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“Wow, I Didn’t Know These Options Existed”: Understanding Tenure-Track Start-Up Packages | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
At the time of hire into tenure-track jobs, some faculty, but not all, receive offers with attached benefits intended to attract them to the position and provide them the resources they need as they work toward tenure. In the process of surveying assistant professors in the summer of 2020 to understand more about research funding, it became clear that many new faculty in political science do not know the degree to which packages vary by institution and offer.
Local Political Institutions and First-Mover Policy Responses to COVID-19
Export citation Select the format to use for exporting the citation. Close Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy > Vol 1 > Issue 4 Local Political Institutions and First-Mover Policy Responses to COVID-19 Mirya R. Holman, Tulane University, USA, mholman@tulane.edu Emily M. Farris, Texas Christian University, USA, e.farris@tcu.edu Jane Lawrence Sumner, University of Minnesota, USA, jlsumner@umn.edu Suggested Citation Mirya R. Holman, Emily M.
Extra, Extra, Reddit All About it: What Reddit can Teach us About Local Politics
Abstract Although local government is a rich, important arena for understanding politics, local politics presents a few challenges for understanding and participating in it. To better explore comparative urban politics, we turn to reddit, a social media, news, and discussion platform. We ask if city subreddits are places of discussion of local politics and what can we learn about the salience of local topics, and about local politics, from the content of these subreddits.
Maura McNiel, longtime leader of the Dallas feminist movement, dies at 99
Feminism was still a dirty word in macho Texas when Maura McNiel, wife, mother, Sunday school teacher and community volunteer, dared to speak up for women’s rights. An irresistible force with stamina, brains and winning ways, McNiel would go on to lead the Dallas feminist movement for more than 20 years.
Gender, seniority, and self-citation practices in political science
Abstract Many studies in political science and other disciplines show that published research by women is cited less often than research by male peers in the same discipline. While previous studies have suggested that self-citation practices may explain the gender citation gap in political science, few studies have evaluated whether men and women self-cite at different rates.
Offshore production's effect on Americans’ attitudes toward trade
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Crowdsourcing Reliable Local Data
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You Research Like a Girl: Gendered Research Agendas and Their Implications | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Bittner, Amanda, and Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth. 2017. “Sex Isn’t Gender: Reforming Concepts and Measurements in the Study of Public Opinion.” Political Behavior 39 (4): 1019–41. Breuning, Marijke, and Lu, Kelan. 2010. “Participation by Women in ISA Annual Meetings, 2005–2009.” International Studies Perspectives 11 (3): 242–54. Breuning, Marijke, and Sanders, Kathryn. 2007. “Gender and Journal Authorship in Eight Prestigious Political Science Journals.” PS: Political Science & Politics 40 (2): 347–51.
Gendered Citation Patterns across Political Science and Social Science Methodology Fields
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'We Are All Shipwrecks' is a dazzling debut
When she was 3 weeks old, Kelly's mother left her in a pulled-out drawer in a Hollywood motel and went off to turn a trick to pay the rent. The next day, her mother's beaten and strangled body was found on a hillside just off Sunset Boulevard. Carlisle writes with a clear eye and sensitivity of all the people who in ways large and small took care of her as a child — their personalities, circumstances and neuroses. And with a palpable sense of time and place, she puts us in the picture.
Quitting globalization: trade-related job losses, nationalism, and resistance to FDI in the United States
1. Introduction Jensen and Malesky (Reference Jensen and Malesky2018) demonstrate that politicians can benefit from providing incentives to attract business investment. Voters reward politicians who try to create jobs and offering those incentives signals to voters that they are doing so. We expand on this insight to consider that not all firms' investments are likely to be equally embraced.
More than just another funny face-lift: New Joan Rivers bio tells her full story | Books | Dallas News
For women competing in a male-dominated world — where, as she said, a single woman at 30 was "an old maid" while a single man at 90 was "a catch" — Rivers is a role model for stamina, perseverance and endurance. If you've read Rivers' autobiography Enter Talking, about the years she spent playing coffee houses and strip clubs before her 1965 breakout appearance on The Tonight Show, you already know something of her life.
Bill Wittliff, a Texan's Texan, steps into 'The Devil's Sinkhole' | Books | Dallas News
Art is hardly the norm in today's fiction, but Wittliff remembered the striking N.C. Wyeth illustrations in books like Treasure Island he loved as a boy and thought his old-timey tales deserved them, too. He was right. Like The Devil's Backbone, named for a scenic, and some say haunted, limestone ridge that runs from Wimberley to Blanco, The Devil's Sinkhole also involves a Hill Country geological landmark.
Paulette Jiles’ haunting, gritty Texas novel makes news as a National Book Award finalist | Books | Dallas News
Enter 6-foot-tall, white-haired Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a 70-year-old retired army captain, veteran of two wars and a widower with two grown daughters. At one time he had been a printer in San Antonio, but the war took his press and everything else. Now he drifts around from town to town in North Texas reading aloud from East Coast newspapers to audiences, mostly men and mostly white, in halls or churches for a dime a head.
Paulette Jiles’ haunting, gritty Texas novel is making national news | Books | Dallas News
If you've never read a Paulette Jiles novel, you have a treat in store. Expect lyrical language, characters you will cherish and a sense of time and place you can see, hear and smell. Jiles' latest, which was just long-listed for a National Book Award, is the perfect introduction to her work. That's because News of the World, set in 19th-century Texas, is a joy to read: haunting, transporting and full of historical grit.
Laugh and learn with Willard Spiegelman’s ‘Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead’ | Books | Dallas News
At this point in my life, after more than 40 years as a journalist and writer, I just want to be with people, and that includes authors, who can teach me something or make me laugh. Willard Spiegelman, Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, does both.
The real story behind the Joe Gould mystery
Any review of New Yorker staff writer and historian Jill Lepore’s “Joe Gould’s Teeth,” about her search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, requires a bit of backstory. In 1942, The New Yorker published staff writer Joseph Mitchell’s adoring profile of Joe Gould, a bohemian street character known as “Professor Sea Gull” for his habit of flapping his arms, squawking and insisting he understood gull talk.
A look at the life of a forgotten Kennedy - the lively ‘Kick’
Kick, we hardly knew you. If Rosemary, Joe and Rose Kennedy’s intellectually challenged daughter, disabled in a devastating pre-frontal lobotomy, was the “missing Kennedy” for 20 years, daughter Kathleen was the “forgotten Kennedy” for longer. Biographer Barbara Leaming, author of groundbreaking books about both John and Jacqueline Kennedy, delivers a vivid, sympathetic portrait of the irresistible charmer known to most as Kick.
Sarah Bird’s ‘Love Letter to Texas Women’ is a hoot
Now here’s an old Second Wave feminist’s unbiased, fair and balanced review of Sarah Bird’s new book “A Love Letter to Texas Women:” It’s a hoot! A laugh-out-loud 80-page personal history with heart, grit and a galaxy of stars. This four- by six-inch illustrated valentine to Texas women she has known makes a perfect Mother’s Day gift. Provided mom has an open mind, a liberal bent and a battle-tested, take-no-prisoners sense of humor.
How the U.S. used faulty science to sterilize citizens
Just in case you thought Nazi doctors were the only ones who practiced mass eugenic sterilization in the last century, author Adam Cohen (“Nothing to Fear”) has a book for you. “Imbeciles,” by the former New York Times editorial board member and Harvard-trained lawyer, focuses in jaw-dropping detail on the infamous case of Buck v. Bell and the American eugenics movement.
New biography rescues Julia Ward Howe from history’s dustbin
When first they met in 1841, Julia Ward was a red-haired Bond Street belle of Boston and Samuel Gridley Howe a chivalric handsome hero on a galloping black stallion.
‘Pacific’ spins a yarn about ‘behemoth of eye-watering...
It’s the world’s biggest body of water. All the continents would fit inside its borders. And it’s the oldest, most biologically diverse and seismically active of all the world’s seas. The Pacific occupies nearly one entire hemisphere, almost one-third of the Earth’s surface, and our planetary weather systems are birthed within its boundaries.
Looking back at the work of New Yorker legend Lillian Ross
Until 1945, The New Yorker writers were all male. But with the men off serving in World War II, founder and editor Harold Ross, reluctant to have women on staff, handed managing editor William Shawn the job of hiring four female reporters. One was curious, ambitious and intrepid Lillian Ross. With her gift for beguiling subjects to reveal themselves in print, Ross, now 97, was the first journalist to write in “scenes” like a novelist.
A rousing tribute to Longhorn legend Steinmark
No car chases. No guns. No fire-breathing monsters. Just a thrilling, inspirational film about a legendary coach and a determined undersized player, whose grit on the field and valor in life fills hearts and lifts spirits.
Steinem’s first book in 20 years details activist’s lessons on the road
Ask any woman who came of age in the 1960s or ’70s if she’s ever heard or met Gloria Steinem in person. Chances are she’ll say she has — and maybe more than once. That’s because the writer, feminist organizer and co-founder of Ms. magazine is an international nomad who believes you have to go places, see things up close and talk eye-to-eye with people if you want to effect change. That’s the gist of frank, affecting My Life on the Road, her first book in 20 years.
Remembering fondly someone ‘not normal’
“Radical” in the title of University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen’s intensely personal and affecting paean to his late friend and mentor Jim Koplin is not pejorative as in “dangerously extreme” or “fanatic idealogue.” Rather it means “going deep, to the root of a problem” while “Plain” refers to Koplin’s “unvarnished analysis” of the world without jargon or posturing and his simple, unfancy way of living.
‘Bridge of Spies’ is classic Spielberg
Our U-2 reconnaissance aircraft had been flying over Soviet territory for four years, but when one of the spy-in-the-sky planes was shot down and its pilot Francis Gary Powers captured by the Russians on May 1, 1960, it was front-page embarrassing news. The espionage backstory is big and complex.
Linda Gray wants you to ‘Shine, Goddess, Shine’
Linda Gray celebrated her 75th birthday last month with a combined “how-to” handbook and frank memoir about her life and 40-year acting career that includes funny takes on four of her favorite episodes of “Dallas” — all searchable on YouTube. Growing up with an alcoholic mom informed her breakout role as Sue Ellen Ewing, quietly getting sloshed in a loveless marriage to smarmy oil baron J. R., on TV’s most successful series.
Arquette prepares a passionate plea for equality at Austin event
Oscar-winner Patricia Arquette is coming back to the state where for a few days each year for 12 years she delivered a universally acclaimed performance as a single mom in Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater’s independent masterpiece “Boyhood.” The intrepid film and TV actress, known for speaking from the heart on women’s issues, will be a keynote luncheon speaker at the Texas Conference for Women on Oct. 15 in the Austin Convention Center.
‘Freddie Steinmark’: A celebration of heart and courage
It’s been 46 years since Freddie Steinmark last took the field as a Texas Longhorn safety — 44 since the undersized defensive back with a gutsy drive to win lost his nationally publicized battle with bone cancer.But the popular, determined player whose photo with the word “Heart” flashes on the Freddie Steinmark Scoreboard’s Jumbotron before each home game at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium lives on in Longhorn lore.
Streep turns into rocker for ‘Ricki and the Flash’
“Ricki and the Flash” opens with seven minutes of hard-core rock ’n’ roll, proving director Jonathan Demme still owns the groove that 31 years ago made the Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense” one of the great, nearly perfect concert films.
‘Skullduggery’: A look at frontier justice, and the lack thereof
Abilene-based author-historian Bill Neal knows his way around a courtroom.
‘Wolfpack’: A strange, beautifully told tale of a very odd family
Don’t be misled by the title. “The Wolfpack” is not a nature film about a Canis lupus family. Rather this sensitive, uncommon feature, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sundance 2015, is an eye-popping portrait of six brothers virtually imprisoned for most of their lives inside a 16th-floor flat in a New York housing project.
Memoir review: ‘The Best I Recall,’ by Gary Cartwright
For nearly half his legendary life, Texas “Gonzo” journalist Gary Cartwright did every damn fun thing he could. Long considered a walking suicide mission by awed onlookers, in 1988 he hit the wall at 54, atoning for pickling himself and partying hard for 40 years with a heart attack and quintuple-bypass surgery. While he doesn’t regret his excesses, he finally stopped smoking, adopted better eating habits and began working out at Big Steve’s Gym in Austin.
Book preserves the legacy of CCC and Texas parks
The tea party would have scorned it, gotten red in the face and passed laws trying to abolish it. After all, the Civilian Conservation Corps was a government public works program proposed by a popular Democratic president of the United States.But before 50,000 young men began arriving in Texas to work on conservation projects like reforestation, flood control and construction, the state’s 14 parklands consisted mostly of historic sites and roadside parks.
Tracking the life and times of troubadour John Prine
For more than 40 years, John Prine has been telling us stories in his lyrical Americana songs.
Endearing characters return in “Second Best Exotic Marigold...
They’re baaack! “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” was such a worldwide sleeper hit, and its British-Indian cast so beloved, that it’s no surprise that three years later they’re back in Rajasthan.
A wondrous look at the origins of a female superhero
Her original wardrobe was scanty: red bustier, blue underpants, chunky bullet-stopping bracelets, knee-high red boots and a gold tiara that doubled in a pinch as a projectile.Surely you recognize the patriotic fashion statement of our most popular female comic-book superhero. Now, more than 70 years after her spectacular debut in “All-Star Comics #8,” Wonder Woman returns in a pungent, eye-popping book with 146 illustrations and 16 color pages.
‘Mr. Turner’ offers luminous look at British master painter
“Mr. Turner” is an absolutely luminous film. Mike Leigh’s biopic exploring the last 25 years of the visionary British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner radiates brilliant-cut craftsmanship, talent and light. If Texas treasure Richard Linklater weren’t in the running for his original masterpiece “Boyhood,” Leigh would seem a shoo-in for an Oscar for writing and directing this dazzling depiction of one of England’s greatest artists.
Thriller review: ‘Descent,’ by Tim Johnston
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Anyone whose child has gone missing knows the cold terror that grips the heart. That’s the opening hook in Tim Johnston’s dazzling debut adult novel. The author keeps it going, creating a 384-page literary thriller out of a family dissembling after its track-star daughter goes for a morning run in the mountains and disappears.
Finding jewels of history among the ruins
Marilyn Johnson begins her latest look at an undervalued subculture with a warning. No dinosaurs appear in these pages.
Book review: Four mysteries with Texas ties
The sleuths and settings in this winsome quartet of mysteries could not be more different. But they do have elements in common. All are the latest in a popular series. All are ably written and fun to read, and all are by talented authors with Texas ties. Just as Michael Connelly owns the night in L.A. with his Detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch series, Miles Arceneaux has a handle on criminal high jinks with a fishing family on the Texas Coastal Bend.
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Between the day he became president in November 1963, and the day he left the White House five years later, Lyndon Johnson returned to the Hill Country 74 times. When Air Force One crossed the Red River, Lady Bird’s press secretary, Liz Carpenter, said, “His shoulders would start to relax.” The 36th president knew his boots would soon touch down on land that he loved—the rocky, rolling LBJ Ranch. In 1972, the Johnsons donated their home and 690 acres for a national park.
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