Voir Dire posted a working paper yesterday that is worthy of reposting given its broad implications. The paper "University Rankings by Cost of Living Adjusted Faculty Compensation" by Terrance Jalbert, Mercedes Jalbert, and Karla Hayashi in the International Journal of Management and Marketing Research can be found at SSRN. The abstract can be viewed at either Voir Dire or SSRN, so I will save the space and not repost it here, but a bit more information can be found after the jump. It is perhaps sufficient to say that the aggregated and averaged data can be tremendously interesting to any of us that influenced by the academic job market.
Methods
Best Practice in Political Science (or Any Field)
Over the past year or so I've been getting more and more into network analysis–Both for its theoretical and methodological components. For the most part, this methodological approach has not seen widespread use in political science, although network approaches are steadily growing. Emilie Hafner-Burton, Miles Kahler, and Alexander Montgomery have a relatively recent article about … Read more
When Form can Overwhelm Content
I am not a visually oriented person or, more appropriately, I am less than stellar at design. This may not be a surprise to anyone that has seen my attempts to assemble a wardrobe, but this is also true in the sense of organizing information – whether it is in a paper, on a poster, … Read more