Stanley Hoffmann famously described International Relations as “an American social
science” in his classic article about the subject first published in Daedalus in 1977 …

Social scientists have long been interested in how academic disciplines are organized (Ben-
David and Collins 1966; Kuhn 1970; Lipset 1994; Rojas 2003; Somit and Tanenhaus 1964; …

This study is the first to examine detailed faculty demographics and impacts of elite hiring
networks in the planning academy. Institutional prestige significantly shapes faculty …

We analyze hiring and placement dynamics across communication PhD programs using
data collected in 2014. We assess changes compared to data collected in 2007, and identify …

This article updates the Masuoka, Grofman, and Feld 2002 dataset that identified the then-
3,719 faculty in political science PhD-granting departments in the United States. That …

This research aims to develop a deeper insight into the development of political science
from the bibliometric perspective by analysing peer-reviewed journal articles (n= 1117) …

While many bemoan the increasingly large role rankings play in American higher education,
their prominence and importance are indisputable. Such rankings have many different …

Using updated data from 2002 and 2017 on the political science discipline, we show how
the cohort and gender composition of US PhD-granting departments has changed …

This study investigates whether the hiring of professors in Canada, a land of public
universities and inexpensive tuition, is more equitable in terms of socioeconomic class than …

There are many different ways to develop rankings of Ph. D.-granting academic
departments. Perhaps the most common method is reputational: we simply ask …