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Political Science and Journalism: Bridging the Gap

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2004

Alan Ehrenhalt
Alan Ehrenhalt
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([email protected]) is executive editor of Governing magazine and author of The Lost City, The United States of Ambition, and Democracy in the Mirror.
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Thirty years ago, innocent but enthusiastic as a brand-new reporter on a magazine that covered Congress, I wrote a story about the way committee assignments were made in the House of Representatives. The publisher liked it. “That was real political science!” he said, sounding happy but a little bemused, as if he hadn't realized we were capable of such a feat. I drew a lesson from this experience that stayed with me for years: political science is a lofty calling to which journalists can occasionally aspire if they get lucky.In 2000 he won the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award for contributions to political science by a journalist.

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PERSPECTIVES
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 127 - 130
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2003 by the American Political Science Association

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