Symposia

Putting Portugal and Spain into the Political Science Curriculum, Bonnie Field, Kerstin Hamann, Paul Heywood, Candice Orbalts, Sebastian Royo, and Mark Rush

2008 and Beyond: The Future of Election Reform in the States, Lonna Rae Atkeson, Barry C. Burden, Bruce E. Cain, Todd Donovan, Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum, Paul Gronke, Thad Hall, Kenneth R. Mayer, Michael P. McDonald, Peter A. Miller, Quin Monson, Kelly Patterson, Kyle L. Saunders, Caroline Tolbert, and Timothy Werner

Features

Putting the Party Back into Politics: An Experiment Testing Whether Election Day Festivals Increase Voter Turnout, Donald Green, Elizabeth Addonizio, and James Glaser

Process Tracing and Elite Interviewing: A Case for Non-probability Sampling, Oisin Tansey

The Profession

Social Networks in Political Science: Hiring and Placement of Ph.D.s, 1960–2002, James Fowler, Bernard Grofman, and Natalie Masuoka

The Chicago School that Never Was, Michael Heaney

Faculty Training in Political Science: Results from a Survey of Department Chairs, John Rothgeb, Annemarie Spadafore, and Betsy Burger

The Teacher

Connecting Students to Politics Through a Multi-class Simulation, Mack Mariani

War & Peace: Security Decision Making in the Classroom, Michael Kanner

Effective Teaching and Learning in Introductory Political Theory: It All Starts with Challenging and Engaging Assigned Readings, Joel Kassiola