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What Political Scientists Should Know about the Survey of First-Year Students in 2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

Stephen Earl Bennett
Affiliation:
Professor emeritus of political science at the University of Cincinnati. A Ph.D. graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Bennett's research interests are political communication, democratic citizenship, and public opinion. He is the author of Apathy in America, 1960–1984, coauthor of Living with Leviathan: Americans Coming to Terms with Big Government, and coeditor of After the Boom: The Politics of Generation X.
Linda L. M. Bennett
Affiliation:
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University. A Ph.D. graduate of the University of Cincinnati, her research interests focus on American national government and politics. She is the author of Symbolic State Politics, and coauthor of Living with Leviathan: Americans Coming to Terms with Big Government.

Extract

The report by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at the University of California, Los Angeles on college or university first-year students in 2000 contains information that is important to political scientists (Kellogg 2001; Sax et al. 2000). As did Sheilah Mann's (1999) analysis of the 1998 survey, we summarize those facets of the data about freshmen in 2000 that ought to interest members of the discipline.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

* We are indebted to Dr. Sheilah Mann of the American Political Science Association, Mr. Gregory Blemling of Appalachian State University, and Ms. Vivian DeLuna of UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute.