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Article: Political Science at the NSF: The Report of a Committee of the American Political Science Association.(National Science Foundation)
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- PS: Political Science & Politics
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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In late 1998, the Council of the Association established this ad hoc committee to explore political science's standing with the National Science Foundation. As is the case usually with legislative histories, the history of that mandate is not easy to reconstruct. The decision to explore APSA-NSF relationships apparently arose from three chief concerns: a perceived failure of NSF to support the political scientists whose NSF grant was criticized in the Congress, the token budgetary increase ($10,000) awarded to the political science program at NSF for budget year 1998, and, in justification of that budgetary decision, the statements of an NSF administrator that research in ...