Navigating the Profession: Sage Advice from the Pages of PS

Introduction

Kent Worcester, guest editor

Political Science as a Vocation

Robert O. Keohane

Restructuring the Social Sciences: Reflections from Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Gary King

Restructuring the Social Sciences? A Reflection from the Editor of Perspectives on Politics

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Diversifying the Academy: How Conservative Academics Can Thrive in Liberal Academia

Robert Maranto and Matthew Woessner

Doing a Literature Review

Jeffrey W. Knopf

How To Be a Peer Reviewer: A Guide for Recent and Soon-to-be PhDs

Beth Miller, Jon Pevehouse, Ron Rogowski, Dustin Tingley, and Rick Wilson

Publishing as a Graduate Student: A Quick and (Hopefully) Painless Guide to Establishing Yourself as a Scholar

Timothy S. Rich

Asking Questions: Techniques for Semistructured Interviews

Beth L. Leech

Fieldwork in Political Science: Encountering Challenges and Crafting Solutions: Introduction

Roselyn Hsueh, Francesca Refsum Jensenius, and Akasemi Newsome, guest editors

Navigating Fieldwork as an Outsider: Observations from Interviewing Police Officers in China

Suzanne E. Scoggins

Positionality, Personal Insecurity, and Female Empathy in Security Studies Research

Vasundhara Sirnate

The Fieldwork of Quantitative Data Collection

Francesca Refsum Jensenius

Data Collection, Opportunity Costs, and Problem Solving: Lessons from Field Research on Teachers’ Unions in Latin America

Christopher Chambers-Ju

Knowing When to Scale Back: Addressing Questions of Research Scope in the Field

Akasemi Newsome

Confronting a Crisis of Research Design

Jody LaPorte

The Political Scientist as a Blogger

John Sides

Complicating the Political Scientist as Blogger

Robert Farley

An Interesting Bias: Lessons from an Academic’s Year as a Reporter

David Niven

Scientific Literacy in Undergraduate Political Science Education: The Current State of Affairs, an Agenda for Action, and Proposed Fundamental Benchmarks

Kim Quaile Hill and Rebekah Myers

Political Science Journals in Comparative Perspective: Evaluating Scholarly Journals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom

James C. Garand, Micheal W. Giles, André Blais, and Iain McLean

Gender and Journal Authorship in Eight Prestigious Political Science Journals

Marijke Breuning and Kathryn Sanders

Chapters, Volumes, Editors! Oh My! Reassessing the Role of Edited Volumes in the Social Sciences

David L. Leal

How We Write: Understanding Scholarly Writing through Metaphor

Michelle Boyd