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Our bimonthly journal of research

The ANNALS of the AAPSS addresses society’s most important problems and concerns with high-quality research.

First published in 1890, The ANNALS took its current form in 1914. Each of our bimonthly volumes takes up a particular social challenge or phenomenon, mustering research and evidence to illuminate it in ways that advance science and public policy.

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Whither Meritocracy? Part Two: Meritocracy Across the Globe

Volume 718, March 2025

Special Editors: Steven N. Durlauf and James A. Robinson

In the US, meritocracy has been a focus of policy and scholarly debates in contexts such as workplace hiring policies and university admissions. Yet advocates and critics alike rarely engage with how the idea is perceived and practiced in different cultures and societies. This is the second of a two-volume collection that aims to synthesize the state of knowledge about meritocracy and explore different perspectives on its viability. To complement the theoretical approaches of part one, part two considers how meritocracy plays out in contexts around the world. 

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Remembering Former AAPSS President Kenneth Prewitt

What Census Data Miss About American Diversity

Volume 677, May 2018

Special Editors: Richard Alba and Kenneth Prewitt

In anticipation of the 2020 US Census, this volume examines the difficulty of aligning census ethnoracial categories with America’s changing demography. Intrarace variability, inconsistency in racial self-identification, and inadequate measurement of second- and third-generation Americans all threaten to lower the reliability of collected data, which can consequently weaken policy decisions that affect economic growth, government reforms, immigrant assimilation, and public perception. The articles discuss the complexities of categorizing and tracking an increasingly diverse population, as well as how that growing diversity affects societal dynamics.

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