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The Quality of Graduate Education in Political Science: A Report on the New Rankings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2022

Catherine E. Rudder
Catherine E. Rudder*
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American Political Science Association
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , Winter 1983 , pp. 48 - 53
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1983

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References

1 Committee on an Assessment of Quality-Related Characteristics of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States, An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Social and Behavioral Sciences (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1982), 21.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., 24.

3 Ibid.

4 As John H. Kessel has pointed out in a recent letter, the correlation between “faculty quality” and “familiarity” is .977. “In other words, perceived faculty quality is perfectly predictable from the visibility of the institution” (private correspondence, Jan. 21, 1983). For an alternative method of categorizing departments, see Robey, John S., “Political Science Departments: Reputations Versus Productivity,” PS (Spring 1979), 202–209.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 Robey, , “Political Science Departments,” 202.Google Scholar

6 Committee on an Assessment of Quality-Related Characteristics, 27.