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Top 9 Senate Races to Watch in 2022

Top 9 Senate Races to Watch in 2022

by jocelynsagemitchell | Sep 10, 2022 | Elections, Teaching and Mentoring

FiveThirtyEight US Senate Forecast, updated Tuesday September 20, 2022, 8:49 am EST In my intro American politics class, I always teach during the fall election cycle, so that I can engage the students in US politics by following the most competitive US Senate...
Why Cooperation Matters for Solving Climate Change

Why Cooperation Matters for Solving Climate Change

by jocelynsagemitchell | Aug 25, 2022 | Teaching and Mentoring

World Peace, by GDJ, via OpenClipArt According to the IPCC (the UN’s scientific panel on climate change), “the time for action is now” if we want to have any chance to prevent global warming above the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold. Yet the only way to halt continued...
Why the Politics of Collective Action Matters for Solving Climate Change

Why the Politics of Collective Action Matters for Solving Climate Change

by jocelynsagemitchell | Aug 18, 2022 | Teaching and Mentoring

Front cover image, 2018 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Special Report What is political science? What do political scientists study? And why does political science matter for solving climate change? This blog is for everyone who may have shrugged and...
The First Amendment and Citizen Activism

The First Amendment and Citizen Activism

by jocelynsagemitchell | Jul 25, 2022 | Public Opinion, Teaching and Mentoring

Photo of the stone plaque in Independence National Historical Park by Ed Uthman, Flickr   The First Amendment of the US Constitution gives us five crucially important freedoms: freedom of religion, of speech, of the press, of assembly, and of petition. While...
Return to the Isle of Ted: Fishing!

Return to the Isle of Ted: Fishing!

by jocelynsagemitchell | May 14, 2022 | Publications, Teaching and Mentoring

Image from “Return to the Isle of Ted,” PS: Political Science and Politics (July 2020) In my team-taught, interdisciplinary course on climate change, my priority in my political science section was to help my students understand collective action problems—when people...
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