{"id":29702,"date":"2023-07-10T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=29702"},"modified":"2023-07-10T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:15:24","slug":"civically-engaged-research-in-political-science-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=29702","title":{"rendered":"Civically Engaged Research in Political Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today begins the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/centennialcenter\/the-institute-for-civically-engaged-research\/\">Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER)<\/a> at Tisch College, a project of the American Political Science Association that I am co-directing with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman. Seventeen committed political scientists have gathered here to develop their skills for &#8220;collaborating in a mutually beneficial way with people and groups&nbsp;beyond the academy to co-produce, share, and apply knowledge related to power or&nbsp; politics, contributing to self-governance.\u201d (Cabrera Rasmussen, Lieberman, Levine, Sinclair-Chapman, &amp; Smith 2022). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Civically Engaged Research in political science is not sharply distinct from Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Transdisciplinary Research, or Participatory Action Research (PAR), all of which we will discuss during the institute. Why then work to develop a specific approach for political science?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see two reasons. One is that the discipline of political science is a community composed of thousands of people who have some influence. If engaged approaches to research have value, then it&#8217;s worth developing them in this community&#8211;as in other fields. CBPR and Transdisciplinary Research are more deeply rooted in public health than elsewhere. Sociologists have developed Public Sociology. We seek to bring similar change to political science&#8211;not to supplant other methods but to expand the toolkit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other reason is that political scientists may have distinctive ways to practice engaged research, because we focus more than other disciplines do on governance, political acts, and power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=24743\">civically engaged research in political science<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=24522\">how to keep political science in touch with politics<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=24486\">methods for engaged research<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=26620\">engaged theory and the construction of community<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=26632\">bootstrapping value commitments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today begins the 2023 Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) at Tisch College, a project of the American Political Science Association that I am co-directing with Valeria Sinclair-Chapman. Seventeen committed political scientists have gathered here to develop their skills for &#8220;collaborating in a mutually beneficial way with people and groups&nbsp;beyond the academy to co-produce, share, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29708,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29702\/revisions\/29708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}