Assessing Racial/Ethnic and Gender Gaps in Political Science PhD Students' Methodological Self-Efficacy.
Most research on diversity within political methodology focuses on gender while overlooking racial and ethnic gaps. Our study investigates how race/ethnicity and gender relate to political science PhD students' methodological self-efficacy, as well as their general academic self-efficacy. By analyzi...
| Publicado en: | PS: Political Science & Politics Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 165 - 171 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2022
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