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Doctoral Output in Political Science-Tables for 1973–76

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2022

Walfred H. Peterson
Walfred H. Peterson*
Affiliation:
Washington State University
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The tables that follow together with those that appeared in the Fall, 1972 issue of PS give some roughly comparable data on Ph.D. output in political science for seven years. Perhaps, the most important change in the new data is the contrast between the 1975 and 1976 totals. Output fell by 77. The drop was accounted for mostly by decreases in the figures for the three sub-fields of Foreign and Cross-National Political Institutions and Behavior; International Law, Organization and Politics; and U.S. Political Institutions, Processes and Behavior.

The most important changes in the presentation between this and the earlier article are these: first, the division of former Table I into Table IA and IB, each covering only two years. This change was required by the new classification of dissertation topics that began in 1975. That year two of the earlier categories were dropped—Constitutional and Administrative Law in the United States, and Canadian Government and Politics. Three new categories were added—Methodology; Political Stability, Instability and Change; and Public Policy: Formation and Content. Three were altered in both scope and terminology—Political Theory; Foreign and Cross-National Institutions and Behavior; and U.S. Political Institutions, Processes and Behavior. Only two were unaltered-Public Administration; and International Law, Organization and Politics. Given these changes, no confident comparisons can be made between any of the sub-field categories of the present and the past, though the two unaltered categories may allow for rough comparisons.

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Research Article
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Winter 1977 , pp. 18 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1977

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References

1 Peterson, Walfred H., “Doctoral Output in Political Science–Tables for 1970–1972,” PS, V, No. 4, Fall, 1972, pp. 423–428.Google Scholar

2 Long, Alma E., “Doctoral Dissertations in Political Science, 1975,” PS, VIII, No. 4, Fall, 1975, pp. 476–495.Google Scholar

3 For example, Illinois graduated four persons in 1975, though none was in the published list for that year. (Letter from Linda Wade, July 2, 1976.) Also, a careful reading of dissertation titles will show that some may be misclassified. In 1973 sixteen dissertations appeared under “Government and Politics of the United States and Dependencies” which should have been listed under “Political Philosophy, Theory and Methodology.” (See Hitlin, Rona B., “Doctoral Dissertations in Political Science,” PS VI, No. 4, Fall, 1973, p. 511.Google Scholar)

4 See Mann, Thomas E., “Political Science Faculty and Student Data,” PS IX, No. 3, Summer, 1976, p. 283.Google Scholar

5 The classification came from Roose, Kenneth D. and Anderson, Charles J., A Rating of Graduate Programs (American Council of Education, Washington, D.C., 1970), pp. 64–65.Google Scholar See comments on the matter of quality of Ph.D. recipients in Lane, Robert E., “APSA Presidential Address: To Nurture a Discipline,” American Political Science Review, LXVI, No. 1, March, 1972, pp. 171–173.Google Scholar