Editing Political science (section)

==Education==
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Political science, possibly like the social sciences as a whole, can be described "as a discipline which lives on the fault line between the 'two cultures' in the academy, the [[sciences]] and the [[humanities]]."<ref name="Stoner">{{Cite web |url=http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/4/5/5/8/p245585_index.html |title=Political Science and Political Education |last=Stoner |first=J.R. |date=22 February 2008 |publisher=Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference ([[American Political Science Association|APSA]]), San Jose Marriott, [[San Jose, California]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130234044/http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/4/5/5/8/p245585_index.html |archive-date=30 November 2009 |access-date=19 October 2011 |quote=…although one might allege the same for social science as a whole, political scientists receive funding from and play an active role in both the [[National Science Foundation]] and the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] [in the United States].}}</ref> Thus, in most American colleges, especially [[liberal arts college]]s, it would be located within the [[College of Arts and Sciences|school or college of arts and sciences]]. If no separate college of arts and sciences exists, or if the college or university prefers that it be in a separate constituent college or academic department, then political science may be a separate department housed as part of a division or school of humanities or [[Liberal Arts|liberal arts]].<ref name="Marist">See, e.g., the department of [http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/polsci/ Political Science] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319012259/http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/polsci/ |date=19 March 2009 }} at [[Marist College]], part of a Division of Humanities before that division became the School of Liberal Arts (c. 2000).</ref> At some universities, especially [[Research university|research universities]] and in particular those that have a strong cooperation between research, undergraduate, and graduate faculty with a stronger more applied emphasis in public administration, political science would be taught by the university's [[public policy school]].

Most United States [[Higher education in the United States|colleges and universities]] offer BA programs in political science. MA or MAT and PhD or EdD programs are common at larger universities. The term ''political science'' is more popular in post-1960s [[North America]] than elsewhere while universities predating the 1960s or those historically influenced by them would call the field of study ''government'';<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=DiSalvo |first=Daniel |date=2013-04-01 |title=The Politics of Studying Politics: Political Science Since the 1960s |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-013-9631-7 |journal=Society |language=en |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=132–139 |doi=10.1007/s12115-013-9631-7 |issn=1936-4725 |s2cid=255514132|url-access=subscription }}</ref> other institutions, especially those outside the United States, see political science as part of a broader discipline of ''political studies'' or ''politics'' in general. While ''political science'' implies the use of the [[scientific method]], ''political studies'' implies a broader approach, although the naming of degree courses does not necessarily reflect their content. Separate, specialized or, in some cases, professional degree programs in [[international relations]], [[public policy]], and [[public administration]] are common at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, although most but not all undergraduate level education in these sub-fields of political science is generally found in [[academic concentration|academic concentrations]] within a political science [[academic major]]. Master's-level programs in [[public administration]] are [[Professional degree|professional degrees]] covering public policy along with other applied subjects; they are often seen as more linked to politics than any other discipline, which may be reflected by being housed in that department.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vernardakis |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rd3DDiQm3M8C&pg=PA77 |title=Graduate education in government |publisher=University Press of America |year=1998 |isbn=978-0761811718 |page=77 |quote=…existing practices at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Michigan. |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=4 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904012526/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rd3DDiQm3M8C&pg=PA77 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The main national honor society for college and university students of government and politics in the United States is [[Pi Sigma Alpha]], while [[Pi Alpha Alpha]] is a national honor society specifically designated for [[public administration]].