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  • Learning Together: Experimental Evidence on Promoting Connections in Remote Classes

  • Michelle E. Benedum, Sarah E. Brown, Tyler Garrett, Sarah Wilson Sokhey
  • Journal:
    PS: Political Science & Politics / Volume 56 / Issue 3 / July 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 March 2023, pp. 438-443
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    July 2023
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  • How can instructors best foster connections among students when learning is fully remote? This article describes a pedagogical experiment conducted in two large introductory political science courses at a large public university in the 2020–2021 academic year. We randomly assigned groups of students to different sets of instructions on how to study together remotely for an exam. Our strongest finding is that almost any effort by an instructor prompting students to work together helps students to feel more connected to one another; however, students often need to see and hear one another to feel connected. We find this to be tremendously encouraging—relatively easy interventions can result in significant improvements in learning.

  • Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary

  • Daria Prisiazhniuk, Sarah Wilson Sokhey
  • Journal:
    Social Policy and Society / Volume 22 / Issue 2 / April 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 January 2023, pp. 338-354
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    April 2023
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  • Growing fiscal challenges and ageing populations have made pension reform a pressing issue. Two particularly salient areas of pension reform have been: raising the retirement age; and structural reforms like the adoption and reversal of pension privatisation. The authors compare two very similar cases: Russia and Hungary in the post-communist period. Both countries faced growing demographic and fiscal challenges prompting pension reform, but at the time of reform Hungary was democratic and Russia was authoritarian. Some scholars predicted that authoritarian governments would be better able than democratic ones at enacting unpopular, but arguably necessary, economic reforms. Others argue that democratic governments can more easily enact policy changes because of greater confidence about public opinion. Additionally, authoritarian policymaking can be uniquely slowed by bureaucratic in-fighting. The authors find support for the position that democratic governments can be more flexible: thus offering important insight into how regime type shapes policymaking.

  • 13 - Inequality and Social Policy in Russia

  • from Part II - Political Economy
  • Edited by Susanne A. Wengle, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Book:
    Russian Politics Today
    Published online:
    28 October 2022
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    27 October 2022, pp 293-317

  • Summary

    Inequality in Russia skyrocketed in the 1990s. The wealthiest businesspeople became oligarchs while average Russians struggled to cover the cost of their basic needs. In this chapter, we examine the rise of inequality in postcommunist Russia, and the role that social services – like healthcare, education, and pensions – played in socioeconomic wellbeing. This chapter details the evolution of inequality and public opinion about economic issues. We show that, with increasing inequality, the provision of social services and other public goods suffered due to the government’s lack of capacity and finances. In the 2000s, Putin ushered in a period of rising oil prices and better economic performance. Inequality has decreased to some degree in recent decades, and the provision of social services has dramatically improved since the early 2000s. After the 2009 financial crisis, a renewed period of stagnation began, and a number of protracted problems in the provision of public goods persist. We discuss some social policy promises that have been unfulfilled in the lead-up to Putin’s fourth election in 2018, and the consistently low level of spending on social services. These unfilled promises matter because they affect everyday realities for many Russian citizens and raise the question whether economic inequality and poor public services may influence regime stability in Russia in the long run. Survey research suggests, though, that poor economic conditions and lacking social services have so far frustrated, but only rarely enraged the Russian public and are unlikely to undermine support for the regime on their own. Whether socioeconomic factors contribute to stability or fragility in Russia today depends on how these issues are utilized by the political opposition.

  • Learning by Doing: Using an Undergraduate Research Lab to Promote Diversity and Inclusion

  • Jeffrey Nonnemacher, Sarah Wilson Sokhey
  • Journal:
    PS: Political Science & Politics / Volume 55 / Issue 2 / April 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    31 January 2022, pp. 413-418
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    April 2022
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  • Undergraduate research labs have long been recognized as having educational and professional benefits, but much less attention has been given to how they can promote diversity and inclusion. Without a conscientious effort to promote these goals, labs are likely to replicate and perpetuate existing inequalities. This article discusses our experiences and lessons from launching an undergraduate research lab in a political science department at a research-oriented state university. It concludes with suggestions for other departments interested in starting undergraduate research labs. Promoting diversity and inclusion by working with undergraduates is unlikely if faculty are recruiting students individually outside of a lab, if the burden is on students to approach faculty, or if labs do not take practical steps to make this happen.

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