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Hamilton

So APSA announced the winners of the dissertation awards. Take a look at the topics:

Communication as Power: Effects of the Internet on Auth. Politics
Growing Closer or Further Apart: Exposure to Social Media in Ethnically Divided Societies
The Political Economy of Assassinations
Forged in the Fire: Racially-Targeted Violence and Implications for Political Behavior in the United States
Making Foreigners: Citizenship and the Legacies of Colonialism and Nationalism in India
Gender Matters in the Judiciary: Adjudicating Sexual Assault in Korea
Public Pressure Campaigns and Bureaucratic Policymaking
Yellow Peril Revived? The Rise of China and Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
States of Merit: The Politics of Civil Service Recruitment in Asia
Left-Behind or Left Ahead? The Implications of Male Migration on Women’s Political Participation in India
Institutionalized Rent-Seeking: The Political-Business Revolving Door in China
Languages of National Politics in Kenya and Tanzania
Extractive Industries, Indigenous Autonomy, and the Governance of the Commons in Mexico
Women, Power, and Networks: The Gendered Politics of Economic Empowerment
The Effect of Party Leader Gender on Voter Expectations of Cabinet Composition
The Normalization of State Violence at the Mexico-U.S. Border
The Divergent Effects of Anxiety on Political Participation: Anxiety Inhibits Participation Among the Socio-Economic and Racially Marginalized
Taking Perspective: Prejudice Reduction and Political Attitudes
No Strangers to Hardship: African Americans, Inequality, and the Politics of Resilience
Detention and Democracy in the American Midwest
Prosecutorial discretion: district attorneys, public opinion, and localized rule of law
The Impact of Computer-Modified Visual Information on Political Beliefs
The Invisible Hand of Networked Repression

Notice anything similar about the vast majority of these dissertations?

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Racquel

They all contain the word "the".

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Gayla

They all contain the word "the".

My dissertation title lacked the word “the,” therefore I didn’t get a tenure tack offer. When will this tyranny of wokeness stop?

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Hamilton

They all contain the word "the".

Incorrect. "Growing Closer or Further Apart: Exposure to Social Media in Ethnically Divided Societies," for example, doesn't.

(I know you're joking btw, but your joke requires correctness to actually be funny).

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Letitia

APSA is finished as a scholarly association. We need a new professional association interested in the pursuit of the truth.

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Jennifer

NeeDS MOar lOckE!!

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Racquel

They all contain the word "the".

Incorrect. "Growing Closer or Further Apart: Exposure to Social Media in Ethnically Divided Societies," for example, doesn't.
(I know you're joking btw, but your joke requires correctness to actually be funny).

Thanks for the correction! So we'll stick with your actual question:

the vast majority contain the word "the".

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Roh

Written by minorities or about minorities and selected by people who feel guilty for not being minorities.

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Gustave

I can't believe young political scientists are writing dissertations about topics of significant public interest!

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Marnie

Those grapes are sour, eh OP!?

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Hamilton

Those grapes are sour, eh OP!?

I'm not eligible, but glad to see your inability for a broader perspective. The fact that APSA somehow has swindled millions of dollars from NSF every year to funnel it towards grad students who study only certain types of topics should concern everyone.

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Odell

Those grapes are sour, eh OP!?

I'm not eligible, but glad to see your inability for a broader perspective. The fact that APSA somehow has swindled millions of dollars from NSF every year to funnel it towards grad students who study only certain types of topics should concern everyone.

You think that APSA funnels millions of dollars each year towards grad students?

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Hamilton

Those grapes are sour, eh OP!?
I'm not eligible, but glad to see your inability for a broader perspective. The fact that APSA somehow has swindled millions of dollars from NSF every year to funnel it towards grad students who study only certain types of topics should concern everyone.

You think that APSA funnels millions of dollars each year towards grad students?

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2000500&HistoricalAwards=false

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Gustave

Where was this posted btw?

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Odell

Those grapes are sour, eh OP!?
I'm not eligible, but glad to see your inability for a broader perspective. The fact that APSA somehow has swindled millions of dollars from NSF every year to funnel it towards grad students who study only certain types of topics should concern everyone.
You think that APSA funnels millions of dollars each year towards grad students?

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2000500&HistoricalAwards=false

$1.4 million. Okay. That technically meets your criterion. I can now see why you are furious that a slice of that money went to “Institutionalized Rent Seeking: The Political-Business Revolving Door in China.” I mean, that sounds more like econ, right?

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Racquel

OP: definitely the same guy whining about WOMEN in the PROFESSION yesterday. The grievance is strong with this bro.

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Gustave

$1.4 million. Okay. That technically meets your criterion. I can now see why you are furious that a slice of that money went to “Institutionalized Rent Seeking: The Political-Business Revolving Door in China.” I mean, that sounds more like econ, right?

Even if you assume that every topic related to race, ethnicity gender, colonialism, indigenous people, etc., is "woke" - which I wouldn't, I think it's only "woke" in the pejorative sense if you push those categories into topic areas where they aren't analytically useful - then you can say about half the list is woke and half isn't, with a handful being somewhat woke. It hardly seems like "wokeness" is a condition of the award.

Like most of the ones about gender, for example, seem really boring and not especially woke.

- Gender Matters in the Judiciary: Adjudicating Sexual Assault in Korea
- Women, Power, and Networks: The Gendered Politics of Economic Empowerment
- The Effect of Party Leader Gender on Voter Expectations of Cabinet Composition
- Left-Behind or Left Ahead? The Implications of Male Migration on Women’s Political Participation in India

Not exactly Judith Butler. I get that just seeing the word gender makes OP's ba11s recede into his body, but these ultimately just sound kind of boring.

Or this one:
- Making Foreigners: Citizenship and the Legacies of Colonialism and Nationalism in India

It does mention colonialism, which maybe triggers people like OP, but this is a pretty cut-and-dry topic. People have been writing stuff like this since the 80s.

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Kyra

Nothing interesting will be discovered from these dissertations.

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Katelynn

The relevant question is whether APSA would also fund research on systemic privileges for women or disproportionate harms that males experience. I assume such work would instead be dismissed out of hand or perhaps ridiculed as "whining by MRA supporters."

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Keri

Where did you get the list?

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