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Doctoral Output in Political Science — Tables for 1970-72

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2022

Walfred H. Peterson
Walfred H. Peterson*
Affiliation:
Washington State University
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Extract

The regular lists of completed doctoral dissertations that appear in PS can be given use beyond that of keeping readers informed about the subjects of doctoral research. Converted into tables, they yield data which show the amount of work being done in the sub-fields of political science and the number of degrees being awarded at various universities. From this, other data are easily derived.

Unfortunately, a careful look at the lists reveals that they are not complete. Some political science departments that actually granted degrees have no entries at all in one or more years. These omissions, which have been confirmed by correspondence with several schools, are the inevitable result of the difficulties attendant upon the collection of information from so many offices. While they diminish in some measure the utility of the lists themselves and of the tables that appear below, the data still give a fairly accurate, though conservative, index of the number of Ph.D. degrees being awarded in political science. Certainly, it is the best readily available index we have.

Type
On Dissertations
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , Fall 1972 , pp. 423 - 428
Copyright
Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1972

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References

1 Inadequacies In the Information I received by corresponding with several departments that had omissions discouraged me from trying to remedy the lists for present purposes. I made two exceptions, however. The University of Chicago awards such a large number of degrees and the data it sent on request was so complete that I included its 1970–71 figures in all Tables. Its list of 1971–72 dissertations in the current issue of PS actually includes those omitted the previous year. Adjustment was made for this duplication. (Letter from Eleanor Pettigrew, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, February 15, 1972). The second exception is pertinent to Table V only. In 1969–70, six degrees were awarded by Stanford. These could not be added to Table I as my data concerning them did not place them in the needed sub-fields. (Letter from Florence Stevens, Stanford University, Department of Political Science, August 28, 1972.)

2 See PS, Vol. III, No. 3, Summer 1970, (pp. 498–521); Vol. IV, No. 4, Fall, 1971, (pp. 636–670); Vol. V, No. 4, Fall, 1972, (pp.539–574). Table II also makes reference to PS, Vol. II, No. 3, Summer 1969, (pp. 447–466).

3 “A Guide to Graduate Study in Political Science 1972,” American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1972, pp. 3–14.

4 Lane, Robert E., “APSA Presidential Address: To Nurture a Discipline,” American Political Science Review LXVI, No. 1, March, 1972, pp. 171–173.Google Scholar

5 For the several ratings referred to here see Roose, Kenneth D. and Andersen, Charles J., A Rating of Graduate Programs (American Council on Education, Washington, D.C. 1970).Google Scholar

6 To save space in Tables I–IV, the academic year 1969–70 was listed only as 1970, etc. Also, “Degrees Awarded” was substituted for “Dissertations Completed,” which is the phrase used for the PS lists.

7 Lane, op.cit. p. 172 and Roose and Andersen, op.cit. pp. 64–65.