Campus Units
Political Science
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2002
Journal or Book Title
PS: Political Science & Politics
Volume
35
Issue
4
First Page
751
Last Page
755
DOI
10.1017/S1049096502001324
Abstract
Scores of studies have measured the quality of political science departments. Generally speaking, these studies have taken two forms. Many have relied on scholars' survey responses to construct rankings of the major departments. For example, almost 50 years ago Keniston (1957) interviewed 25 department chairpersons and asked them to assess the quality of various programs, and, much more recently, the National Research Council (NRC 1995) asked 100 political scientists to rate the “scholarly quality of program faculty” in the nation's political science doctoral departments. In response to these opinion-based rankings, a number of researchers have developed what they claim to be more objective measures of department quality based on the research productivity of the faculty (Ballard and Mitchell 1998; Miller, Tien, and Peebler 1996; Robey 1979). While department rankings using these two methods are often similar, there are always noteworthy differences and these have generated an additional literature that explores the relationship between the rating systems (Garand and Graddy 1999; Jackman and Siverson 1996; Katz and Eagles 1996; Miller, Tien, and Peebler 1996).
Copyright Owner
Cambridge University Press
Copyright Date
2002
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Rice, Tom W.; McCormick, James M.; and Bergmann, Benjamin D., "Graduate Training, Current Affiliation and Publishing Books in Political Science" (2002). Political Science Publications. 26.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/pols_pubs/26
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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Higher Education Commons, Political Science Commons
Comments
This is an article from PS: Political Science & Politics 35 (2002): 751, doi:10.1017/S1049096502001324. Posted with permission.