The academic job market for political scientists has been relatively strong in recentyears, with job listings in the last several years outpacing those in the 1980s and 1990s.The number of jobs posted for academic year 2003 was the highest in over 20 years. Listingsfor last year, AY2004, dipped from these recent highs. But early numbers of listings inAY2005 seem to have rebounded and are greater than those for corresponding quarters in thelast few years. In AY2004, 920 positions were listed with the association, compared with1,123 the year before. The 2004 level still exceeded all openings posted annually during the1990s. Total numbers of academic jobs listed with APSA are charted in Figure 1.