http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ TT or not TT, VAP is the question. en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:04:46 +0000 http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25842#post-228907 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:44:14 +0000 Anonymous 228907@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>So I've been collecting positions to apply to over the last 6 weeks or so, and I was finally going to start applying to a few this morning. I poured myself a cup of coffee and I pulled out my spreadsheet and set aside about 5 positions with the closest deadlines. And lo and behold, the first 2 I looked at appear to have been withdrawn already. They were supposed to be online applications, but now they have just vanished from their respective university websites. WTF? Have these lines been pulled already? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25818#post-228335 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:53:40 +0000 Anonymous 228335@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>My guess is yes. I think that if the GOP re-takes either the House or the Senate, a lot of less quantitatively-oriented and more ideological profs in the discipline will start blaming "backlash" by whites against having a black president. Cynthia Tucker of the AJC isn't a political scientist but don't be shocked if you hear some political scientists take this one and run with it:</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2010/09/03/summer-of-discontent-backlash-to-the-browning-of-america/?cxntfid=blogs_cynthia_tucker" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2010/09/03/summer-of-discontent-backlash-to-the-browning-of-america/?cxntfid=blogs_cynthia_tucker</a> </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25834#post-228721 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:43:53 +0000 Anonymous 228721@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>How do you manage to deal with the backwards, conservative, and often redneck population in these small towns? I'm about to shoot myself, which would make some of you happy since it would add a job to the market. </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=9082#post-59969 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:54:33 +0000 Anonymous 59969@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>I can't stand all the bovine threads anymore. So what is the lamest thing seen in a cover letter? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25805#post-228018 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:21:47 +0000 Anonymous 228018@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>The Council voted this week to NOT hold the 2011 conference in San Francisco. Where do people think it will be? Hoping not Philadelphia. </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25853#post-229088 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:39:53 +0000 Anonymous 229088@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>I mean you, the guy who started saying "what are the optics...". I'm going to find you and shit down your throat. Right after the guy who suggested that APSA be in Tulsa next year, and the guy who asked about UC faculty members sitting in first class. </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25854#post-229094 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:47:16 +0000 Anonymous 229094@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>APSA's impending decision to move the annual meeting from SF again reminds us that the APSA council is not entirely an empty forum for paper-pushing and nest-feathering. The Perestroika! movement nominates an alternative slate every year now, and they do relatively well. But it's clear that the official APSA slate and the Perestroika! slate both have the same PC ethos and pursue their personal politics with association money. Therefore, the vast majority of us who do not support this kind of activity need an alternative slate to be nominated. The key decision is made at the agenda setting stage. </p> <p>We need to strategize about organizations that have the presence to get a nominated slate together. Polmeth? The political networks association? Other ideas? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25849#post-229035 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:48:29 +0000 Anonymous 229035@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>is it still in existence?<br /> where? how? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25844#post-228955 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:28:40 +0000 Anonymous 228955@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Some people talk about using their research accounts to buy their own books. How common is this? Thanks for sharing your thoughts/experiences. </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25483#post-221317 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:12:16 +0000 Anonymous 221317@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Shuttling between home and conferences, or just for traveling for leisure, which are the best and worst airlines that you have experienced? Domestic or international. </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=24598#post-202894 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:51:52 +0000 Anonymous 202894@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Whither Perestroika? Was s/he ever unmasked? Do they still have APSA receptions, and is their email list still up and running? Or did they prematurely declare victory and fold when PoPs dethroned the APSR, when they got someone elected to the APSA board, or when Monroe’s book came out? Is there no other organized group of humanist scholars who contests the continued quantification (and formalization) of the discipline? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25848#post-229026 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:02:39 +0000 Anonymous 229026@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Check out the link:</p> <p><a href="http://www.southerndecadence.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.southerndecadence.net/</a></p> <p>I wonder if all these people were wondered about not being covered by insurance in their travels since it's a SUPERDOMA state? Further, this link should shut up all the idiots clamoring about intolerance in NOLA. </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25850#post-229061 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:59:05 +0000 Anonymous 229061@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Head of Department and 2nd Chair in Politics has unexpectedly retired effective immediately. Job not yet advertised but probably will be a job opening in Politics. Previous specialisation was Interest Groups and American Politics.</p> <p>Watch abdn.ac.uk/jobs </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25843#post-228934 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:48:19 +0000 Anonymous 228934@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>While you were freezing your asses up in Washington, I was enjoying my majoto in the SOuth Beach. Why?</p> <p>Because only losers interview. Good candidates get invited for fly-outs without all that interview crap.</p> <p>My advisor is placing me "privately."</p> <p>Flying to Duke, Yale, NYU, MIT in 2 weeks.</p> <p>I feel sorry for you guys. You are paying the price for your laziness and stupiditiy.</p> <p>So long, morons, </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25852#post-229079 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:27:43 +0000 Anonymous 229079@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>I'm a fairly new PhD student, and a lot of emphasis is placed on the subfields you choose for your generals, the courses you take, etc. Does any of this really matter on the job market, or is it primarily based on your disseration/research?</p> <p>For instance, if I'm an IR person, is there any job-related benefit to taking comparative classes or the comparative comp exam as well? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25790#post-227588 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:42:58 +0000 Anonymous 227588@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>This in the next APSR: "In their article in the February 2010 issue of APSR, Jens Hainmueller and Michael J. Hiscox (2010) asserted that they had “conducted a unique survey experiment that, for the first time, explicitly and separately examine[d] individuals’ attitudes toward highly skilled and low-skilled immigrants.” That claim was in error. A prior survey experiment, also published in the American Political Science Review, in February 2004, examined attitudes toward highly skilled and low-skilled immigrants in the Netherlands and assigned respondents randomly to alternative questions (Sniderman, Hagendoorn, and Prior 2004)."</p> <p>My question: with two authors, a room full of editors and editorial assistants, and at least three reviewers, how does no one catch this prior to publication? It's not like the 2004 piece was in some obscure outlet. Does no one read? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25851#post-229066 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:06:55 +0000 Anonymous 229066@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Head of Department and 2nd Chair in Politics has unexpectedly retired effective immediately. Job not yet advertised but probably will be a job opening in Politics. Previous specialisation was Interest Groups and American Politics.</p> <p>Watch abdn.ac.uk/jobs </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=24447#post-200109 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:36:41 +0000 Anonymous 200109@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Can we discuss this country and its universities in a professional and mature manner, please? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25830#post-228522 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:34:41 +0000 Anonymous 228522@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>On my flight home from APSA I saw a UC faculty member flying first class. I flew coach. Given the dire financial straits of California and the UC system, is this an inappropriate choice? I can't imagine local newspapers would treat this kindly. </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25431#post-219948 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:32:58 +0000 franklin 219948@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Does anyone know what this extremely broad job posting at U.C. Berkeley's Goldman School is really looking for?</p> <p><a href="http://gspp.berkeley.edu/academics/faculty/docs/facultyopening2010.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://gspp.berkeley.edu/academics/faculty/docs/facultyopening2010.pdf</a> </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=19464#post-102247 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:19:16 +0000 Anonymous 102247@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>I heard at one point that Ohio State would advertise up to two lines this year. Likely, baloney, but can anyone with knowledge on this comment? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25815#post-228259 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:15:18 +0000 Anonymous 228259@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Does anybody know when we should find out if ISA abstracts were accepted for the Montreal conference? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25847#post-228991 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:10:09 +0000 Anonymous 228991@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>Penn has an IPE job this year. Any idea what they are looking for? </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25692#post-225631 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:58:25 +0000 Anonymous 225631@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/opinion/28ornstein.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/opinion/28ornstein.html</a> </p> http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=25841#post-228892 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:14:36 +0000 Anonymous 228892@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ <p>delicate problem: what do you do if a student with (mental) disability keeps on making corrections in a large lecture class</p> <p>serious question, not a troll </p>