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June 9, 2026| From the AAPSS, News| AAPSS Editor
Political scientist and public servant Kenneth “Ken” Prewitt, the AAPSS’s 2001 Harold Lasswell Fellow... Read More → Remembering Kenneth Prewitt
June 25, 2021| From the AAPSS, President's Corner| AAPSS Editor
By Kenneth Prewitt, AAPSS President Calls for the implementation of research echo across higher education,... Read More → From the President’s Desk: Social Science Has Two Weaknesses
April 13, 2021| AAPSS, News| AAPSS Editor
Marta Tienda will be the next president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, succeeding... Read More → Marta Tienda to Lead the AAPSS as Next President
February 23, 2021| From the AAPSS, President's Corner| AAPSS Editor
By Kenneth Prewitt, AAPSS President Driven by a sense of urgency, it is likely that every reader of this note... Read More → President’s Corner: Self-Inflicted Wounds
October 29, 2020| From the AAPSS, President's Corner| AAPSS Editor
Seven decades ago, Robert Merton alerted social scientists that the application of their work in policymaking... Read More → President’s Corner: Obliteration by Incorporation
June 23, 2020| AAPSS, News| AAPSS Editor
by Kenneth Prewitt Columbia University & President, AAPSS How many social science books, articles,... Read More → How Social Science Should Study Racial Injustice
February 27, 2020| From the AAPSS, President's Corner| AAPSS Editor
The Impact Agenda: Observations, An Anecdote, Postscripts What is the “impact agenda” for universities,... Read More → President’s Corner: The Impact Agenda
July 1, 2019| From the AAPSS, President's Corner| AAPSS Editor
Robert Merton, in 1949, noted that social scientists “have largely neglected the study of their own... Read More → President’s Corner: The Science Policy Landscape
February 12, 2019| From the AAPSS, President's Corner| AAPSS Editor
A census challenge—George Washington complained about it in 1790—is locating and recording the... Read More → President’s Corner: Census 2020–The Challenge That Won’t Go Away
May 1, 2015| AAPSS, Fellows| AAPSS Editor
Kenneth Prewitt has succeeded Douglas Massey as president of the American Academy of Political and Social... Read More → The New President of the American Academy
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