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Record W2146790995 · doi:10.1017/s1049096511000837

The Job Market and Placement in Political Science in 2009–10

2011· article· en· W2146790995 on OpenAlex
Jennifer Segal Diascro

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenuePS Political Science & Politics · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Science Research and Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignGeorgia State UniversityUniversity of Notre DameUniversity of CincinnatiUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of KansasUniversity of ConnecticutArizona State UniversityState University of New YorkUniversity of MinnesotaHarvard UniversityYork UniversityNorthwestern UniversityUniversity of MissouriJohns Hopkins UniversityPrinceton UniversityNorthern Illinois UniversityGeorge Washington UniversityTemple UniversityKent State UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyOhio State UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaVanderbilt UniversityPurdue UniversityWestern Michigan UniversityWest Virginia UniversityFlorida State UniversityGeorgetown UniversityBoston College
KeywordsJob marketPoliticsSalientRecessionPolitical scienceState (computer science)Graduate studentsAnxietyPublic relationsPsychologyEconomicsPedagogyEngineeringLawComputer science

Abstract

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There may be no greater concern in political science than the state of the job market. Particularly for newly minted Ph.D.s, the number and type of jobs available and their possibility of success on the market are sources of great anxiety. Similarly, department chairs, graduate directors, and dissertation chairs struggle as they make choices about recruiting faculty and students and determine how to advise their students as they progress toward their degrees. These concerns are common in most years, but they have been especially salient in the last several years, when the economic downturn has affected nearly every aspect of higher education. The purpose of this report is to present data that will assist faculty and students in navigating the political science employment landscape.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.021
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.633
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.021
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.030
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.409
Teacher spread0.343 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it