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Should Political Science Have a Civic Mission? An Overview of the Historical Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

R. Claire Snyder
R. Claire Snyder
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Assistant professor of government and politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University where she teaches political theory. Her publications include Citizen-Soldiers and Manly Warriors: Military Service and Gender in the Civic Republican Tradition (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) and “Social Capital: The Politics of Race and Gender” (forthcoming 2001). Her current research interests include civic republicanism, social conservatism, and religion and politics.
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Like many organizations, the American Political Science Association has taken the dawn of the new millennium as an opportunity to reevaluate its institutional mission. At APSA's 2000 annual meeting, the Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) presented to the APSA Council its final report on “the overall condition of the Association relative to its mission and to the key challenges and opportunities in the external environment” (among other things). Interestingly, the SPC acknowledges that when first asked to “view the future of the APSA through the prism of its organizational mission and objectives,” it was “surprised to learn that the Association had no explicit mission statement beyond its purpose, in the original words of its Constitution, ‘to encourage the study of Political Science’ ” (<www.apsanet.org/new/planning/finalreport.cfm>). Accordingly, the Committee decided to craft an APSA mission statement suitable for the twenty-first century.

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Research Article
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 301 - 305
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© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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