828

Raymond Seidelman with Edward Harpham, Disenchanted Realists

James W. Ceaser, Liberal Democracy & Political Science

 

Required Reading:

 Sandra Stith, et al., “Student-Faculty Collaborative Research,” Family Relations 41 (1992): 470

John M. Braxton, Alan E. Bayer, and Martin J. Finkelstein, “Teaching Performance Norms in Academia,” Research in Higher Education 33 (1992): 533

 

Bill Williamson, “(Ab)using Students: The Ethics of Faculty Use of a Student’s Work Product,” Arizona State Law Journal 26 (1994): 1029

Sandip Patel, “Graduate Students’ Ownership and Attribution Rights in Intellectual Property,” Indiana Law Journal 71 (1995): 481

 “A Feminist Perspective on Graduate Student-Advisor Relationships,” Feminist Teacher 10 (1996): 17

Edward Tenner, “The Pitfalls of Academic Mentorships,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2004

John M. Braxton, Alan E. Bayer, and James A. Noseworthy, “Students as Tenuous Agents of Social Control of Professorial Misconduct,” Peabody Journal of Education 77 (2002): 101.

Joanne Jones and Gary Spraakman, “A Case of Academic Misconduct: Does Self-Interest Rule?” Accounting Perspectives 10 (2011): 1.

Patricia Keith-Spiegel, et al., The Ethics of Teaching (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002).

Readings: Ellis Sandoz, “The National Endowment for the Humanities and Political Science after 25 Years,” PS 23 (1990): 455

Christian Davenport, et al., “Political Science at the NSF,” PS 33 (2000): 895

Anne Moffat, “Grantsmanship: What Makes Proposals Work?” Science 265 (1994): 1921 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2884681

Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon, The Art of Writing Proposals: Some Candid Suggestions for Applicants to Social Science Research Council Competitions (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1998). http://www.ssrc.org/publications/view/7A9CB4F4-815F-DE11-BD80-001CC477EC70/

Grant Proposal Handout http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/grant_proposals.html

Required Reading:

Catherine Lutz, David Engerman, David Nugent, Ron Rubin and Conor Gearty on the Minerva Project at http://essays.ssrc.org/minerva/category/all-essays/

 

Ithiel De Sola Pool, “The necessity for social scientists doing research for governments,” in The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot, ed. Horowitz (1967)

Elizabeth Redden, “Return to Sender,” Inside Higher Ed (Feb. 22, 2016) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/22/uc-irvine-moves-reject-endowed-chair-gifts-donor-strong-opinions-about-study  
Josh Logue, “Unstaged,” Inside Higher Ed (Feb. 22, 2016) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/22/oklahoma-state-professor-says-play-censored-over-transgender-identity-themes 
Mark Solovey, Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America
Richard Munch, Academic Capitalism: Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence
 

 

 

Shareen Hertel, et al., “Field Research in Developing Countries: Hitting the Road Running,” PS 42 (2009): 305

Joan Cassell, “Ethical Principles for Conducting Fieldwork,” American Anthropologist 82 (1980): 28

 

Further Reading:

Laura Woliver, “Ethical Dilemmas in Personal Interviewing,” PS 34 (2002): 677

James Carroll, “Confidentiality of Social Science Research Sources and Data: The Popkin Case,” PS 6 (1973): 268

Shareen Hertel, et al., “Field Research in Developing Countries: Hitting the Road Running,” PS 42 (2009): 305

Elisabeth Jean Wood, “Field Research,” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics

Sheila Carapico, “No Easy Answers: The Ethics of Field Research in the Arab World,” PS 39 (2006): 429

Caleb Wall and John Overton, “Unethical Ethics? Applying Research Ethics in Uzbekistan,” Development in Practice 16 (2006): 62 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4029860

Erica Townsend-Bell, “Being True and Being You: Race, Gender, Class, and the Fieldwork Experience,” PS 42 (2009): 311

Carl Schneider, The Censor’s Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research
Robert Klitzman, The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe
Gina Perry, Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments
A.G. Miller, The Obedience Experiments: A Case Study of Controversy in Social Science
 

CITI Online Training Module (complete the certification) https://www.princeton.edu/ria/human-research-protection/training/

Princeton University Institutional Review Board (look at Questionnaire A and B) http://www.princeton.edu/orpa/irb.htm

 

Philip Hamburger, “Getting Permission,” Northwestern University Law Review 101 (2007) 405

Judith Jarvis Tomson, et al., “Research on Human Subjects: Academic Freedom and the Institutional Review Board,” Academe 92 (2006): 95. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40253500

Kevin Haggerty, “Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics,” Qualitative Sociology 27 (2004): 391 http://www.springerlink.com/content/p802537wh2112r31/

B. Bozeman and P. Hirsch, “Science Ethics as a Bureaucratic Problem: IRBs, Rules, and Failures of Control,” Policy Sciences 38 (2006): 269 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4532668

Susan Fiske, “Institutional Review Boards: From Bane to Benefit,” Perspectives on Psychological Science 4 (2008): 30 http://pps.sagepub.com/content/4/1/30.full

Mitchell Seligson, “Human Subjects Protection and Large-N Research: When Exempt is Non-Exempt and Research is Non-Research,” PS 41 (2008): 477

Office for Human Research Protections (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/)

Michael Zimmer, “But the Data is Already Public: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook,” Ethics of Information Technology 12 (2010): 313 http://www.springerlink.com/content/q1v7731u26210682/

John Kifner, “Scholar Sets of Gastronomic False Alarm,” NY Times (Sept. 8, 2001)

Testing the Limits to the Responsiveness to Authority http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GxIuljT3w

Adam Hedgecoe, “Reputational Risk, Academic Freedom, and Research Ethics Review,” Sociology (2015): 1.
Zachary M. Schrag, Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965-2009

 

Required Reading:

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/08/advice-to-young-scholars

Robert George, “Shameless Acts Revisited,” Academic Questions 9 (1996): 24 http://www.springerlink.com/content/81383l4002051660/

Randall Kennedy, “Reconstruction and the Politics of Scholarship,” Yale L. Journal 98 (1989): 521 (READ 538n70 ONLY) http://www.jstor.org/stable/796628?seq=18

 Howard Becker, “Whose Side Are We On?” Social Problems 14 (1967): 239

Christian Bay, “Politics and Pseudopolitics: A Critical Evaluation of Some Behavioral Literature,” APSR 59 (1965): 39

Ernest Wilson, “Is There Really a Scholar-Practitioner Gap? An Institutional Analysis,” PS 40 (2007): 147

Lawrence Jacobs and Theda Skocpol, “Restoring the Tradition of Rigor and Relevance to Political Science,” PS 39 (2006): 27.

Tony Robinson, “Service Learning as Justice Advocacy: Can Political Scientists Do Politics?” PS 33 (2000): 605.

Brief of 281 American Historians, Public Historian 12 (1990): 57 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3378199

John Finnis, “Shameless Acts in Colorado,” Academic Questions 7 (1994) 10. http://www.springerlink.com/content/l551247650j05670/

Martha Nussbaum, “Platonic Law and Colorado Law,” Virginia L. Review 80 (1994): 1515

Robert George, “Shameless Acts Revisited,” Academic Questions 9 (1996): 24

http://www.springerlink.com/content/81383l4002051660/

Randall Kennedy, “Reconstruction and the Politics of Scholarship,” Yale L. Journal 98 (1989): 521 http://www.jstor.org/stable/796628

Haskell and Levinson, “Academic Freedom and Expert Witnesses,” Texas Law Review 66 (1988): 1629

Alice Kessler-Harris, “Academic Freedom and Expert Witnessing: A Response,” Texas Law Review 67 (1988): 429

Required Reading:

John Kekes, “Academic Corruption,” Monist 79 (1996): 564

A. Wuffle, “Uncle Wuffle’s Advice to the Assistant Professor,” PS 26 (1993): 89

http://www.jstor.org/stable/419515

 

Craig Lambert, “The Wild West of Academic Publishing,” Harvard Magazine (January-February 2015) http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/01/the-wild-west-of-academic-publishing

Kathleen Hancock and Matthew Baum, “Women and Academic Publishing,” International Studies Perspectives (2013) https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/mbaum/documents/IntStudPers2013.pdf 

Eugene Matusov and Robert Hampel, “Two Approaches to Tenure and Promotion Criteria,” Academe 94 (2008): 37

David Pontille and Didier Torny, “The Controversial Policies of Journal Ratings: Evaluating Social Sciences and Humanities,” Research Evaluation 19 (2010): 347

Diane Paul, “The Market as Censor,” PS 21 (1988): 31

Chris Harrison, “Peer Review, Politics, and Pluralism,” Environmental Science & Policy 7 (2004): 357

Elisabeth Clemens, et al., “Careers in Print: Books, Journals, and Scholarly Reputations,” American Journal of Sociology 101 (1995): 433

Donald Brenneis, “Discourse and Discipline at the National Research Council: A Bureaucratic Bildungsroman,” Cultural Anthropology 9 (1994): 23

Lutz Bornmann, “Scientific Peer Review,” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 45 (2010)

Von Bakanic, et al., “Mixed Messages: Referees’ Comments on the Manuscripts They Review,” Sociological Quarterly 30 (1989): 639

Joshua Guetzkow, et al. “What is Originality in the Humanities and the Social Sciences?” American Sociological Review 69 (2004): 190

Thom Brooks, “Guidelines on How to Referee,” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1719043

Richard L. Simpson, “The Ethical Responsibilities of Referees,” American Sociologist 21 (1990): 80

Marcia Lynn Whicker, et al., Getting Tenure

Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd D.W. Goodwin, The Academic’s Handbook

Joanne E. Cooper and Dannelle D. Stevens, Tenure in the Sacred Grove

Anonymous and Anonymous, “Tenure in a Chilly Climate,” PS 32 (1999): 91 http://www.jstor.org/stable/420756

John M. Rothgeb Jr. and Betsy Burger, “Tenure Standards in Political Science Departments: Results from a Survey of Department Chairs,” PS 42 (2009): 513 

Kay Lehman Schlozman, “External Reviews in Tenure and Promotions Decisions: How Does the Process Work? How Should It?,” PS 31 (1998): 623 http://www.jstor.org/stable/420625

Cameron Thies, “Reflections on Assuming Administrative Responsibilities as an Untenured Assistant Professor,” PS 36 (2003): 447

Cynthia L. Harter, et al., “Changing Incentives and Time Allocations for Academic Economists: Results from 1995 and 2000 National Surveys,” Journal of Economic Education 35 (2004): 89.

 

 

John Swales and Christine Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students

Derek Soles, The Essentials of Academic Writing

Wendy Laura Belcher, Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks

Rowena Murray, Writing for Academic Journals